One-year-old Joseph Tidd and Orlando Pride player Carson Pickett have a lot in common: They both love soccer. They're both athletic. And they both have partially formed left arms, which they tapped together last month in a photo that's flying across the internet.
Joseph spent the whole car ride home from the stadium looking at his arm and giggling, Tidd said, because he knew he had a friend. Tidd, 28, said she found out when she was pregnant with Joseph that he would be born without one of his hands. She cried at first, but she said Lucky Fin helped her believe her son would be fine.
Pickett, a defender, came onto the Tidd family's radar while she was playing for the Seattle Reign because, like Joseph, she had a congenital limb difference. Pickett joined the Pride last year, and the Tidds were excited that she would be playing near their Orlando, Florida-area home. "It took a minute for him to realize, 'Wow, we've got the same arms,' and then he just giggled," Tidd said. "You could see it hit him, and then they were best friends after that."