Heidi Mohr

Heidi Mohr first played handball before she turned to football (soccer). She then played with TuS Ahrbach, TuS Niederkirchen and 1. FFC Frankfurt. From 1991-95 she was top scorer of the German Bundesliga five years in a row. In 1993, she helped TuS Niederkirchen win the German championship, and in 2000 was runner-up with 1. FFC Frankfurt, but won the German cup that year.

In 1999, Mohr was elected Female European Footballer of the Century. With the German national team, she won the European Championships in 1989 and 1991, and was in the German team that finished runners-up to Norway in the 1995 World Cup. Mohr’s second goal in the 3-1 win over Norway in the final of Euro 1991 was voted “Goal of the Month” in Germany. At the inaugural Women’s World Cup, also in 1991, she scored in every match, except the third-place defeat by Sweden (0-4). In total, she won 104 international caps and scored 83 goals between 1986-96.

In 2019, she was inducted into the German Football Hall of Fame just a few days before she died after a long battle against cancer at the age of just 51 years. In 1989 and 1991 she was awarded the Silver Bay Leaf, the highest sports award in Germany.