Talk:Mia Hamm

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Contents 1 Picture? 2 Points 3 What was her number? 4 Hamm's Position 5 Error in statistics 6 Siblings 7 Women's national team? Duh 8 U.S. 1991 World Cup Squad template 9 Mia born with clubfoot condition

[edit] Picture?

How does an article so long and complete about arguably the best female football (soccer) player of all time, doesn't have a picture? Miguelfp1 00:18, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Points

My excellent deductive qualities tell me the 'points' are goals*2 + assists, but would it be possible with a link/explanation of how and why a 'points' category is necessary and what its function is? Coming from Europe, I haven't seen this attempt to 'mix' the two functions, goals and assists, before, and in Europe the assists don't even figure in any statistics (however unfairly to the supporting players), other than the extremely devoted sources, so I take it it's an American tradition? Poulsen 14:36, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Just put it down to an American fascination with applying a huge amount of stats to all sports. Assists are commonly recorded in Basketball. Just be glad they don't also give you the yards gained, number of shots made / missed / on target, etc etc as they do in American Football!--Richardb43 03:52, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What was her number?

In the picture it looks like #9, and that's the same as I remember from having watched her on TV, but was she always #9? Did she have different numbers in WUSA, with the National Team, at UNC, etc.? A short discussion of this would be helpful, since athletes are often paid tribute to & recognized by their numbers. (E.g. Michael Jordan #23) --Jefs 15:17, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Mia was number 19 at UNC. I believe it has since been retired. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.214.170.252 (talk • contribs) 22:00, December 14, 2006

She was #9 when in the WUSA and #9 whenever I saw her on the national team, which doesn't include her earliest years. Kevinwparker 16:44, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hamm's Position

Given that this is an encyclopedia article, shouldn't Hamm's position be in the summary? I'm assuming she was a striker, but really such fundamental information should be in there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.78.131.139 (talk • contribs) 04:49, July 12, 2006

[edit] Error in statistics

"Hamm retired with 158 international goals, more than fifty ahead of any other player (male or female)". That is currently incorrect as Iranian footballer Ali Daei currently has 109 international goals, only 49 goals less than Hamm's total goal count. I know its a small error, but it is an error nonetheless. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.80.172.175 (talk • contribs) 14:52, July 31, 2006

[edit] Siblings

Hello. User:71.155.237.145, just changed the number of siblings that Mia has. Can anyone provide any references to back-up the changes? Without references, it is difficult to know whether the old version is in error, or the new version. Please see WP:V and WP:RS for our policy on the need for information to be verifiable, and for guidelines on what constitutes a reliable source. Thanks, Johntex\^talk 01:44, 6 December 2006 (UTC) she had a brother and he died.

I know when Mia just started on the National Team, her brother, Garret died from complications related to aplastic anemia. A good website is [1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.59.117.1417:22 (talk • contribs) December 11, 2006

[edit] Women's national team? Duh

Anyone else questioning the need to add the qualifier "women's" in the section header describing Hamm's service to the US National Team? Was there any question that a female player would be on the women's team? - RPIRED 23:26, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

The word "women's" is there because some sports are only for men or women. Women's is just there to tell you which team. Some people might think she played for the men's team or something else. "I don't care what you think" 13:50, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Uh... who would think that? Just offhand. I mean, we don't use "men's" as a qualifier for male athletes. - RPIRED 00:17, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

For tennis they use men's and a whole bunch of other olympic events. "I don't care what you think" 22:25, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] U.S. 1991 World Cup Squad template

A series of templates for U.S. Squad <yyyy> Woman's World Cup were just added. One does not yet exist for {{United States Squad 1991 Woman's World Cup}}. As such, I commented it out on the article page. Please uncomment it once it has been created. — ERcheck (talk) 12:14, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mia born with clubfoot condition

There are dozens of articles, including some in wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clubfoot , mentioning Mia as a famous person who had a clubfoot deformity when she was born. I think including this fact into her biography not only would demonstrate her willingness to overcome a disability as part of her strong personality but would also be a great source of inspiration for kids with this condition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.229.121.209 (talk) 05:25, 29 March 2008 (UTC)