Birgit Prinz

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Birgit Prinz (born October 25, 1977) is a German international women's football player.

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Bronze medal	2004 Athens	Football Women's competition
Bronze medal	2000 Sydney	Football Women's competition

Prinz was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and she trained to become a physiotherapist. Prinz has been playing football since she was a child and has been with 1. FFC Frankfurt (1st Frankfurt Women's Football Club) since July 1994.

She was elected FIFA Women's World Player of the Year in 2003, 2004, and 2005 and was German "Women's Footballer of the Year" each year from 2001 to 2005. She scored seven goals for Germany in the 2003 World Cup as a center-forward, and played for the German women's football team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Prinz may be the only current player to have a realistic shot at surpassing Mia Hamm's all-time record (for both sexes) of 158 international goals. As of the end of 2005, she had 90 goals for Germany.

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In 2003, Prinz received an offer of notoriously PR-savvy Luciano Gaucci, president of AC Perugia, who wanted to sign her for his squad. She could have been the first woman to play in a professional men's league, the Italian Serie A. However, she declined the offer.

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