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Mr.D new from the begging that Carli and the other 4 core players would be the best team. The Medford Strikers won 2 consecutive New Jersey State Cup titles. Are are now in for national rankings. Carli is happy about her team. She does wish that she could have been better even though sh new she it her all.

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"Lots of times at the end of practice, I have fun without running afoul of any rules."(27) Carli would careless about some of the rules that are in soccer. At the end of practices she would almost like give up because some rules are dumb. Carli is all about having fun! But she always remembers that once it's game time she is all seriousness and not a goof ball! That is only at practice.

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"I am in constant motion, an undersized prankster on the prowl, but on the field I am all business." (26) She is a super crazy kid! She would steal her team mates candy, squeeze her way into things like putting herself into somewhere where there is not a lot of room. She was a completely person when she was on and off the field.

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"It doesn't take me long to figure out that the Medford Strikers are the best team I've ever been apart of." (26) There is super good and strong players on Carlis team! She is beyond happy that she is on this team. She is even more excited that she can be on the best team! "I want to be in the middle of everything, all the time, on the field and off" (26) Carli just loves the attention! She just wants everyone to know who she is.

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"I am not sure how long I beat myself up for not making select, but it goes on got awhile, until I got a letter in the mail."(25) This letter is from a guy named Joe Dadura. He is starting a U-13 team. This team is a club by her near town. He saw Carli had the Strikers tryouts and thought she was an amazing player. "Joe Dadura's goal is to find enough of these players and coach them the right way and build a team that can compete with anyone."(25) Sooner than later she was wearing red, white, and black with a number 10 on her back representing the Medford Strikers.

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Carli is still every disappointed that she didn't make the team. She keeps asking herself, "I keep replaying the tryout in my head, wondering what I could have done differently. It's pointless exercise, of course. It just flings open the doors to self-torture." (25) Carli's dad tells her that everything is going to be ok and that this trial will only make her better. She can always turn this negative into a positive.

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This is the first time she hasn't made a team in her life of playing soccer. She never wants to show the world her emotions and this time is no exception to show her emotions. (25) "But in my room it's a water works show beneath the Ronald Inho poster." She has so much anger and frustration that won't let up.

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Carli really wants to tell the evaluators that she needs soccer like everyone else needs oxygen. She wishes she could also give them a reading of her desire. Carli just keeps telling herself the same thing....... (24) "You try to be at your absolute best and try to make an impression." She does everything she can to earn that blue ribbon. At the end of tryouts the list is posted and she looks for her name and doesn't see it. She is so so so so sad. (24) "I am devastated."

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Tryouts are wickedly competicte. All of the athletes trying out are all going for the same blue ribbon. All of the girls and boys are desprestly hoping that the evaluators are super impressed in your work. Carli thinks she did good but she doesn't want to assume things. She really wants it just as bad or if not more as the other athletes. Part of Carli wishes that she could help the evaluators to pick the right people.

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When Carli thinks she does well at her tryout she always looks up at the evaluators to see if they are writing anything down and nodding at each other. It's always a good thing to see the evaluators writing and nodding. If they are not nodding and writing things down Carli starts to panic and gets worried that she isn't good enough for the Select team. If she they do do sothing wrong, you hope that they are looking at someone else or looking at a text message.

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Tryouts for Carli a nonstop parade of insicreaities and doubts. Sometimes other people look at other people and judge them on there looks, size, skill, and strength. Carli tends to do that when tryout s are here because she wants to not be intimidated. In her mind its no different than in daily living.

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Carli is heading to tryouts. When she gets to tryouts she sees so many kids! She has never seen this many kids at a tryout before. Carli is used to being the smallest kid on the field. It's never mattered before, so she tries to not be intimidated. She likes to tell herself.... that she can play with anyone. She really wants to beileve what she is telling herself but she doesn't know if it is true. But she wants to be super good so she has to believe that she good and is ready for this team.

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She is know 12 years old. She has decided to try out for the South Jersey Select team. It is the destination for all of the elite players. If you are elite or anything with skill, they you should be on that team. If your goal is to play at the highest level then you should be on this elite select team. Right now she is a star player for the Dynamite team but she still wants to be the best and the highest.

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Carli would love to be at there level. She wants to be just as good as the National Woman's Soccer League (NWSL). Carli felt really inspired when the U.S women captured the World Cup in the Rose Bowl in 1999. She has always imaged her playing in the Olympics. She says, "You can do it if you keep getting better and work harder than everybody else.

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Carli loves the example that Jamie is to her. Perfection is Carli's goal. She loves to have high standards. She doesn't want to be just average, she wants to be the best she can. Throughout the years Carli has moved up in age and competition level. Carli made the New Jersey's Olympic Development program team. (OPD) and the OPD Region team. She was the top player from 13 states. Carli went to there camp and she was one size up against the midfielders.

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During the games Carli's dad was always there cheering her and her team on. The other coach was a really experienced coach as well. Carli loved her dad coaching and the girl coach! She was just as good as every other coach. Carli would have good days in soccer and not so good days. One of Carli's favorite things in soccer is having super good competition and getting better. Soccer was starting to take over Carli's life. Carli has a great friend named Jamie. She says that she is a great athlete and a great person. Carli loves Jamies drive. Jamie teaches Carli wonderful lesson. She says: there is no substitute for hard work. Talent is great."

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Carli's parents are Steve and Pam. Steve works are a machine company and Pam works for a paralegal secretary. She says they are far from wealthy. Her parents have to provide for Carli, her brother, and her sister. Carli plays basketball, soccer and softball. Soccer is her all time favorite. She started playing when she was 5 years old. She tells us that her favorite childhood memory is when her parents got her her very own soccer shoes. They were black leather. She didn't want them to get worn out so every time after practice she got the leather condition her put them on the shoes. She is very organized and neat. She keeps her room super clean. Her favorite color is purple (at the age of 9.) She keeps track of everything. She keeps track of her special blanket. She lays her clothes out the night before. She doesn't like order she LOVES order. She is a perfectionist. The first time Carli played on a soccer team was when she was on the team Delran Dynamite. She was tiny but middy in the front plays with her friends. Her dad was the coach so that made it better for Carli. She was always the first to practice ready to go.

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Carli liked to swim but it just wasn't her sport. She did not like the fact that she had to wake up early in the mornings and jump into the cold water. She loved the meets though. She tried a lot of different sports. She loved every other sport besides swimming. Carli is NOT a girly girl. She doesn't want to be a girly girl either. Her mom always tried to put her in dresses and skirts and bows and glitter and Carli hated it. The only time you would see Carli in a dress would be for church and school. She would only wear it because her mom made her wear it. Carli had her favorite teacher so many times in middle and high school. One day Carli was sitting in the back of the room, she hit her teacher and the teacher asked who hit her. Nobody responded. She didn't want to deal with the consequences, she knew they were going to be bad. A couple years later, Carli goes up to the teacher and tells her that she was the one who hit her. The teacher just laughed and accepted Carli's apology.

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Carli lived in New Jersey. When she was younger she was a kid in action. She was constantly in motion, she could never sit still. She would climb up on the counter tops and look at the view. One time as she was getting down, her eyelid got caught on the cabinet. She tore her eyelid so bad, she had to rush to the emergency room to get her eyelid taken care of. She said that she has not gotten that close to a cabinet since. When Carli was in 1st or 2nd grade she took swim lessons at the YMCA. One lesson, she went under the water. Her mom thought she was drownding so from the bleachers she jumps in and saves Carli.

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When nobody was watching: my hard-fought journey to the top of the soccer world

Lloyd & Coffey - Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - 2017