Birgit Prinz (born 25 October 1977) is a German former footballer, two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion and three-time FIFA World Player of the Year.

Prinz remains one of the game's most prolific strikers and is the second FIFA Women's World Cup all-time leading scorer with 14 goals (second only to Marta from Brazil).

[4] She currently works as a sport psychologist for the men's and women's teams of Bundesliga club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.

In 13 seasons at the club, Prinz won six Bundesliga and eight German Cup titles.

Prinz won the UEFA Women's Cup three times with Frankfurt, in the 2001–02, 2005–06 and 2007–08 seasons.

[2] For two seasons, Prinz joined Carolina Courage in the professional women's league WUSA in the United States.

After the 2003 World Cup, Prinz declined an offer from AC Perugia to play in Italy's men's Serie A, fearing her transfer would be used as a publicity stunt and she would end up on the bench.

[8] At the age of 16, Prinz made her debut for the Germany national team in July 1994 against Canada.

[9] One year later, she won her first major title at the 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.

[2] She remains the youngest player ever to appear in a World Cup Final.

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.

With 14 goals, she is the second all-time leading goalscorer at FIFA Women's World Cups.

[10] In 2010, she graduated with her master's degree in psychology from the Goethe University Frankfurt.

[12] Prinz competed in five FIFA Women's World Cup: Sweden 1995,

China 2007 and Germany 2011; and four Olympics: Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, and Beijing 2008.