Scouts for one of the most prestigious English soccer clubs in the world came calling for a player, not even 10 years old, on a London boys team back in the mid-1990s. They thought he had potential and wanted him in their youth development program.
There was just one problem . . . that player was a girl.
"It was kind of funny, actually," said Orlando Pride midfielder Lianne Sanderson, now 28. "To be scouted as a boy originally was kind of a cool thing because it was such a big team and globally known, ya know?