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Mia Hamm

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Mia Hamm

United States · 1987–2004

Made women's football a mainstream American sport.

276
USA caps
158
USA goals
2
World Cups won
2
Olympic golds

Career

Hamm debuted for the United States at fifteen and retired holding the international goalscoring record for either gender. Her impact was as much cultural as sporting: the 1999 World Cup win in front of 90,000 people at the Rose Bowl reset expectations for what the women's game could draw.

Honours

  • World Cup winner in 1991 and 1999
  • Olympic gold in 1996 and 2004
  • First FIFA Women's World Player of the Year, 2001
  • Held the international goalscoring record for eight years

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