Beverly Ranger

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Beverly Ranger (born March 15, 1953 in Kingston , Jamaica ) is a former Jamaican soccer player. In Germany she was one of the best-known players in the 1970s: she won the German championship with Bonner SC in 1975 and with SSG Bergisch Gladbach in 1977, and in June 1975 one of her goals was voted goal of the month . She is considered the first professional player in Germany: with a kit contract, she received over DM 3,000 a month.

Life

Born in Kingston, the capital of Jamaica in the early 1950s, Beverly Ranger came to London with her parents at the age of 12. There she played soccer with boys of the same age in a park not far from Wembley Stadium. Her talent was discovered by accident by a journalist who suggested that she join a football club. Ranger first played for Watford FC and later for the London suburb of Amersham Town FC

In the 1970s she played in Germany. At that time, women's football was still in its infancy there. It was not until 1970 that the German Football Association was able to bring itself to accept women in its clubs. At that time, league games only took place at regional association level, in 1974 a German championship in women's football was played for the first time. Beverly Ranger, one of the first foreign players in high-class women's football in Germany, was initially active for the Saarland club SV Bubach / Calmesweiler and from the 1974/75 season joined the reigning German runner-up Bonner SC , who played in the Middle Rhine League. A prominent player here was striker Anne Trabant-Haarbach , who had moved to Bonn from last year's champion TuS Wörrstadt. The team was able to defend its championship title in the Middle Rhine League, which Beverly Ranger played a key role in: On April 26, 1975, in the playoff for the Middle Rhine Championship against SSG Bergisch Gladbach, shortly before the break, they equalized 1: 1, the Bonn women won the match on Ended with 2: 1 and thus moved into the finals of the German championship in 1975 , where they again advanced to the finals. Here the Bonn women were able to secure the title with a 4-2 win over Bayern Munich and also in this game, which took place in front of the unusually large crowd of around 2500 spectators at the time, Beverly Ranger entered the scorers list, she scored with her head the equalizer to 2: 2.

Her goal in the game against Bergisch Gladbach, in which she played five opponents and the goalkeeper, was voted goal of the month by viewers of the ARD Sportschau in June 1975 . Beverly Ranger was the second woman after Bärbel Wohlleben a year earlier to receive this award. The “Goal of the Month” made Beverly Ranger known to the general public. Her popularity helped her, among other things, to a sponsorship contract with the sporting goods manufacturer Puma , so that she was one of the first women footballers who could practice the sport in Germany at least semi-professionally . In 1976 she left Bonner SC together with Anne Trabant-Haarbach and then played for SSG Bergisch Gladbach , with which she reached the final again in 1977 and secured her second championship title with a 1-0 replay over NSG Oberst Schiel . The Palatinate club TuS Niederkirchen , with which she won the Southwest German Association Cup in 1978, and the Offenbacher Kickers joined as further stations . After her active football career ended, she moved to the USA in 1989, where she worked as a teacher in Charlotte , North Carolina .

literature

  • Ronny Galczynski: Women's football from A - Z. The lexicon of German women's football. humboldt, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-86910-169-9 , page 238

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Steven Jörgensen: "What is actually doing .... Beverly Ranger lives in the USA." In: Sport Bild 23/2015 from June 3, 2015.
  2. ↑ 1969 - 1989. TuS Niederkirchen , archived from the original ; accessed on December 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ranger, Beverly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston , Jamaica