Doris Fitschen

Doris Fitschen
Doris Fitschen (2012)
Personnel
birthday	October 25, 1968
place of birth	Zeven ,  Germany
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1978-1982	FC Hesedorf
1982-1988	TuS Westerholz
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1988-1992	VfR Eintracht Wolfsburg
1992-1996	TSV victories
1996-2001	1. FFC Frankfurt	49 (29)
2001	Philadelphia Charge
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1986-2001	Germany	144 (16)
1 Only league games are given.

Doris Fitschen (born October 25, 1968 in Zeven , Lower Saxony ) has been the manager of the German women's national team and a former German soccer player since August 2009 .

The midfielder won four European championships , three German championships and won the DFB Cup three times . At the Olympic Games in Sydney 2000 , she won the bronze medal with her team. After a hand injury in July 2001, she ended her active career. She has been working in the marketing department of the DFB since November 2001, and since January 25, 2008 she has been in charge of marketing in the five-man management team for the 2011 Women's World Cup in Germany.

Athletic career

Club soccer

Doris Fitschen was nine years old when she joined her first football club, FC Hesedorf, in 1978 . In 1982 the girls team merged with TuS Westerholz . With this team she rose to the state league. In 1988 she moved to VfR Eintracht Wolfsburg . There she experienced the women's Bundesliga start in 1990. In the 1991/92 season, Doris Fitschen was the most successful goalscorer in the northern group with 16 goals and the only player who scored a hat trick during the season .

From 1992 to 1996 she played for TSV Siegen , with whom she was twice German champion and once DFB Cup winner . In January 1995 she tore a cruciate ligament . During the six-month break, she had to watch the European Championship victory against Sweden and the World Cup in the same year from the stands. In 1996 she moved to the German runner-up SG Praunheim . Although she had a highly endowed offer from Japan , she extended her contract in 1997 to 2000. At that time, the DFB threatened to no longer consider players abroad. With the newly founded 1. FFC Frankfurt , she won the "double" in 1999 and the DFB Cup again.

In March 2001, she moved to the Philadelphia Charge in the newly founded American Women's Professional League ( WUSA ). On July 30, 2001, she broke her left wrist in a league game against New York Power . Then she ended her active football career. Despite her relatively short appearance, she was voted best player of the year at the end of the season.

National team

Doris Fitschen (right) in an international match against the USA, left Tiffeny Milbrett (1998)

On October 4, 1986, Doris Fitschen made her debut as a national player. She scored the first goal in the 2-0 win against Denmark . Since then she has been one of the regulars. At the European Championship finals in Germany in 1989 , where the DFB selection won the title for the first time, she was the youngest player at the age of 20. In the EM quarter-final first leg against England in autumn 1990, she played for the first time on the Libero post . She has been wearing the number 5 jersey ever since.

In 1991 she won her second European title with the national team. During the subsequent World Cup in China, she was considered the best player of the tournament and was celebrated in the Chinese media as a “female pool maker ”. As a result of the knee injury, she was unable to take part in the two major tournaments in 1995. Her return at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta was her "greatest sporting disappointment", admitting that she also played "quite weakly" herself.

In 1997 the success returned. During the European Championship , which Germany won again, she replaced the injured captain Martina Voss , was elected top performer and was elected to the All-Star team by UEFA . On November 6, 1997 Doris Fitschen played her hundredth international match. After Silvia Neid , Martina Voss and Heidi Mohr , she was the fourth German woman in the "Hunderterclub". She played her 144th and last international match on July 7, 2001 in the European Championship final against Sweden in Ulm .

She took part with the German National Olympic Team in the 2000 Summer Olympics, where she took 3rd place with the team and won a bronze medal.

For this success, she and the team were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf.

Awards

• 2019: Induction into the Hall of Fame

Professional background

Fitschen graduated from high school in 1988 . After finishing school, she completed vocational training as an industrial clerk and later as a systems analyst at Volkswagen AG . Between 1993 and 1996 she worked as a freelancer in the sports department of Westdeutscher Rundfunk , followed by a degree in business administration , which she completed in 1999 at the Frankfurt School of Economics . Fitschen has been working for the German Football Association since 2001 . Until her appointment to the organizing committee of the 2011 World Cup , she was employed in the marketing department. Since August 2009 she has been the manager of the women's national team.

From 2001 to 2004 Fitschen worked as an expert on women's football for ARD .

Others

Doris Fitschen is a member of the German Academy for Football Culture .

Web links

Commons : Doris Fitschen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Doris Fitschen in the database of weltfussball.de
• Doris Fitschen in the database of the German Football Association
• Doris Fitschen in the Soccerdonna.de database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Doris Fitschen :: Women's national team :: Women's national teams :: Teams :: DFB - German Football Association eV In: DFB . Retrieved June 15, 2019 . 
2. ↑ NTV of February 2, 2001: Federal President Rau ... awarded the medal winners of the 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games with the silver laurel leaf.

predecessor	Office	Successor
Martina Voss	Record national player of the DFB October 14, 1999 - May 22, 2003	Bettina Wiegmann