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"My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings in any way. We live hardwired to expect another interruption or disappearance or cracked guarantee." Hope Solo is the facial skin of the present day female athlete. She actually is fearless, outspoken, and the best in the globe at what she will: protecting the purpose of the U.S. women's team. Her outsized ability has led her to the pinnacle of her sport - the Olympics and the entire world Cup - and made her into a global celebrity who is just as more likely to appear on ABC's Dancing with the Actors as she actually is on the covers of Sports activities Illustrated, ESPN The Publication, and Vogue. But her voyage - which started in Richland, Washington, where she was raised by her strong-willed mother on the scorched earth of defunct nuclear trials sites - is likewise haunted by the fallout of her genealogy. Her father, a philanderer and con man, was convicted of embezzlement when Solo was an infant. She lost touch with him as he drifted away of jail and into homelessness. By the time they reunited, years later, in the car parking lot of a grocery store, she was an All-American goalkeeper at the School of Washington and already a budding prospect for the U.S. national team. He was residing in the woods. Despite harboring serious doubts even about the provenance of her father's previous name (and her own), Solo embraces him as fiercely as she pursues her dreams to be a world-class soccer player. When those dreams are threatened by her standing within the national team, as when she was famously benched in the semifinals of the 2007 World Cup after four shutouts and spoke her part publicly, we visit a woman of uncompromising self-reliance and hard-won determination navigate the petty backlash against her. For the very first time, she explains to her version of this controversial episode, and will be offering with it a complete understanding of her hard-scrabble life. Moving, sometimes surprising, Solo is a family portrait of your athlete finding redemption. This is the Hope Solo whom few have ever before glimpsed.
