It had already been a majestic year. When Birgit Prinz made her debut in May for the Carolina Courage, she had won the German Cup, the German Bundesliga and the UEFA Cup with FFC Frankfurt. America, the greatest league for women’s football, ...
Former Belgian captain Marc Wilmots was in Madrid on 17 December to pick up the coveted 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan™ Fair Play trophy on behalf of his national team. The talismanic Red Devil recently received another award from his ...
She talks to a poster in her bedroom, kicks cabbages in the kitchen and shoots balls around a washing line in the garden. It was all in a day’s work for Parminder Nagra, FIFA Presidential Award 2002 winner and star of the hugely popular movie “Bend ...
They said he would need a miracle to get back to his best. A two-year career-threatening injury left many wondering whether the Brazilian son would ever rediscover his former magic. But the doubters had reckoned without Ronaldo?s belief. The ...
She has written a biography, given her name to a building, played as goalkeeper at a FIFA World Cup™ and yet scored a world record of more than 130 goals at international level. Already an American legend, Mariel Margaret Hamm had little to ...
Mia Hamm remains the only woman to have been named FIFA World Player of the Year as she repeated last year’s success at a star-studded gala in Madrid on 17 December 2002. This time the American beat off challenges from Germany’s Birgit Prinz and ...
