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Stat Attack
She Kicks Special Edition, June 2011 p.29
A page of World Cup history and records assembled ahead of the 2011 finals. It notes that matches lasted only 80 minutes in 1991; that Silvia Neid played in the losing 1995 final alongside a 17-year-old Birgit Prinz, still the youngest player in a final at 17 years and 236 days, with Sandra Smisek just 16 days older; that 2003 was the first FIFA event held twice consecutively in the same country after SARS moved it from China; and that Germany in 2007 became the first nation to retain the title and the first to win it without conceding. Kristine Lilly is the only player to appear at five finals. Records listed include Prinz’s 14 goals, Michelle Akers’ five in a match, Lena Videkull’s 30-second goal, Nadine Angerer’s 540 minutes unbeaten, and attendance and prize-money figures.