She was sentenced by the doctor to "can t play football", but now she has won two penalty kicks in the European Cup

In the 2024 Women's Football European Cup quarterfinals, a young goalkeeper wrote the most important page in his life with blood and injuries.

It was the peak showdown between England and Sweden. In 90 minutes of regular time and 30 minutes of overtime, the two teams still struggled to decide the winner and lost. They fought 2-2, and the game was dragged into a penalty shootout.

Penalty Battle, a psychological game belonging to the brave. In this seven-round tug-of-war with 14 people in the battle, England lost 4 penalty kicks and Sweden also lost 5. When the game came to its most critical moment, it was Hannah Hampton, the 24-year-old goalkeeper who used her scarred body to complete two saves, pulled England back from the brink of elimination, and finally advanced to the semi-finals of the European Cup 5-4.

Many people may not know her, or even be interested in her resume. But if you know that she was once clearly told by the doctor: "You are not suitable for playing football", you will understand that this night, she saved not only a penalty kick, but also a future that was denied by fate.

Hannah Hampton was born with strabismus and his eyes were unable to align. Before the age of three, she had undergone three eye surgeries, but her vision problems were not solved.

Not only that, she was also diagnosed with "deep perception disorder", that is, she would be much more difficult than normal people when judging the distance, height, and spatial relationships of objects.

For a goalkeeper, it is like telling a singer: "You don't pronounce accurately"; telling a painter: "You can't tell the color."

The medical expert directly concluded that she is not suitable for sports, let alone professional football.

But she didn't believe in this evil.

In an interview, Hampton talked about an impressive detail. When she was a child, she always subconsciously stretched her hand in the wrong direction every time she received the ball, and the result was either a broken finger or a bleeding nose. Once, she even made a mistake in judgment and was hit by a ball on the front of her face and bleeding from her nose.

**She was once ridiculed by many teammates as "crazy" because of her strabismus and slow reaction, and the coach was unwilling to arrange for her to appear. ** But she did not choose to retreat, but took out the ice bag again and again, bandaged it, stood up and continued to guard the door.

Her life was far from as easy as she thought. When she poured water, she could not tell the location of the water if she didn't hold the cup tightly. She often sprinkled a whole pot of water on the table. A simple life move is like fighting monsters for her.

But she always believed that "dreams will not stop because of other people's denials. Only you have the right to decide where to go."

She used countless trainings to make up for her natural defects. She studied angles, observed shotgun habits, and used videos to constantly correct her judgments. She turned the issues that should have become "reasons for exit" into her own "hidden skills".

In the summer of 2023, she joined Chelsea from Aston Villa women's football team. Without background, halo, and full of old injuries, he helped the team win the "triple crown" of the season as the main goalkeeper in less than a year.

When she arrived at the national team, she was no longer a marginal person, but a real mainstay in the defense.

In this life-and-death battle against Sweden, she not only withstood the heavy pressure from her opponent, but also chose to continue to pounce when her nose was injured. After she saved the penalty for the second time, the whole game was boiling. She knelt on the ground and whistled to the sky, and blood from her nose slid down her cheeks, as if it was a medal of victory after the battle with fate.

She is not a "genius", she is a "god general" who is forcibly made with stubbornness and passion.

A media asked her: "How did you survive that most difficult period?" She said: "I want to prove that those who deny me are wrong. I know I have flaws, but I know that I have love. What's the point if a person cannot pursue his dreams?"

This sentence has been praised and reposted by many netizens: "I may not be the strongest person, but I must be the one who refuses to admit defeat."

Today's Hannah Hampton is not just a goalkeeper of England, but more like a banner with "never compromise" written on it, standing in front of all ordinary people who have been questioned and denied.

Perhaps in the eyes of some people, she is just a female football player, but to more people, she is the goalkeeper of her dreams and the spokesperson of persistence.

Because of her appearance, we believe that even if the starting line is behind, as long as you don’t give up running, you will always be able to counterattack your life.