Homare Sawa
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is a female football
player from Japan
. She currently plays for INAC Kobe Leonessa in the Nadeshiko League
Division 1.
. She has subsequently remained a fixture for the Japanese national team
, participating in the last five FIFA Women's World Cup
s and the 1996, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympic Games on her way to a Japanese record 173 caps
, and a Japanese female-best 80 international goals, including a hat trick
in a 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup group stage match against Mexico. Sawa led the Japanese national team as captain to a World Championship victory and received the Golden Boot and Golden Ball awards as the top scorer (5 goals during the 2011 World Cup) and MVP
in the tournament. After a 2-2 tie in front of a sellout crowd in Frankfurt, Germany, (with 1 goal by Sawa in the 117th minute), Japan won the penalty shootout 3-1, defeating the United States to win their first ever World Cup.
With the birth of the Women's United Soccer Association
in 2001, she found herself playing in the highest-level professional women's league in the United States
, for the Atlanta Beat. She scored the first goal in club history, and was a centerpiece of the Beat's three seasons in the league, helping them into the playoffs each year. Despite her diminutive stature at 5'5" (164 cm) tall and 121 lbs. (55 kg), she held her own with the mostly larger and more physical players, and was regularly among the team and league leaders in fouls taken.
Following the WUSA's demise in 2003, she returned to Japan, where she played with powerhouse NTV Beleza
. In 2004 she was named Women's Player of the Year for the Asian Football Confederation
.
On September 24, 2008, Homare was selected by the Washington Freedom
in the first round of the 2008 WPS International Draft
. She was a fixture in the Freedom midfield through the league's first two seasons before returning to Japan during preparations for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.
On July 17, 2011, Homare Sawa led Japan to its first ever FIFA Women's World Cup Title with a 3-1 victory over the United States in a penalty shootout. In addition, Sawa was also awarded the Golden Boot for being the tournament's leading scorer and the Golden Ball for being the tournament's top player.
| 1 || 6 December 1993 || Sarawak State Stadium
, Kuching
, Malaysia || || Unknown ||15-0 || 1993 AFC Women's Championship
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| 2 || 6 December 1993 || Sarawak State Stadium
, Kuching
, Malaysia || || Unknown ||15-0 || 1993 AFC Women's Championship
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| 3 || 6 December 1993 || Sarawak State Stadium
, Kuching
, Malaysia || || Unknown ||15-0 || 1993 AFC Women's Championship
|-
| 4 || 6 December 1993 || Sarawak State Stadium
, Kuching
, Malaysia || || Unknown ||15-0 || 1993 AFC Women's Championship
|-
| 5 || 20 September 2003 || Columbus Crew Stadium
, Columbus
, United States of America || ||1-0 || 6-0 || 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup
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| 6 || 20 September 2003 || Columbus Crew Stadium
, Columbus
, United States of America || ||2-0 || 6-0 || 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup
|-
| 7 || 27 September 2003 || Gillette Stadium
, Boston
, United States of America || ||0-1 || 3-1 || 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup
|-
| 8 || 19 July 2006 || Hindmarsh Stadium
, Adelaide
, Australia
|| ||1-0 || 5-0 || 2006 AFC Women's Asian Cup
|-
| 9 || 19 July 2006 || Hindmarsh Stadium
, Adelaide
, Australia
|| ||2-0 || 5-0 || 2006 AFC Women's Asian Cup
|-
| 10 || 19 July 2006 || Hindmarsh Stadium
, Adelaide
, Australia
|| ||4-1 || 11-1 || 2006 AFC Women's Asian Cup
|-
| 11 || 19 July 2006 || Hindmarsh Stadium
, Adelaide
, Australia
|| ||9-1 || 11-1 || 2006 AFC Women's Asian Cup
|-
| 12 || 5 July 2008 || Thong Nhat Stadium
, Ho Chi Minh City
, Vietnam
|| ||1-0 || 1-3 || 2008 AFC Women's Asian Cup
|-
| 13 || 8 July 2008 || Thong Nhat Stadium
, Ho Chi Minh City
, Vietnam
|| ||0-3 || 0-3 || 2008 AFC Women's Asian Cup
|-
| 14 || 6 August 2008 || Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium, Qinhuangdao
, China
|| ||2-2 || 2-2 || 2008 Summer Olympics
|-
| 15 || 12 August 2008 || Shanghai Stadium
, Shanghai
, China
|| ||1-4 || 1-5 || 2008 Summer Olympics
|-
| 16 || 15 August 2008 || Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium, Qinhuangdao
, China
|| ||0-1 || 0-2 || 2008 Summer Olympics
|-
| 17 || 20 May 2010 || Chengdu Sports Centre, Chengdu
, China
|| ||2–0 || 8–0 || 2010 AFC Women's Asian Cup
|-
| 18 || 20 May 2010 || Chengdu Sports Centre, Chengdu
, China
|| ||7–0 || 8–0 || 2010 AFC Women's Asian Cup
|-
| 19 || 30 May 2010 || Chengdu Sports Centre, Chengdu
, China
|| ||2–0 || 2–0 || 2010 AFC Women's Asian Cup
|-
| 20 || 1 July 2011 || BayArena
, Leverkusen
, Germany
|| ||4–0 || 3–0 || 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
|-
| 21 || 1 July 2011 || BayArena
, Leverkusen
, Germany
|| ||4–0 || 3–0 || 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
|-
| 22 || 1 July 2011 || BayArena
, Leverkusen
, Germany
|| ||4–0 || 4–0 || 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
|-
| 23 || 13 July 2011 || Commerzbank-Arena
, Frankfurt
, Germany
|| ||2–1 || 3–1 || 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
|-
| 24 || 17 July 2011 || Commerzbank-Arena
, Frankfurt
, Germany
|| ||2–2 || 2–2 (3-1 p.s.o) || 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
|}
Club Team
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
player from Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. She currently plays for INAC Kobe Leonessa in the Nadeshiko League
L. League
The L. League is the top flight of women's association football in Japan. It is the women's equivalent of the J. League, but not professional. However, some individual players are professional.The league conssists of two divisions: division 1 has the nickname and division 2...
Division 1.
Career
Long considered Japan's finest female footballer, she made her debut in Japan's highest domestic league at age 12. On December 6, 1993, at age 15, she made her Japanese international debut, scoring four goals in her first ever match, a win against the PhilippinesPhilippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
. She has subsequently remained a fixture for the Japanese national team
Japan women's national football team
The Japan women's national football team, or Nadeshiko Japan , is a selection of the best female players in Japan and is run by the Japan Football Association . Japan defeated the U.S...
, participating in the last five FIFA Women's World Cup
FIFA Women's World Cup
The FIFA Women's World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the...
s and the 1996, 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympic Games on her way to a Japanese record 173 caps
Cap (sport)
In sports, a cap is a metaphorical term for a player's appearance on a select team, such as a national team. The term dates from the practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap to every player in an international match of association football...
, and a Japanese female-best 80 international goals, including a hat trick
Hat Trick
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in a 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup group stage match against Mexico. Sawa led the Japanese national team as captain to a World Championship victory and received the Golden Boot and Golden Ball awards as the top scorer (5 goals during the 2011 World Cup) and MVP
Most Valuable Player
In sports, a Most Valuable Player award is an honor typically bestowed upon the best performing player or players on a specific team, in an entire league, or for a particular contest or series of contests...
in the tournament. After a 2-2 tie in front of a sellout crowd in Frankfurt, Germany, (with 1 goal by Sawa in the 117th minute), Japan won the penalty shootout 3-1, defeating the United States to win their first ever World Cup.
With the birth of the Women's United Soccer Association
Women's United Soccer Association
The Women's United Soccer Association, often abbreviated to the WUSA, was the world's first women's soccer league in which all the players were paid as professionals. Founded in February 2000, the league began its first season in April 2001 with eight teams in the United States...
in 2001, she found herself playing in the highest-level professional women's league in the United States
United States
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, for the Atlanta Beat. She scored the first goal in club history, and was a centerpiece of the Beat's three seasons in the league, helping them into the playoffs each year. Despite her diminutive stature at 5'5" (164 cm) tall and 121 lbs. (55 kg), she held her own with the mostly larger and more physical players, and was regularly among the team and league leaders in fouls taken.
Following the WUSA's demise in 2003, she returned to Japan, where she played with powerhouse NTV Beleza
NTV Beleza
, is a women's football team which plays in Division 1 of Japan's L. League.-Domestic Competitions:*L. League Division 1**Champions : 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010...
. In 2004 she was named Women's Player of the Year for the Asian Football Confederation
Asian Football Confederation
The Asian Football Confederation is the governing body of association football in Asia. It has 46 member countries, mostly located on the Asian continent. However, due to the disputed boundary of Europe and Asia, nations such as Russia and Turkey which are located mostly in geographic Asia are...
.
On September 24, 2008, Homare was selected by the Washington Freedom
Washington Freedom
The Washington Freedom was an American professional soccer club based in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Germantown, Maryland that participated in Women's Professional Soccer. The Freedom was originally founded in 2001 as a member of the defunct Women's United Soccer Association. Since 2004, the...
in the first round of the 2008 WPS International Draft
2008 WPS International Draft
The 2008 WPS International Draft took place on September 24, 2008. It was the first international draft held by Women's Professional Soccer to assign the WPS rights of international players to the American-based teams...
. She was a fixture in the Freedom midfield through the league's first two seasons before returning to Japan during preparations for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.
On July 17, 2011, Homare Sawa led Japan to its first ever FIFA Women's World Cup Title with a 3-1 victory over the United States in a penalty shootout. In addition, Sawa was also awarded the Golden Boot for being the tournament's leading scorer and the Golden Ball for being the tournament's top player.
Club career
| Team | Season | League | Domestic League |
Domestic Playoffs |
Total | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Starts | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Apps | Starts | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Apps | Starts | Minutes | Goals | Assists | |||
| Washington Freedom Washington Freedom The Washington Freedom was an American professional soccer club based in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Germantown, Maryland that participated in Women's Professional Soccer. The Freedom was originally founded in 2001 as a member of the defunct Women's United Soccer Association. Since 2004, the... |
2009 2009 Women's Professional Soccer season The 2009 Women's Professional Soccer season served as the inaugural season for WPS, the top level professional women's soccer league in the United States... |
WPS Women's Professional Soccer Women's Professional Soccer is the top level professional women's soccer league in the United States. It began play on March 29, 2009. The league was composed of seven teams for its first two seasons and fielded 6 teams for the 2011 season, with continued plans for future expansion... |
20 | 20 | 1800 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 21 | 1890 | 3 | 0 |
| Total | 20 | 20 | 1800 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 21 | 1890 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Career Total | - | 20 | 20 | 1800 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 21 | 1890 | 3 | 0 | |
International goals
|-| 1 || 6 December 1993 || Sarawak State Stadium
Sarawak State Stadium
Sarawak State Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 26,000 people and opened in 1989. The stadium hosted Sukma Games in 1990, which Sarawak won.The stadium has been used to host Sarawak FA home...
, Kuching
Kuching
Kuching , officially the City of Kuching, and formerly the City of Sarawak, is the capital and most populous city of the East Malaysian state of Sarawak. It is the largest city on the island of Borneo, and the fourth largest city in Malaysia....
, Malaysia || || Unknown ||
1993 AFC Women's Championship
The Asian Football Confederation's 1993 AFC Women's Championship was held from December 3 to December 12, 1993 in Kuching, Malaysia. The tournament was won for the fourth consecutive time by China in the final against North Korea.-Group A:-Group B:...
|-
| 2 || 6 December 1993 || Sarawak State Stadium
Sarawak State Stadium
Sarawak State Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 26,000 people and opened in 1989. The stadium hosted Sukma Games in 1990, which Sarawak won.The stadium has been used to host Sarawak FA home...
, Kuching
Kuching
Kuching , officially the City of Kuching, and formerly the City of Sarawak, is the capital and most populous city of the East Malaysian state of Sarawak. It is the largest city on the island of Borneo, and the fourth largest city in Malaysia....
, Malaysia || || Unknown ||
1993 AFC Women's Championship
The Asian Football Confederation's 1993 AFC Women's Championship was held from December 3 to December 12, 1993 in Kuching, Malaysia. The tournament was won for the fourth consecutive time by China in the final against North Korea.-Group A:-Group B:...
|-
| 3 || 6 December 1993 || Sarawak State Stadium
Sarawak State Stadium
Sarawak State Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 26,000 people and opened in 1989. The stadium hosted Sukma Games in 1990, which Sarawak won.The stadium has been used to host Sarawak FA home...
, Kuching
Kuching
Kuching , officially the City of Kuching, and formerly the City of Sarawak, is the capital and most populous city of the East Malaysian state of Sarawak. It is the largest city on the island of Borneo, and the fourth largest city in Malaysia....
, Malaysia || || Unknown ||
1993 AFC Women's Championship
The Asian Football Confederation's 1993 AFC Women's Championship was held from December 3 to December 12, 1993 in Kuching, Malaysia. The tournament was won for the fourth consecutive time by China in the final against North Korea.-Group A:-Group B:...
|-
| 4 || 6 December 1993 || Sarawak State Stadium
Sarawak State Stadium
Sarawak State Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 26,000 people and opened in 1989. The stadium hosted Sukma Games in 1990, which Sarawak won.The stadium has been used to host Sarawak FA home...
, Kuching
Kuching
Kuching , officially the City of Kuching, and formerly the City of Sarawak, is the capital and most populous city of the East Malaysian state of Sarawak. It is the largest city on the island of Borneo, and the fourth largest city in Malaysia....
, Malaysia || || Unknown ||
1993 AFC Women's Championship
The Asian Football Confederation's 1993 AFC Women's Championship was held from December 3 to December 12, 1993 in Kuching, Malaysia. The tournament was won for the fourth consecutive time by China in the final against North Korea.-Group A:-Group B:...
|-
| 5 || 20 September 2003 || Columbus Crew Stadium
Columbus Crew Stadium
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, Columbus
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, United States of America || ||
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| 6 || 20 September 2003 || Columbus Crew Stadium
Columbus Crew Stadium
Columbus Crew Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium in Columbus, Ohio and the home stadium of Major League Soccer club, Columbus Crew. Built in 1999, Crew Stadium was the first soccer-specific stadium built for a professional soccer team in the second pro era of American soccer...
, Columbus
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, United States of America || ||
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| 7 || 27 September 2003 || Gillette Stadium
Gillette Stadium
Gillette Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Foxborough, Massachusetts, 21 miles southwest of downtown Boston and from downtown Providence, Rhode Island. It serves as the home stadium and administrative offices for the New England Patriots football team and the New England Revolution...
, Boston
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, United States of America || ||
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| 8 || 19 July 2006 || Hindmarsh Stadium
Hindmarsh Stadium
Hindmarsh Stadium is a rectangular stadium located in Adelaide, South Australia. It is the home of the Australian A-League team, Adelaide United....
, Adelaide
Adelaide
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, Australia
Australia
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| 9 || 19 July 2006 || Hindmarsh Stadium
Hindmarsh Stadium
Hindmarsh Stadium is a rectangular stadium located in Adelaide, South Australia. It is the home of the Australian A-League team, Adelaide United....
, Adelaide
Adelaide
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, Australia
Australia
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| 10 || 19 July 2006 || Hindmarsh Stadium
Hindmarsh Stadium
Hindmarsh Stadium is a rectangular stadium located in Adelaide, South Australia. It is the home of the Australian A-League team, Adelaide United....
, Adelaide
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| 11 || 19 July 2006 || Hindmarsh Stadium
Hindmarsh Stadium
Hindmarsh Stadium is a rectangular stadium located in Adelaide, South Australia. It is the home of the Australian A-League team, Adelaide United....
, Adelaide
Adelaide
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| 12 || 5 July 2008 || Thong Nhat Stadium
Thong Nhat Stadium
Thong Nhat Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It is located at 138 Đào Duy Từ Street, Ward 6, District 10. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium for NaviBank Sài Gòn of the V-League, Sài Gòn Xuân Thành and Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh of the...
, Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City , formerly named Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam...
, Vietnam
Vietnam
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2008 AFC Women's Asian Cup
-Group B:---------------------Knockout Map:-Semi final:-----Third place playoff:-Final:-See also:*AFC Women's Asian Cup*Asian Football Confederation*Women's football...
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| 13 || 8 July 2008 || Thong Nhat Stadium
Thong Nhat Stadium
Thong Nhat Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It is located at 138 Đào Duy Từ Street, Ward 6, District 10. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium for NaviBank Sài Gòn of the V-League, Sài Gòn Xuân Thành and Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh of the...
, Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City , formerly named Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam...
, Vietnam
Vietnam
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2008 AFC Women's Asian Cup
-Group B:---------------------Knockout Map:-Semi final:-----Third place playoff:-Final:-See also:*AFC Women's Asian Cup*Asian Football Confederation*Women's football...
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| 14 || 6 August 2008 || Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium, Qinhuangdao
Qinhuangdao
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, China
China
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2008 Summer Olympics
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| 15 || 12 August 2008 || Shanghai Stadium
Shanghai Stadium
The Shanghai Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Shanghai, China. It is currently used mostly for football matches.The stadium was built in 1997 when the 8th National Games of the People's Republic of China was held in Shanghai. It can hold about 80,000 people, so it is also called the "80,000...
, Shanghai
Shanghai
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China
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2008 Summer Olympics
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| 16 || 15 August 2008 || Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium, Qinhuangdao
Qinhuangdao
Qinhuangdao is a port city in northeastern Hebei province of North China. It is about 300 km east of Beijing, on the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea....
, China
China
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2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...
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| 17 || 20 May 2010 || Chengdu Sports Centre, Chengdu
Chengdu
Chengdu , formerly transliterated Chengtu, is the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China. It holds sub-provincial administrative status...
, China
China
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2010 AFC Women's Asian Cup
-Semi finals:-----Third place playoff:-Final:- Awards :-Goalscorers:3 goals Yoo Young-A Kozue Ando Homare Sawa Jo Yun-Mi2 goals Zhang Rui Mami Yamaguchi Samantha Kerr...
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| 18 || 20 May 2010 || Chengdu Sports Centre, Chengdu
Chengdu
Chengdu , formerly transliterated Chengtu, is the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China. It holds sub-provincial administrative status...
, China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
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2010 AFC Women's Asian Cup
-Semi finals:-----Third place playoff:-Final:- Awards :-Goalscorers:3 goals Yoo Young-A Kozue Ando Homare Sawa Jo Yun-Mi2 goals Zhang Rui Mami Yamaguchi Samantha Kerr...
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| 19 || 30 May 2010 || Chengdu Sports Centre, Chengdu
Chengdu
Chengdu , formerly transliterated Chengtu, is the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China. It holds sub-provincial administrative status...
, China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
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2010 AFC Women's Asian Cup
-Semi finals:-----Third place playoff:-Final:- Awards :-Goalscorers:3 goals Yoo Young-A Kozue Ando Homare Sawa Jo Yun-Mi2 goals Zhang Rui Mami Yamaguchi Samantha Kerr...
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| 20 || 1 July 2011 || BayArena
BayArena
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, Leverkusen
Leverkusen
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| 21 || 1 July 2011 || BayArena
BayArena
The BayArena is a football stadium in Leverkusen, Germany, which has been the home ground of Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen since 1958.-History:...
, Leverkusen
Leverkusen
Leverkusen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on the eastern bank of the Rhine. To the South, Leverkusen borders the city of Cologne and to the North is the state capital Düsseldorf....
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| 22 || 1 July 2011 || BayArena
BayArena
The BayArena is a football stadium in Leverkusen, Germany, which has been the home ground of Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen since 1958.-History:...
, Leverkusen
Leverkusen
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, Germany
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| 23 || 13 July 2011 || Commerzbank-Arena
Commerzbank-Arena
The Commerzbank-Arena is a sports stadium in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. Commonly known by its original name, Waldstadion , the stadium opened in 1925. The stadium has been upgraded several times since then; the most recent remodelling was its redevelopment as a football-only stadium in preparation...
, Frankfurt
Frankfurt
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| 24 || 17 July 2011 || Commerzbank-Arena
Commerzbank-Arena
The Commerzbank-Arena is a sports stadium in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. Commonly known by its original name, Waldstadion , the stadium opened in 1925. The stadium has been upgraded several times since then; the most recent remodelling was its redevelopment as a football-only stadium in preparation...
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Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
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Teams
National Team- FIFA Women's World CupFIFA Women's World CupThe FIFA Women's World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the...
- Champion (1): 2011
- Football at the Asian GamesFootball at the Asian GamesMen's Association football is an Asian Games sport since the 1951 edition. Women's football competition began in 1990.Since the 2002 Asian Games, age limit for men teams is under-23 plus up to three over aged players for each squad, same as the age limit in football competitions at the Summer...
- Football at the Asian Games
- Gold Medal (1): 2010Football at the 2010 Asian GamesFootball at the 2010 Asian Games was being held in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China from November 7 to 25, 2010. The opening match was played 5 days prior to the opening ceremony...
- East Asian Football Championship
- Champions (2): 2008, 20102010 EAFF Women's Football ChampionshipThe third edition of the EAFF Women's Football Championship was held in 2010, with a preliminary qualification tournament held in 2009.-Semi-Final competition:...
Club Team
- L. LeagueL. LeagueThe L. League is the top flight of women's association football in Japan. It is the women's equivalent of the J. League, but not professional. However, some individual players are professional.The league conssists of two divisions: division 1 has the nickname and division 2...
- Champions (7): 1993, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011
- All Japan Women's Football ChampionshipAll Japan Women's Football Championship, is a Japanese Women's football competition. As an elimination tournament, it can be considered the female counterpart to the men's Emperor's Cup.The final has been played on New Year's Day of the following year at the National Olympic Stadium in Tokyo and is regarded as the traditional closing...
- All Japan Women's Football Championship
- Champions (6): 1993, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009
- L. League Cup
- Champion (1): 2007
Individual
- 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
- Golden Ball, Golden Shoe, All Star team
- 2008 EAFF Women's Football Championship
- Best player
- 2010 EAFF Women's Football Championship2010 EAFF Women's Football ChampionshipThe third edition of the EAFF Women's Football Championship was held in 2010, with a preliminary qualification tournament held in 2009.-Semi-Final competition:...
- 2010 EAFF Women's Football Championship
- Best player
- AFC Women's Player of the Year
- Winners (2): 2004, 2008
- L. LeagueL. LeagueThe L. League is the top flight of women's association football in Japan. It is the women's equivalent of the J. League, but not professional. However, some individual players are professional.The league conssists of two divisions: division 1 has the nickname and division 2...
- L. League
- MVP (2): 2006, 2008
- Best Eleven (9): 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008