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If it is what her team needed, it is what she was going to do. How can you not cheer for that? As Abby has developed into a star, scoring more international goals than any other player in history, she has embraced being a leader. There are times when Abby just throws the team on her back and wills it to victory when that looks almost impossible. Abby is also a great role model for young fans and recently led the charge to get FIFA to use grass for this summer’s Women’s World Cup, as it does for men. Though she lost the battle, the fight sent a powerful message about equality in sports. Whether inspiring her team on the field or taking on important issues off it, Abby uses her passion and fearlessness to lead by example. Team USA is poised to do amazing things at the World Cup. While I can’t predict what will happen, I know that under Abby, they will never quit. _Hamm, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was twice named FIFA world player of the year_ ## Transcript I was one of those kids who played better on friday nights when the lights turned on and more people are watching. I'm the youngest kid in my family, so it makes a lot of sense that when the lights turn on something inside of me changes and I get more focused and I get more sharp. Things slow down a little bit, and I don't know, I, I guess it's just the little kid in me wanting to be noticed, you know? Everybody goes through moments of doubt even when you're the best in the world. Or you're either gonna be defined by that doubt or you're gonna push past it and make something of the doubt and turn that doubt into. Something that is noble and something that, you can measure. For me, I've learned more about myself through my failures, than I have any of my successes. There's one block opportunity, U. S. goes up one [ UNKNOWN ] In her first start, Abby Wambach has hit the back of the net here in the seventh minute. My high school coach, Kathleen Boughton ,. She taught me about life and what it was to be a good teammate and I think that's something that I really value highly not just in a team environment but in any work environment the successes we've had on the on the field have been very directly correlated to how close we are and how how accepting we are of all different types of people. In a world game, honestly, it's a very simple thing. Get ball, in goal [ LAUGH ]. It's not very difficult. I have one, a one track mind. I have a one, one goal. And if I'm lucky enough to be put in a couple situations to score a goal for my country and I convert on one of those then I have a successful game. It has been. A huge wholehearted effort from the States. [ APPLAUSE ] Repeno. Whoa! Two, two! A lot of people remember the 2011 goal that, that, we scored against Brazil in the, the very, very last seconds of the game. To send in the penalty kicks and we were down a man, and it. It was just the most dramatic game ever. It's one back. Oh, great kick. Great kick. It was such an amazing moment. It was such an amazing event, you know, the people were watching and those are the moments in time where, you dream of in terms of how it can positively affect your game. Not only. You, your personal game, but the game in the country, the game in the world, on a bigger picture global scale. And for me I'm lucky that, that I was in the right place at the right time. Semifinals, here they come. The USA have pulled the rabbit from the hat [ NOISE ] And I'm also lucky that I practiced that scenario a million times in my head as a kid. You know, the countdown, how many times I was on my driveway shooting baskets and 3, 2, 1, Michael Jordan. And now, I, you know, I was a part of one of these kind of iconic moments in American soccer. It's a header. Goal! This is my last World Cup. It's kind of hard to even, even consider what I'm gonna do when I'm done playing. But I also feel like I have one more chance, you know. I have one more opportunity to win a World Cup for my country. I've never won one. Morgan tees it. 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 that we won the World Cup, because that Brazil goal. But we didn't win, and I feel that hurt and that heartbreak every single day. And, that's why this time around. We gotta do something else we gotta sacrifice a little bit more we gotta do one more sprint we gotta do one more weight lifting session we gotta be closer we gotta we gotta try to do something different so that we can get a different outcome. I wanna leave the game better then I found it and push it forward. So that if I break any records, they're, they're, they're broken within 10 to 15 years. Because that's how we evolve. Then I know women are getting paid more. Then I know more women are having opportunities to play professional sports for life, for their career, without having to have a second job. 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