Sports are played in different countries around the world. Some people play sports professionally. This means it is their job to play the sport. Professional players might move countries to play their sport. Some players have moved from another country to the United States to play.
Ezi Magbegor plays basketball. She is Australian and started playing professionally in 2017 in Canberra, Australia. Canberra is Australia’s capital city. The city’s women’s basketball team is called the Canberra Capitals.
Magbegor moved to the United States in 2020 to play for the Seattle Storm in the WNBA (Women’s National Basketball Association). She helped her team win the WNBA Finals in her first season, which means her team were WNBA champions.
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Son Heung-min played for Tottenham Hotspur from 2015 to 2025.
Son Heung-min moved to the United States to play soccer in 2025. He moved to California to play for the Los Angeles FC. Son is from South Korea. Before he moved to the United States, he played soccer in other countries, too. He played for two teams in Germany. He also played for Tottenham Hotspur in London, England.
Son played for Tottenham Hotspur for 10 years and scored more than 100 goals. In one game, he dribbled the ball almost the whole length of the field and scored a goal. His goal won the Puskás Award for 2020. This award is given to the player who scores the best goal out of all the men’s soccer competitions in the world that year.
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Susanna Tapani plays as a forward for the Boston Fleet.
Susanna Tapani is a professional ice hockey player from Finland. She has played ice hockey in different countries. She started playing in Finland and has also played in Sweden and Russia. She now plays in the United States for the Boston Fleet in the PWHL (Professional Women’s Hockey League).
Tapani was the first ever player from Finland to join the PWHL. She has scored many goals. In 2024, she played in the Walter Cup Finals, which is the championship series of the PWHL.
Tapani also plays ringette, which is a sport that is like ice hockey but has some differences. She has won five gold medals for Finland at the World Ringette Championships.
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Ronald Acuña, Jr., has hit many home runs for the Atlanta Braves.
Ronald Acuña, Jr., is from Venezuela. He now plays baseball in the United States for the Atlanta Braves, a Major League Baseball team. He joined the Atlanta Braves when he was just 16 years old.
The Atlanta Braves play in the National League. In 2018, Acuña won the Rookie of the Year Award for the National League. A rookie is a player in their first season in the league. Winning the award meant that Acuña was voted the best player out of all the rookies in the National League.
In 2023, he won an award for being the best player in the whole National League. He was named National League MVP (Most Valuable Player).
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