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As of the 2024 edition, players playing for 92 clubs have been selected. French club Lyon has had the most players in the Top 100 with 116 selections in total. In 2022, Barcelona became the first club other than Lyon to have the most players selected in a single year and retained the top spot the following two years.
Marta Vieira da Silva (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmaʁtɐ viˈejɾɐ dɐ ˈsiwvɐ]; born 19 February 1986), known mononymously as Marta, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for National Women's Soccer League club Orlando Pride.
Megan Anna Rapinoe (/ r ə ˈ p iː n oʊ / ⓘ; born July 5, 1985) is an American former professional soccer player who played as a winger.She spent most of her career playing for OL Reign [a] of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the United States national team.
Castellanos, 25, made news early this year when she signed with Bay FC, the San Francisco-based women’s professional soccer team, on a four-year contract worth $1.8 million dollars, making her ...
Bronze was named The Best FIFA Women's Player in December 2020. [20] She is regarded as one of the best players in women's football, [21] [22] with Phil Neville having described her as undoubtedly the "best player in the world". [23] Men in Blazers listed her as one of the 100 best footballers (men and women) of all time. [24]
[40] [41] In this game Banda scored Zambia's second-ever World Cup goal, a penalty kick which was also the 1,000th goal in Women's World Cup history. [ 42 ] On 9 April 2024, she scored a brace in a 2–0 away extra-time victory over Morocco , qualifying her nation to the 2024 Summer Olympics by winning the home-and-away series 3–2 on aggregate.
On 9 January 2012, Sawa was awarded the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year in Zurich, Switzerland. [19] She broke Marta’s streak of 5 consecutive FIFA Women's World Player of the Year awards, and also became the first Asian person regardless of gender to receive a major individual year-end award. [20]
At the 1991 World Cup, she won the Golden Shoe as the top scorer, with ten goals. Akers is regarded as one of the greatest female soccer players in history. [2] [3] [4] She was named FIFA Female Player of the Century in 2002, an award she shared with China's Sun Wen.