Sam Kerr – the girl who became a football superstar
Fierce Girls
ABC Australia
4.5 • 956 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
When Sam Kerr was a kid she spent hours upon hours kicking a soccer ball in the back yard of her suburban Perth house, dreaming of becoming an international football superstar. But how does an average kid from Australia make it big on the international stage? Practice. And more practice. Sam did so much practice she became the youngest person to ever represent Australia in football.
Written and narrated by nine-year-old Maia Kelly.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the story of the girl who became a football superstar. |
| 0:07.0 | This is the story of the girl. |
| 0:11.0 | This is the story of the girl who became a football superstar, |
| 0:14.0 | Sam Kirk, written and read by 9 year old Maya Kelly. Roar goes the crowd. |
| 0:25.8 | Sam Kerr scores the tie-breaking goal with just seconds left on the clock. |
| 0:30.3 | It's time to throw herself into a signature celebratory backflip. |
| 0:34.0 | Here she goes. |
| 0:36.0 | In a flight of green and gold, the superstar flips in the air and lands perfectly back on her feet. |
| 0:42.0 | The crowd roars again. |
| 0:44.3 | When Samantha made car was just a kid, she thought, |
| 0:53.5 | how cool would it be to be able to do a back flip? |
| 0:56.5 | On the playground at Sampson Primary School in Perth Southern Suburbs, |
| 1:01.0 | Sam spent hours perfecting her flips. |
| 1:04.0 | Little did she know that one day she would be flipping in front of the whole world, |
| 1:10.0 | but not as a gymnast, as a footballer. |
| 1:13.0 | When she wasn't flipping, Sam was kicking. |
| 1:16.0 | Bang! |
| 1:17.0 | The Sharon AFL footy came off her boot |
| 1:19.0 | and went straight through the middle of the towering goalposts. |
| 1:22.0 | Goal! The other 11 year old Sam. through the middle of the towering goalposts. |
| 1:22.8 | Goal! |
| 1:23.6 | The other 11 year old Sam, she was kicking the footy |
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