What you want to know about Lieke Martens

What Max Verstappen is among men, Lieke is – especially this week – among women. On Monday evening, she was the queen of Orange with two goals. A woman who gives women's football the shine it deserves. The woman with the big ponytail. Big smile. A sweet girl, with a natural talent for football. Who is Lieke Martens actually? An introduction in a nutshell.

1. Lieke comes from Limburg and is 27 years old.

2. As a little girl, she was already playing football in her class – often among the boys. And yes, she was better than most boys and was sometimes bullied for it. Tsss. She started her career at SC Heerenveen.

3. In 2017, Lieke was invited to play for the club of clubs: FC Barcelona.

4. But who thinks that the striker kicks a ball with Messi every day is mistaken. The training complex of the Barcelona women is indeed next to that of the men, but the two areas are strictly separated and both heavily secured.

5. Painful but true: she earns in a year what Messi gets in three days… And while the Limburg native earns quite well with those two hundred thousand a year.

6. In 2017, she was voted FIFA's best female footballer in the world.