Mia Hamm
I was known as the best woman that played soccer. I had to make some choices though cause soccer was not the only thing that I loved to do. I had a family that loved all sports, but we were not always in the USA.
Growing Up with Sports
I did not only want to play soccer.I had to make a tough decsoin though.I also loved baseball, football, and of cousre soccer. i loved to play them with my brothers and their friends. At first no one wanted me to be on their team, but after a while they noticed that whoevers team i was on they always one.i started to be the first one picked and I was not as good as I am today. I got better by playing aginst older childeren I developed alot more skill. That is how I got all my skill.
Growing Up with Sports
I did not only want to play soccer.I had to make a tough decsoin though.I also loved baseball, football, and of cousre soccer. i loved to play them with my brothers and their friends. At first no one wanted me to be on their team, but after a while they noticed that whoevers team i was on they always one.i started to be the first one picked and I was not as good as I am today. I got better by playing aginst older childeren I developed alot more skill. That is how I got all my skill.
How it all Started
In 1973 a little girl in Italy was watching a soccer game from the sideline. This little girl was belive it or not Mia Hamm. Side to side, back and fourth the team raced and this so racing, made Mia more than excited.Mia family really understood the game of soocer but when they moved to the USA soccer was not very popular. Mia is itallian but she was not in Italy for very long. Her dad was in the airforce and the had to move alot! That included all around the world.
Choosing Soccer
I have had to make some tough doesioins in my life but one of the hardest was making the choice of either baseball, football, basketball, or soccer. I chose soccer because I had learned abut it the most and was most skilled at that sport. I was also on a baketball team and I loved it alot, but I chose soccer over that amazing sport. My brother was a Thai-American that had got adopted in 1977. Garret (was his name) loved to play soccer and all the sports that I liked. We came almost inseparable, we just loved to play together!
A Member of the Team
My life really changed when I joined the Olympic develament program.Being on that team I got to travle all around the world and compete with some of the best young American soccer players! Alot of the other girls got home sick but I was prepeared. I have moved many times before so I am used to meeting new people and learning new rules! On that program were some of the Americas best players. I was absolutley honred to be on that team. I was proud but I knew that I had got to improve even though I was good enough. And that is what I did!
Tar Heels
When I moved to Burke, Virgina I went to UNC and played with the Tar Heels. I loved to play there and it was a dream come true! I was #19 and my coach was Coach Dorrence. He was amazing and he coached thae Natoinal team for a long time. When I was on the Natoinal team he was my coach, but later that year he gave his job to DiCicco who loved all the players but let the really good players not stay in the whole game but Coach Dorrence let Michelle Akers and Istay in the whole game, and I did not care how long I stayed in i just wanted to play!