Lena Lotzen

Lena Lotzen
in the jersey of the national team (2013)
Personnel
birthday	September 11, 1993
place of birth	Wurzburg ,  Germany
size	171 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1999	TG Höchberg
1999-2010	JFG district of Würzburg south-west
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2010-2018	FC Bayern Munich	72 (24)
2017	FC Bayern Munich II	1 0(0)
2018-2020	Sc freiburg	26 0(2)
2020–	1. FC Cologne	0 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2008	Germany U-15	5 0(0)
2009	Germany U-16	6 0(5)
2009-2010	Germany U-17	12 0(4)
2011	Germany U-19	9 0(5)
2011–2012	Germany U-20	11 0(9)
2012–	Germany	25 0(4)
1 Only league games are given. As of June 14, 2020 2 As of June 20, 2015

Lena Lotzen (born September 11, 1993 in Würzburg ) is a German soccer player . She is under contract with 1. FC Köln .

Career

societies

Lotzen began playing football at the age of five at TG Höchberg (together with boys), then moved to JFG Kreis Würzburg Süd-West (male youth) and was signed by FC Bayern Munich for the 2010/11 season. On August 15, 2010 (1st matchday) she made her debut in a 2-0 win in the away game against Herford SV ; she scored her first Bundesliga goal on November 28, 2010 (15th matchday) in the 1: 2 defeat in the away game against FCR 2001 Duisburg with the next goal in the 86th minute. With FC Bayern Munich she won the Bundesliga Cup on May 21, 2011 - as part of the World Cup bridging tournament . On May 12, 2012, she won the DFB Cup in Cologne with FC Bayern 2-0 against the favored 1. FFC Frankfurt . On August 14, 2014 Lotzen tore a cruciate ligament while training and was out for 8 months. She made her comeback on March 29, 2015 when she was substituted on in the 57th minute of the 2-1 win against SC Sand . In 2015 she won the German championship with the Munich women .

On May 25, 2018, she announced her move to league rivals SC Freiburg for the 2018/19 season .

On March 25, 2020, she was signed by 1. FC Köln from the 2020/21 season and given a contract valid until June 30, 2022.

National team

Lotzen previously played in the Bavarian national teams before making her debut on April 16, 2008 in the U-15 national team in Bisham Abbey in a 4-1 victory over England. The debut for the U-16 national team on April 23, 2009 in Castelfranco di Sotto in the 4-1 victory over Scotland, she crowned with her first three international goals . With the U-16 national team, she took part in the Nordic Cup in Sweden from June 29 to July 4, 2009 and, after winning over the Netherlands, against which she contributed two goals to the 3-0 win, Iceland (6 : 0) and Norway (2: 1) into the final, which was lost 1: 2 against the selection of the host.

After previously successful first (0-0 against Iceland, 10-0 against Israel and 1-0 against France) and second (1-0 against Austria, 4-0 against Norway and 3-0 against Finland) qualifying round, she took with the U-17 national team from June 22nd to 26th 2010 in Nyon , Switzerland, and won the game for 3rd place 3-0 against the Dutch national team after losing 1-0 in the semi-final against Ireland .

She also took part in the U-17 World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago from September 5 to 25, 2010 and reached the quarterfinals with the team as group winners , which were lost 1-0 to North Korea's selection. Lotzen played all group games in which she scored four goals; in the 9-0 win in the first group game against Mexico, she met twice.

She made her debut in the U-19 national team on February 23, 2011 in Nettetal in a 2-0 win over the Netherlands. She scored her first international goal on May 30, 2011 in Cervia in a 3-1 win over Norway in the first group game of the U-19 European Championship to 2-1 in stoppage time in the first half. With two goals in the tournament finals (8: 1 against Norway) and five in total, she contributed to winning the European Championship.

On October 25, 2011, she stood for the U-20 national team for the first time in the 4-0 win against Belgium and scored her first goal in this age group with the goal, which made it 1-0. In 2012 she was in the starting line-up in all games of the U-20 World Cup in Japan. In the final against the United States, the team lost 1-0 after triumphing 3-0 in the group stage . Lotzen scored two goals in the success in the group stage. In the quarter-finals against Norway, she also scored twice. With six tournament goals she was the third top scorer; as a recognition she was awarded the “bronze shoe”.

Lotzen in the game against the Netherlands at the EM 2013

Due to the injury-related loss of Martina Müller , Lotzen was nominated for the first time for the senior national team on February 25, 2012 , which played for the Algarve Cup from February 29 to March 7, 2012 . In the first tournament game against the Icelandic selection , she made her debut when she came on in the 79th minute for Alexandra Popp . She won the tournament with the team 4: 3 in the final against the reigning world champion Japan .

At the European Championship held in Sweden from July 10 to 28, 2013 , she played all tournament games. She scored her first international goal on July 14th in the second group game in a 3-0 win against Iceland, with the goal to make it 1-0 in the 24th minute. She played her first A international match over 90 minutes on July 21 in a 1-0 victory in the quarter-finals against the selection of Italy . In the final, won 1-0 against Norway , she was substituted in the 46th minute for Anja Mittag , who scored the winning goal three minutes later.

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

successes

National team

• U-15 national cup winner 2008
• Second in the Nordic Cup 2009
• Third in the 2010 European Under-17 Championship
• U-19 European Champion 2011
• Second in the 2012 U-20 World Cup
• Algarve Cup winner 2012
• European champion 2013

societies

• Bundesliga Cup - Winner 2011
• DFB-Pokal - Winner 2012 (with FC Bayern Munich)
• German champion 2015
• German champion 2016
• DFB-Pokal finalist 2018 (with FC Bayern Munich) ,
• DFB Cup finalist 2019 (with SC Freiburg)

Lotzen with the bronze shoe of the U-20 World Cup 2012

Awards

• Winner of the Fritz Walter Medal 2012 in gold (best young player)
• Bronzener Schuh (third top scorer at the U-20 World Cup 2012)

Others

Lena Lotzen is the daughter of the sports photographer and former football player of the Würzburg FV Matthias Lotzen .

Web links

Commons : Lena Lotzen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lena Lotzen in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Lena Lotzen in the database of weltfussball.de
• Lena Lotzen in the Soccerdonna.de database
• Lena Lotzen ( Memento from November 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: framba.de
• Lena Lotzen in the database of the German Football Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ National player Lena Lotzen suffers cruciate ligament rupture. Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 15, 2014, accessed on August 27, 2020 .  .
2. ↑ FCB women take first place in Lotzen's comeback. In: fcbayern.de , accessed on May 12, 2015.
3. ↑ Press release on the homepage of FC Bayern Munich
4. ↑ Press release on scfreiburg.com
5. ↑ FC women sign Lena Lotzen on fc.de
6. ↑ Envy appoints final squad for the World Cup in Canada. In: dfb.de , May 24, 2015.
7. ↑ Press release ( Memento of 30 December 2013, Internet Archive ) In: dfb.de .
8. ↑ DFB women: Interview with Matthias Lotzen: "Lena has power under her shirt". In: Abendzeitung , July 28, 2013.