Claudia Tavares

This flamboyant Cape Verdean maestro dances through defenses with silky skills and a thunderous shot, even if her defensive awareness occasionally goes on vacation. After shattered toes from a freak decorative floor-tile accident sidelined her for a season, she returned with an insatiable hunger to turn every goal into a masterclass. She remains a force of nature whose finishing prowess makes her presence on the pitch an unavoidable, dazzling spectacle.