Naomi Girma’s journey to the USWNT | SC Featured 

As an Ethiopian I am happy to see u at this level .

What a beautiful and touching story about her family. What a wonderful friendship she and Katie had. I can’t help but feel for Naomi and her family their friendship clearly was impactful for the both of them.

All the way to Olympic Gold! Your acvievement is inspirational to all 🇺🇸💚💛❤ Ethiopians!

ኩራት ተሰምቶናል። 🇪🇹 We Proud Of You ❤️

Going to be one of the best defenders in women’s football. Already one of the best in NWSL.

oh man this has me in tears 😭😭 i love naomi

You so calm and control the defence beautifully. You IQ of the game is amazingly high. Wish you all the success 🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷

A wonderful feature! Thanks to ESPN and Firma family for creating this. Naomi, the Stanford community is so proud of you and is rooting for you always! I appreciate your work on and off the field. Especially all of the efforts on expanding mental health access. I'm sure KM is smiling from above.

Congratulations, Naomi! I remember my days at the park watching my daughter, Leah, playing AYSO Soccer. She was a little Ethiopian Girl then just like you. Go my Ethiopian Daughter!❤🎉 Wishing you all the best😊

ይሄን ሳይ በጣም ኩራት:ደስታ እየተሰማኝ እና እምባም እየተናነቀኝ ነው። ግርማ የሚል ኢትዩጵያዊ ስም በኢንተርነሽናል ደረጃ መስማት እና ማየት እጅግ ደስ ያሰኛል እዚህም ኢትዩጵያ ውስጥ ላሉት ሴት እህቶቻችን የእግር ኳስ ተጫዋቾች ትልቅ አርአያ እና ኩራት እንደሞትሆኚ ነው። መልካም እድል

This is one of the example why USA is a dynamic country. I am now a U.S. Woman Soccer fan. May God give Katies family the strength to deal with her passing. Go Naomi Girma. 🇺🇸 ❤ 🇪🇹

Love from the home town 🟢🟡🔴

What a beautiful story but the same time loosing her best friend to suicid is heartbreaking. I don’t know how she’s able to move on it’s tough it impacts your life. But I’m so happy she carry her name and won’t let Katie be forgotten. May god bless her soul I wish you strength and great future stay humble you’ll do great things touching millions

🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹 The Ethiopian American Community is so proud!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Wow Katie looked so happy. Tough to tell when someone going through depression.

This was great, I and many others are cheering Girma on throughout her journey as a professional player and individual 🙌

Girma is by far my fave soccer player and I am a die hard Thorns fan

Wow, I am in tears. Go USA!

Such a beautiful story ❤

love you Naomi Your upbringing and tenacity is Inspirational to every girl in the world.. what a cute smile she has too.

So sorry about your friend and your loss😢 good luck ❤

You are so amazingly. we all are proud of you from Ethiopians.❤❤❤❤ good luck for the rest of your career🙏❤

we Ethiopian proud of you yours careers...!!

A delightful young woman

We proud of you. 🇪🇹

This is a wonderful story, ESPN. To ESPN and Disney, have yourselves a blessed and beautiful Sunday. Sunday quote: "Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." -George Eliot

GO #4.

san jose reppin lets go

let's go USA 🥰🌸!

Simply amazing !

way to go Naomi

❤ኣኮራሽ❤❤❤❤❤

Sorry for Katie. May her soul rest in heaven! And so proud of you Naomi. Love you

Good feature

Proud of you my sister!

Bless 🙏🙏🙏

Girma. My favorite player.

Nahome, you are a hero, we expect a lot more. We are sure that you will play in Barcelona. You will reach a great level. With God, I am waiting for Balodor. I am proud of you, the hero of Ethiopia.

CONGRATULATION NAOMI 👍

Naomi..please make sure you visit us/our Ethiopian youth soccer team in cottage grove incase you drop by to Minnesota. Indeed you are an inspirational to our kids who have passion for soccer ⚽️ and more. We love you 😍 and sorry about your BFF loss. 💓

Naomi 🇪🇹❤ best cd in the world right now

Yhank God

Go Naomi 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹

As an Ethiopian man, I feel sympathy for Katie. Go Naomi & team USA!

Let’s go, Naomi! Stay strong and keep pushing! As Ethio-American, I aspire my daughter, Mikal, to follow your path and become a soccer player. As a striker tho tho 😆

NAOMI GIRMA WHEN SHE IS ON THE PITCH SHE CONQUERS THE WHOLE FIELD WITH HER TACTICS AND DEFENSIVE SKILLS

🙌🔥⚽

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💚💛❤

Wow wow wow! Proud of you!!! Go Ethiopian! 💕

ETHIOPIA my country.

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Naomi, We are proud of you

It’s saddening to see her friend death

Go nahomi

Ethiopan 🟩🟨🟥💪💪💪💪💪

ለምን እንደሆነ ባለውቅም እንባ እየተናነቀኝ ነው ያየሁት

Naomi is the embodiment of the American dream. You can’t get more American than this. She is also so grateful for all the opportunities she’s received, and is such a hard worker. Calling her out for not singing the national anthem just seems so trivial and meaningless compared to what she is representing and advocating for in her American community. Yet still people love to single her out for not singing because she’s African American and daughter of immigrants. You can respect, be grateful for, and give back to your country in many different ways.

Ethiopia stand up

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well hope the sponsers take note and withdraw their money and sponser teams like jamacia and south africa

Uswnt needs start from scratch!

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She’s so grateful that she couldn’t bring herself to sing the national anthem How inspiring

They are wasting her talent. She should play midfield or defensive midefield. That is her natural position.

too many apostrophes

Hopefully when the Cancer that is Rapinoe leaves the team the younger generation will follow in the footsteps of players like Ertz and Morgan and Mal and start showing respect during the National Anthem.

A better life! Try looking at something other than the ground when the anthem is playing! Go live in Ethiopia and learn some humility and be grateful!!!!

We love you Naomi 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹 but we don't support USA Team

Another one that doesn't feel pride for her country 😕

Naomi Girma look at her face when their playing USA national anthem. pure hate???

❤Proud ETHIOPIAN - GO girl Outshines ❤

Shame on you, because you disrespect your country in national anthem in the world cup.👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

Wow.