69 Facts About Jennifer Hermoso

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Jennifer Hermoso is the all-time top scorer for both Barcelona and Spain.

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Jennifer Hermoso won her first senior title with Rayo in 2011, and in 2013, made her first international move to Tyreso FF in Sweden.

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Jennifer Hermoso moved to FC Barcelona in 2014, where she advanced her position from attacking midfielder to false 9.

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Jennifer Hermoso competed with Spain at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, Spain's first ever participation in the tournament.

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Jennifer Hermoso won her third Pichichi title and fourth league title there.

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Jennifer Hermoso rejoined FC Barcelona in 2019 following Spain's exit from the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup tournament, where she finished as Spain's top scorer.

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Jennifer Hermoso holds the record for the most all-time Pichichi trophies with five.

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Jennifer Hermoso holds the record of the top all-time goalscorer for both FC Barcelona Femeni and Spain, achieving the milestones in the years 2020 and 2021, respectively.

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Jennifer Hermoso grew up playing futsal and seven-a-side football, sharing teams with boys throughout most of her youth.

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Jennifer Hermoso is the granddaughter of Antonio Hernandez, a former goalkeeper of Atletico Madrid.

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Jennifer Hermoso arrived at Atletico Madrid at twelve years old with encouragement from her grandfather.

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Jennifer Hermoso left the club in 2010 after spending 8 years with Atletico.

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Jennifer Hermoso's signing to Rayo Vallecano was announced on 5 July 2010, alongside 7 other new signings.

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Jennifer Hermoso scored her first Champions League goals against Icelandic club Valur.

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Jennifer Hermoso went on to score the tie-winning goal in the return leg, winning her first ever and Rayo's third league title.

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Rayo finished the qualification round with 3 wins from 3 matches to advance to the Round of 32 of the Champions League, where Jennifer Hermoso scored her first Champions League knockout round goal against Valur in the Round of 32.

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Jennifer Hermoso scored the game-winning goal against Barcelona in May 2012, ending their season-long unbeaten streak.

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In 2013, Jennifer Hermoso left Rayo to join Tyreso FF of the Swedish Damallsvenskan for the 2013 season.

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In January 2014, Jennifer Hermoso left Tyreso FF to join Barcelona.

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On 12 April 2014, Jennifer Hermoso scored Barcelona's third and final goal in a match against Atletico Madrid, which clinched the club's third league title.

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Jennifer Hermoso converted her penalty, Barcelona's fourth out of five, and won her first Copa de la Reina trophy.

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Jennifer Hermoso did so in the Round of 32 against SK Slavia Prague.

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On 22 April, 2015, Jennifer Hermoso won her second league title with Barcelona and her third overall.

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Jennifer Hermoso scored her first goal for Barcelona in the Champions League in the Round of 32 return leg against Kazakh side BIIK Kazygurt.

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In February 2017, Jennifer Hermoso was nominated to the 2016 FIFPro Women's World 11 for the first time in her career.

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Jennifer Hermoso was selected as 9th among the 15 players in the midfielder category.

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Jennifer Hermoso ended the league season as the top scorer for the second season in a row, scoring 35 goals in 27 matches.

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On 18 June, 2017, in the 2017 Copa de la Reina final, Jennifer Hermoso scored a brace to win her second such title with the club.

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Jennifer Hermoso scored 77 goals in 90 games in her first 3-year stint at Barcelona.

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On 3 July, 2017, after being linked there since January, Jennifer Hermoso signed a three-year contract with Paris Saint-Germain.

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Jennifer Hermoso was chosen to the league's Best XI of the season.

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On 1 March 2020, Jennifer Hermoso scored her 100th league goal with Barcelona with a hat-trick against Madrid CFF.

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Jennifer Hermoso finished as the league's top scorer with 23 goals, as well as the top scorer in Europe's top five leagues.

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On 5 December, 2020, Jennifer Hermoso recorded four goals in one match against Santa Teresa CD in the league, scoring her 124th goal with Barcelona and surpassing Sonia Bermudez as FC Barcelona Femeni's all-time top scorer.

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Jennifer Hermoso then overtook Bermudez's record number of 108 league goals scored with Barcelona.

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Jennifer Hermoso was one of eight FCB Femeni players nominated for UEFA Women's Team of the Year.

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Jennifer Hermoso ended her season as the top scorer in that season's UEFA Women's Champions League, tied with Fran Kirby with six.

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Jennifer Hermoso was the first Spanish player and the first player from the Spanish league to do so.

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Jennifer Hermoso was given a place in that season's UEFA Women's Champions League Squad of the Season, her 2nd such appearance.

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Later in the year, Jennifer Hermoso won the UEFA Women's Champions League Forwards of the Season award.

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Jennifer Hermoso, who had 28 league goals to Esther's 29, scored a hat-trick against Eibar to clinch her third consecutive and fifth overall Pichichi title.

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Jennifer Hermoso ended her season with 31 league goals and finished as the top scorer in Europe's top five leagues for the second consecutive season.

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Jennifer Hermoso featured in FCB Femeni's first ever Gamper Trophy match against Juventus, where she scored two goals and was player of the match.

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Jennifer Hermoso finished the 2021 calendar year with 51 goals in all competitions, the most of any female footballer in the world.

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Jennifer Hermoso made her debut with Spain's U-19 national team on 12 April, 2007 against Serbia in the second qualifying round for the 2007 U-19 European Championship, where she scored two goals.

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Jennifer Hermoso played a total of 4 official matches with Spain's U-19s.

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In September 2011, Jennifer Hermoso earned her first official call-up for the Spanish national team.

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Jennifer Hermoso participated in the play-off against Scotland, in which Spain qualified with a goal in the last minute of extra time.

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Jennifer Hermoso scored her first national team goal in a friendly against Russia in January 2013.

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Jennifer Hermoso participated in all 10 qualifying matches for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada and scored 7 goals, switching between center and attacking midfielder.

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In May 2015, Jennifer Hermoso was called up for the tournament.

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Jennifer Hermoso did not play the other two matches of the group stage, in which Spain lost and did not qualify for the next round, a disappointing outcome that was criticized by the Spanish press.

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Jennifer Hermoso became a regular starter under Spain's new coach, Jorge Vilda, who advanced her position to striker.

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Jennifer Hermoso scored against Norway and won in the final against Canada.

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On June 20,2017, Jennifer Hermoso was called up by Jorge Vilda to play her second Euro tournament.

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Jennifer Hermoso started all three group stage games and Spain finished second in the group tied on points with Portugal and Scotland.

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In qualifying for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France, Jennifer Hermoso directly contributed to goals in each of Spain's matches, accumulating 7 goals and 9 assists.

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Jennifer Hermoso was named part of Spain's squad at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France.

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Jennifer Hermoso scored twice in the opening game of their campaign against South Africa, with both goals coming from the penalty spot.

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Jennifer Hermoso was named player of the match as Spain recorded their first ever win in a Women's World Cup tournament.

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The USA scored within 7 minutes, but Jennifer Hermoso brought a goal back two minutes later.

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Jennifer Hermoso scored from outside the box off of a Lucia Garcia assist, who took advantage of a giveaway from USA defender Becky Sauerbrunn.

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Spain ended up losing the match to the eventual tournament champions after a controversial VAR-awarded penalty, which Jennifer Hermoso said after the match that she "would not have called".

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On 14 February 2021, Jennifer Hermoso scored 5 goals in a match against Azerbaijan.

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In 2015, under the instruction of Xavi Llorens and Jorge Vilda, Jennifer Hermoso took up a more offensive role as a center-forward or false 9, which she still plays today.

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Jennifer Hermoso is left footed, but is capable of scoring with either foot.

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Jennifer Hermoso is keen on scoring goals from outside the box.

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Jennifer Hermoso will be complementary to our attack and she can play in the midfielder position.

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On 2 January 2022, FC Barcelona released a statement that Jennifer Hermoso had tested positive for COVID-19.