Lena Oberdorf

Lena Oberdorf
Personnel
Surname	Lena Sophie Oberdorf
birthday	December 19, 2001
place of birth	Gevelsberg ,  Germany
size	174 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	TuS Ennepetal
0000–2018	TSG Sprockhövel
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2018-2020	SGS Essen	32 (11)
2020–	VfL Wolfsburg	0 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2014-2016	Germany U15	12 (6)
2016	Germany U16	4 (3)
2016-2017	Germany U17	14 (3)
2017–	Germany U19	6 (4)
2018–	Germany U20	4 (1)
2019–	Germany	13 (2)
1 Only league games are given. As of June 13, 2020 2 As of March 4, 2020

Lena Sophie Oberdorf (born December 19, 2001 in Gevelsberg ) is a German national soccer player .

Career

societies

Oberdorf began playing football at TuS Ennepetal . As a D-youth, she switched to TSG Sprockhövel , where she played in boys' teams until 2018. In November 2017, she signed a three-year contract with Bundesliga club SGS Essen, which will be valid from summer 2018 . She made her debut for SGS on September 9, 2018 in the second round of the DFB Cup against SV Henstedt-Ulzburg , where she scored two goals in a 14-0 win. Almost a week later, on September 15, 2018 (1st matchday), the Bundesliga debut followed in the away game against MSV Duisburg . In this game, too, she contributed two goals to the 4-0 victory.

For the 2020/21 season, she will move to VfL Wolfsburg , where she signed a three-year contract until 2023.

National team

Oberdorf made his debut in the national jersey on October 28, 2014 at the age of twelve : In the 13-0 victory of the U-15 national team against Scotland, she came on for Verena again in the 41st minute . Two days later she scored her first goal in another friendly against Scotland in an 8-0 win. In July 2016 she took part in the Nordic Cup with the U-16 national team and achieved second place behind Norway with the team. Also in 2016, she was the youngest player in the 21-man squad of the U-17 national team for the World Cup in Jordan , where she played in two group matches against Venezuela and Cameroon and in the quarter-finals against Spain, where her goal was to make it 2 against Cameroon: 0 final score and against Spain the goal to 1: 2 succeeded. In 2017 she qualified with the team for the European vintage championship in the Czech Republic and was able to win it after a 3-1 final success on penalties against Spain. After the tournament, she was elected “Golden Player” by UEFA. For the U-19 national team , she played six games from September 2017 to April 2018 as part of the qualification for the European Championship 2018 , but was already part of the U-20 national team in summer 2018 and took part with them - again as the youngest German player - participated in the World Cup in France .

In December 2018, she appointed national coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg for the first time in the senior national team for the winter training camp from January 14 to 21, 2019 in Marbella . She made her debut on April 6, 2019 in Solna in a 2-1 win in the friendly against the Swedish national team , substituting Turid Knaak in the 61st minute. At 17 years and 109 days, she is the eighth youngest player to make her debut in the national team . For the 2019 World Cup , she was appointed to the German team by Voss-Tecklenburg . When she came on as a substitute in the first round against China, she became the youngest German World Cup player at the age of 17, five months and 20 days, a record that Birgit Prinz had previously held. She scored her first international goal on September 3, 2019 in Lviv in an 8-0 victory in the second European Championship qualifier of Group I over the national team of Ukraine with the interim goal of 4-0 in the 54th minute. At the age of 17 years and 259 days, she is the sixth youngest scorer in the national team .

successes

• U-17 European Champion 2017
• U-16 regional cup winner 2016 (with the association selection Westphalia)

Awards

• Golden player of the U-17 European Championship 2017
• Winner of the Fritz Walter Medal : 2018 in bronze, 2019 in silver, 2020 in gold

Web links

Commons : Lena Oberdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• VfL Wolfsburg newcomer Lena Oberdorf: As a Schalke fan, better not to FC Bayern - Sportbuzzer.de, by Jasmina Schweimler

• Lena Oberdorf in the database of the German Football Association
• Lena Oberdorf in the Soccerdonna.de database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lena Oberdorf: At 16 at the U20 World Cup. German Football Association , August 11, 2018, accessed on October 6, 2018 . 
2. ↑ U17 European champion moves to SGS Essen. SGS Essen , November 8, 2017, accessed on October 6, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Wolfsburg signs national player and top talent from Oberdorf. June 8, 2020, accessed June 10, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Ben Gladwell: 2017: Lena Oberdorf. UEFA , accessed October 6, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Voss-Tecklenburg brings 30 players to the winter training camp. German Football Association , December 20, 2018, accessed on December 23, 2018 . 
6. ↑ [1] ZeitOnline, accessed June 8, 2019