Go for the Goal by Mia Hamm6/7/2023 ![]() When she was a toddler, her father was stationed in Florence, Italy. Hamm was already more interested in sports, especially soccer. Hamm refused to continue after just two ballet lessons when she was about six years old. But Mia rejected her mother's attempts to make her into a dancer. Hamm's mother, Stephanie, was a dancer, and she nicknamed her daughter Mia after prima ballerina Mia Slavenska. army, and the family frequently moved as he was reassigned –to California, Alabama, Virginia, Texas and elsewhere. Her father, Will Hamm, was a colonel in the U.S. ![]() Mariel Margaret Hamm was the fourth of six children born into a military family. national team in three World Cups and two Olympics. Hamm became the biggest soccer name in the United States while playing on the U.S. ![]() The world's most famous female soccer player, Mia Hamm, embodied the rise of American soccer, a sport played by millions of girls and boys that lacked a celebrity focus and a role model until she emerged as the leading all-time goal scorer in international soccer competition. ![]()
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