Birgit Prinz

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Olympic medal record
Competitor for  Germany
Women's Football
Bronze	2000 Sydney	Team Competition
Bronze	2004 Athens	Team Competition

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

Prinz was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and she trained to become a physiotherapist. Prinz 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.

From 2001 to 2006 she was six years in order German female soccer-player of the year.

[edit] Trivia

In 2003, Prinz received an offer from the 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. In 2006 she received an offer from Real Madrid to become the leader of their new women's team.

[edit] External links

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