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dare-to-dream.jpgI thought that Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team might be a great show to watch with my nine-year-old soccer playing daughter. I could never quite get her interested (she’s not much of a movie buff), so I watched it alone one rainy afternoon. I’m so glad that I did. This is a HBO films DVD, and is rated TV-PG. I would rate it a PG-13 for several uses of language (more than I would hear on an hour long TV adult drama). That aside, this is quite an inspiring drama. As women, we’ve come to take for granted that we can do anything we want, we can achieve, and we can be noticed.  Few opportunities are considered to be for men only; however the disparity between men’s and women’s professional sports is great.  This DVD chronicles the choices that the women made which allowed them to be a part of the most well-known and successful professional women’s team (in America, anyway).  It is told as a sort of retrospective looking at the women who really became the faces of the team and helped encourage those younger soccer stars that professional athlete is a career option, not just a hobby or a pipe dream.

Mia Hamm joined the team when she was only fifteen years old.

Joy Fawcett returned to practice only a few weeks after having her first baby, and managed to balance starting a family and playing sports on the road.

Michelle Akers played in spite of battling Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

After retiring after playing for seventeen years as a team, these women, along with Julie Foudy, Brandi Chastain, and Kristine Lilly, look back on how they helped build the sport and foster the dreams of girls everywhere.

We have five copies to give away (U.S. addresses only).  Leave a comment if you’d like to win, and we’ll draw a winner on Saturday, October 20.

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236 Comments

  1. This is a topic which is near to my heart…
    Cheers! Where are your contact details though?

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  10. I have played competative soccer my whole life and am now just starting to live a life without it. This movie brings back all of the great years I had playing.

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  13. I would love one!! I never get five minutes with five kids including 4 year old triplets, so at least I could watch it!

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  16. I would like to win this movie because I am really
    into soccer.Both my kids played it and I watch all
    the soccer league games.

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  38. I bet even boys would like this soccer story.
    What do you think??? A guardian sounds like the perfect solution for removing expletives. Thanks!!!

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  40. It is nice to see something positive about teens! This sounds like it could be inspirational for our young ladies. Please count me in!!

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  59. I would love to see this movie and also more importantly to let my nieces see it!
    Thanks for the great contest!

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  71. I would love to win this for my kids to see as they are both soccer players. Thanks for doing these giveaways!

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  152. I dare to dream I will do what I want to do for me and nobody else. That sounds a little strained, doesn’t it? OK I want to win.

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  161. I love giving movie reviews. Big movie buff here. ;O)And we love sports films. We use a TV guardian so it will cut out the foul language(as long as it’s closed captioned) Thank you for offering this. I’d like to enter.

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  201. Count me In!

    I’m a movie junkie and this looks like a great movie! Thanks for offering such a neat prize!

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  212. I had no idea that there was a DVD with this story — I remember taking my daughters to the Women’s World Cup games in the States…and cheering for the BEST in the world! It would be such fun to own this.

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  215. Would love this movie! We are a soccer family here…our three year old twins are going insane that they can’t play soccer with their older brother and sister! 🙂 Congratulations on the babies, I have not been around in awhile…

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  217. I would love this. My kids really love soccer, and my daughter, who’s only three, already wants to play soccer. I might have to wait until they’re older to show them this movie, but it sounds very inspirational.

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  230. Wow! My daughter would love to watch this movie. She is really into Soccer right now. And I’m still into soccer considering that I played as a child and in high school.

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  233. Oh my Gosh! Please pick me! I have played soccer since I was 6 years old…I would watch this movie by myself or with my kids!!!

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  235. Ya know, I hardly ever watch movies, but this I would watch. I remember them and the team, Mia’s not that much older than me…

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  236. I’d love to win one…I have a dvd player that has a guardian on it…so it the language isn’t too often, it will usually find it and filter it all out.

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