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BY MARK McGIVERN Chief Reporter A MIRACLE baby who was declared dead before her birth is now the star player in her football team – despite being the only girl.
Mia Rose Storrie amazed medics by surviving after her mother suffered a placental abruption in 2012.
In the ambulance on her way to hospital, mum Shelagh was told she had lost the baby – but Mia was born at 28 weeks, three months premature.
She weighed just over two pounds – a quarter of the weight of a normal, healthy baby at birth.
Mia, now seven, joined the Renton Craigandro team in Dunbartonshire last year as the only girl in a pool of 18 players.
Since then, she has won two Player of the Month awards and established herself as a leader on the park.
Her achievement is all the more remarkable because she also suffered holes in her lung and heart at birth.
And parts of the fingers on her left hand are missing due to her having a blood clot on her arm when she was born.
It means Mia needs help putting on her football strip and shin guards – but once she has her boots on, she bosses the boys on the pitch.
Mia got another Player of the Week award last week.
On their Facebook page, the club wrote: “Mia works her socks off every week at training, and on Sundays is always taking upon herself a captain role within her wee team and keeping the boys in line.
“On Sunday, she was nothing but outstanding, setting up goals, tracking back, getting herself into space.
“She has shown her coaches just how good a player she is becoming, with coaches from other teams commenting on how good she was.”
Dad Stephen, a senior coach at the club, said: “I couldn’t be more proud of Mia, because she just knuckles down and gets on with things.
“She doesn’t mind getting stuck in with the boys and she can be pretty physical on the park.
“But she has a lot of mental toughness too and you will quite often hear her rallying the team and shouting at the boys in the team.
“It’s a bit unusual that she is the only girl in the team – but when she first came along, there simply weren’t any other wee girls to form a team and she fitted in where she could.
“The lift she had in her confidence from turning up at training and at the matches at the weekend has been great to watch. She loves that wee team and the camaraderie it brings.”
Recalling the extraordinary start to