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Homare Sawa is a Japanese football player and is the current FIFA Women's World Player of the Year. She currently plays for INAC Kobe Leonessa in the Nadeshiko League Division 1.
And she is 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.
Homare Sawa Wallpapers-Club-Country |
Homare Sawa Wallpapers-Club-Country |
Homare Sawa Wallpapers-Club-Country |
Homare Sawa Wallpapers-Club-Country |
Sawa was born in Fuchū, Tokyo. Long considered Japan's finest female footballer, she made her debut in L. League, Japan's highest domestic league, at age 12. On 6 December 1993, at age 15, she made her Japanese international debut, scoring four goals in her first ever match, a win against the Philippines. She has subsequently remained a fixture for the Japanese national team, participating in the last five FIFA Women's World Cups and the 1996, 2004, 2008, and 2012 Summer Olympic Games on her way to a Japanese record 186 caps, and a Japanese female-best 81 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.