Career
Miedema signed for South Carolina Heerenveen at 14 and made her senior debut at 15, reportedly becoming the youngest ever player in the Eredivisie Vrouwen. Miedema signed a contract with Bayern Munich in June 2014. At the 2014 Union of European Football Associations Women"s Under-19 Championship, she was vital for the Dutch success, her six goals in the tournament guided the Netherlands to the title.
She was the tournament top scorer and also collected the Golden Player awarded to the best player of the tournament.
In October 2014 Miedema played a key role in the Netherlands" World Cup qualification play-off victory over Scotland. In the first leg at Tynecastle Stadium she stung the palms of Gemma Fay with a rasping drive which was prodded home by Lieke Martens.
Then she casually shrugged off burly centre-half Jennifer Beattie only to be crudely upended by Frankie Brown inside the box. Manon Melis dispatched the resultant penalty to leave the Dutch firmly in the driving seat ahead of the second leg in Rotterdam.
She finished as the overall top-scorer in the qualification campaign with 16 goals.
Coach Reijners praised Miedema"s "killer instinct". Despite being still in her teens, she was widely proclaimed "the most gifted striker in Europe" ahead of the Netherlands" first ever Fédération internationale de football association Women"s World Cup appearance. International goals
Scores and results list the Netherlands goal tally first.
Miedema grew up as a Feyenoord supporter and modelled her game on Robin van Persie.
As she is Dutch and wears number 10 for Bayern Munich, she has been compared to Arjen Robben.