Petra Landers

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Ex-national player Petra Landers visits the U17 juniors of the Würzburg Dragons

Petra Landers (born January 16, 1962 in Bochum ) is a German soccer player who was active in professional soccer until 1991 and was a member of the national team .

Career

societies

Landers began her career in the boys' team at FC Bochum and played there from 1973 to 1975. In 1975 she moved to TuS Harpen . As a 13-year-old she needed a special permit to play in the women's team there. In 1981 she founded a girls' team in the club, but left the club in the same year and joined SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach as a midfielder, but from then on also played occasionally in defense. With the SSG, she won the title at the unofficial World Cup in Taiwan in 1981. At that time the German Football Association (DFB) did not provide a women's national team, so the invitation from the Taiwanese Football Association went to the reigning German champions. She ended her active career in high-class football, which was interrupted from 1984 to 1987 due to an injury, finally in 1991 with the SSG.

National team

On November 10, 1982, Landers was a member of the senior national team , who won their first international match in Koblenz 5-1 against the Swiss national team . Furthermore, she took despite a cruciate ligament injury on the July 2, June 28, 1989 discharged in their country European part and denied the 4: 3 . N V. won semi-final match against the national team of Italy . So she contributed to the later win of the European Championship . As a thank you, each player received a coffee service from the German Football Association (DFB). The player won seven of her 15 international matches, drew five times and lost three games. Her last game for the national team on May 30, 1991 in Kaiserslautern, she lost 2: 4 in a friendly against the national team of the United States .

successes

In addition, Petra Landers was nominated on March 12, 2019 for the “ German Football Ambassador ” award in the “Trainer 2019” category. Together with her Jürgen Klopp and the coach of the Mongolian national team Michael Weiß were nominated. In addition to the winner Jürgen Klopp, she was named the “winner of hearts” by the audience.

Others

At the invitation of Petra Landers, the Iranian sports photographer Maryam Majd wanted to fly to the women's soccer World Cup in Germany in June 2011 to accompany the players with photos and publish a book about the tournament, but she never got there because the regime in Tehran made her arrested.

Landers was one of the participating football players from 20 countries - campaigned for greater equality of girls and women in sport and on June 25, 2017 conducted by official - as part of the "Equal Playing Field" initiative FIFA - referees in the crater of Mount Kilimanjaro in played a soccer game at a height of 5,729 meters and thus (and at the same time the oldest participant) contributed to a new world record in terms of altitude.

Volunteering

Through her contact with the Berlin association Discover Football eV, Petra Landers developed her interest in social projects and in 2014 began traveling regularly to Zambia at her own expense to play football with African girls. Since 2019 she has been leading the workshop "Coaching for Coachs" for the organization Streetfootballworld in Africa.

Private

Petra Landers began training as a medical assistant, which she broke off after three months. Instead, she trained as a car mechanic during her active time as a footballer. She later worked as a master copy maker. From 2003 to 2012 Petra Landers owned a print shop in Bochum. Today she works in day care.

Web links

Commons : Petra Landers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petra Landers in portrait | Women soccer. Retrieved on July 27, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ Petra Landers nominated in the category "Trainers 2019". German Football Ambassador, March 12, 2019, accessed on July 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Johannes Korge: Arrest before visiting Germany: Iran prevents prominent photographer from traveling to the World Cup . In: Spiegel Online . June 25, 2011 ( spiegel.de [accessed July 28, 2019]).
  4. ↑ For equality of women in sport: world record game on Kilimanjaro . In: Spiegel Online . June 13, 2017 ( spiegel.de [accessed July 28, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Report on weltfussball.de.
  6. ↑ Petra Landers wants to set up a girls' soccer project in Zambia. Retrieved July 27, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Friederike Böge: Women's football: The female way to shoot a penalty . June 29, 2015, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed July 28, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Landers, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum