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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canada’s new women’s professional soccer league, the Northern Super League, is set to kick off in April with one of the national team’s biggest stars marshalling the Vancouver Rise FC midfield. Canadian international midfielder Quinn spoke to media Friday about the opportunity to play in their home country for Rise FC that was too good to pass up.
Returning home to play in Canada was a lifelong dream for the native of Ontario. After six seasons in the National Women’s Soccer League with Seattle Reign, the launch of the NSL presented a chance to play on home soil in a city that Quinn loves.
“I love the Pacific Northwest,” Quinn told reporters at their introductory press conference on Friday in Vancouver. “I think living in Seattle really made me fall in love with this coast, sorry to the east coast… It’s the place I wanted to be and it’s the place I wanted to be when I was older. This is just an amazing step to settling down in Vancouver….
