Keeping Her Own Score: The World Cup will show everyone how good Mia Hamm is. Why can't she see it?(soccer player)

Newsweek | June 21, 1999| | Copyright

In soccer circles, the story has been told and retold so often that it has taken on Arthurian, sword-in-the-stone dimensions. How in the mid-'80s Anson Dorrance, then coach of the U.S. women's national team, ventured south to scout a 14-year-old Texas wunderkind. Dorrance had no idea what Mia Hamm looked like; he hoped that even though she'd be vying against college-age all-stars, the kid would somehow stand out. The ball was kicked off and, he recalls, "this little girl took off like she was shot out of a cannon. I thought, 'Oh my God.' I couldn't believe the athleticism." ...

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