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United States women's national soccer team players Player Pos. Caps Goals Debut Last or most recent match Date Opponent Date Opponent Danesha Adams: MF 1 0 October 1, 2006 Chinese Taipei: October 1, 2006 Chinese Taipei: Michelle Akers [b] FW 155 107 August 21, 1985 Denmark: August 20, 2000 Canada: Korbin Albert * MF 11 0 December 5, 2023 China
The 1999 World Cup final, in which the United States defeated China, set a world attendance record for a women's soccer event of 90,185 in a sellout at the Rose Bowl in Southern California (until it was broken on March 30, 2022, with 91,553 people at the Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain in the second-leg of a UEFA Women's Champions League match). [114]
The currently active most-capped women's international football player is Sherida Spitse of the Netherlands, with 239 caps. Three American players, Kristine Lilly, Carli Lloyd and Christie Pearce , and one player from Canada , Christine Sinclair, have 300 or more caps.
The 100 Best Female Footballers in the World is an annual global ranking of the best female footballers. The list was started by The Offside Rule podcast in 2016. Since 2018 it has also been published in association with the British newspaper The Guardian who have published the male equivalent since its inception in 2012.
Michelle Anne Akers (formerly Akers-Stahl; born February 1, 1966) is an American former soccer player who starred in the 1991 and 1999 Women's World Cup and 1996 Olympics victories by the United States.
In fact, in the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup, she was named the top player of the tournament after leading the U.S. to the title with a hat trick vs. Japan in the final.
In 2008, an image of her silhouette was used in the logo for the second professional women's soccer league in the United States: Women's Professional Soccer. [175] ESPN named her the greatest female athlete in 2012. [176] In 2013, Hamm became the first woman inducted into the World Football Hall of Fame, located in Pachuca, Mexico. [177]
A list of soccer players, past and present, to play full internationals for the United States women's national soccer team. For men's international players, see United States men's international soccer players. Players in this category should also be left in category:American women's soccer players