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

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 FIFA Women's World Cup 2003 as a center-forward, and played for the German women's football team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

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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.

External links

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• FIFA Women's World Cup (portrait of Prinz, in German)

1977 births | Living people | natives of Frankfurt | Female football (soccer) players | Football (soccer) strikers | Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics | Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics | Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics | German footballers | Olympic competitors for Germany | Three-time FIFA World Players of the Year

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