The biggest headline entering the start of this week’s U.S. women’s national camp is that Naomi Girma is back in the squad ...

She’s been lured to London by Sonia Bompastor’s league-bestriding Blues—and a fee to match that million-dollar smile.

Naomi Girma: My dad loved soccer and that started with his childhood ... you think your success means to your parents and the Ethiopian community? Girma: For my parents, I feel like it's all ...

Naomi Girma ... of the suburbs, soccer was nursed in the deeply ethnic enclaves of the cities. Girma first learned to play in a modern version of that setting. Her father, an Ethiopian immigrant ...

Naomi Girma was born June 14, 2000, in San Jose, California, to Ethiopian ... American community, she grew up embracing both her cultural heritage and a passion for soccer. She and her brother ...

Watch Naomi Girma playing soccer once and you’ll see why the ... soccer league created by her dad as a way to get the Ethiopian community together. She worked her way through YMCA soccer camps ...

Naomi Girma is the best of America ... It’s centered around – what else? – soccer. Significant figures in the Ethiopian community are honored, and this year Girma was one of them.

Watch Naomi ... Born to Ethiopian immigrants in San Jose, the Olympian grew up playing in a “super casual” soccer league created by her dad as a way to get the Ethiopian community together.

Naomi Girma has put herself in that pantheon ... was created to give kids in the South Bay’s Ethiopian community a way to enjoy soccer and gave Girma her first chance to play without pressure.

Advertisement Now, one of the best defenders in the world has found a unique way to make her case, with Naomi Girma ... Area’s Ethiopian community of all ages together to play soccer and bond ...

Naomi Girma: My dad loved soccer and that started with his childhood in Ethiopia ... of the Year—what do you think your success means to your parents and the Ethiopian community? Girma: For my parents ...

When Naomi Girma joins me in a box overlooking the deserted ... who fled the civil war and arrived in the States as a refugee, started Maleda Soccer Club as a way for children from the local Ethiopian ...