Anna Margaretha Marina Astrid "Vivianne" Miedema is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward for FA Women's Super League club Arsenal and the Netherlands national team.
43 Facts About Vivianne Miedema
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Vivianne Miedema previously played for Bayern Munich and SC Heerenveen.
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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.
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Vivianne Miedema won the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year award in November 2021.
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Vivianne Miedema was named PFA Women's Players' Player of the Year in 2019.
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Vivianne Miedema was shortlisted for the Ballon d'Or Feminin in 2019,2021, and 2022.
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Vivianne Miedema was named to the Top 10 of The Guardian The 100 Best Female Footballers In The World in 2017,2019,2020,2021, and 2022.
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Vivianne Miedema was a frequent goalscorer from a very young age and played on boys' teams.
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At age 14, Vivianne Miedema was forced to make the decision to switch to playing for the top women's league or to continue playing with boys' clubs.
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Vivianne Miedema made her senior debut at 15 during a match against FC Utrecht on 2 September 2011, becoming the youngest ever player in the league.
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Vivianne Miedema re-emerged in the German league on 22 February 2015 against VfL Wolfsburg, scoring again in the following match, against Bayer Leverkusen.
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Vivianne Miedema finished the season with 7 goals in 17 matches.
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Vivianne Miedema helped Bayern Munich defend the title the following season with 14 goals in 22 matches.
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Vivianne Miedema had been unhappy during her first three months in Germany because she could not speak German or English.
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Vivianne Miedema was the top scorer of the Champions League season.
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Vivianne Miedema entered into contract negotiations with other leading clubs in Europe and the United States in 2017.
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Vivianne Miedema finished the season as the WSL top scorer with 22 goals and was named PFA Women's Players' Player of the Year.
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Vivianne Miedema required only 110 games in all competitions to reach this milestone.
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On 20 May 2022 Vivianne Miedema announced she had extended her contract with Arsenal.
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Vivianne Miedema had had talks with Barcelona Femeni and Paris Saint-Germain Feminine who had been interested in signing her.
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Vivianne Miedema said that winning titles with Arsenal would mean more to her than joining a team that was winning titles already.
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On 15 December 2022, Vivianne Miedema left a UEFA Women's Champions League match against Lyon at halftime with an injury, which on 19 December was confirmed to be an anterior cruciate ligament tear.
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Vivianne Miedema was expected to undergo surgery and miss "an extended period of time".
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In October 2012 Vivianne Miedema broke the goalscoring record for the Netherlands women's national under-17 football team, when she scored six goals against Montenegro then eight goals against Kazakhstan in the 2013 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification mini tournament.
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Vivianne Miedema scored a total of 22 goals for the under-17s, in her 11 appearances between October 2011 and October 2012.
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Vivianne Miedema was the tournament top scorer by a margin of four goals and collected the Golden Player awarded by UEFA to the best player of the tournament.
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On 26 September 2013, Vivianne Miedema made her debut for the Netherlands women's national football team.
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In October 2014, Vivianne Miedema played a key role in the Netherlands' World Cup qualification play-off victory over Scotland.
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The Dutch were awarded a penalty kick after Vivianne Miedema was fouled by Frankie Brown inside the box.
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Vivianne Miedema finished as the overall top-scorer in the qualification campaign with 16 goals.
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Vivianne Miedema arrived at the finals in Canada with migraines and an injured foot.
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Vivianne Miedema was frustrated by a lack of service which reduced her opportunities to score.
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Two years later Vivianne Miedema admitted that the pressure on her at the 2015 World Cup felt "crazy", and she was pleased that other talented Dutch players had emerged afterward to take some of the attention away from her.
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Vivianne Miedema netted two goals in the final against Denmark, which was enough to secure the first-ever Euro title for the Dutch.
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Vivianne Miedema passed the record held by Melis and extended her lead of the men's team's leading scorer, Robin van Persie.
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At the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo in 2021, Vivianne Miedema broke the Olympic record by scoring ten goals in four matches.
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Vivianne Miedema missed the next two group stage matches due to a COVID-19 infection.
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Vivianne Miedema grew up as a Feyenoord supporter and modelled her game on Robin van Persie.
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Vivianne Miedema is in a relationship with England footballer and Arsenal teammate Beth Mead.
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Vivianne Miedema was previously in a relationship with Scottish footballer and ex-Arsenal teammate, Lisa Evans, for six years.
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Vivianne Miedema's younger brother, Lars, is a footballer, who as of 2020 was playing for FC Den Bosch.
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In 2019 Vivianne Miedema became an ambassador of War Child, a charity supporting children in war zones.
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In September 2022, Vivianne Miedema opened a Cruyff Court bearing her name in Hoogeveen, on the location where she used to play as a child.