13-Year-Old Soccer Player Olivia Moultrie Turns Pro, Signs Contract with Nike

[Anonymous]

Olivia Moultrie is only 13 years old, but she is already embarking on a career as a professional soccer player.

According to Andrew Keh of the New York Times, Moultrie signed an endorsement deal with Nike and a representation pact with Wasserman Media Group. As a result, she's no longer eligible to play collegiately, which is notable given she already made history two years ago by accepting a scholarship offer from the North Carolina Tar Heels.
Keh noted Moultrie, then 11 years old, was the youngest girls soccer player to publicly accept a scholarship offer.

"It's just a shift in women's sports," Moultrie's agent, Spencer Wadsworth, said while revealing the offer the teenager received from Nike was worth more than the four-year scholarship. "You see it more and more now where women's soccer is catching up to the men's side, and there's more opportunities for them."

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2822497-13-year-old-soccer-player-olivia-moultrie-turns-pro-signs-contract-with-nike

So a 13 year old girl signs a pro contract!

[Anonymous]

She's ok. Might be able to make FCV's 05 DA team. /s/

[Anonymous]

Good for her and her family! She looks like a total badass player!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She's ok. Might be able to make FCV's 05 DA team. /s/

Let’s not get crazy.

[Anonymous]

Nike is placing a bet on this girl

[Anonymous]

She has an endorsement contract and is still playing youth soccer. She is not on any professional roster, but she is part of the portland thorns academy.

At this point, it's all or nothing to become either a homegrown player or sign with a professional team.

Any takers???

[Anonymous]

Who wants to take her on board and get to deal with her nutso parents?

[Anonymous]

Whenever I hear "phenom" to describe a soccer player, I can't help but think of Freddy Adu

[Anonymous]

I hope she's not another Freddy Adu. Decent skills, but better shot placement. Her movement off the ball doesn't look that great from these clips, but hopefully she's very coachable and once she can't dribble through her competition, she'll learn how to let the ball do the work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whenever I hear "phenom" to describe a soccer player, I can't help but think of Freddy Adu

Haha, jinx!

[Anonymous]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiwrg1ST37U

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whenever I hear "phenom" to describe a soccer player, I can't help but think of Freddy Adu

Me too. I also love how the Pulisic family kept it low key and nobody had really heard of Christian prior to Dortmund and many soccer people still hadn’t until his USMNT. They were very modest and the parents always said early on that they wouldn’t know how he would turn out until he was done maturing.

People that go nuts for kids under the age of 16, I worry.

This girl is obviously incredibly talented. Her parents took her out of school as kid so she could practice soccer 8 hours a day. Pulisic only had Christian practicing 2 days a week early on and he went to school. They weren’t pushy parents. It came from him.

[Anonymous]

Wait they pulled her out of school to pratice all day and she got a full ride to UNC at age 10 or 11?

[Anonymous]

With all of those sharp cuts her ACL’s won’t last forever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whenever I hear "phenom" to describe a soccer player, I can't help but think of Freddy Adu

Me too. I also love how the Pulisic family kept it low key and nobody had really heard of Christian prior to Dortmund and many soccer people still hadn’t until his USMNT. They were very modest and the parents always said early on that they wouldn’t know how he would turn out until he was done maturing.

People that go nuts for kids under the age of 16, I worry.

This girl is obviously incredibly talented. Her parents took her out of school as kid so she could practice soccer 8 hours a day. Pulisic only had Christian practicing 2 days a week early on and he went to school. They weren’t pushy parents. It came from him.

He had smart parents and coaches protecting him from media early in and not over-training or playing in too many games.