
All 23 players, fifa 16 accounts with coins coaches and backroom staff filed in to the East Room, greeted by a loud ovation from the invited guests. President Obama, joined by Vice President Joe Biden, U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati and a 13-year-old girl, Ayla, from Massachusetts, shortly followed.
To begin the ceremony, Ayla shared a letter she wrote to President and Mrs. Obama towards the end of Canada 2015 with the crowd, explaining her anger after her brother told her that ‘boys are so much better at soccer than girls’, and that she wanted the White House’s help to prove him wrong. President Obama hailed young Ayla’s courage and used her letter to frame his congratulatory remarks to the recent Women’s World Cup champions.
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