Lena Goessling

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Lena Goessling
Lena Goeßling 2013 1.jpg
after winning the DFB Cup in 2013
Personnel
birthday March 8, 1986
place of birth Bielefeld ,  Germany
size 171 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
SV Löhne-Obernbeck
SV Sundern
FC Gutersloh 2000
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
2003-2006 FC Gutersloh 2000 35 0(7)
2006-2011 SC 07 Bad Neuenahr 97 (19)
2011– VfL Wolfsburg 109 (23)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2002-2003 Germany U-17 12 0(7)
2003-2005 Germany U-19 29 0(9)
2006 Germany U-20 4 0(0)
2007– Germany U-23 4 0(1)
2008-2019 Germany 106 (10)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2016/17

2 As of June 12, 2019

Lena Goeßling (born March 8, 1986 in Bielefeld ) is a German soccer player . She is under contract with VfL Wolfsburg and was a German national player from 2008 to 2019 .

Career

societies

Lena Goeßling grew up in Löhne , East Westphalia , where she also started playing football at SV Löhne-Obernbeck . She moved to FC Gütersloh in 2000 via SV Sundern . In 2002 she became German champion of the B juniors. In the following year she missed the title defense with the B-Juniors in the home Heidewaldstadion , where Turbine Potsdam was defeated. In 2003 she became champion of the Regionalliga West with FCG. In the following promotion round, however, the promotion to the Bundesliga was missed. A year later she became world champion with the U-19 national team .

After two years with FC Gütersloh in the 2nd Bundesliga , she moved to SC 07 Bad Neuenahr. In 2006 she took part again in the U-20 World Cup. This time it was the end of the line after the quarterfinals. In June 2011, she announced her move to league rivals VfL Wolfsburg . In the Wolfsburg squad she became a regular player and played the games mainly in the defensive midfield. In the 2012/13 season she won the triple with VfL .

Since 2017, she and her club VfL Wolfsburg have won the championship and DFB Cup double every year.

National team

Goeßling at the EM 2013

Goeßling was part of the U-23 national team , with which she took second place in the Nordic Cup in 2007 . On February 28, 2008, she played her first international match for the German national soccer team when she was substituted on in the international match against China. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, however, she was not considered for the national team squad. At the beginning of 2011, Silvia Neid brought her back and she was in the team for the 2011 World Cup . There she was used in two encounters. Goeßling played the full 90 minutes in the 4-2 preliminary round win over France, while she was substituted on for Linda Bresonik in the 65th minute in the quarter-finals that were lost 0-1 against eventual world champions Japan . After the World Cup she was a regular player and was used in all international matches, u. a. at the Algarve Cup 2012 . In the 3-0 victory in the European Championship qualifier against Romania in Bucharest , she scored her first international goal for the senior national team with the opening goal in the 21st minute of the game. A month later, she scored the opening goal again in the game against Spain . On June 29, 2013, she played her 50th international match against Japan . On July 28, 2013, she became European champion in 2013 with a 1-0 win against Norway.

On May 24, 2015, Goeßling was appointed to the final squad for the 2015 World Cup in Canada by national coach Silvia Neid .

In 2016 Goeßling was accepted into the national team for the women's Olympic soccer tournament in Brazil. She was used in all six tournament games of the German team (five of them substitutions) and won the gold medal by beating Sweden 2-1 in the final .

For this, Goeßling was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on November 1, 2016 .

In November 2017, Goeßling was initially sorted out by the then national coach Steffi Jones as a 97-time national player and not nominated for the game against France on November 24, 2017 in Bielefeld, for which Jones was criticized. Goeßling was “disappointed and sad” in the NDR interview that he was not at an important “home game” (Goeßling was born in Bielefeld) and criticized Jones: “[I] I find it disrespectful to me, sometimes like that to teach that I don't know all the reasons that are running in the background. I don't think you deserve it after 97 internationals ”. Goessling thereupon expressed thoughts of resignation.

After a clarifying conversation with Jones, Goeßling was appointed to the squad of the German women's national football team for the SheBelieves Cup 2018 . There she made her 100th international match in the 3-0 defeat against France in Orlando on March 7, 2018, when she was substituted on in the last minute of the game and did not make any contact with the ball. Jones was also heavily criticized for this, including by Bernd Schröder ; shortly afterwards, after the German team had only finished last in the SheBelieves Cup, Jones was released on March 13, 2018 and replaced by Horst Hrubesch .

For the 2019 World Cup , Goeßling was appointed to the German team by national coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg . It was only used in one game ( 1-0 against Spain on June 12, 2019) in the preliminary round. This was also their last game for the national team. After being eliminated in the quarter-finals against Sweden, she announced her resignation from the national team due to the lack of consideration. She had already indicated in advance that she would withdraw from the national team after the World Cup and also end her professional career with the end of her current contract in Wolfsburg in summer 2021.

successes

Goeßling after winning the DFB Cup in 2013

As a club player

As a national player

Awards

Others

Goeßling completed an apprenticeship as a retail clerk in a Bad Neuenahr department store and successfully completed it in 2008. Then she became a soldier in the sports promotion of the Bundeswehr. She is currently stationed in the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr sports school in Warendorf . She has a twin brother, Arne, who also plays soccer. Since October 2012 she has been in a relationship with footballer Kevin Schulze (born January 25, 1992).

social commitment

Goeßling is involved in the nationwide school competition "Math makes the gate", which aims to promote the math skills of the students. The initiator is the Rechnen Foundation , the online math trainer bettermarks is implementing the competition.

In June 2013 Goeßling became ambassador for the German Children's Addiction Aid, which campaigns for the children of parents with addictions. She represents the foundation together with the former German national player Cacau .

Web links

Commons : Lena Goeßling  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lena Goeßling resigns from the national team. In: sportschau.de. July 4, 2019, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  2. ^ "Envy appoints final squad for the World Cup in Canada" , dfb.de, May 24, 2015.
  3. ↑ Women's Olympic Football Tournament; Germany, Players , FIFA.com, accessed August 17, 2016.
  4. ↑ Press release from the Office of the Federal President of November 1, 2016: Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf. Retrieved March 31, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c The situation is escalating in the women's national team. welt.de, November 16, 2017, accessed on March 14, 2018 .
  6. ^ A b c Goeßling from Wolfsburg back in the national team. ndr.de, December 2, 2017, accessed on March 14, 2018 .
  7. ↑ a b "As if she were lovelessly throwing a chunk of Lena". welt.de, March 13, 2018, accessed on March 14, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Dismissed as national coach - Jones stumbled upon this mistake. bild.de, March 13, 2018, accessed on March 14, 2018 .
  9. ↑ DFB releases national coach Steffi Jones from duties. dfb.de, March 13, 2018, accessed on March 14, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Lena Goeßling resigns from the national team. In: spiegel.de. July 4, 2019, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Lena Goeßling: "After the World Cup it can be over for me". In: westfalen-blatt.de. April 6, 2019, accessed July 5, 2019 .
  12. ↑ News from June 30, 2013 on uefa.com.
  13. ↑ “Europe is looking for its football queen”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , fifa.com@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / de.fifa.com  
  14. ^ "FIFA Ballon d'Or" , fifa.com
  15. ↑ Goessling is “National Player of the Year” , dfb.de, January 12, 2016
  16. ^ Wolfsburg title theses and temperaments (page 1) ( Memento from August 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), NDR from April 21, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Goessling, Lena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld