Birgit Prinz

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Birgit Prinz
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Birgit Prinz (2008)
Personnel
birthday October 25, 1977
place of birth Frankfurt am Main ,  Germany
size 179 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1986-1988 SV Dörnigheim
1988-1992 1. FC Hochstadt
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
1992-1998 FSV Frankfurt
1998-2002 1. FFC Frankfurt 78 0(60)
2002 Carolina Courage 15 0(12)
2002-2011 1. FFC Frankfurt 150 (181)
2012-2013 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 3 00(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1994-2011 Germany 214 (128)
1 Only league games are given.

Birgit Prinz (born October 25, 1977 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a former German soccer player . She works as a sports psychologist .

Prinz is FIFA world player in 2003, 2004 and 2005, top scorer in the 2003 World Cup (seven goals in six games) and eight times German player of the year , most recently in 2008. From September 2007 to June 2015 she was a record scorer with 14 goals World championships. She was the first player to appear in three World Cup finals (1995, 2003 and 2007). With ten goals, she was the record scorer at the Olympic Games together with Cristiane until July 25, 2012 . She was the only player to score at least one goal in four Olympic Games (1996 to 2008). With her 128 international goals, she is the most successful goal scorer of the DFB and UEFA across all genders.

On August 12, 2011, Prinz announced the end of her career. On March 27, 2012, the DFB honored the record national player with a farewell game and in 2013 appointed her honorary captain of the women's national team alongside Bettina Wiegmann .

Prinz works as a sports psychologist for the women's Bundesliga club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and has been a senior researcher in the FIFA project “Psycho-mental Health and Sport” at the MSH Medical School Hamburg since 2014 .

Athletic career

society

Birgit Prinz has played for FSV Frankfurt since 1992 , for which she was able to play her first Bundesliga game at the age of 15 thanks to a special permit. With Sandra Smisek , she formed a congenial storm duo (“Keks und Krümel”) with the Frankfurt women in the 1990s. From 1998 she played at 1. FFC Frankfurt , interrupted by a short time as a professional in the American women's league WUSA at the Carolina Courage club , with which she won the final in 2002 and was voted " Most Valuable Player ". At the 1. FFC she played again (from 2005) with Smisek.

In 2003, the president of the Italian men's club AC Perugia Luciano Gaucci Prinz offered a place in his club's squad. She refused, fearing that she would be hired as a marketing gag and then mostly sit on the reserve bank. In July 2006 she received an offer from the Spanish club Real Madrid , which was in the process of building a women's football team. However, Prinz refused this offer and others from abroad and in February 2008 extended her existing contract with 1. FFC Frankfurt for a further three years.

On May 20, 2006, Prinz was elected as a personal member of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB).

At the beginning of 2012, Prinz moved to TSG 1899 Hoffenheim . She was given the right to play there, but was supposed to sit in on sports psychology above all. In October 2012, she made her first competitive appearance for Hoffenheim in the cup game against VfL Sindelfingen . In the following round of the cup, she scored her first competitive goal in her new dress when she defeated 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig .

National team

She played her first international match at the age of 16 on July 27, 1994 in Montreal against Canada . She came on in the 72nd minute for Heidi Mohr , the record scorer at the time, and scored her first international goal in the 89th minute to make it 2-1 for Germany as the second youngest player to date . On March 26, 1995 she was the youngest player to date in the victorious European championship team and in the same year as the youngest player to date in a World Cup final. From November 2003 until her retirement in 2011, she was the captain of the national team. Since 2013 she has been honorary captain of the women's national team alongside Bettina Wiegmann .

At the 2005 European Women's Football Championship in England, she scored her 84th goal on June 9, 2005 in her 135th international match against Italy ; since then she has been the record scorer for the German national team. On October 25, 2006, Prinz completed her 154th international match against England in Aalen, drawing level with the previously sole record national player Bettina Wiegmann and scoring her 100th goal for the national team, which no other German player has ever achieved. On November 23, she set a new international record for German football players in the game against Japan (6: 3) with 155 games and has been the sole record holder ever since.

On March 5, 2008, she played her 175th game. She scored ten goals (record, together with Inka Grings ) in the European Championship finals (including the semifinals and final 1994/95) and ten goals (Olympic record up to July 25, 2012, together with Cristiane ) at the Olympic Games . In the game against China at the Olympic Games in Athens, she scored four goals, the most goals ever scored by a player in a women's Olympic football game. With her 182nd international match on July 23, 2008, she is one of the meanwhile 15 women who have played more international football matches than Mohammad ad-Daʿayyaʿ , who was the record player for the men's national team at the time. At the Olympic Games in Beijing, she set Hege Riise's European record in the game for third place on August 21, 2008 with her 188th game . With a 2-0 win, Germany won the Olympic bronze medal for the third time.

On April 22, 2009, she beat Hege Riise's European record with her 189th international match . After a collision with Melanie Behringer, she broke her rib and had to be replaced in the 39th minute. But she could be used again at the next game of the national team on July 25, 2009 and achieve her 123rd international goal. During the European Championship in Finland in 2009, however, she had to wait until the final to score her first two tournament goals (1-0 and 6-2).

On February 17, 2010, she made her 200th international match in a 3-0 friendly against North Korea as the first European. In addition, with this game she became the player who played the longest in the national team. Since her debut, she has been with the national team for 15 years and 205 days. She surpassed Martina Voss ' record , who was active for 15 years and 164 days. In the meantime, the record was surpassed by goalkeeper Nadine Angerer , who played for the national team for more than 18 years. With a time of 16 years and 338 days, Prinz is the field player with the longest time in the national team.

You score at least 3 goals in eight games. With her 128 goals she is the fifth most successful goalscorer worldwide. Only the no longer active Americans Abby Wambach , Mia Hamm and Kristine Lilly , who scored 184, 158 and 130 goals in international matches, respectively, and the still active Canadian Christine Sinclair , who has scored 161 goals so far, scored more goals (as of: February 19, 2016).

At the Algarve Cup 2010, in which the German team scored 16 goals in the group stage and lost 3-2 to the USA in the final, they were used in midfield.

As captain, Prinz was part of the German squad for the 2011 World Cup in Germany. In the first two games, she led the team as captain on the field. After she had not achieved the same performance in the past and was substituted in both games, she was not used in a World Cup game for the group victory against France for the first time since her first World Cup game on June 5, 1995. After losing the quarter-final against Japan , she announced her resignation from the national team after 214 international matches - most of them by a European. Prinz played a total of 24 World Cup games and took part in five World Cup tournaments. Only Kristine Lilly (30) and Abby Wambach (25) made more World Cup games. She has led the national team onto the field eight times in World Cup matches, only Aline Pellegrino ( Brazil ) made more appearances than the captain (9). She scored 14 World Cup goals and was the sole record holder before she was overtaken by Marta at the 2011 World Cup and overtaken at the 2015 World Cup. In the men's category, only Ronaldo (15) and Miroslav Klose (16) scored more World Cup goals.

On March 27, 2012, a farewell game took place in Frankfurt, where the national team met 1. FFC Frankfurt. Prinz played one half for 1. FFC Frankfurt and then up to the 85th minute for the German women's national soccer team and scored one goal each for both teams. Current and former players with whom Prinz played together were represented in both teams. a. the Norwegian Hege Riise , who played with Prinz at Carolina Courage and was replaced by this as a European record national player .

Private life

Farewell with a round of the stadium on March 27, 2012

Your High School took off Birgit Prinz in 1997 and was then the masseur and medical pool attendant and the physiotherapist trained. In 2005 she began studying psychology in Frankfurt am Main, which she completed in 2010 with a degree in psychology . In this latter position, Prinz has been with TSG Hoffenheim since 2012. At the World Cup finals in France , she assisted the German female soccer players as a sports psychologist.

Together with national coach Silvia Neid , Prinz was dedicated to a Barbie doll from Mattel in February 2011 .

successes

Birgit Prinz (number 9, far left; 2008)

Records

  • Most World Cup participations up to 2015: 5 (1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011 / together with Kristine Lilly , Formiga and Homare Sawa ); now surpassed by Formiga and Sawa.
  • Most goals at Olympia by 2012: 10 (together with Cristiane , then surpassed by Cristiane on July 25, 2012)

Awards

  • FIFA World Player from 2003 to 2005, runner-up in 2002 and 2007 to 2010
  • Eight-time German soccer player of the year 2001–2008
  • Golden Ball at the 2003 World Cup as the best player in the tournament
  • Silver ball at the 2007 soccer world championship as the second best player in the tournament
  • Hessian Order of Merit on ribbon, awarded on November 8, 2007
  • Silver bay leaf
  • Member of the team of the year 2003 and 2009 in the election for athlete of the year
  • FIFA Ambassador for Women's Football
  • 2019: Induction into the Hall of Fame

Web links

Commons : Birgit Prinz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Farewell game Prinz , Tagesschau on March 27, 2012, 8 p.m.
  2. ↑ Withdrawal: Record footballer Prinz ends her career. In: Spiegel Online . August 12, 2011, accessed January 8, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Birgit Prinz - the star who never wanted to be one. (No longer available online.) In: Hessischer Rundfunk (hronline.de). March 26, 2012, archived from the original on May 4, 2014 ; Retrieved March 26, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Reactions to Birgit Prinz's farewell game. In: weltfussball.de. March 26, 2012. Retrieved March 26, 2012 .
  5. ↑ a b Award: Prinz becomes honorary captain of the DFB. In: Spiegel Online . October 23, 2013, accessed January 8, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Birgit Prinz cancels Perugia ( memento of February 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), netzeitung.de, December 23, 2003.
  7. ↑ Hoffenheim: Prinz comeback should remain an exception: Football 2nd Bundesliga. In: welt.de . October 8, 2012, accessed January 8, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Potsdam is on - Prince meets for 1899 - women - kicker. In: kicker.de . November 17, 2012, accessed January 8, 2017 .
  9. ↑ FIFA Women's World Cup ™ History & Numbers ( Memento from August 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.1 MB)
  10. ↑ For the men, Gerd Müller and Miroslav Klose hold the current record with 68 goals each.
  11. ↑ On May 15, 2009 FIFA added two previously unlisted Chinese women with 201 and 200 internationals respectively to their list of players with at least 100 internationals, increasing the number to 15 and Birgit Prinz temporarily dropped out of the top 10 players with most of the games out.
  12. ↑ Meanwhile, Ahmed Hassan with 184 caps record holder and whose record is now exceeded by 24 women.
  13. ↑ On June 20, 2015, the Swede Therese Sjögran set the record in the 1: 4 against Germany in the World Cup round of 16. Sjögran had already announced the end of their international playing career before the World Cup, so that they both hold the European record together for the time being.
  14. ↑ dfb.de: Record national player Birgit Prinz ends her career
  15. ↑ Women's World Cup: France and Brazil start victorious. In: Spiegel Online . June 10, 2015, accessed January 8, 2017 .
  16. ↑ FIFA.com: Birgit Prinz receives farewell game  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / de.fifa.com  
  17. ↑ dfb.de: Goosebumps at Birgit Prinz's farewell game
  18. ↑ fifa.com: Prince: An icon says goodbye ( Memento from April 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ Jochen Leffers: Professional soccer players And what do you do for a living? An icon - Birgit Prinz, queen of football and anti-Barbie. spiegel.de, June 27, 2011, accessed on August 13, 2011 .
  20. ↑ Invisible and yet in focus: Birgit Prinz returns to sport1.de
  21. ↑ Lilly was the first to take part five times from 1991 to 2007, Prinz, Formiga and Sawa from 1995 to 2011.
  22. ↑ Jones and Prince named FIFA Women's Football Ambassadors ( April 20, 2012 memento in the Internet Archive )
predecessor Office Successor
Bettina Wiegmann Record national player of the DFB
since October 25, 2006 		---
World player of the year
FIFA world player

2001 , 2002 :  Mia Hamm  | 2003 , 2004 , 2005 :  Birgit Prinz  | 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 :  Marta

FIFA Ballon d'Or

2010 :  Marta  | 2011 :  Homare Sawa  | 2012 :  Abby Wambach  | 2013 :  Nadine Angerer  | 2014 :  Nadine Keßler  | 2015 :  Carli Lloyd

FIFA world player

2016 :  Carli Lloyd  | 2017 :  Lieke Martens

Ballon d'Or féminin  / FIFA world player

2018:  Ada Hegerberg  ( Ballon d'Or )  •  Marta  ( FIFA )  | 2019:  Megan Rapinoe  ( Ballon d'Or  &  FIFA )

From 2001 to 2009 only the honored FIFA , the Player of the Year . From 2010 to 2015, the prize was awarded jointly with France Football (FF) as the FIFA Ballon d'Or . FIFA has been awarding the prize independently since 2016 . Since 2018, FF has also named the World Footballer of the Year with the Ballon d'Or féminin .
personal data
SURNAME Prince, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main