Leicy Santos

Colombia

"If I could go back and bump into the girl who used to run everywhere with a ball at her feet through the streets of my town, San Sebastián, I would tell her: ‘You did it, you made it,'" Santos said last year during the Women’s Copa América when Colombia finished as runners-up behind Brazil. Santos was one of the stars of that team, but while preparing for the final against Brazil, she had to sit back helpless as her family home on Colombia’s northern coast was almost destroyed by flooding...