Alexandra Popp

Alexandra Popp
Recording from 2011
Personnel
birthday	April 6, 1991
place of birth	Witten ,  Germany
size	174 cm
position	Midfield / storm
Juniors
Years	station
	FC Schwarz-Weiß Silschede 1926
0000-2007	1. FFC Recklinghausen
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2007-2008	1. FFC Recklinghausen
2008–2012	FCR 2001 Duisburg	80 (31)
2012–	VfL Wolfsburg	152 (79)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2006	Germany U-15	5 0(0)
2006-2008	Germany U-17	25 (17)
2009	Germany U-19	8 0(6)
2009-2011	Germany U-20	9 (14)
2010–	Germany	107 (53)
1 Only league games are given. As of June 6, 2020 2 As of March 4, 2020

Alexandra "Alex" Popp (born April 6, 1991 in Witten ) is a German soccer player . The defender , midfielder and striker is under contract with Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg . In 2014 and 2016 she was voted Germany's footballer of the year by sports journalists . She has played regularly for the German national team since 2010 and was appointed captain on February 19, 2019.

Career

societies

Alexandra Popp began her career at FC Schwarz-Weiß Silschede in Gevelsberg and played there in mixed teams up to the age limit of 14 years. She later moved to 1. FFC Recklinghausen . With the association league team, she only just failed in 2008 when she was promoted to the Regionalliga West . For the 2008/09 season she moved to FCR 2001 Duisburg and turned down an offer from the top French club Olympique Lyon . On September 7th, 2008 she made her Bundesliga debut against Herford SV and scored her first Bundesliga goals on September 28th in an 8-0 win against TSV Crailsheim . At the 2010 DFB Indoor Cup she was the tournament's top scorer with five goals.

For the 2012/13 season, Popp moved to VfL Wolfsburg with her club mate Luisa Wensing . With Wolfsburg, she won the triple of the German championship , DFB Cup and Champions League in her first season . A year later, she won the 2013/14 UEFA Women's Champions League again with Wolfsburg . This was followed by the “final” of the German championship in Wolfsburg . Last year's champions VfL Wolfsburg were able to defend their title with a win on the last match day against the previously unbeaten 1. FFC Frankfurt . Frankfurt only needed a draw to win the championship, while Wolfsburg had to win. Popp scored the winning goal in the 89th minute. Wolfsburg was again victorious in the DFB Cup .

In the 2017/18 UEFA Women's Champions League , she reached the final against Olympique Lyon with Wolfsburg . After 90 goalless minutes it went into overtime, in which Pernille Harder put the women in the lead in the 93rd minute. Three minutes later Popp received the yellow-red card and then the French scored four more goals.

National team

In May 2008 Popp became European champion with the U-17 national team and scored the decisive 2-0 in the final against France. In February 2010 she was called up for the first time in the squad of the national team and made her debut on February 17, 2010 against North Korea. At the Algarve Cup she scored her first two international goals in a 7-0 win against Finland on February 26th. At the U-20 Women's World Cup in Germany in 2010 , she not only won the title with her team, but also scored in every game. With a total of ten tournament goals, she was awarded the “Golden Shoe” for the best goalscorer and the “Golden Ball” for the best player of the tournament by FIFA after the tournament. With her 10 goals she is together with Sydney Leroux and Christine Sinclair also the record scorer at U-20 world championships .

In 2011 Popp was part of the German World Cup squad and was used in all four games, where she was substituted on. In the 17-0 record victory in the European Championship qualification on November 19, 2011 against Kazakhstan , she and Célia Šašić scored four goals. She is the seventh German player to score four goals in an international match. She was unable to take part in the European Championship finals due to an ankle injury.

On May 24, 2015, Popp was appointed to the final squad for the 2015 World Cup in Canada by national coach Silvia Neid . She was used in six games at the World Cup and scored the last goal in the 10-0 win against Ivory Coast . In the end, the German team finished fourth after their first defeat against England .

In 2016 Popp was accepted into the national team for the Olympic soccer tournament in Brazil. She played in all six games of the tournament (one substitution, one substitution) and contributed one goal and three assists. By beating Sweden 2-1 in the final , she won the gold medal. and received the silver bay leaf on November 1st, 2016 .

The European Championship in 2017 in the Netherlands missed Popp as early as 2013 due to injury.

Popp led the German team onto the field as captain at the 2019 World Cup in France . In the round of 16 against Nigeria , she scored the opening goal with a header in her hundredth appearance for the national team . Due to a 1: 2 defeat in the subsequent quarter-finals against Sweden, they were eliminated prematurely and were also unable to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games.

On August 31, 2019, she scored three goals, including her 50th international goal, in a 10-0 win in the first qualifying game for Euro 2022 against Montenegro .

successes

Popp after winning the DFB Cup in 2013

National team

• Olympic Champion 2016
• U-20 World Cup : 2010
• U-17 European Championship : 2008
• Victory at the Algarve Cup 2012 , 2014 , 2020 (due to the withdrawal of the Italian team)

society

with the FCR 2001 Duisburg

• UEFA Women's Cup winner: 2009
• DFB Cup winner: 2009 , 2010

with VfL Wolfsburg

• Champions League winner: 2013 , 2014
• German champion : 2013 , 2014 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019 , 2020
• DFB Cup winner: 2013 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019 , 2020

Awards

• Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 2011
• Fritz Walter Medal in Silver 2009
• Top scorer of the DFB Indoor Cup 2010
• Golden Ball at the U-20 World Cup 2010 as best player
• Golden shoe at the U-20 World Cup 2010 as top scorer
• Newcomer of the year at the Felix Award (election of the NRW - Sportsman of the Year ) 2010
• FLVW gold pin of honor 2011
• National player of the year 2012
• Footballer of the Year : 2014, 2016
• Lower Saxony's sportswoman of the year : 2016

Others

Popp was the only student in the football class at the Berger Feld comprehensive school in Gelsenkirchen, which was certified by the DFB as an elite football school . She learned and trained with young players from FC Schalke 04 . She left school after the twelfth year with a technical diploma and did an annual internship as a physiotherapist. Furthermore, she successfully completed a three-year apprenticeship as a zoo keeper at the Essehof Zoo .

In some interviews, she stated that she was a fan of Borussia Dortmund .

Quote from Popp about her beginnings in a girls team:

“They couldn't play football at all. I played Libero and could just run through to the opposing goal. That wasn't a challenge for me. "

- Alexandra Popp : SZ.de: Ernst-Kuzorra-his-wife-her-stadium?

Popp supports the We kick Corona foundation founded by Joshua Kimmich and Leon Goretzka . Due to the corona crisis, the foundation is helping social and charitable institutions.

Web links

Commons : Alexandra Popp  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Alexandra Popp in the database of weltfussball.de
• Alexandra Popp in the database of the German Football Association
• Alexandra Popp in the Soccerdonna.de database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Daniel Meuren: Alexandra Popp: Ready for the "huge honor". faz.net, February 19, 2019, accessed May 23, 2019 . 
2. ↑ womensoccer.de, Alexandra Popp changes to FCR 2001 Duisburg on womensoccer.de
3. ↑ Popp and Wensing move to Wolfsburg on dfb.de in the summer
4. ↑ German U17 wins European Championship title on womensoccer.de
5. ↑ Framba.de, Popp in the squad for North Korea international match ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
6. ↑ Popp cancels EM participation. German Football Association, accessed on June 12, 2020 . 
7. ↑ This is the 2015 World Cup squad for the women's national team on deutschlandtrikot.de, May 24, 2015
8. ↑ Women's Olympic Football Tournament; Germany, Player : FIFA.com, accessed August 17, 2016.
9. ↑ Women's Olympic Football Tournament - Sweden - Germany : FIFA.com, accessed August 20, 2016.
10. ↑ Press release from the Office of the Federal President of November 1, 2016: Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf. Retrieved March 31, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft awards the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia to 22 citizens. In: nrw.de. November 7, 2011, accessed June 14, 2014 . 
12. ↑ nrw-sportlerdesjahres.de
13. ↑ FLVW website, accessed May 2, 2011 ( Memento from July 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ A career at the ICE speed on waz.de
15. ↑ Jochen Leffers: And what do you do for a living? Alexandra Popp - fearless soccer girl. spiegel.de, June 27, 2011, accessed on July 28, 2013 . 
16. ↑ Alexandra Popp is now a certified animal keeper on rp-online.de
17. ↑ according to detailed interview in: RevierSport 9/2013, p. 30 f.
18. ↑ rs: VfL star Alex Popp: Job in Essehof. In: waz-online.de. June 6, 2012, accessed November 12, 2013 . 
19. ↑ Popp: Matured by Schalke's boys . sport1.de. June 15, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
20. ↑ Ernst-Kuzorra-his-wife-her-stadium? . SZ.de. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
21. ↑ List of supporters at wekickcorona.com. wekickcorona.com, accessed April 11, 2020 .