RECORD BROKEN, #ChasingAbby has commenced!
See the full coverage here: #ChasingMia
U.S. forward Abby Wambach is fast approaching one of the most hallowed records in international women’s soccer history: Mia Hamm’s all-time scoring record of 158 career goals.
The race to the record has been dubbed #ChasingMia.
What makes this “chase” even more special is that Abby gives much of the credit for her early development as a professional player to Hamm, who was her strike partner on the Washington Freedom in the former Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA). As Mia was nearing the end of her illustrious National Team career, Abby was just breaking into the U.S. squad and got to learn on the field from the woman who was her idol while she was growing up in Rochester, N.Y. While Abby never thought she’d have the chance to break the scoring record, Mia says she always knew her teammate would be able to do it. And she just might be right.
The race to the record has been dubbed #ChasingMia.
What makes this “chase” even more special is that Abby gives much of the credit for her early development as a professional player to Hamm, who was her strike partner on the Washington Freedom in the former Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA). As Mia was nearing the end of her illustrious National Team career, Abby was just breaking into the U.S. squad and got to learn on the field from the woman who was her idol while she was growing up in Rochester, N.Y. While Abby never thought she’d have the chance to break the scoring record, Mia says she always knew her teammate would be able to do it. And she just might be right.
Below is the original graphic to recognized the start of #ChasingMia. The image is composed of text that describe each of Wambach's 153 goals up until that point. After she scores a goal to inch closer to Hamm's record, the image is updated to reflect the latest goal.
The format of each goal is as follows: [#number][date][opponent][result][location][how she scored]
Goal 159
Abby scored four goals against Korea Republic on June 20, 2013 at Red Bull Arena to tie and break Mia's record in the same match. She has now scored more international goals than any human on the planet...ever. Congrats Abby.
Original graphic to kick off the campaign - depicts goals 1-153
154 Goals
March 6, 2013 vs. Iceland
155 Goals
April 5, 2013 vs. Germany
File Construction
Original text layover. This is comprised of three different text areas as Photoshop could not handle the entire string of text in one text area.
The original base image with some color correction and curves adjustments
A layer of black is placed over the image and masked to reveal underlying pixels. In addition, the background is maintained masked for the final step.
The face pixels are masked and the black letters are filled to create a background layer.
The finished product again. (after some mask refinement and other fine adjustments)
