Considered the best female football player ever: Who is Birgit Prinz?
The improvement in women's football became more visible at the World Cup. The 23rd FIFA Women's World Cup created an explosion of interest unlike any before. In addition, the great increase in the quality of women's football has become a reality that almost everyone approves.
So who is the most legendary name in women's football?
Of course, Birgit Prinz.
Birgit Prinz, who plays as a forward, was born in 1977. Having a length of 1.79 is one of the features that takes her one step ahead of her competitors. One of the best in the German Women's National Team, Prinz scored 125 goals in 198 matches for the national team. She was one of the most influential figures in Germany, who won the European Championships in 1997, 2001, 2005, and 2009.
Prinz, the player with the most appearances in the German National Team, took part in 214 matches for the national team from 1994 to 2011 and scored 128 goals.
Having won 2 world championships and 5 European championships with her national team, Prinz won the German championship 9 times and the German cup 10 times with the FFC Frankfurt team.
Prinz also received the "Women's Footballer of the Year" award 3 times.
So, “Can female football players take part in men's teams?
THE 'DRESSING ROOM' TABOO
In fact, the issue of female football players taking part in professional men's teams is not a new debate.
At the beginning of the 2000s, when women's football was just starting to become visible, the transfer of Birgit Prinz, who was shown as the best female football player ever, to Perugia, one of Italy's Serie A teams, came to the fore. The club's "eccentric" president, Luciano Gaucci, made a transfer offer to the German player. However, Prinz had turned down the offer.
While this transfer development was circulating, the comments from the football world were extremely sexist and discriminatory. While many of the male football players were unanimously asking, "Will the women be able to undress in front of us in the locker room?", they were also explaining that most of the problem was not on the field, but off the field.