Christine Sinclair (Simon Fraser University / Flickr)

Local soccer legend Christine Sinclair has written a memoir titled Playing the Long Game. The book, released on November 1st, is co-written with Canadian sports journalist Stephen Brunt. The memoir gives insight into the life of the most dominant international goal-scorer ever to lace up cleats.

“For the first time in depth and in public, Olympic soccer gold-medalist Christine Sinclair, the top international goal scorer of all time and one of Canada’s greatest athletes, reflects on both her exhilarating successes and her heartbreaking failures. Playing the Long Game is a book of earned wisdom on the value of determination and team spirit, and on leadership that changed the landscape of women’s sport.” (Penguin Random House)

Christine Sinclair Community Centre (City of Burnaby)

From her early days and life with her parents to winning gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the memoir gives a rare glimpse into the usually strict private life of one of Canada’s top athletes.

In a review of the memoir, CBC’s Vivek Jacob described Sinclair as “one of the most unassuming superstars you’ll ever come across, and her story of going from a kid from Burnaby, B.C., to one of the greatest to ever do it is special because she has nothing but time for the people who helped and stood alongside her every step of the way. Oh, and she hopes her American friends still like her.”