Soccer star Crystal Dunn on pay disparity, the pressure to succeed — and her fave Drake
Posted Dec 28, 2018
For Crystal Dunn, the idea from Mia Hamm was downright frightening. It was 2010, and Dunn had been chosen by America’s most celebrated women’s soccer player to wear her legendary No. 19 UNC jersey. “I was like, ‘No!’ ” says Dunn with a laugh as she recalls her reaction. “Because I knew I would be messing up in that jersey." That, of course, did not happen.
(The Undefeated)
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