In addition, the exciting core of young talent in Western Pennsylvania is owned by former superstar Mario Lemieux who pulled the franchise out of bankruptcy in 1999.
When a young Kevin Keegan was honing the skills that would make him a football superstar in the 1970s and 1980s, he spent hours kicking and heading a ball against a wall, and trapping and controlling the rebounding football.
Of course, there's no way Saniewska could have known that the young woman she photographed on a summer day in 2005 would become the international superstar she is today.
The South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard had become a medical superstar just a few months earlier, when he successfully transplanted the heart of a young woman who was killed in a car accident.
Willian Borges da Silva, the 24-year-old Brazilian superstar known as Willian, represents a certain archetype: the one who leaves his country at a young age and moves for a big fee to one of soccer's nouveau-riche clubs in Eastern Europe.