Birgit Prinz

Birgit Prinz is considered the greatest player in German football history, having been elected three consecutive times as FIFA's Best Player of the World, in 2003, 2004, and 2005. She made her debut for the German national team at age 16, in July 1994, against Canada, scoring the decisive goal in the victory. In 1998, she transferred to 1. FFC Frankfurt, the club with which, in two spells, she became the greatest goalscorer in history, accumulating 190 games and 214 goals, plus six German Championship titles, eight German Cups, and three UEFA Women's Cup titles (2002, 2006, and 2008). With the German national team, she was the top scorer at the 2003 World Cup, with seven goals, and captain of the team that won back-to-back world championships in 2007, with a 2-0 victory over Brazil in the final, in which Prinz scored one of the goals. She also played in the 1999 and 2011 editions, the latter on German soil. She ended her international career with 128 goals in 214 matches for the German national team, being for a long time the second greatest goalscorer in the history of Women's World Cups, behind only Marta. She also won three Olympic bronze medals, in 2000, 2004, and 2008.