Shelley Thompson

Shelley Thompson
Thompson in the VfL Wolfsburg jersey
Personnel
Surname	Shelley Ann Thompson
birthday	February 8, 1984
place of birth	Langenfeld ,  Germany
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
1989-1994	1. FC Monheim
1994-1996	Fortuna Dusseldorf
1996-1998	Garather SV
1998-1999	SVG Neuss-Weißenberg
1999-2000	SG Essen-Schönebeck
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2000	SG Essen-Schönebeck
2001-2006	FCR 2001 Duisburg	92 (81)
2003-2004	Regis University
2006-2007	Hamburger SV	21 (15)
2007-2009	VfL Wolfsburg	39 (32)
2010	Atlanta beat	4 0(0)
2010–2012	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	19 0(8)
2012-2013	SC 07 Bad Neuenahr	0 0(0)
2013	SC 07 Bad Neuenahr II	1 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2000-2001	Germany U-17	9 0(5)
2002-2003	Germany U-19	9 0(7)
2003-2004	Germany	2 0(1)
2004-2006	Germany U-21	10 (11)
2007	Germany U-23	5 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.

Shelley Ann Thompson (born February 8, 1984 in Langenfeld ) is a former German soccer player .

Career

Thompson grew up in Monheim am Rhein . Her father is from Zimbabwe and her mother is South African . English was spoken in her parents' home , so Thompson, like her brother, only learned German in kindergarten .

In 1989 she and her older brother Marc started playing soccer at 1. FC Monheim . After five years she moved to Fortuna Düsseldorf and played for two years in the D-Jugend. After she was no longer allowed to play with boys in a team, she switched to Garather SV . She came to SG Essen-Schönebeck in 1999 through SVG Neuss-Weißenberg . In her last year of youth, she became Lower Rhine Champion and made the leap into the first team straight away. After eleven goals in the first half of the season, she moved to FCR Duisburg on January 1, 2001 , for whom she scored at least ten goals in each season.

On August 6, 2003 she played for the first time in the German national team . The opponents in Trier were Nigeria's selection . Between September 2003 and April 2004 she studied at Regis University in Denver . In the 2004/05 Bundesliga season , Thompson was the top scorer with 30 goals. In summer 2006 she moved to Hamburger SV . After just one season, she left the club again and moved to VfL Wolfsburg . During her time there, she works in sports marketing at Volkswagen . On October 15, 2009, Thompson was released from training and matches with immediate effect due to "irreconcilable differences" from VfL. She then continued to work for the club's marketing department until she moved to the US professional league WPS on February 19, 2010, where she signed a contract with newcomer Atlanta Beat.

For the 2010/11 season she moved to Bayer 04 Leverkusen , where she was active for two years. At the 2011 women's soccer World Cup , she worked as the venue media officer at the Leverkusen World Cup location. On June 30, 2012 Shelley Thompson announced her move to SC 07 Bad Neuenahr on Twitter . There, due to an injury, she only played a brief assignment in Bad Neuenahr's second team in the 2nd Bundesliga South . On October 28, 2013, she finally ended her career due to a protracted knee injury.

successes

• Top scorer in the women's Bundesliga in 2005
• Top scorer in the 2003 U-19 European Championship
• Winner of the Nordic Cup (U-21) 2006

Private

Shelley Thompson studied media and cultural studies at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . Her grandfather used to be a professional at Liverpool FC . She is married to the football official Frank Aehlig .

Web links

• Shelley Thompson in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Fansoccer.de: Interview with Shelley Thompson from 2005

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ex-national player Thompson ends career. dfb.de, October 28, 2013, accessed on July 19, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Lars Werner: Frank Aehligs love for Cologne. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . December 29, 2017, accessed June 13, 2018 .