Former U.S. soccer stars Abby Wambach and Mia Hamm are offering support to an eight-year-old Nebraska girl who says her team was disqualified from a youth soccer tournament because she says she looks like a boy. WOWT-TV reports Mili Hernandez's team had advanced to the finals of the tournament when it was suddenly disqualified. "Just because I look like a boy doesn't mean I am a boy," Mili Hernandez told the local TV station. It said in a statement Monday that the Springfield soccer club's decision to disqualify Hernandez's team does not represent the association's core values of teamwork and inclusion. The state soccer association said it did not oversee the Springfield tournament but will work directly with clubs and tournament officials to ensure nothing like this happens again.

Source: CBC News June 06, 2017 15:03 UTC