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Sparked by the Olympic success of the national women’s team, more Canadian girls are dreaming big and training hard to be the next Christine Sinclair.

Three summers ago, seven-year-old Jordan Tate of Arnprior, still in a dreamy high off the national women soccer team’s bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics, grabbed a black marker, red and white crayons and began to draw.

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The result was a (somewhat lopsided) Team Canada soccer logo, which she asked permission from her dad to hang on the wall right beside her bed.

“Sure, you can put it wherever,” said her father, Dave Tate. “That’s fine. But why?”

“So I can wake up every morning and be reminded of my dream,” Jordan replied.

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Jordan is obsessed with soccer in the way other girls her age fixate on their smartphones or One Direction. When she’s not hitting the field three or four times a week with Ottawa South United, one of the city’s biggest clubs, she’s at home practising. She declares her dream of unseating national team captain Christine Sinclair’s spot with the earnestness of a child who ostensibly fails to fully understand all the steps it takes to get there.