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Homare Sawa

1978 - Today

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Homare Sawa (澤 穂希, Sawa Homare; born 6 September 1978) is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a forward or a midfielder. Regarded by many as one of the greatest female footballers of all time, Sawa had a professional club career spanning 24 seasons, mostly with Nippon TV Beleza and INAC Kobe Leonessa. She also spent 22 years with the Japan national team, most notably captaining them to a FIFA Women's World Cup win in 2011 and an Olympic silver medal finish in 2012. Sawa made her club debut in 1991 at the age of 12, and went on to win five titles with Nippon TV Beleza between 1991 and 1999 before departing to the United States to play football in the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Homare Sawa is the 3,547th most popular soccer player (down from 1,699th in 2019), the 1,440th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,019th in 2019) and the 351st most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Homare Sawa ranks 3,547 out of 21,273. Before her are Rui Vitória, Santiago Santamaría, Paolo Barison, Oleksandr Shovkovskiy, Renzo De Vecchi, and László Raffinsky. After her are José Daniel Valencia, Nariz, Roberto Soldado, Franck Kessié, Alberto Denegri, and Marcelinho Carioca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Homare Sawa ranks 129. Before her are Andris Nelsons, Damian Marley, Philippe Jaroussky, Tamina Snuka, Roger Clark, and Jim Sturgess. After her are Marina Ovsyannikova, Justin Long, Andy Samberg, John Legend, Emppu Vuorinen, and Ani Lorak.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Homare Sawa ranks 1,440 out of 6,245. Before her are Okuro Oikawa (1896), Atsushi Sakurai (1966), Jiro Sato (1908), Daichi Fukushima (1977), Ryo Kawasaki (1947), and Hiroshi Kaneda (1953). After her are Joji (1992), Shuji Tsurumi (1938), Nujabes (1974), Eiichi Uemura (1975), Kitamura Tokoku (1868), and Toshiyuki Morikawa (1967).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Homare Sawa ranks 351. Before her are Masayuki Maegawa (1984), Kiyotaka Matsui (1961), Takeshi Koshida (1960), Mami Kaneda (1968), Kei Sugimoto (1982), and Daichi Fukushima (1977). After her are Eiichi Uemura (1975), Wataru Endo (1993), Maki Haneta (1972), Toshiaki Imai (1954), Hiroshi Soejima (1959), and Tomoya Suzuki (2000).

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