Marie-Christine Umdenstock

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Marie-Christine Umdenstock (born February 29, 1964 in Germany ) is a former French soccer player .

Club career

Marie-Christine Umdenstock, born in Germany, moved with her parents to Alsace at an early age , where she played football for ASPTT Strasbourg , from 1983 at the latest for their first women's team. When Umdenstock's team was able to record top-class access with Michèle Wolf at the beginning of the 1984/85 season , it missed the semi-finals of the national championship, which was then still held in a mixture of group game and knockout mode , by a hair's breadth.

The defender immediately switched to FC Lyon , for whom she played for the next 15 years and where she also became a national player (see below) . With Lyon they won a total of four French league titles, the first in 1991 and the other 1993, 1995 and 1998, after the National Association a single-track top women's league , the 1 A Championnat National , had created. For Marie-Christine Umdenstock, who was also the captain of the FCL during the 1990s , it was the well-established women who were responsible for these successes, but “above all the extraordinary solidarity within the squad”. Her teammates included French internationals such as Emmanuelle Sykora , Cécile Locatelli , Jocelyne Gout and Hoda Lattaf , but for a season that was not even complete due to injury, the Russian Irina Olegowna Grigoryeva . In addition to football, which at the time was still a pure amateur sport for women, Umdenstock worked as an office clerk in the car dealership of a club sponsor.

When she was 36, she wanted to take it easy and in 2000, she joined SC Caluire Saint-Clair , a second division club from the Lyon neighborhood . Ten months later, her team was confirmed as a newcomer, and Marie-Christine Umdenstock returned once more to the top division. This 2001/02 season ended the SCCSC beaten as bottom; Umdenstock's eleven were eliminated in the sixteenth-finals against the league rivals of HSC Montpellier in the first ever national cup competition . Then she ended her career.

Stations

  • ASPTT Strasbourg (until 1985)
  • FC Lyon (1985-2000)
  • SC Caluire Saint-Clair (2000–2002, including 2000/01 in D2)

In the national team

Marie-Christine Umdenstock made her debut in March 1986 in a 3-1 win against the host Belgians in the French senior team , when coach Francis Coché replaced her with former club mate Michèle Wolf just ten minutes before the final whistle. It then took a good year and a half before she made her second appearance under Coché's successor Aimé Mignot , again in Belgium and this time in the starting lineup. From then on, she was an integral part of the national team and by May 1992 she had played a total of 36 international matches without scoring her own. She played mostly in the central defense; Nathalie Tarade and Sophie Ryckeboer-Charrier stood next to her in central defense , as well as her team-mate from Lyon, Véronique Nowak , as full-back . It is not known why Mignot Umdenstock, who played very successfully in the club in the following years, never called again from mid-1992, but instead relied on the Diacre- Locatelli axis .

During those years, the French had not been able to qualify for the finals of a continental tournament. In qualifying for the 1989 European Championship in Germany , Marie-Christine Umdenstock came closest to this goal when the French became group winners, but then failed in the two play-offs to Italy , with her opponent Carolina Morace scoring three of the four Italian goals . She only played one game against women from German-speaking countries - that was in March 1991, when France lost 2-0 to Germany through goals from Heidi Mohr and Silvia Neid .

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1991, 1993, 1995, 1998 (and runner-up in 1994)
  • 36 full internationals, no goal for France

literature

  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ^ Ligue d'Alsace de Football Association (ed.): 100 ans de football en Alsace. Édito, Strasbourg 2002, ISBN 2-911219-13-9 , volume 3, p. 155 (there also a team photo with her from the 1983/84 season)
  2. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 76
  3. ↑ see the French TV report on FC Lyon and its captain from May 1993 at ina.fr
  4. ↑ see the game data sheet on the association's website
  5. ↑ number according to Umdenstock's data sheet at fff.fr; Grégoire-Boutreau (pp. 257–261) also lists them in 36 lists. At footofeminin.fr (both websites under web links ) only 35 A-internationals are given.
  6. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, pp. 257-261
  7. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, p. 261ff.
personal data
SURNAME Umdenstock, Marie-Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany