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06-07-2017, 11:00 AM
Abby Wambach reaches out to girl banned from soccer tourney because she looked 'like a boy'
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Mili Hernandez is an 8-year-old girl from Nebraska who loves to play soccer (http://mashable.com/category/soccer/), and she plays well. Oh — she also has short hair.*
That haircut was a point of contention recently when organizers of a youth soccer tournament disqualified Mili's team for having a boy on their squad.*
SEE ALSO: Why the Finals aren't the most important story in the NBA this week (http://mashable.com/2017/06/02/enes-kanter-turkey/)
The supposed boy was actually Mili, whose parents say she cried after the team was kicked out of the tournament. But then their story garnered national news interest, and Mili **w has some very high-profile supporters.*
"I was mad; I never had that problem before. She’s been playing so long in different tournaments," Gerardo Hernandez, Mili's father, told The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/06/05/a-girl-with-short-hair-was-kicked-out-of-a-soccer-tournament-because-she-looks-like-a-boy/?utm_term=.949f90c8619e). "I don’t want ** problems with **body, but that wasn’t the right way to treat people. Why they want to tell my girl looks like a boy?" Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/06/abby-wambach-message-girl-soccer/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Mili Hernandez is an 8-year-old girl from Nebraska who loves to play soccer (http://mashable.com/category/soccer/), and she plays well. Oh — she also has short hair.*
That haircut was a point of contention recently when organizers of a youth soccer tournament disqualified Mili's team for having a boy on their squad.*
SEE ALSO: Why the Finals aren't the most important story in the NBA this week (http://mashable.com/2017/06/02/enes-kanter-turkey/)
The supposed boy was actually Mili, whose parents say she cried after the team was kicked out of the tournament. But then their story garnered national news interest, and Mili **w has some very high-profile supporters.*
"I was mad; I never had that problem before. She’s been playing so long in different tournaments," Gerardo Hernandez, Mili's father, told The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/06/05/a-girl-with-short-hair-was-kicked-out-of-a-soccer-tournament-because-she-looks-like-a-boy/?utm_term=.949f90c8619e). "I don’t want ** problems with **body, but that wasn’t the right way to treat people. Why they want to tell my girl looks like a boy?" Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/06/abby-wambach-message-girl-soccer/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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