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Did you know …

that in 2004, Maribel Dominguez accepted a two year contract from the second-division Mexican football club Celaya, but the deal was stifled by FIFA because it’s a men’s team?

Who is called Sissi?

Here is another one-name Brazillian soccer star. Sisleide do Amor Lima is best known by her nickname, Sissi. Now retired, she was a star member of the Brazil women’s national football team. She won the golden boot award in the 1999 Women’s World Cup in which she scored seven goals, sharing the award with China’s Sun Wen. A veteran of three World Cup finals and two Olympic campaigns, she was pegged in 2008 as the new assistant coach FC Gold Pride, a professional soccer club based in Santa Clara, California, that will begin play in 2009 in the inaugural season of Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS).

What two records did Kara Lang set at just 15 years old?

Canadian Kara Lang holds the women’s football world record for youngest player to score a full international goal. She scored against Wales at the Algarve Cup on March 3, 2002, at age 15 years, 132 days. She must have been on a roll, because her senior debut, two days earlier, had been a Canadian record for youngest senior women’s cap.