The incredible Ada Hegerberg is a fantastically gifted professional footballer, who plays as a striker for the Division 1 Féminine club Olympique Lyonnais. She was awarded the UEFA Best Women’s Player in Europe Award in 2016, and was named the BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year in 2017 and 2019. In 2018 she was the first-ever recipient of the Ballon d’Or Féminin. She also holds the record for scoring the most goals in a UEFA Women’s Champions League season, and is currently the competition’s all-time highest goalscorer, too. She is outspoken about equal rights in football representation, in particular prize renumeration, and has refused to represent her country since 2017 as a form of protest due to a dispute with the NFF about how they treat women’s football.

Born in Molde, Norway, but raised in Sunndalsøra, and Kolbotn, Hegerberg began playing football at a young age. She and her older sister, Andrine, played for Sunndal Fotball and later joined Kolbotn IL. Ada made her senior debut for Kolbotn in 2010. A year later, when she was 16, she became the youngest player ever to have scored a hat-trick in Toppserien football, and finished the 2011 season as her club’s top scorer and was voted the league’s Young Player of the Year. In 2012 she and her sister joined Stabaek, and would come be regarded as two of the biggest talents in Norwegian women’s football. In 2013 Ada and her sister signed contracts with the German side 1.FFC Turbine Potsdam. In 2014 Ada signed with Olympique Lyonnais. She was hugely prolific and successful at the club from the start, and by 2018 was named the first ever winner of the Ballon d’Or Féminin. On the international stage, she first represented her native Norway at the age of 15. She made her senior debut in 2011, and was awarded the 2015 Norwegian Gold Ball, an accolade given to the best footballer in Norway. She has refused to play for Norway since 2017.

Hegerberg regularly connects with her legions of followers and fans through Twitter, and Instagram, posting pictures and videos about her life around football.