7/11/2023 0 Comments Best soccer skills ever![]() ![]() Michelle Akers (center) used her speed and height to deadly effect. 3) Michelle Akers (Forward/defensive midfielder, USA) ![]() Hamm is part of the ownership group of the Los Angeles Football Club, which is scheduled to start playing in Major League Soccer in 2017. She was also part of two Olympic gold-medal winning sides (1996, 2004) and earned a silver medal in 2000. A member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame, Hamm also played a vital role for two Women’s World Cup winning teams in 19, converting a penalty in a shootout in the latter final. She won the Fifa women’s world player of the year the first two years of the award in 20. Hamm, who made her international debut at 15 in 1987, earned 275 caps while starring for the USA. Regardless, her skill, vision and innate scoring ability made her the most dangerous and the best-known women’s player of her generation. It certainly didn’t hurt that Hamm was bolstered by a talented supporting cast, some of whom have made this top 20 list. If they managed to force her outside, she would deliver a lethal, spot-on cross to a teammate on the far side. If defenders allowed her to run inside, she would go to goal. Pacey and skillful, she was nominally a forward but often played like a midfielder. Hamm, who finished with a world-record 158 international goals when she retired in 2004, was a double threat. Mia Hamm (left) wrestles with China defender Bai Jie at the 1999 World Cup final.
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