#2 Mia Hamm
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If there is one person responsible for putting women's football on the map, it is Mariel Margret Hamm a.k.a Mia Hamm. After making her senior debut for the United State at the age of 15, when most kids were still being driven to school, Hamm became the most influential presence in the United States team. The American striker scored a record breaking 158 goals and had 142 assists to her name when she retired. That is an active involvement in exactly 300 goals! A level-headed individual, who the players and even the coaches looked up to, the impact Mia Hamm has had on the game can be summed up in one word- legendary.
Hamm was the kind of player opposing defenses were clueless about how to deal with. If they suffocated her in the middle of the pitch, the talismanic striker would taunt them and stretch them to the sidelines before bamboozling them with a whipped cross so inviting no one could resist putting it in the back of the net.
She played for Washington Freedom from 2001-2003, topping the assists chart in 2003 with 13 assists and was also the second highest goal scorer in the same season.
Abundantly gifted with skill, vision and a stupefying sense of calm, the Alabama-born American legend won the FIFA Women's footballer of the year in 2001 and 2002 after winning the United States Soccer Association's player of the year awards from 1994-1999. Hamm championed her team to World Cup success twice, once in 1991 and then in 1999 and has won two Olympic Gold medals in 1996 and 2004 and a silver medal in 2000.
This is a video of the Mia Hamm’s 108th goal with which she broke the existing international goalscoring record in 1999 against Brazil.
