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Talented defender, Carla shines in 1995 World Cup and in 1996 at the Olympics; she also plays every single minute of the 1999 World Cup.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn his essay The Captain Class, Sam Walker highlights that the girl runs a lot of matches but scores very few goals: her affection to the team is so strong that everytime she gets the ball, in fact, she passes it to a teammate.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter her retirement, she is introduced in the National Soccer Hall of Fame. She has never given too many interviews: genuinely shy, after every victory she goes back to her faily, while her mates party and celebrate. \n<\/p>\n<p>\nNikki McRay is a gifted defender too, but not of soccer playgrounds: between 1991 and 1995 she\u2019s in the American Basketball League, and in 1998 she signs a one million dollars contract with WNBA, playing nine seasons. Her suits are always red, just like the details of Nikki Delta, the FILA shoes she chose to sign making sure they could be sold for both women and men to wear.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHer personality is strong and competitive, and in the past twenty years she\u2019s been a true model for all the girls longing to play basketball. \n<\/p>\n<p>\nShe retires in 2006 and immediately reinvents herself as a coach. In November 2013 she\u2019s diagnosed with breast cancer, and she deals with the theraphy by leaning on all her strength. On a Sunday, right before a match involving Gamecocks, the team she trains, she enters the locker room to wish some luck. Surprisingly, the girls wear \u2018Play For Nikki\u2019 t-shirts: for the first time, the lioness breaks up in tears. But they\u2019re tears of joy: an athlete is never left alone.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women know it well: getting together is always the most powerful weapon. 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