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Mia Hamm
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The most dominant women's football player of the 1990s, Mia Hamm joined the U.S. national team at the age of 15 and scored her first international goal (against Norway) at 18. In 1991, she was a member of U.S. team that won the Women's World Cup. At the 1995 World Cup, the Americans placed third, but Hamm, who even filled in at goalie in one match, was voted the tournament's Most Valuable Player. At the inaugural women's Olympic football tournament in 1996, Hamm sprained her left ankle in an early match, but skipped only one game. In the final against China, which was played before a crowd of 76,481, Hamm slammed a hard shot that Chinese goalie Gao Hong deflected into the post. Shannon MacMillan collected the rebound and scored the match's first goal.
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After finishing high school, Mia Hamm was already on her way to success being now constantly called up to the national team and started playing regularly. However, she chose to follow a University as well, settling for the UNC, the University of North Carolina.
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Join America's Olympic soccer hero Mia Hamm as she leads an all-star team through a variety of different challenges. Compete in a league, play exhibition matches or go for the sport's ultimate prize -- the World Cup.
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There's a story making the rounds that soccer star Mia Hamm, recently wed to Nomar Garciaparra, was angling to be traded by her professional soccer team, the Washington Freedom, to the Boston Breakers before the WUSA suspended operations. As the story went, Hamm had an understanding with the league that any such trade request would be granted.
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Mariel Margaret Hamm, nicknamed Mia, was born in Selma, Alabama, on March 17, 1972, the fourth of six children. It was the same year the United States passed Title IX, an amendment prohibiting sex discrimination at federally funded schools and colleges.
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