![]() ![]() She turned to the audience and told them that she was certain, one day, she would meet some of them again after they’d played on the national team’s pitch. If that dream is making the National Team, go for it with everything you have in you. While I’ll always regret not writing down her exact words, the key message was this: Never tell a young woman she can’t accomplish her dream. She grasped the microphone and took a breath. And her story wasn’t unique-when the soccer stars walked through the door, every eye in the dome was fixed on the GOAT: greatest of all time.Įven from our seat nearly two dozen people away, I could see Wambach bristle. She proudly wore Wambach’s number 20 on her own jersey. The year before, the sole item on her Christmas list was a signed photo of Wambach. ![]() Ever since the first time she saw Wambach head a soccer ball into the net, turn, and race back toward her teammates grinning with arms raised in jubilation, she was enthralled. ![]() Women’s National Team members Sarah Huffman (who is also married to Wambach) and Sydney Leroux were scheduled as the main attraction at the central New York soccer camp.įor my daughter, also named Abby, this weekend was both her Christmas present and a dream come true. The young footballers who were nervously giggling, kicking soccer balls back and forth, and fixing the headbands they fashioned out of Pre-Wrap tape, were there for one reason: Any minute, their hero, Abby Wambach, would walk through the dome door and play soccer with them. ![]()
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