{"id":237316,"date":"2026-04-18T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237316\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:58:08","slug":"soccer-legend-mia-hamm-hosts-youth-soccer-camp-in-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237316\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer legend Mia Hamm hosts youth soccer camp in Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 18, 2026 at 5:24 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 World Cup winner and two-time Olympic gold medalist Mia Hamm made a stop in South Florida on Saturday to host a soccer camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The event took place at the Baptist Health Training Complex in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The legendary U.S. women\u2019s national team star took photos with participants before kids broke into groups and ran through a variety of drills to sharpen their skills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hamm said spending time with young players inspires her and reinforces that the future of soccer in the U.S. is brighter than ever. She added that the best way parents can help their kids grow in any sport is simply to show up and support them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cYou know I\u2019m a parent myself but sometimes that is not always linear,\u201d Hamm said. \u201cThey have to take a couple steps back but as long as they know you love them, that\u2019s the most important thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Some lucky kids went home with signed soccer balls and even a pair of World Cup tickets.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Pablo Hernandez\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/96ffb9dd-5e0a-4be5-8ede-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Pablo Hernandez <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Pablo Hernandez is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born in Cuba and has lived in Miami, Florida since 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 18, 2026 at 5:24 PM FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 World Cup winner and two-time Olympic gold medalist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-237316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}