Sun Wen is a retired well-known female Chinese

China

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 football (soccer)

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 player.

Sun appeared in the national squad at the age of 17 http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/03/en/t/pl/65.html. A strong striker with great skills and passing abilities, Sun won both the Golden Boot (which she shared with Sissi

Sissi (footballer)

Sisleide do Amor Lima , commonly known as Sissi, is a Brazilian footballer who played midfielder who last played for FC Gold Pride of Women's Professional Soccer and is a former member of the Brazil women's national football team.Sissi won the golden boot award in the 1999 Women's World Cup in...

, of Brazil

Brazil women's national football team

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) and the Golden Ball for the 1999 Women's World Cup

FIFA Women's World Cup 1999

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, and became the first woman to be nominated for the Asian Football Confederation

Asian Football Confederation

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 player of the year award. Some regarded her as even superior to Mia Hamm

Mia Hamm

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, whom she has often been compared to. In 2002, she was voted FIFA

FIFA

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's Woman Player of the Century, an award she shared with American Michelle Akers

Michelle Akers

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. Sun played for the Atlanta Beat of the Women's United Soccer Association

Women's United Soccer Association

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 from 2001 until the league's demise in 2003, and became an international relations student and a journalist in Fudan University

Fudan University

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. She returned to the Chinese women's team

China women's national football team

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 from a two-year retirement on December 15, 2005. Due to injury reasons, Sun retired again after winning AFC Women's Asian Cup in 2006.