Bianca Schmidt

Bianca Schmidt
Bianca Schmidt in September 2015
Personnel
Surname	Bianca Ursula Schmidt
birthday	January 23, 1990
place of birth	Gera ,  GDR
size	174 cm
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
1997-2003	TSV 1880 Gera-Zwötzen
2003-2006	1. FC Gera 03
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2006–2012	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	127 (18)
2012-2015	1. FFC Frankfurt	50 0(2)
2015–	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	57 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2005	Germany U15	4 0(0)
2006	Germany U17	11 0(5)
2007	Germany U19	10 0(2)
2007–	Germany U20	17 0(3)
2009–	Germany	51 0(3)
1 Only league games are given. Status: May 12, 2019 2 As of November 12, 2017

Bianca Ursula Schmidt (born January 23, 1990 in Gera ) is a German soccer player . The defender plays for the Bundesliga club 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam and the German national team .

Career

Club soccer

Bianca Schmidt came to football through her two older brothers and began her career at the age of seven. Her first club was VfB Gera , from which she eventually switched to the best club in the city TSV 1880 Gera-Zwötzen due to her extraordinary performance , which has been called 1. FC Gera 03 after a merger since 2003 . She went through all age groups and was always the only girl on the team. In the 2005/06 season she was the only girl in the Thuringia B-Junior State League. She only knew girls' football through the national selections and national teams.

In the summer of 2006 she moved to the German champions 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam . It was used for the first time in the first game of the season at SG Essen-Schönebeck . A few days later she scored her first Bundesliga goal in the game at FFC Heike Rheine . Her first three-pack in the Bundesliga was on April 22nd in the game against SC 07 Bad Neuenahr . With eight goals in her first Bundesliga season, she was the second most successful player in her team after Conny Pohlers . In September 2007 she was awarded the Fritz Walter Medal in bronze. She won her first national title, now playing as a right full-back, on January 12, 2008, when she won the DFB indoor cup with the turbines . The 2009 indoor cup followed a year later . At the Indoor Cup 2010 , where Potsdam won for the third time in a row, she was not on the squad at her own request.

In 2009 and 2010 Schmidt won the German championship twice in a row with Turbine Potsdam. On May 2, 2010, she headed the 1-0 winning goal over SC 07 Bad Neuenahr, which enabled the Potsdam women to secure their title defense on the penultimate match day. On May 20, 2010, she and her club won the final of the 2009/10 UEFA Women's Champions League 7-6 on penalties against Olympique Lyon , taking on and converting as the ninth and last Potsdam shooter - opponent Élodie Thomis then only scored the crossbar.

Two more German championships with turbine followed. In 2011 she and her team lost the DFB Cup final against 1. FFC Frankfurt 1: 2. From the 2012/13 season Schmidt plays for 1. FFC Frankfurt. On March 14, 2015, after three years with 1. FFC Frankfurt, Schmidt announced her return to 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam from the beginning of the 2015/16 season.

National team

Her first international match was on May 21, 2005 for the U-15 national team in the Netherlands. In total, she played four times for this selection, but remained without a goal. In the summer of 2006 she was third with the U-17 national team at the Nordic Cup in Finland. In a total of eleven appearances for the U-17, she scored five goals.

In November 2006 Schmidt was surprisingly nominated for the international match of the German senior team against Japan . However, it was not used. On March 12, 2007, she made her debut in the U-19 national team at a tournament in La Manga ( Spain ). In the U-19, however, she was used as a defender . In July 2007 she became European champion with the U-19 national team in Iceland. With the U-20 national team , she finished third at the 2008 World Cup in Chile . In 2010 she became U-20 world champion in her own country.

On February 25, 2009 she played her first international match against China and was European champion with the national team in 2009 and 2013. Schmidt was part of the team at the 2011 World Cup in Germany .

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

Sporty all-rounder

In addition to football, Schmidt was and is still active in athletics , swimming and triathlon . In 2002 she became German runner-up in cross-country skiing . Two years later she became the Central German champion over 2,000 meters. The endurance you have acquired in this way benefits her today on the football field.

successes

Title in the club

• Champions League winner : 2010 , 2015
• German champion 2009 , 2010 , 2011 and 2012
• DFB Cup winner : 2014
• DFB Indoor Cup 2008, 2009

Title with the national team

• European champion 2009 , 2013
• U-19 European Champion 2007
• U-20 World Cup 2008 third place
• U-20 world champion 2010
• Algarve Cup winner 2012 and 2014

Personal awards

• Fritz Walter Medal in bronze 2007

Private and professional

Schmidt was a student at the Potsdam Sports High School, which she graduated with a high school diploma .

From December 2009 to mid-2017 she was a soldier and belonged to the sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr . She completed her basic training in Nienburg / Weser .

Since autumn 2016, she has been completing a bachelor's degree as a police commissioner at the Brandenburg Police University in Oranienburg as part of the Bundeswehr's vocational promotion service as a member of the Brandenburg Police’s sports promotion group .

Trivia

The band The Schwarzenbach (the Kammerflimmer Kollektief with Dietmar Dath ) paid homage to the player with the song Tender Disquisitions (Bianca Schmidt) on their album Farnschiffe from 2012.

Web links

Commons : Bianca Schmidt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bianca Schmidt in the database of the German Football Association
• Bianca Schmidt in the database of weltfussball.de
• Bianca Schmidt in the Soccerdonna.de database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} DFB.de: U-20 team , A national team .
2. ↑ Fast on the ball ( Memento from May 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ ^{a b} Women's Football Magazine 4/07, p. 18
4. ↑ Bianca Schmidt breaks natural law ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Hall title for the birthday ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
6. ↑ Michael Meyer: Turbine beheaded to the title. Potsdam Latest News , May 2, 2010, accessed February 13, 2014 . 
7. ^ SLD: Returns from Frankfurt to Potsdam: Bianca Schmidt. German Football Association , March 14, 2015, accessed on February 13, 2014 . 
8. ↑ fussball24.de: Bianca Schmidt before debut in national team ( Memento from November 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ dfb.de: Grings' dream comeback in a 1-1 draw against China
10. ↑ dfb.de: "Envy appoints final squad for the World Cup in Canada" , May 24, 2015.
11. ^ Dfb.de: Bianca at the federal level: European champion in the border area
12. ↑ Stefan Rentzsch: I feel like attacking again. Sports soldier Bianca Schmidt is fighting her way back to the top of football after a career slump. In: e publications. Bundeswehr, accessed on November 12, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Andrea Kathert: The police are getting reinforcements. In: maz-online.de, Märkische Allgemeine. Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack GmbH & Co. KG, October 4, 2016, accessed on November 12, 2017 (see info box “ Sportasse are among the candidates ”). 
14. ↑ Fern Ships. The Schwarzenbach, October 26, 2012, accessed May 24, 2014 .