MUNICH — On a warm afternoon here late last month, a few minutes before soccer practice, Olivia Moultrie, 12, was talking about her haters.
“I like looking through the comments,” she said, referring to her Instagram account, which has more than 70,000 followers, “and then I find that one comment, and I’m like, ‘Really, bro?’ And then I just keep scrolling.”
Olivia once wanted to be a dentist. Then she reached third grade, and her focus turned to becoming the best soccer player in the world.
It is why she has been home-schooled since the fifth grade and why her family spent $60,000 installing an artificial turf field behind their house in California.