“I have one more opportunity to win a World Cup for my country, I’ve never won one,” says Wambach, a champion American soccer player. “I want to make my country proud. And I know that in 2011 we did but we fell short, we didn’t come home with the World Cup. I know people think we won the World Cup because of that Brazil goal, but didn’t win. And I feel that hurt and the heartbreak every single day.”
Read Mia Hamm on Abby Wambach for the 2015 TIME 100.