Its a book showing various players ie Pichon, some german, some chinese and fleets in her scottish kit tongue hanging out !

Fleets really should keep her tongue in , every pictures I see it's hanging out

I don't get why you can't get Women's footie books in this country any other country and you can find them.

I know there are a few in the USA, one I read I didn't like.

Mia described a goal she scored against england !

First Lady of U.S. soccer
Hamm dishes on Team USA, the new women's league
Posted: Friday January 18, 2008 11:59AM; Updated: Friday January 18, 2008 2:21PM


Mia Hamm and husband Nomar Garciaparra will participate in a charity event later this month for bone-marrow transplant patients.
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When the logo for Women's Professional Soccer -- the new top-flight league starting in 2009 -- was unveiled this week, the player silhouette in the middle was unmistakable.

It's Mia Hamm. (Jerry West now has some company as The Logo.)

But the grand dame of women's soccer is doing more these days than just posing for logos. The proud (and happily retired) mother of nine-month-old twins, Ava and Grace, Hamm is teaming up with her husband, Nomar Garciaparra, to host a celebrity soccer challenge at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., at 1 p.m. on Jan. 26.

All proceeds from the event (which features Hamm, Garciaparra, Landon Donovan, Kristine Lilly, Abby Wambach, Julie Foudy, Brandi Chastain and others) will benefit funds set up at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and donations from the Celebrity Soccer Challenge will benefit bone-marrow transplant patients and their families.

It's a subject that's close to Hamm's heart: Her brother, Garrett, died in 1997 from a bone-marrow disease.

Hamm rarely gives interviews anymore, but this week SI.com spoke to her about her event as well as her thoughts on the state of the U.S. women's national team, the Hope Solo World Cup controversy, the new women's league and Hamm's role on the committee that hired new coach Pia Sundhage.

SI.com: Tell me a little bit about your charity event.

Hamm: We're really excited about it. It was something that started in 1997 in Milwaukee and we're bringing it back here to the L.A. area. I'm so grateful and thrilled that Nomar wants to be a part of it. I think this is a great area for it.

To give you some brief history, it started in '97 with five families [in Milwaukee] that had brought me into their club to do a clinic for their girls' team. It was a week after I'd found out my brother had to have a bone-marrow transplant. Financially, we weren't sure if insurance was going to cover the procedure. The initial findings were that it was going to be hard to find him a full match, so all these things were happening at once. I went up there with some leaflets and a pickle jar basically begging people for money and giving them information about getting registered in the National Bone Marrow Registry.

Two weeks later, I got a call from them saying we have an idea to help raise more money for your brother and hopefully get the word out there. So we held an indoor game in Milwaukee with women's national-team players against an all-star team of college seniors from the Milwaukee-Chicago area. We did that for four or five years, but with the league [WUSA] and national-team commitments the game kind of went away.

So last year, we got to talking about how we'd love to bring the game back. It was called the Garrett Game before in honor of my brother, and we thought L.A. would be a great area with the rich soccer tradition here and the celebrity aspect. We moved it outdoors to the Home Depot Center, and it's going to be half-field, small-sided 6-on-6. We've got a lot of great past and present players, both male and female, and some celebrities who are going to lace 'em up and have some fun and hopefully raise some money. Money is extremely important to these families, but so is awareness. There will be a booth set up doing bone-marrow typings to put them into the marrow bank, which to me is just as important if not more so than the money we raise.

Thanks for that HLF:

If you didn't catch this part of the interview when she talks about the USWNT, here it is, and as usual Mia stays pretty classy about it.

SI.com: What's your sense of the state of the U.S. women's soccer team right now?


Hamm: I haven't been out to training since Pia's been there. I saw the World Cup and talked to some players afterward, and they felt that they didn't play up to their potential. And watching the games, I felt for them. They're a great and extremely talented group of women who've worked so hard, and I'd go out to practices and see how hard they worked. I think the passion is there and the work ethic, but for some reason things didn't work out.


But it's also getting so much more competitive. You have to play your best every single match, and almost every single minute of every single match. I know in talking to them they're committed to first and foremost qualifying for the Olympics and playing better and achieving what they feel they can achieve, and that's a gold medal.


In watching them play, I didn't sit there for one minute and say I wasn't proud of them. I'm extremely proud of them. I love this game, I love that team, and I still have a lot of players on that team that I trained with, whether for a week or two years, and I'll always be cheering for them to do well. I'll do whatever they ask me to do to help them, whether it's being on the [coach] selection committee or talking to players or just watching from wherever I am.


SI.com: During the U.S. team's current tournament in China, Solo is back starting in goal. What's your sense of what happened involving her at the World Cup and where that is now that she's back with the team and playing?


Hamm: I heard things that probably you heard and read. Hope's a very talented goalkeeper. I saw the interview after the game. It's not something I would have done, and I've read things from Hope saying that she apologized, she's moving forward, and for her it's about proving herself every single day. I think we all had that approach when we were with the national team.


She obviously has a lot to prove to her teammates, and I think she's committed to doing that. I have so much confidence in Pia and how she's going to handle that situation, and it looks as if Hope's committed to that. But at the same time, it's like anything. Just as a team sits there and says we want to qualify and win the Olympic gold medal, you can't just say it once. You have to commit yourself to it every single day. I think Hope understands that, and I hope for her sake and the sake of the team -- because she is such a good goalkeeper -- that she does that.

http://www.pbase.com/alana1079/mia_photos

click on the link and see some cool pics i just found on the net

Nice pictures there of the legend

I think it would be a great Houner for Mia Hamm if the US Soccer Federation decide to never use the shirt with number 9 anymore.


Ajax Amsteram did they same for Johan Cruyff and AC Milan gonna do the same for Maldini with his number 3


and Umea did it for Malin Mostrom

what do you think?

would that be a great houner

Kelly Smith had her college shirt retired as well.

It's a great honour as that shirt is then only remembered for that player , and Hamm certainly deserves it. But I can't see the US Federation doing that , they seem to put all there good players into the Hall Of Fame.

here is gonna be a day that i personaly steal every number 10 shirt in Sweden

bud i hope her to play another...............50 years

Soccer star drums up support for sports-oriented Eagle subdivision

EAGLE -- A new Eagle subdivision is centered around outdoor recreation and today the face of women's soccer over the last 10 years helped drum up excitement.

Mia Hamm is in Eagle to support the Hamm-Chastain-Foudy Soccer Academy at Legacy.

The development will also include a Jack Nicklaus golf academy, Mark Spitz swim academy, Jim Courier tennis academy and the Brad Duke speed school.

Hamm calls this neighborhood plan an ideal environment for families.

“With all the issues we have childhood obesity I think it’s so important for families to do it together, so we are thrilled to be part of this,” said Hamm.

Hamm plans to visit the area at least once a year to offer clinics at Legacy.

On Saturday, Hamm and fellow former U.S. national soccer team member, Brandi Chastain, are offering a free clinic at 2:30 p.m. to anyone who wants to attend.

It will be held at Legacy's new soccer complex -- off Floating Feather Road.

The Legacy subdivision is the first of its kind in the nation.

Developers say in this housing market it is important to keep homes affordable.

One example is a Jack Nicklaus golf course at Legacy was supposed to be 18 holes, but developers say they cut it back to a three-hole practice course to keep home prices down.

Prices in Legacy start in the mid-$200s and go up from there.

That’s still above the average price for a home in Ada County, which last month was reported at $205,000.

Developers say since this project will take more than 10 years to finish, they’ve planned for slower times in the housing market.

“When you have a development of over 1,300 homes, 600 acres, you have to plan for one or two downturns, so this is in our planning stages,” said Todd Santiago, Legacy developer.

The neighborhood features a practice golf course and three soccer fields.

They also plan to build indoor and outdoor tennis courts, as well as an Olympic-size outdoor swimming pool for residents.

Right now the subdivision is in its first phase, which includes the construction of more than 200 homes.

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