Go for the Goal: A Champion's Guide to Winning, in Soccer and Life

I read and finished the book Go for the Goal: A Champion's Guide to Winning, in Soccer and Life, by Mia Hamm on a plane from Phoenix. This book is a memoir of Mia Hamm, the greatest women's soccer player of all time. It takes you all the way through her earliest soccer career, playing as a child with the boys, to winning the Women's World Cup in 1999. It gives many small anecdotes about the game and her experiences playing it. More than that, it shows how to be a winner, which is a important skill for everyone to learn.

Mia does a great jobs of making the themes in her book easy enough for children or teenagers to understand, while still talking about subjects like winning and losing. The only problem that I have with the book is how often times she said that what she did was perfect, sounding almost egotistical. I know that she also said that she wasn't the best player in the world and named players who she thought were "better" than her but I didn't really feel as though she was being completely honest. And even if she was, she almost always prefaced it or followed it with saying how many other people, players and fans, consider her one of the best players, men or women. She also likes to point out that she has scored more goals for her country than any other player, man or woman, and says it more than once.

All and all, this is a great book for anyone who loves soccer (as I do) or simply wants to read a book about good life lessons.