A US soccer star was considered too good to play with other girls!
US soccer star Abby Wambach seemed destined to play soccer. The youngest of 7 children, she was used to roughhousing with her four older brothers as she grew up. This toughness would later translate to the soccer field.
At age 4, Wambach starting playing soccer in a youth girls league. However, after she scored 27 goals in three games (9 each game), she was transferred to the boys team. It only seemed fair.
Wambach played soccer throughout high school and then went on to play for the University of Florida. In 2002, she played in the Nike U.S. Women's Cup and was then drafted to the Washington Freedom.
In 2004, after he stellar performance in the Olympics and was named Fifa's Women's World Player of the Year.