The Twleve Yards

With last season's Women's Champions League finally over and this season's tournament set to begin, it is the moment to cast our eyes towards the present and future of what we can expect to see on this world stage. The visibility and prestige of women's football in Europe is on the rise, and there's seven players in particular who will be experiencing a rise of similarly great calibre as the game as a whole. this year's All born in the new century, they have each one of them have left their mark on the pitch and in the media already, but their ages show that their careers and ability have only just begun. Lena Oberdorf   (18) : Could this list even be considered credible without including this player of the future who to many is already a star of the present? At the World Cup what caught most people’s eye initially was her age and the fact that she was taking her final school exams at the same time. Now, one year later, she has just played in her first C