FIFA Female Player of the Century
2000 football award / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about FIFA Female Player of the Century. For FIFA Male Player of the Century, see FIFA Player of the Century.
FIFA Female Player of the Century was a one-off award created by the global governing body FIFA to decide the greatest football female player of the 20th century, announced at the annual FIFA World gala, held in Rome on 11 December 2000. American player Michelle Akers and Chinese player Sun Wen were joint winners of the award.[1] Michelle Akers won the award based on votes from FIFA officials, journalists and coaches, while Sun Wen won the award based on the Internet poll. [2][3][4][5]