Soccer City USA. This isn’t a home away from home for Christine Sinclair.
This is home.
Sorry, B.C. Sorry, Canada. She loves you. She’s gone through walls for you, and will again. But …
“It’s home,” Sinclair said from JELD-WEN Field, where the Portland Thorns host the Seattle Reign on Sunday, “because home in Vancouver is my brother’s extra bedroom.”
So begins the excellent profile in B.C.-based The Province of Portland Thorns FC forward Christine Sinclair. Following her history of growing up in Canada, coming to Portland to play for the late Clive Charles and University of Portland as well as her NASL Timbers connections via her uncles Brian and Bruce Gant, the piece is a great tablesetter for today's home opener.
Read the whole thing here
and then
watch the live webstream of Thorns vs Reign match at 2pm PT
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The Province: She may be B.C. born, but Christine Sinclair calls Portland home

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