Girls From Soccer Team Cut Hair In Support Of Companera

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The story of little Milagros Hernández, just 8 years old, continues to make people talk in the world of soccer, after her team was disqualified from a children's tournament in Nebraska since the organizers would have assumed that she was a boy.

It seems that his hairstyle made the tournament leaders think that Mili, as her friends call her, was a little boy trying to play on a women's team. “I like to wear my hair short because I have always had it short. I don't like long hair,”she said of her look in an interview with the local news network WOWT 6.

After the incident, which was reported in multiple media, her same colleagues took initiative and showed their full support to her friend. Nine of the team members decided to cut their hair and demonstrate that the fact that a little girl has short hair does not mean that she is a boy.

After the incident, which disqualified the Azzuri Cubs team from the final stages, United States women's soccer legends such as Abby Wambach sent incredible messages of support to the little girl, letting her know that nothing was wrong with her physical appearance and way of wearing the hair.

“Dear Mili Hernández, you are wonderful in every way. Thank you for teaching us to be brave and to be light despite this difficult situation,”wrote the former world and Olympic champion, accompanying an emotional video posted on Instagram.

According to the organizers of the tournament in question, Mili's team was disqualified not because of gender confusion but because the Azzuri Cubs violated the championship regulations.

Lanyard Burgett, volunteer director of Ray Heimes Springfield Soccer Invitational, assured ESPN that they decided to expel the team, because they discovered that they had players who participated in different teams, an action that according to the turner's regulations can be penalized with the expulsion of the team involved.