Kobe Bryant is the youngest child and only son of Joe and Pam Bryant. His parents named him after a kind of (11) : the famous beef of Kobe, Japan, which they saw on a restaurant menu. At the age of six, Kobe, his parents and two older sisters moved to Italy, where his father began playing (12) basketball. He became accustomed to the lifestyle and became fluent in Italian. At an early age, he learned to play soccer and his (13) team was AC Milan. Bryant once said that if he had stayed in Italy, he would have stuck with soccer arid would have tried to (14) a soccer player. In 1991, the Bryants moved back to the United States. When he was 17, Kobe Bryant made the decision to go (15) to the NBA.