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Article: Winning is her goal: soccer star Mia Hamm is a quiet leader.
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- Highlights for Children
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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Mia Hamm may be the best soccer player in the world. She has scored more goals than anyone else. But it doesn't matter to her how many times she scores, as long as her team is successful.
"I want to do whatever I can to help the team win," she says. "If that means working hard on defense and not getting a shot on goal, that's fine with me."
Mia started playing soccer when she was six. Her parents had brought her to a ballet class, but Mia didn't like it. She wanted to play with her older brother Garrett instead. She was lucky that Garrett didn't mind taking her along when he played with other kids. So she never went back to ballet after that first class. ...