October 30, 2008 - A 10-name shortlist for the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year award has been published, including Arsenal's Kelly Smith and Brazil's Marta, who is aiming to win the award for the third year running. Other female nominees include Canadian Christine Sinclair, Birgit Prinz of Germany and Americans Hope Solo and Shannon [. Click to continue reading...

4 - 1 is a pretty crushing margin to win a game by after starting off by being a goal down.Formiga, Marta and two goals by Cristiane cancelled out the goal by Birgit Prinz for the German women's team.
The USA women's team also scored 4 goals (over Japan) to reach the finals.

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Olympic women's semi-final scores: Brasil 4-1 Germany USA 4-2 Japan Both Brasil and the United States of America overcame early conceded goals to thump opponents Germany and Japan in the Olympic women's tournament semi-finals. Birgit Prinz of Germany scored in the 10th minute.  Brasil then replied with four goals by Forminga (43'), Cristiane (49', . Click to continue reading...

Germany played like Germany and Brazil played like Brazil, and it was the latter's free-flowing creativity that won the day. Birgit Prinz opened the scoring after ten minutes, and for much of the first half, Germany enjoyed possession and some good chances. Click to continue reading...

Germany played like Germany and Brazil played like Brazil, and it was the latter's free-flowing creativity that won the day. Birgit Prinz opened the scoring after ten minutes, and for much of the first half, Germany enjoyed possession and some good chances. Click to continue reading...

The USWNT and Brazil both won in convincing fashion and will face off on Thursday morning (9AM ET) in the gold medal match. Germany and Japan (maybe it's me ... but doesn't that sound awfully World War Twoish?) will square off in the Bronze medal match-up (6AM ET). Kudos to Japan for making [...]SHARETHIS. Click to continue reading...

Germany had a breakaway goal by Birgit Prinz - her first of the tournament. At @ the 40th minute Brazil - gradually starting to look more like themselves - scored on a beautiful play that went through Marta (faking a shot and drawing the defense) to Formiga who slotted it through. It was [...]SHARETHIS. Click to continue reading...

The reigning world champions are always a force to be reckoned with and, with players like Birgit Prinz, Renata Lingor, and Nadine Angerer in the squad, they have talent and experience in abundance. But the current golden generation is aging Click to continue reading...

The USWNT and Coach Pia Sundhage are settled in China (Qinhuangdao to be exact) training and doing a little touring, as you can see. The WNT Blog is proving to be a very entertaining source of information for USWNT aficionados. Check it out. It's often updated these days, as the team settles in and [. Click to continue reading...