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The family of an 8-year-old soccer player said her team was disqualified from a tournament in Nebraska because organizers thought she was a boy.
Mili Hernandez, who is one of the best players of the Omaha Azzuri Cachorros's 11-year-old squad, was about to play in the finals of the Springfield Soccer Club tournament on Sunday when she was told that her team had been disqualified because she looks like a boy.
Hernandez's parents claimed they showed organizers her insurance card to prove their daughter, who wears short hair, is a girl.
"Just because I look like a boy doesn't mean I am a boy," Mili told local TV station WOWT 6.