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European Pioneers

Ethnic minority players have been #FootballPeople playing at the highest levels in Europe educational resources since the 18th century.

Paulino Alcántara, Andrew Watson, Scotland Mohammed Salim, /Scotland The first Asian player to play for a The first black player to play football at , Rab “Rabbi” Howell, England The first Indian to play for a British club European club international level The world’s first black professional player The first Romani player to play for England (Celtic FC)

Abdelrahman Fawzi, Egypt Coşkun Taş, The first Arab and African to score in a Frank Soo, England Guilherme Espirito Santo, Portugal Raoul Diagne, One of the first footballers of Turkish World Cup The only ethnic Chinese footballer to play The first black player to play for Portugal for England The first black player to play for France origin in

Humphrey Mijnals, Alhaji Momodo Njie, Gambia Eusébio da Ferreira, Portugal Raymond Bardel, All-time record goal scorer for club First black player to play for the The first Gambian footballer to play Galimzyan Khusainov, The first black player to play for Switzerland and country Netherlands professionally abroad Spartak star of Tatar origin

Laurie Cunningham, England , England Donato Gama da Silva, Spain The first black player to play for England at Carsten Dethlefsen, Denmark Chris Hughton, Republic of Ireland Pioneer of British Football in the Caribbean The first black player to play for Denmark Brazilian born, he was the first black any level The first black player to start for Ireland player for Spain

Gheorghe Hagi, Mehmet Scholl, Germany One of the best attacking in Anthony Baffoe, Daniel Batista Lima, /Cape Verde Europe during the 1980s and 1990s and , England Player of Turkish background who played The first openly gay professional footballer 36 matches for Germany One of the first high-profile black players The first black player to play for Greece the most successful Roma in football ever in the

George Weah, Vicente Engonga, Spain , France Dimitri M’Buyu, Belgium Jean-Paul Vonderburg, First African player to win the FIFA World The first Spanish-born black player in the FIFA Player of the Year three times, The first black player to play for Belgium The first black player to play for Sweden Player of the Year Award Spanish national team of Algerian descent

Ronaldo Luíz Nazário de Lima, Brazil Won the FIFA World Player of the Year three Bănel Nicoliță, Târgu Mures , Germany/Peru times, the Ballon d’Or twice as well as the UEFA , Ivory Coast Emmanuel Olisadebe, / Leading Romanian player who is an Top scoring foreign-born player in German Club Footballer of the Year. Had scored over 200 Has scored more goals for Chelsea than Legendary first black player to play ethnic Roma Bundesliga history goals for club and country by age 23 any other non-English player for Poland

Giovanni Bronckhorst, Netherlands Fabio Liverani, Gerald Asamoah, Germany/Ghana Most capped ethnic minority player in the Mehmet Aurélio, Turkey/Brazil The first black player to play for Italy The first African-born player to play John Carew, Netherlands The first black player to play for Turkey for Germany The first black player to play for Norway

Samuel Eto’o, , France Lucio Vagner, Brazil / Bulgaria Alessandro Santos, Japan Daniel Bekono, Cameroon / Bulgaria Won the African Player of the Year award All-time leading goalscorer for the French Brazil-born, Japanese international First black player to captain a team in Bulgaria Born in Brazil, the first black player to four times national team and Arsenal FC play for Bulgaria

Luis Robson, Brazil/Russia Eduardo da Silva, /Brazil André-Pierre Gignac, France Peter Odemwingie, Nigeria/Russia One of the first foreign black players Brazilian-born, the first black player to play England French international player of Romani Freddy Eastwood, The first black USSR-born player to play in Russia for Croatia descent English Romani player in Russia Global Pioneers

Women have a long history as players, #FootballPeople now they are also making their mark as educational resources leaders, managers and referees.

Hope Powell, England England , Sweden Emma Clarke, England Alice Milliat, France , The first black manager of any English One of the first female football coaches Britain´s first black female footballer Created France’s first women’s football The only woman in the English Football Hall national team team, in 1920 of Fame worldwide

Ángeles Parejo, Spain , Norway Played in the 1997 European Anita Pádár, Karen Espelund, Norway Monika Staab, Germany Won the Olympics, the World Cup and the Championships, scoring 3 goals to help Holds the Hungarian national team record The first female member of UEFA’s One of the game’s most successful European Championship Spain reach the semi-finals for most caps and goals Executive Committee female managers

Sun Wen, China , United States Patrizia Panico, Italy Sanna Valkonen, Finland , United States First female to manage a male national Captain of the Finnish national team and The only Chinese woman to play in four One of the most prolific U.S. strikers of Holds the U.S. record for most team in Italy played 120 games for her country World Cups all time international goals scored

Anne Mäkinen, Finland , Germany , Germany , England Chan Yuen Ting, Hong Kong The first female Finnish player to play in the The first female referee in German Second top all-time leading scorer at the England international and LGBT First female coach in the Asian WUSA professional football FIFA Women’s World Cup role model Champions League

Elena Fomina, Russia Helena Costa, Portugal Emily Lima, Brazil Scored the winning goal in a World Cup Former scout and first Portuguese female , Japan , England The first female coach to manage Brazil’s opening game coach of a professional male football club Captain of Japan’s World Cup-winning England’s first professional female player women’s team team

Marinette Pichon, France Martina Moser, Switzerland Laura Österberg Kalmari, Finland Lydia Nsekera, Burundi , United States Finland’s most capped female player and First woman appointed to the FIFA One of France’s most capped players of Holds the record of most caps won for World Cup and Olympic Champion and all-time record goalscorer Executive Committee all time her country LGBTI activist

Nadine Angerer, Germany First goalkeeper to win FIFA World Player , France Sisleide do Amor Lima, Brazil , Germany , Netherlands of the Year France’s most capped football player in A FIFA ambassador for the Women’s FIFA global ambassador, organised the First female Dutch player to play male or female competition World Cup 2011 Women’s World Cup professionally in Italy

Elena Danilova, Russia , United States Hedvig Lindahl, Sweden Kateryna Monzul, Lara Dickenmann, Switzerland Scored to earn Russia their first trophy Holds the U.S. record for most career Swedish goalkeeper of the year, named in The first woman to referee a match in Holds the record of most goals scored post-USSR times clean sheets the FIFPro World XI Ukraine’s for Switzerland

Marta, Brazil Nina Burger, Sandra Žigić, Croatia Vanessa Arauz, Ecuador Verónica Boquete, Spain

Won FIFA World Player of the Year five ÖFB-Frauenliga’s top scorer for six seasons Most capped female player in Croatia Youngest coach ever in a FIFA World Cup Captained Spain at their first ever times consecutively in Austria Women’s World Cup appearance in 2015

Khalida Popal, Afghanistan , France Jaiyah Saelua, America Samoa First captain of the Afghan women’s Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura, Torrejón, Spain First female manager of a men’s First transgender international footballer national football team FIFA’s first non-European and female Spain’s most capped female player football team in France Secretary General