"The fastest game on one leg," Calabria explained. "It's a beautiful game. It's still very much what people think of when they think of soccer." Calabria, who was born without one of his legs, proved in front of our ABC13 cameras his one foot is better than most.
The sport is played by amputee athletes. There's six players and one goalkeeper per team. The men and women on the field, with the exception of the keeper, use forearm crutches. Ferguson is a Houstonian. In 2016, the 16-year veteran of our U.S. armed forces joined the team to represent his country in another way. "I told the team they have no idea what it means for me to stand and represent my country," Ferguson revealed.
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