Sonja Fuss

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Sonja Fuss
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Sonja Fuss (2019)
Personnel
Surname Sonja Beate Fuss
birthday 5th November 1978
place of birth BonnGermany
size 167 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
VfR Flamersheim
Grün-Weiß Brauweiler
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
until 2004 FFC Brauweiler Pulheim 2000 ? 0(?)
Hartford Hawks ? 0(?)
2004-2005 FSV Frankfurt 12 0(2)
2005 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam 11 0(0)
2005-2006 FFC Brauweiler Pulheim 2000 20 0(6)
2006-2009 FCR 2001 Duisburg 61 0(4)
2009-2010 1. FC Cologne 33 (11)
2011 FCR 2001 Duisburg 7 0(0)
2011-2013 FC Zurich women 27 0(0)
2013 Chicago Red Stars 16 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Germany U-19 19 0(?)
1996-2010 Germany 68 0(3)
1 Only league games are given.

Sonja Beate Fuss (born November 5, 1978 in Bonn ) is a former German soccer player . The defender was active in the women's Bundesliga from 1992 to 2011 and in the national team from 1996 to 2010 .

Athletic career

Club soccer

Sonja Fuss spent most of her career at SV Grün-Weiß Brauweiler , which was renamed FFC Brauweiler Pulheim 2000 in 2000 . As a student, she played for the Hartford Hawks , the team at Hartford University in the US state of Connecticut . In 2004 she moved to FSV Frankfurt . From February 2005 she played at 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam , before returning to FFC Brauweiler Pulheim 2000 after one season . At the beginning of the 2006/07 season she moved to FCR 2001 Duisburg . For the 2009/10 season, Sonja Fuss moved to 1. FC Köln , whose newly established women's football department emerged from the FFC Brauweiler Pulheim 2000 on July 1, 2009 and started playing in the second women's football division. In January 2011, Fuss switched back to FCR 2001 Duisburg. Her contract there was terminated in August 2011 and she signed with FC Zurich Women on August 28th . On March 16, 2013, together with Inka Grings , she signed a contract with the Chicago Red Stars, valid from May 20, 2013 . There she completed 16 league games in the 2013 season and scored two penalty goals. At the end of the season, Fuss returned to Germany.

National team

Fuss played her first international match in 1996 against the Netherlands . She scored her first international goal on November 15, 2003 against Portugal to make it 1-0 (final score: 13-0).

Fuss was European champion in 1997, 2005 and 2009 and world champion in 2003 and 2007 . She won the bronze medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens . For the 2011 World Cup it was no longer taken into account. In March 2012, she was bid farewell to the national team as part of the farewell game for Birgit Prinz .

successes

National team

Club soccer

social commitment

Fuss is the patron of Plan International Deutschland eV. With her commitment, she supports the girls' soccer projects of the children's aid organization.

Web links

Commons : Sonja Fuss  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Transfer Coup : Two national players from Germany to the FCZ women
  2. Fuss and Grings are moving to the USA on May 20, 2013
  3. Jeff Kassouf: Thorns waive Nikki Marshall on busy roster day , equalizersoccer.com (English). Retrieved September 9, 2013.
  4. rp-online.de May 31, 2011
  5. dfb.de "Birgit Prinz: Farewell two goals and a lot of goose bumps"