(Portland) Canadian Christine Sinclair, one of the founding players of the Portland Thorns in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), announced Friday that she was retiring.
Sinclair will finish the season with the Thorns. The team plans to honor him before the final home game of the season on June 1er november.
Aged 41, Sinclair retired from the Canadian national team last year. She finished her international career at the top of history, both for women and men, with 190 goals.
Sinclair is one of only three active NWSL players to have worn the colors of the same team since the league’s launch in 2013.
She helped the Thorns win the first NWSL championship, before adding titles in 2017 and 2022. The Canadian scored the first-ever goal in Thorns history, in a match against FC Kansas City, April 13, 2013.
In 11 seasons, Sinclair scored 64 goals with the Thorns, which is a team record, and ranks third in league history.
With the Canadian national team, Sinclair won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. She also won bronze medals at the 2012 and 2016 Games.
She is also one of five players to have appeared in six Women’s Soccer World Cups and is one of three players to have scored in five of them. Sinclair, however, never managed to lift the trophy for the World Cup champion team.