10.11.25 - Part 1

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello, and welcome to Realized Children's Story Hour as a
Reminder is a reading service intended for people who are
blind or of other disabilities that make it difficult to
read printed material. Today we will be reading from various
books on soccer. Your reader today is dying. The first

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book is called good Night Soccer. It was published by
Capstone Young Readers, a Capstone imprint, and it has a
copyright year of twenty eighteen. It was written by Michael Dahl.
Beneath the pink clouds and the sunset of God, the
stadium's packed. Every seat has been sold. The crowd is excited.

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We're all chanting and singing. We wave our bright scarves
in the stadium's ringing. Our team wins the toss. Here's
the kick from our foes. The ball leaves the circle.
Now watch where it goes, dribbling and passing. Our forwards
move fast. Then our strikers zoom in when the defense

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is passed. Soon a kick and a goal. We jump
and we roar, but the other team rushes and captures.
They score. Through the game, the ball flies, Watch it bounce,
watch it bend. The clock keeps on ticking. Oh, how
will it end? Then? A penalty kick somehow slips through

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a hole, hits the back of the net. It's a
last second goal. Now over the scoreboard, we see stars
in the sky. Too soon. The game's over. Too soon
for goodbyes. Good Night captains, Your teams are the best.
Good Night to you coaches. Now your players can rest.

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Good Night in fielders. Good night strikers and backs. Good
Night goalkeepers. Now it's time to relax. Goodnight net. Good
Night ball to the fans in their jerseys. Good Night
to you all. Good night field where our team was
the winner. Good Night, bright lights getting smaller, growing dimmer.

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Good Night to my heroes, my champion team. Good Night soccer,
Hello dreams. Our next book is called Soccer. It was
published by The Child's World with a copy right ear
of twenty seventeen, and the author of our book is

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Kara L. Lowlin. Game time. Are you ready to score
some ghosts? Grab some friends and lace up your shoes.
Let's play soccer. Fast. Fact. In most parts of the world,
soccer is called football gear. Soccer players need some gear

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to play. Cleats grip the ground. They keep you from slipping.
Shin guards protect your legs. Soccer socks keep your guard
in place. Fast fact. More than two hundred and fifty
million people in the world play soccer players. Each team
has eleven players. Every player has a job. Some players

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focus on goals, others guard the net. All the players
work together starting the game. The kickoff starts the game.
A player stands in the center of the field. She
kicks the ball forward. Then anyone else can kick the ball.
Fast fact. Soccer balls are made of leather and plastic.

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Moving the ball, the players dribble the ball with their feet.
They also pass the ball to other players. Sometimes they
stop the ball with their chest. The pros even head
the ball fast fact. There are thirty two sections on
a soccer ball. No hands allowed. Only the goalies can

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use their hands in soccer. They can grab the ball
before it goes in the net. They can throw or
kick it to their teammates fast fact. Goalies wear gloves
that help them grip the grip the ball the field.
The soccer field has lines painted in the grass. The
player kicks the ball outside of the lines, it is out.

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The other team gets to throw or kick the ball
by ken fast fact. A soccer field is also called
a pitch. Free kicks If someone breaks the rules, The
ref may blow a whistle to stop the game. It
could mean a free kick. Some players can bend the
ball on a free kick. They kick the ball so

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that it curves in the air. This makes it harder
for the goalie to catch. Fast fact, you kick a
soccer ball with the top of your foot, not your toe. Go.
When a team's since the ball to the net, they
score a point, Then the other team gets to kick off.
Both teams keep trying to score until time is up.

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The end of the game, the team with the most
goes when fast fact. The World Cup is the championship
for teams all over the world. It is held every
four years. Our next book is titled Mix Explains Everything
Soccer Expert and it was published by G. P. Putnam's Sons,

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an imprint of Penguin Random House, and it has a
copyright year of twenty nineteen. The author is Stacy Mica Nulty.
I know a lot about soccer. I've been playing for
a long time, almost three weeks. Practice is fun, the
game days are the best. You wear special shoes called cleats,

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and a shirt with your lucky number. You know it's
lucky because it's on your shirt. And bad old armor
on your legs. I wish we got helmets and shields too.
Mike's ready to get out there and kick the ball.
Make sure you warm up before the game. Stretch, twirl

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summer salt in the huddle. Coach will tell you that
winning is not important. Do your best to run fast,
kick the ball, work as a team. Half sun. The
game starts when the ref blows the whistle. He's the
guy in yellow and he has a whistle. You should
not bring your own whistle. Other stuff you should not

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bring to a soccer game crayons, a blanket, even if
you just want to wear it as a cape, your
sea show collection, or dust money collection, or any collection really.
Sometimes there are dandelions and four leaf clovers on the field.
I pull these out so no one gets distracted. Kick
the ball mix. And sometimes there are ladybugs and worms.

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Should move these so they don't get hurt. I don't
see any today. Give the ball mix. Thousands of fans
come to the games, and they all take pictures. I
like to give them different poses, maybe one smiling and
a serious one, and one with my teammates. Let's take

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a picture of you kicking the ball. The clouds over
the soccer field can be amazing. I've seen the alligator,
a toothbrush, and a diamond ring. Nothing today. Coach wants
everyone to play, so sometimes you will sit on the
side and chair on your teammates. Here mix, eat an
orange wedge. C see you can hear that bird chirping, Michael.

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Look at there's a butterfly hose. I like your new haircut.
When you go back in the game, you must be
ready for anything. Last week a dog ran out on
the field. Come here, puppy. Can we keep him? Mom?
Mix the ball In soccer, you can't use your hands
to touch the ball. I've come up with other things

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to do with my hands so they don't get bored.
I wave it fans, I hide them in my shirt.
I play it'sy dizzy spider. I feel like I'm forgetting
something important. Kick the ball, the ball. Mix something you
have to do in soccer. Snack. That's it. I can't

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believe it. I almost forgot you. Get a snack at
the end. Shake hands with the other team. First, good game,
good game, a mix, Nice to meet you, good game,
good game, Bye mix. That was fun. Coach can't wait
to kick the ball again next week. Our next story

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is called K is for Kick, a soccer alphabet and
it was published by Sleeping Bear Print Press, an imprint
of the Gil Group Incorporate, a division of Thompson Learning Incorporated.
Has a copyright air of two thousand and three and
the author is Brad Herzog. A is where soccer is

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played all over the world in almost any country with
a fat flag proudly in world, from Argentina to Australia,
you'll find a soccer go even on the Arctic ice
way up the North Poe. Millions of people of all
ages and on every continent plays soccer. More than a

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billion people watch the Men's World Cup finals on television.
The group that helps set and revise the rules of
the game is the Federation International to Football Association, or FIFA.
It was established in nineteen oh four. Soccer such a
global passion that people will play anywhere. Nineteen ninety five,

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two teams from Russia played a game at the North
po where the temperature was tiny twenty degrees below zero.
B is for the ball, of course, without it, there's
no game. The largest in the world is at the
Soccer Hall of Fame, and B is for brave boys
and girls who try with all their might to boot

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that bouncing soccer ball colored black and white. Aside from
the massive sculpted ball that appears to be crashing through
an exterior wall of the National Soccer Hall of Fame
in New York. The facility also includes historical displays and
a kids indoor field. The Hall of Fame has one
of the world's largest collections of soccer artifacts, featuring more

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than eighty thousand items, but the heart of the hall
is the room honoring the more than two hundred twenty inductees, players, coaches, trainers, officials,
and administrators. The Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum
is in Vaughan, Ontario. Rules call for the ball to
be round and made of leather or other approved materials.

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It should weigh between fourteen and sixteen ounces and should
measure between twenty seven and twenty eight inches around. Soccer
in the US officially began in nineteen thirteen when the
United States Football Association, now called the US Soccer Federation
was formed. The following year saw the arrival of the
first national tournament, the National Challenge Cup. In the US,

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the founding meeting of the dominion of Canadian football was
held in Toronto on May four, twenty fourth, nineteen twelve,
when soccer executives laid the foundation of what is today's
Canadian Soccer Association. C is for clubs everywhere that give
the fans their field, like Italy's AC Milan in Santos

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and Brazil. It's for the college soccer teams that play
from coast to coast and countless school community leagues that
many cities host. Most countries in Europe and Latin America
have professional or semi professional soccer leagues. The winner of
the top division in the country's national champion is the

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national champion. Many of these top teams compete against other
countries top teams. Among the champions over the years are
legendary clubs such as England's Manchester United, Spain's Real Madrid,
and Italy's AC Milan. Soccer at the university level, like
soccer elsewhere in North America, grew slowly until the nineteen sixties.

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Today there are Division one, two, and three college championships
for both men and women. D is for the defense
deflecting shots on go. Each steering defender has a special
row full box stoppers sweepers. They keep a game low scoring.
The ways they break up plays are anything but boring.

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Defenders are also called full backs, are the last line
of defense in front of the goalkeeper. Their primary mission
is to take the ball from the other team, but
defenders also begin their own team's offense. Defenders try to
get the ball and pass it to the teammate. The
stopper is the defensive player responsible for making sure the

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other team's top scoring player doesn't succeed. The sweeper rooms
from side to side, sweeping the area clear of the
ball that has gotten by other defenders. DA is also dribbling,
moving the ball by controlling it with your feet. In
Diego's Wonder in nineteen eighty six, Diego Maradonna led Argentina's

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national team to the World Cup title after dribbling passed
through and around nearly the entire English team during a
World Cup game. Mardonna left the goaltenders sprawled on the
grass as he kicked the ball into an open net.
The go called Diego's Wonder, was one of the most
electrifying fees in soccer history. Eleven players to a side

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that's the letter E forwards, midfielders, defenders, and the brave goal.
Leeue is also England, where soccer first was played and
where excitement for the game will likely never fade. Midfielders
also called halfbacks, dribbling past the ball looking for scoring chances.
Forwards are usually responsible for scoring goals. The forward, also

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called a striker, is the one who plays closest to
the opposing team's goal. Commonly, teams use three or four forwards,
two or three midfielders, and four defenders. It depends on
the coaches style. Although game similar to soccer was played
in the Far East more than two thousand years ago,
modern soccer has its roots in England. Many English schools

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played various versions of a kicking game in the early
eighteen hundreds, but it wasn't until eighteen forty eight that
a group gathered and wrote the first soccer rules. As
British sailors traveled the world, they often organized soccer games
which spread the game to all parts of the globe,
particularly throughout Europe and South America. F stands for football,

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but not the North American game to everyone else on
the globe. That is soccer's real name. F is filled
fifty yards wide and fancy shout and war is forwarded
using fancy footwork as they tried to score. Soccer was
originally known as association football in eighteen sixties. English schoolboys

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liked to nickname things by adding er to the word.
For example, rugby was often called rugger, so association football,
which shortened to associate, which means associer. Eventually this involved
into soccer. Still the game is called football nearly every
except the United States and Canada. There's no standard size

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for a soccer field. The British called it a soccer pitch.
Rules for rules call for the game to be played
on a rectangular field that is between one hundred and
one hundred and thirty yards long between five hundred and
one hundred yards wide. The boundary lines at either end
of the field are goal lines, while the side boundaries

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are touch lines. The center circle in the middle of
the field, measuring ten yards across with the center line
dividing it in half, is where the game begins. G
G is for the goalkeeper with one glove on each hand,
who guards the nets so expertly and makes the team's

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last stand. The goal he guards is eight feet high
and twenty four feet wide. His job is to make
sure he doesn't let the ball inside. The goalkeeper is
the only player on a team who may use his
hands other than when a player is a boarded a
throw in. He guards the go within a rectangular penalty
area that measures forty four yards wide and extends eighteen

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yards from the goal line. The go area is a
smaller rectangle twenty yards wide and extending six yards in
front of the go. After the goalkeeper catches the ball
or picks it up off the ground, and may be
thrown or dropped kicked into play. Gee is also for
Gordon Banks and the greatest save ever. Banks was a

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goalkeeper who led England to the nineteen sixty six World
Cup Championship. Four years later, in the same tournament, his
team faced Brazil and the Great Pilas. Ten minutes into
the game, with Banks standing near the left host of
the go pile headed a ball towards the right side

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of the net. Banks dived full with of the go
and nanshad get a hand on the ball, it flew
over the go. His tree's greatest saves h is for
using your head to redirect a shot. Handballs are illegal,
but hard heads are not. Just watch the ball store
your way time your late just right and help your

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knock and meets the soccer ball in flight. A header
is to strike the ball using one's head. A header
may be a defensive play, such as clearing the ball,
or it may be offensive, such as a pastor shot
on a go. Two of soccer's best and heading were
Hungarias Sandor Coxes, who was the top scorer in the

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nineteen fifty four World Cup, and West Germany's Ooh Sealer,
who scored using the header shot in four different World
Cup tournaments. Both were nicknamed the Golden Head. It has
been estimated that a soccer player heads the ball an
average of six times per game and many more times
during practice, so proper technique, such as trying to use

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the thickest part of the skull the forehead to head
the ball is important to prevent heading injuries. A handball
is not allowed in soccer, but the term hand actually
includes any part of the arm below the armpit. Only
the goaltender may use his hands. If another player uses hands,
the other team is awarded an indirect freak kick from

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where the hand touched the ball. This happens inside the
go area. A player may kick it directly toward the go.
Indoor soccer, that's our choice for the letter I. The
pace is fast and furious. The scores are rather high.
The game is often played on turf inside a hockey rink.

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A goal could happen anytime, so indoor fans don't blink.
The first recorded indoor soccer match took place in Canada
in eighteen ninety five, when two teams faced off in
a roller skating rink. Today, many indoor fields around the
country have been built specifically for the game. The number
of players per side varies in indoor soccer according to

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the league in the size of the field. Indoor games
are usually divided into four fifteen minute quarters, and coaches
can substitute players anytime during the game, is often as
needed to allow tire players time to rest. Like hockey,
players are sent to a penalty box for major fouls,
and like basketball, there's a three point arc. A goal

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scored from more than forty five feet away is worth
three points. Jays for the Jerseys soccer players where but
often in big matches, opponents tend to share a gesture
of respect. After a game ends, They simply swap their
jerseys as if they were old friends. The world of
soccer international expedition match is often called a friendly. Nothing

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supports this term more than the traditional practice of swapping
jerseys with a worthy opponent at the end of a match.
Often players put on their opponent's jersey immediately right on
the field. This postgame tradition has been to Brazilian superstar Pillay,
who offered his jersey to England's captain Bobby Moore after

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this nineteen seventy World Cup final. More offered his jersey
in return, and their tradition began. Kay Mus teamed for kick,
of course, a shot aimed straight and true. There are
so many different types, but we'll just name a few.
Bicycle kicks, goal kicks, corner kicks as well. Will the

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ball land in the net? Only time will tell. A
bicycle kick is an acrobatic shot in which a player
kicks the ball in midair backward and over his own head.
Is one of the most athletic and exciting moves in soccer.
Longtime US national team star Marcelo Balboa was famous for
bicycle kicks, including one shot during the two thousand Major

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League Soccer season that was voted Goal of the Year.
The tacking team kicks the ball over the goal line,
but not into the goal. The defending team is a
war to go kick. Goalkicks are taken from within the
goal area and must travel beyond the penalty area and
are usually taken by the goalkeeper, but any player can

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take the kick. The defensive team kicks the ball over
the goal line. The opposing team is awarded a corner
kick from the quarter circle mark where the goal line
and touched like meat, the kicker boots the ball into
the goal area. Many goals are scored in this manner,
usually by teammates time in the past and heading the
ball into the goal. Ellis for the ladies who played

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the game they love. The US women's national team is
a cut above. In nineteen ninety nine, a jam packed
Rosebow crowd watched them win the World Cup and cheer
them long and loud. An official US women's soccer team
wasn't established until nineteen eighty five, but quickly American women
have proved themselves the best in the world, with victories

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in the first ever Women's World Cup in nineteen ninety one,
the first one held in the US in nineteen ninety nine,
as well as a gold medal at the nineteen ninety
six Summer Olympics, celebrated with ninety two thousand screaming fans.
In nineteen eighty, just over four eight thousand girls played
high school soccer, and there were only a few dozen

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women's college teams. But by two thousand, nearly two hundred
seventy thousand girls were competing in high school and nearly
eight hundred colleges In the Cuba field of varsity women's squads.
More than two hundred and sixty thousand girls compete on
American youth soccer or gignation teams. During two thousand and two,

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more than three hundred seven thousand girls under eighteen were
playing soccer in Canada. Following the excitement of the nineteen
ninety nine Women's World Cup, a women's professional league emerged,
the Women's United Soccer Association. In two thousand, US national
team legend Michelle Agers was named the Women's Player of

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the Century. M is for Major League Soccer and all
the soccer pros who make the mark on US soil
against talented foes. The Mutiny, the Galaxy, the Burn, the Clash,
the Crew, the Metro Stars, the Fusion, the Revolution to
the United States was awarded the honor of hosting the
nineteen ninety four World Cup was on the condition that

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a professional league would be established in America. Nineteen ninety six,
Major League Soccer began in the US. In Canada, the
National Soccer League later the Canadian National Soccer League, was
the top league in Canada. The Canadian Professional Soccer League
that started in nineteen ninety seven replaced it. M is
also for Magnificent mag Yards, the nickname of the Hungarian

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national team, led by Captain Frank Buscus, who was known
as the Galloping Major. Hungaria went undefeated in thirty fourth
straight international matches from nineteen fifty to nineteen fifty four,
before losing to West Germany in the nineteen fifty four
World Cup finals. The North Carolina women's team that's the

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letter in with eighteen national titles, the best that's ever been.
Their nervous fan cheer throughout ninety min it's of fun,
never letting up until the soccer game is won. The
University of North Carolina's women's soccer team represents one of
the great dynasties in the history of intercollegiate sports. Coach

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Anne Saint Durance started the varsity program in nineteen seventy nine.
Two years later, the Tar Hills won their first national title.
They went on to win seventeen more over the next
nineteen years. More than sixty different North Carolina players have
earned All America honors, and nearly forty of them have
gone on to play for the US national team. And

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is also for the number nineteen from North Carolina Mia Hamm,
the finest and most recognized women's soccer player in the world.
Ham's number nineteen jersey has been retired, meaning no other
female soccer player can wear number nineteen. At the University
of North Carolina. She has played on two winning World

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Cup teams and an Olympic go medal team. Nineteen ninety nine,
Ham broke the all time international scoring record for men
and women with her one hundred eighth career career go
We will have to finish this book's next time, so
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