Editing Birgit Prinz (section)

==International career==
[[File:Birgit Prinz.jpg|thumb|upright|Prinz playing for [[Germany women's national football team|Germany]] in 2011]]
At the age of 16, Prinz made her debut for the [[Germany women's national football team|Germany national team]] in July 1994 against [[Canada women's national soccer team|Canada]]. She came on after 72 minutes and scored the game-winner in the 89th minute.<ref name="focus" /> One year later, she won her first major title at the [[UEFA Women's Euro 1995|1995 European Championship]], scoring in the final. In the same year, she was named to Germany's squad for the [[1995 FIFA Women's World Cup]], where they lost to Norway in the final match.<ref name="dfb" /> She remains the youngest player ever to appear in a World Cup Final.<ref name="focus">{{cite web |url=http://www.focus.de/sport/fussball/frauen-fussball-wm-2011/deutsche-nationalmannschaft/birgit-prinz-mittelpunkt-des-deutschen-angriffs_aid_625451.html |title=Birgit Prinz – Mittelpunkt des deutschen Angriffs |publisher=Focus.de |access-date=22 June 2011 |language=de}}</ref>

For the next decade, Prinz had one of the most successful international careers in women's football. She won four more [[UEFA Women's Championship|UEFA European Championships]] in [[UEFA Women's Euro 1997|1997]], [[UEFA Women's Euro 2001|2001]], [[UEFA Women's Euro 2005|2005]] and [[UEFA Women's Euro 2009|2009]]. At the [[Football at the Summer Olympics|Summer Olympics]] she won bronze three times with the German team, in [[Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics|2000]], [[Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics|2004]] and [[Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics|2008]]. At the [[2003 FIFA Women's World Cup]], Prinz helped Germany win its first World Cup title in the women's game. She was honoured as the tournament's best player and top-scorer. Prinz became the women's national team captain at the end of 2003, and remained until her retirement. Four years later, at the [[2007 FIFA Women's World Cup]], she captained the team to Germany's second World Cup title; she was awarded the Silver Ball as the second-best player at the tournament.<ref name="dfb" />

Prinz holds several national and international records. With 14 goals, she is the [[FIFA Women's World Cup#Top scorers of all time|second all-time leading goalscorer]] at [[FIFA Women's World Cup]]s. From 2008 until 2012, Prinz and Brazil's [[Cristiane (footballer)|Cristiane]] both held the [[List of women's Olympic football tournament records|tournament record]] of ten goals at the [[Football at the Summer Olympics|Summer Olympics]], although Cristiane has now surpassed Prinz. For the German national team Prinz appeared 214 times and scored 128 goals, and is the team's [[Germany women's national football team#Most capped players|most capped player]] and [[Germany women's national football team#Top goalscorers|top goalscorer]].<ref name="dfb" />