Kerstin Garefrekes
Kerstin Garefrekes | ||
Kerstin Garefrekes, September 2015
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Personnel | ||
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birthday | 4th September 1979 | |
place of birth | Ibbenbueren , Germany | |
size | 180 cm | |
position | Storm | |
Juniors | ||
Years | station | |
Green-White Steinbeck | ||
-1998 | DJK Arminia Ibbenbüren | |
Women | ||
Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
1998-2004 | FFC Heike Rheine | 102 | (63)
2004-2016 | 1. FFC Frankfurt | 253 (184) |
2014 | → Washington Spirit (loan) | 10 | (1)
National team | ||
Years | selection | Games (goals) |
2001-2011 | Germany | 130 | (43)
1 Only league games are given. |
Kerstin Garefrekes (born September 4, 1979 in Ibbenbüren ) is a former German soccer player who was under contract with the first division club 1. FFC Frankfurt from the 2004/05 season and was active for the senior national team from 2001 to 2011 .
career path
Kerstin Garefrekes grew up in Steinbeck , a district of the Recke community bordering her place of birth . After graduating from high school in Ibbenbüren, she decided to pursue a civil service career in the higher service . She completed her studies at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster and worked until the end of 2004 as a city inspector at the Rheine social welfare office with a focus on “granting benefits for the homeless”. To be on the safe side, Garefrekes took time off before moving to 1. FFC Frankfurt in order to be able to return to her place of work later. In Frankfurt she studied public management until 2008, her diploma thesis was strategic management in club women's football .
She now works in the controlling department of the Frankfurt City Treasury for the Environment Department with a flexible 21-hour week.
Athletic career
Garefrekes started playing soccer at Grün-Weiß Steinbeck in 1986 and then moved to DJK Arminia Ibbenbüren . In 1998 she joined the newly founded FFC Heike Rheine , with whom she had to relegate from the Bundesliga as the second-bottom table after her first season . After the direct resurgence, she was the most successful goalscorer of her team every season.
On November 17, 2001 she made her debut in the senior national team , which defeated the Netherlands in the qualifying game for the 2003 World Cup in Enschede ; she came on in the 86th minute for Martina Müller . She scored her first international goal on January 27, 2002 in a 3-1 win against Norway in the four-nation tournament, with the goal of the interim 1-0 in the 50th minute.
With the national team she was world champion in 2003 and 2007, and European champion in 2005 and 2009. In 2004 she was the top scorer in the Bundesliga with 26 goals . In the same year she moved to 1. FFC Frankfurt and won the bronze medal with the national team at the Olympic Games in Athens , as well as in Beijing in 2008 .
With Frankfurt she became German champion in 2005 and a year later winner of the UEFA Women's Cup . Garefrekes developed into one of the key players in the DFB team. At the World Cup in 2011 she acted at times as captain . In August 2011, she ended her career in the DFB selection. With 130 internationals she ranks 12th among the national players with the most internationals.
Garefrekes moved to Washington Spirit on June 14, 2014 on loan until the end of the season in the US National Women's Soccer League . She made her debut on June 28, 2014 in a 1-0 win in the away game against Houston Dash as a substitute.
On May 16, 2016 Garefrekes finished with her 355th Bundesliga game, after 130 appearances in the national team and as world champion (2003, 2007), European champion (2005, 2009), Olympic third (2004, 2008), three Champions League / UEFA -Cup victories (2006, 2008, 2015), three German championships (2005, 2007, 2008) and four DFB Cup victories (2007, 2008, 2011, 2014) in their footballing career.
successes
- World Champion 2003 , 2007
- European champion 2005 , 2009
- Olympic bronze medal 2004 , 2008
- Algarve Cup winner 2006
- Champions League winner 2015
- UEFA Women's Cup winner 2006 and 2008
- German champion 2005 , 2007 and 2008
- DFB Cup winner 2007 , 2008 and 2011 , 2014
- Top scorer in the women's Bundesliga 2004
Awards
- Silver bay leaf
- Appointment to the team of the tournament at the 2011 World Cup
- Nomination for Ballon d'Or 2011
Web links
- Kerstin Garefrekes in the database of the German Football Association
- Kerstin Garefrekes. (No longer available online.) In: Framba.de - Women's football in Germany. Archived from the original on April 16, 2016 ; accessed on September 4, 2017 .
- Kerstin Garefrekes in the database of weltfussball.de
- Kerstin Garefrekes in the Soccerdonna.de database
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry by Kerstin Garefrekes in the database of weltfussball.de.
- ↑ Article on spiegel.de (Jochen Leffers)
- ↑ Garefreke's A international debut ( memento from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on dfb.de.
- ↑ Garefreke's 1st international goal ( memento from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on dfb.de.
- ↑ GAREFREKES ENDED CAREER IN DFB SELECTION on www.dfb.de.
- ↑ List of DFB record players ( memento from September 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on dfb.de.
- ↑ Press release on the club's homepage (English)
- ↑ Paul Schönwetter: Kerstin Garefrekes: The last flank of the best flank giver ( memento from October 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), on: fr-online.de, May 17, 2016, accessed October 1, 2016.
- ↑ Michael Löffler: Kerstin Garefrekes: Farewell to the "Great Lady" , on: fnp.de, from May 18, 2016, accessed October 1, 2016.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Garefrekes, Kerstin |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th September 1979 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ibbenbueren |