She said: "Hey, Mili Hernandez!"
But that wasn't the only response she got. Some of the girls cut off their ponytails after soccer practice.
"Even if it was a mistake, they did not need to humiliate her or kick the entire team off the field", Torres said.
Soccer stars like Abby Wambach and Mia Hamm have expressed support for Mili Hernandez, the 8-year-old Nebraska girl whose soccer team was eliminated from a tournament last weekend because organizers thought she was a boy. USA women's national team member Lydia Williams tweeted, "Guess I should have been disqualified too".
The Springfield club told WOWT that a misprint in the team's roster identified Mili as a boy.
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Still, they wouldn't allow Mili's family to correct the error. And retired pro soccer player Abby Wambach wrote on Instagram, "Thank you for teaching us how to be courageous and shining a light on something so hurtful". Mili's father says he showed officials her insurance card to prove she was a girl, but that wasn't enough.
"I cut my hair because it's not fair what they're doing to Mili".
The Nebraska State Soccer Association, which didn't sponsor the tournament, said it nevertheless was investigating the incident.
In an email to The Post, tournament director Lanyard Burgett said while there were complaints that a boy was playing on an all-girls team, the three teams that played for the Azzurri soccer clubs were being investigated for swapping players between teams.
But the reason Mili's team was disqualified was because of the swapping issue, he said, not Mili's looks.
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