Female Footballer - Alina Garciamendez, Mexican-American soccer player

 

Alina Lisi Garciamendez-Rowold (born April 16, 1991) is a Mexican-American soccer player from Fairview, Texas. She is a defender for the Stanford University women's soccer team and the Mexico women's national football team.

 

Female Footballer - Rubí Sandoval, female footballer from Mexico

Rubí Marlene Sandoval Nungaray (born January 18, 1984 in Santa Ana, California) is a female footballer from Mexico. She competed for Mexico at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where she finished in 8th place with the Women's National Team.

 

Female Footballer - Kenti Robles, Mexican soccer player

Vaitiare Kenti Robles Salas (born February 15, 1991) is a Mexican soccer player from Mexico City. She is a defender for FC Barcelona and the Mexico national team.

Robles has been playing in Spain since she was 14 years old, being brought up in Espanyol's youth team. In 2009 she was promoted to the first team, and that same season she won her first title, the national cup. After playing the 2011 World Cup she moved to local rivals Barcelona.

Female Footballer - Elise Kellond-Knight, Australian football player

Elise Kellond-Knight (born 10 August 1990) is an Australian football (soccer) player, who currently plays for Fortuna Hjørring in the Danish Elitedivisionen and the Australian national team.

At the annual Westfield W-League awards dinner in 2009, Kellond-Knight was jointly awarded the Young Player of the Year Award with Canberra United's Ellyse Perry.

Female Footballer - Ragnhild Gulbrandsen, Norwegian football striker

Ragnhild Gulbrandsen (born 22 February 1977) is a Norwegian football striker from the city of Trondheim who retired from football at the end of 2007. Most of her career was spent with Trondheims-Ørn (Trondheim Eagles) women's football club, with whom she won the Norwegian elite league, the Toppserien, three times and the Cup four times, and was the club's top scorer in 1997, 2000 and 2001. She made 190 appearances for the club from 1997 to 2004, scoring 254 goals.

In 2000 Ragnhild Gulbrandsen played in the Norway team which won Gold at the Sydney Olympics, scoring Norway's second goal in the Final against the USA. She played as a professional in the USA with Boston Breakers 2002-3.

At the end of 2005 she moved to Oslo to work as a journalist, and considered retiring from football. But she joined Asker women's football club, and in the 2006 season when Asker won the Division 1 title, she twice scored six goals in a match. She last played for Asker SK and the Norwegian national team.

At the FIFA Women's World Cup 2007 tournament in China in 2007, Ragnhild Gulbrandsen scored six goals for Norway and won the Tournament's Bronze Shoe award as the third top scorer behind Marta of Brazil and Abby Wambach of the USA. Her international career, which was interrupted several times by injury, included 97 appearances for Norway with 38 goals. She now works as a TV journalist in Oslo.

 

 

Female Footballer - Hannah Wilkinson, New Zealand footballer

Hannah Lilian Wilkinson (born 28 May 1992) is a member of the Football Ferns, the New Zealand women's association football team.

Wilkinson first played for the New Zealand under 20 side in January 2010 and impressed national selector John Herdman with 5 goals in 3 games, including a hat-trick in her first, earning herself a call up to the senior side for friendlies against Australia and a trip to the Cyprus Cup. She made her senior international début for New Zealand in the starting lineup in a friendly against Australia on 17 February 2010.

In 2010 she represented New Zealand at the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, appearing in all three group games.

Female Footballer - Ria Percival, New Zealand professional footballer

Ria Dawn Percival (born 7 December 1989) is a New Zealand professional footballer, who is a member of the New Zealand national woman's team and currently plays for FFC Frankfurt of the Frauen Bundesliga.

Percival represented New Zealand at age group level, appearing at the 2006 Women's U-20 World Cup finals in Russia, and again represented the young ferns at the 2008 Women's U-20 World Cup in Chile where she scored both of New Zealand's goals in their 3–2 loss to Nigeria.

Percival made her Football Ferns debut in a 0–3 loss to China on 14 November 2006, and represented New Zealand at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup finals in China, where they lost to Brazil 0–5, Denmark (0–2) and China (0–2).

Percival was also included in the New Zealand squad for the 2008 Summer Olympic games where they drew with Japan (2–2) before losing to Norway (0–1) and the United States (0–4).

On 9 March 2011 Percival earned her 50th A-international cap in a 5–0 loss to Mexico in the playoff for 7th place at the Cyprus Cup.

Percival contested her fifth major tournament when she appeared in all three of New Zealand's games at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany.

Female Footballer - Kim Little, Scottish female football

Kim Alison Little (born 29 June 1990) is a Scottish female international football midfielder. She plays her club football for FA WSL club Arsenal Ladies and has represented Scotland at senior international level. She was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. Little was one of two Scots selected in the Great Britain squad for the 2012 London Olympics.

Little began her career with Buchan Girls FC before moving onto Hibernian Ladies. She left to join Arsenal Ladies in March 2008 and scored her first goal for the club in April, in a 4–1 win over Chelsea before 5,000 fans at Emirates Stadium. Arsenal manager Vic Akers told reporters: "Make a note of this kid, she's going to be a big player." Little played in every league match during the 2008–09 season bar one, scoring 24 goals.

The following season Little's prolific goalscoring from midfield helped Arsenal overcome the departure of Kelly Smith. After 47 goals in all competitions, she was named Players' Player of the Year in June 2010.

At the 2011 FA Women's Cup final, Little was named Player of the Match and scored the opening goal in Arsenal's 2–0 win over Bristol Academy. After the game Arsenal manager Laura Harvey described Little as "world class."

Female Footballer - Bianca D'Agostino, American soccer player

 ianca D'Agostino (born January 11, 1989) is an American soccer player. She plays for the Boston Breakers and is a member of the United States U-23 women's national soccer team. Her previous clubs include Atlanta Beat for whom she played 10 times in Women's Professional Soccer.