Lia Wälti

Lia Wälti
Wälti at the UEFA Women's Euro 2017
Personnel
Surname	Lia Joelle Wälti
birthday	April 19, 1993
place of birth	Langnau im Emmental ,  Switzerland
Size	164 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
2002-2008	FC Langnau
2008-2009	Team Bern West
2009-2010	BSC Young Boys
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2008-2009	FC Köniz	5 (1)
2010-2013	Young Boys Bern	49 (5)
2013-2018	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	97 (7)
2018-	Arsenal Women FC	0 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2008-2009	Switzerland U-19	31 (5)
2009-2010	Switzerland U-20	8 (0)
2011–	Switzerland	81 (5)
1 Only league games are given. As of July 2, 2018 2 As of November 13, 2018

Lia Joelle Wälti (born April 19, 1993 in Langnau im Emmental , Canton of Bern ) is a Swiss soccer player who has been under contract with the English club Arsenal Women FC since the 2018/19 season . She has been playing for Switzerland since 2011 .

Career

societies

Wälti began her career at the age of eight at FC Langnau , where she played in a boys' team that was coached by her father. In 2007 she was accepted into the Huttwil training center and switched to the Bern West team six months later . During this time she played in the youth development team of FC Köniz . In 2009 she moved to Young Boys Bern , where she first played for a year in the male U-16 team, before moving to the first women's team a year later . With YB, she won the Swiss championship in 2011 and rose to become team captain .

In the summer of 2013 Wälti moved to Bundesliga club 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam, where she received a two-year contract. In the Bundesliga she made her debut on September 8, 2013 (1st matchday) in a 1-1 draw against FF USV Jena and scored almost a year later, on August 31, 2014 (1st matchday), in a 4-0 win at home against the newly promoted Bundesliga Herford SV with the goal for the interim 2-0 in the 34th minute, their first Bundesliga goal. In the 2016/2017 season she won the title of "unofficial autumn champion" with the 1st FFC Turbine Potsdam.

National team

She took part in the 2009 European Championship with the Swiss U-19 national team and reached the semi-finals with her team . A year later she took part in the World Cup with the U-20 selection . There the Swiss were eliminated in the preliminary round . In 2011 she again reached the semi-finals with Switzerland at the U-19 European Championship and was part of the Swiss team the following year, which was eliminated in the preliminary round at the U-20 World Championship in Japan .

On August 21, 2011 Wälti made her debut in the senior national team , in which she played 90 minutes in Falkirk in a 5-0 win in the international test match against the Scottish team.

successes

• Swiss champion : 2011
• DFB indoor cup winner : 2014
• FA Women's Super League Champion: 2019

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christine Hartmann: Teaching and Sport - Top Athletes in the Army. (No longer available online.) VTG, archived from the original on September 2, 2014 ; Retrieved April 29, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Martin Burri: "As long as there is fun, the effort is no problem for us". Wochen-Zeitung, February 17, 2011, accessed on February 11, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Lia Wälti changes to Turbine Potsdam. (No longer available online.) BSC Young Boys , archived from the original on July 30, 2013 ; Retrieved April 29, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Erich Kobel: The blonde who kicks as the youngest in the national team. Tages-Anzeiger , accessed on April 29, 2013 . 

Web links

Commons : Lia Wälti  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lia Wälti in the weltfussball.de database
• Use statistics on the website of the Swiss Football Association