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Fans flipping for American teen starring on Brazil’s Under-20 squadBy TALES AZZONI, Associated Press Writer
36 minutes ago

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP)—An American teenager is making a splash in Brazilian women’s soccer.

Leah Lynn Gabriela Fortune, a 17-year-old who speaks very little Portuguese and goes to school in the United States, is attracting a lot of attention as a member of Brazil’s Under-20 squad.

Not only is Fortune an American playing for Brazil, she also uses a novel throw-in move that has made the highlight reels in sports shows across Brazil.

To the delight of fans, Fortune has in her bag of tricks the flip throw, in which she does a front flip with the ball in her hands and can propel it some 30 meters and into the penalty area.

I know it is women's soccer but we are talking American on their squad.

it's a handspring, not a flip. front flips are a motherfucker.

here's a kid demonstrating the traditional throw, and the handspring throw.

Teammate of mine learned how to do that in my league... when we were 16, but he did it still holding the ball when he went into the flip

They banned it from our league for being unsportsmanlike.

like this

Perhaps, but I'll bet he didn't have breasts.

That can make all the difference.

I prefer any flips and somersaults to be in celebration - gymnastics are an amusing sideline but they're not actually football skills.
But good for Leah - it's got her noticed anyway (she's have been sat on in the showers if she did that on a UK women's team)