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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]
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 2008, a new professional league was announced for women in the United States: Women's Professional Soccer (WPS). During the 2008 WPS Player Allocation in which twenty-one players from the United States national team player pool were assigned to the seven teams in the new league, Wambach was assigned to the Washington Freedom. [38]
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.
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.
Naomi Haile Girma (born June 14, 2000) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a center back for Women's Super League club Chelsea and the United States national team. Girma played college soccer for the Stanford Cardinal , which she captained to the 2019 national championship .
Female soccer players were being paid to play, which continues to be the case in the US in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), arguably the world’s most competitive women’s league.