The World Cup of 2019 in France has shone the world focus on women’s football as never before, and the sport continues to grow in popularity, both in terms of participation and spectators, as it continues to spread throughout the world. He also encouraged more people to look back the story of the game and ask who have been the best football players for women.
Of all the famous football players, who is above the rest?
Although these judgments are always subjective, here are some of the names that will be able to contain the best women’s football player.
Marta, Brazil
Marta (Marta Vieira Da Silva is a Brazilian Striker Who is widely regarded as one of the best female players of all time. She has been been named fifa player of the year Six Times, making inher one of the top Women’s Football Players, and Duing the 2019 World Cup in France Became the First Player (Male Or Female) to Score in Five Different World Cup Final, While Her Penalty Against Italy, Her 17th in World Cup, made it the highest scorer of all time to FIFA’s most significant international tournament.
He started playing his career at the back of his hometown, using grocery bags as an improvised ball, before starting to play with a team of local boys. A explorer discovered it from Vasco de Gama who wanted to start one side of women, before making their way to Sweden and Umea IK.
Since then he has had a traveling club career, alternating between Europe and North and South America, currently plays in Orlando Pride, in the National Football League. However, wherever you go, goals and promote almost a goal for the club and the country.
Mia Hamm, USA
Mia Hamm is considered the first international star in the women’s game.
The striker started playing football at an early age, and at the age of 15 he became the youngest player who appeared in the National United States national team. He won the World Cup with the United States in 1991 and 1999, and claimed Olympic Gold with the team in Atlanta in 1996, and again in Athens in 2004.
When he retired from the game, he had made no less than 276 appearances in the national team and scored 158 goals, a record that stood until another north -American, Abby Wambach, broke it.
Hamm, at the height of his career, was a massive media star. Widely considered the most commercial athlete of his generation, he had numerous sponsorship offers, appeared in television ads with Michael Jordan and had his own video game.
Five times the women’s athlete in the United States of the year, was the first female star introduced to the world’s fame.
Birgit Prinz, Germany
Birgit Prinz is a retired German international who played five World Cups and scored 14 goals in the finals, second on the list of all time only in Marta. He won the World Cup with Germany in 2003 and 2007 and was runner -up with them in 1999. In addition, he won the European Championship with Germany five times and collected three bronze medals at the Olympic Games.
FIFA World player of the year for three successive years, she was named German player from the year 8 times in a row. A prolific scorer for their FSV and FFC Frankfurt and Carolina Courage clubs managed a goal for them for an 18 -year career. He played 214 times in Germany and scored 128 times, a national record.
These records make here one of the most decorated women’s football stars of all time.
Since retiring, he has become a sports psychologist for both the men’s teams and the Hoffenheim women and the German national side.
Abby Wambach, USA
Abby Wambach is the international scorer of all time in women’s football, with 184 goals in 255 appearances in the United States. He was part of the team that defeated Japan in the final to win the World Cup in 2015 and won Olympic Gold in Beijing in 2008, and again in London four years later. FIFA Player of the year in 2012, a year earlier became the first football player, of any genre, who was named a athlete of the year by The Associated Press.
Wambach was known for his physical and aggressive approach to the countryside. Although never the most mobile of the players, he had an excellent position and became known for his headwaters: a diving head became his trademark. Although she was mainly known as a striker, she could also fall back into the midfield to help supply her teammates, she is the third list of all time for her country.
He played his entire club career in North America, with two spells playing Washington Freedom, interspersed with a period at Ajax America Women and then Western New York Flash. He was also briefly coach with Magicjack.
In 2015, Time Magazine appointed her in her list of 100 most influential people in the world. Wambach is well known as one of the most famous women’s football women.
Christine Sinclair, Canada
Christine Sinclair has just played what can be his last game for his country after the Canadian captain had just lost against Sweden in the last 16 of the World Cup this year. If this is the case, the curtain is reduced to a remarkable international career that has seen its score 182 times in 282 appearances, two of the record of Abby Wambach.
At the club level, he has won championships with three different clubs: the 2010 WPS Championship with FC Gold Pride, the 2011 WPS championship with Western New York Flash and the 2013 NWSL NWSL championships with Portland Thorns FC.
Physically active, she is known for her athletics and ball skills and its precise end. Canadian player of the year in no less than 14 occasions, helped his country to win the Golden Cup of Women Concacaf 2010, at the 2011 Pan American Games, and also to secure bronze medals both at the London Olympic Games and in the later games than Rio four years later.
A leader as well as outside the field, Sinclair has received a series of awards in his native Canada and has been presented to the postage stamps of the country.
Hope Solo, USA
Hope Solo is a former U.S. National Selection Porter, who has a series of records in his name: the most international appearances 9202), the most victory (153), the closures (1020, and the longest streake Streak-55 consecutive games. He helped his team win the 2015 World Cup and also in the Gold Medal both in the 2008 Olympic Games in 2012.
At the club level, he played Philadelphia Charge in the United States Women’s Association, until this league folded and went to Europe, first with Kapperbergs/Gotberg in Sweden, and then Olympic Lyonnaise in France. He then returned to the United States to play the taste of Saint Louis Athletica, Atlanta Beat and Seattle Reign.
A controversial figure on and off the pitch, Solo was suspended for six months to comment on Sweden after the US lost them at the Rio Olympics. She and her husband, a former -American -American football player, have had several brushes with the law, including accusations of assault and drug and alcohol crimes.
Homare Sawa, Japan
Sawa is a former Japanese player who caught his country in the success of the World Cup in 2011 and an Olympic silver medal a year later. She was named FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year in 2011.
A midfielder with a goal per goal, played in Japan between 1993 and 2015, ending with a total of 205 caps and 83 goals, both of which are national records.
It was she who scored the Life Igualada of additional time in the 2011 World Cup final against the USA, forcing the game to a penalty departure, which his side won. Sawa finished that tournament with both the golden ball and the golden boot.
He was equally efficient in scoring and creating goals, and also had a long and illustrious club in the club, mainly playing his native Japan with Nippon TV Beleza and inaccon Kobe Leonessa, alternating with two spells in America with Atlanta Beat and Washington Freedom.
Sawa is considered the most elegant women’s football player from Japan.
Michelle Akers, USA
Akers had a remarkable career, especially as injuries and illness forced her to reinvent its position on the pitch. As a young man, he was a powerful striker, but after he was diagnosed with chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, he left behind and began playing as a defensive midfielder, helping to frustrate goal opportunities, unlike to convert.
At 5 feet ten, he had an imposing physical presence on the pitch, but he was deceitfully quick, helped by his long pass. Akers was a member of the first women’s selection in the United States in 1985 and scored his country’s first goal in a draw with Denmark. Six years later, he helped his side win the opening of the Women’s World Cup scoring the two goals in the final against Norway, as the US won 2-1 winners. This brought his account to the tournament A ten, which included five goals in a game.
After returning to the middle of the field, Akers helped the US win Olympic Gold in 1996 in Athens, and then to get another triumph of the World Cup in 1999. Forced to withdraw at the age of 34 due to injury, he ended with a record of 107 goals from 155 international appearances. He continues to promote women’s football in the United States as spokesman and defender.
Christie Rampone, USA
The defense Christie Rampone played the National U.S. national team 311 times: only its ex -Kristine Lilly team companying made more international appearances. He played in the World Cup finals of Ion 4 and four consecutive Olympic Games and captured his country in the success of the gold medal in Beijing in 2008, and London four years later. She was also a winner of the World Cup in 1999 in Home Soil and runner -up in 2011.
Known for his strength and athletics in the countryside, Rampone fought severe injuries on several occasions, and also had to deal with the weakening effects of Lyme’s disease. Despite these problems and, and took time to have two daughters, he continued to play Sky Blue FC, the team who was briefly player/manager in 2011, until the early 40’s.
Rampone was a rare scorer: he found the network only four times in all these international ones. That was not his job, though. Its function on the pitch was to prevent them from being scored and did so for significant purposes throughout his long career. She is a famous women’s football player very recognizable in the United States and around the world.
Carli Lloyd, USA
Co-captain of the United States National Selection, Lloyd has been named twice the FIFA player of the year and has made more than 278 appearances in his country, marking 113 times in a career that is still very active. He currently has the third most international head of his country and is fourth in the list of all time when it comes to goals and seventh when it comes to the US assistance.
Olympic champion twice, Lloyd distinguished the marking of the winning goals of the gold medal in both the 2008 and 2012 finals. He also honored his country to the success of the World Cup in 2015 in Canada, a tournament that saw her marked six times, including a Hat Trick against Japan. She was awarded the gold boot, given to the best player in the competition.
His club career has seen his function for several North -Americans, such as Central Jersey Splash, Western New York Flash and Houston Dash. He currently plays Sky Blue FC.
Lloyd is not an angel on the pitch: a loan spell with the Manchester City women’s team reduced when he received a three -game ban to hit an opponent.
Continue to establish records. In the 2019 World Cup, its goals in the parties of the U.S. opening group against Thailand and Chile made her the first woman to score in six consecutive matches in the World Cup.
