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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Go for the Gold by Mia Hamm Mia Hamm. Mariel Margaret Hamm-Garciapara was born on 17 March 1972, in Selma, Alabama USA, into a US Air Force family. She is a well-known retired soccer player, noted for being one of the best female soccer players of all time at both club (Washington Freedom) and international level with the US team. Some of her achievements include “Sportswoman of the Year”, “Soccer Female Athlete of the Year”, “Female Athlete of the Year” among others. What is more, Mia has been inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, National Soccer Hall of Fame and Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, and is one of only two females listed in the 150 Best Soccer Players of All-Time. Despite the fact that Mia has retired from her career as a soccer player, she is now involved in many other projects. So how rich is Mia Hamm? It is estimated that Mia’s net worth is $10 million. The main source of this sum of money is Mia’s former career as a successful soccer player. Although she does not play soccer anymore, her net worth is still growing as she is now known as an author and is involved in other activities. Mia started playing soccer from a very young age. When Mia studied at the Lake Braddock Secondary School she played for school’s soccer team and even helped them to win state championships in 1989. Later Mia continued her studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and she became a part of the university’s team, called “Tar Heels”. Mia continued improving her skills and contributed a lot to team’s wins. In 1987 Mia became the youngest ever to play for the United States women’s national soccer team, and had an opportunity to play at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 1991, which the US won, and it had a huge impact on the growth of Mia’s net worth. In 1993 and in 1994 she was able to win the ACC Female Athlete of the Year Award, and her name became even better known among other players and coaches. In 1996 Hamm was again a part of the United States women’s national team which won gold at the Summer Olympic Games on home soil in Atlanta. In 2004 they won gold again at the Summer Olympics in Athens, and it added a lot to Mia’s net worth. Meantime, in 2001 Mia started playing for the team called “Washington Freedom”, in the year that the first professional women’s soccer league was created in the US called “Women’s United Soccer Association”. Undoubtedly, Mia and her talent had a huge impact on this change in women’s soccer. Despite her success, in 2004 Hamm decided to retire from her career as a professional soccer player, after appearing in an incredible 275 international matches. In addition to playing, Mia has also collaborated with such companies as “Nike”, “Fleet Bank”, “Gatorade”, “Powerbar”, “Mattel” and others. These activities also added considerably to her net worth. Now Hamm is known for releasing her books, “Go for the Goal: A Champion’s Guide to Winning in Soccer and Life” and “Winners Never Quit”, which gained a lot of acclaim and contributed to Hamm’s wealth. It is clear that Mia is one of the most influential people when talking about women’s soccer, and she remains a very hardworking and determined person. If to talk about Mia Hamm’s personal life, it can be said that she married Christian Corry, in 1994, but heir marriage ended in 2001. In 2003 she married Norman Garciaparra with whom she has three children. Finally, Mia Hamm is one of the most famous and successful female soccer players of all time. She has achieved a lot during her career as a soccer player and now, even though she is retired, Mia has other activities to take care of. That is why she remains very popular and influential. IMDB Wikipedia $10 million 125 lbs (56.699 kg) 1972 5 ft 4 in (1.65 m) ACC Athlete of the Year Alabama Association football Ava Caroline Garciaparra Bill Hamm Christian Corry Christian Corry (m. 1994–2001) FC Dallas FIFA 100 Football player Garrett Garciaparra Garrett Hamm Gender Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor Grace Isabella Garciaparra Islam Lake Braddock Secondary School March 17 Mariel Margaret Hamm Messenger RNA Mia Mia Hamm Mia Hamm Net Worth National Soccer Hall of Fame Neuron Nomar Garciaparra Nomar Garciaparra (m. 2003) Parkinson’s disease Player Selma September 11 attacks Soccer in the United States Soccer Players Sports Stephanie Hamm Toyota Stadium United States United States of America United States women’s national soccer team University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Washington Freedom Women’s Professional Soccer. Go for the Gold by Mia Hamm. No Me in Mia By Lisette Hilton Special to ESPN.com. "A lot of players have trouble with confidence. It's not just Mia. But it surprises people when a great player struggles with confidence. That's been her life work to deal with her own lack of self-confidence on the soccer field," says former U.S. national team coach Tony DiCicco on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury's series. Some called it "Mia Mania," when Mia Hamm carried the torch for women's soccer. The 1990s marked an era when Hamm's outstanding ability, good-natured way, clean looks and undeniable passion made young girls around the U.S. take notice of a sport that was a blip on the radar screen. Dominant and intense under the spotlight, she also was modest, self-critical and shy. There's "no 'Me' in Mia," and no ham in Hamm, she wrote in her book Go for the Goal: A Champion's Guide to Winning in Soccer and Life. Because of those qualities, she would never say what so many others have: Mia Hamm was the greatest female soccer player of all-time. Hamm is not only an all-American hero but an icon in women's sports. She was instrumental in the U.S. winning two Women's World Cup titles and two Olympic gold medals. In 2004, after competing in the Olympics and participating in a 10-game "Fan Celebration Tour," she retired from international competition at 32. Hamm, who joined the U.S. team at 15, is the world's all-time leading goal scorer with 158 and was named the Player of the Year in the first two years that FIFA gave the award (2000 and 2001). Her popularity has led to endorsement deals with Pepsi and Nike, which named the largest building on its Oregon campus for her. Her most popular commercial was for Gatorade, in which she competed against Michael Jordan. Born March 17, 1972 in Selma, Ala., Mia was the third of Bill and Stephanie Hamm's four daughters. She grew up a military brat, living around the world as her father rose to the rank of Air Force colonel. Hamm was barely a year old when the family moved to Florence, Italy. She also lived in Virginia and California before she was five. She became a soccer fan as a toddler, watching matches on television and kicking the ball around in the backyard. The family moved to Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1977, and that year, the Hamms adopted Martin, a newborn, and Garrett, eight years old. One of Garrett's gifts to Mia was the sharing of his passion for sports. She tagged along for whatever sport her brother was playing. She went with him to touch football games, and he picked her for his team knowing his little sister had terrific hands and speed. Hamm's mother Stephanie said Mia was Garrett's "secret weapon." Hamm's world was shattered when Garrett, at 16, was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a rare disease marked by insufficient platelets in the blood. Twelve years later, he received a bone-marrow transplant, but he died two months after that, in April 1997, because of a fungal infection. As youngsters, Garrett had helped Mia develop into a soccer standout in Wichita Falls. Still, when Anson Dorrance, the national team coach from 1986 to 1994, went to watch the 14-year-old play in a tournament in Louisiana in 1986, he was skeptical. "I didn't ask who she was; I wanted to let her emerge," Dorrance said. "This skinny brunette accelerated to the ball like she'd been shot out of a cannon. I'd never seen athleticism like that. I ran around screaming, 'Is that Mia Hamm?' " In 1987, Hamm - at 15 - was the youngest player to compete for the U.S. women's national team. The next year, she moved to Burke, Va., and she was named an All-American at Lake Braddock Secondary School. In 1989, after graduating a year early from high school, Hamm was playing for North Carolina, where Dorrance coached. He became her legal guardian during her freshman year as her parents moved to Rome. Scoring 103 goals and emerging as a three-time All-America, Hamm led North Carolina to four NCAA championships between 1989 and 1993, in the midst of the school's nine consecutive titles from 1986-94. Named to Soccer America's College Team of the Decade for the 1990s, the 5- foot-4, 125-pound forward completed her collegiate career as the Atlantic Coast Conference's all-time leading scorer in goals, assists (72) and points (278).