Before Christine Sinclair’s last game for Canada on Tuesday night, 190 youth soccer players walked in long lines onto the field, one for each of her 190 international goals. They wore red jerseys like hers, some of them down to their knees, 190 little Christine Sinclairs.
Their idol stood nearby, at the centre of the pitch, looking up at the big screen at Vancouver’s BC Place, renamed Christine Sinclair Place for the night for good measure.
A tribute video included grainy footage from 2000, when she made her national-team debut. She was 16 years old, not much older than the chorus of
