You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.

In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.

With each year that's gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I've become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

Nobody really knows who I am, where I came from, what's in my heart, why I believe in the things I believe, what I see behind the scenes and they don't see.

I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and family.