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 | | Youth Soccer Month — Celebrating Soccer in America, an annual celebration of the United States’ leading youth participation sport each September, is pleased to announce Kristine Lilly, a mainstay in the midfield of the US Women’s National Team, as official spokesperson for 2004. |
 | | Lilly, a two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup champion (1991, 99) is the first soccer player — male or female — to accrue more than 250 international appearances. |
 | | Lilly began her soccer career in her hometown of Wilton, CT, where she played on a boys’ youth team, because no girls league existed at the time, before moving on to the University of North Carolina, where she was a four-time NCAA champion and All-American. |
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