Vivianne Miedema was born on 15th July 1996 and is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward for FA Women’s Super League (FA WSL) club Arsenal and the Netherlands national team.
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She previously played for Bayern Munich and SC Heerenveen.
Regularly cited as one of the greatest strikers in modern women’s football, Miedema is the all-time leading scorer in the FA WSL and has scored more goals at the international level for the Netherlands than any other player, across both the women’s and men’s teams.
She won the UEFA Women’s Euro in 2017 with the Dutch national team, two consecutive Frauen-Bundesliga titles with Bayern Munich in 2015 and 2016, and the 2018–19 FA WSL title with Arsenal.
In 2019, she led the Netherlands to a second-place finish at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France.
Miedema won the BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year award in November 2021.
In 2020, she was named Women’s Player of the Year at the London Football Awards and by England’s Football Writers’ Association. She was named PFA Women’s Players’ Player of the Year in 2019.
She was shortlisted for the Ballon d’Or Féminin in 2019, 2021, and 2022. She was named to the Top 10 of The Guardian’s 100 Best Female Footballers In The World in 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.
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How many goals has Vivianne Miedema scored for the Netherlands?
In 115 appearances for the senior national team as of September 2022, Miedema has scored 95 goals.
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