Susanne Augustesen

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Susanne Augustesen (born May 10, 1956 in Holbæk ) is a former Danish soccer player . She was active for around 25 years, mainly for clubs in Italy , where she played until her 39th birthday. She gained fame as a 15-year-old through her successful, title-winning appearance at the second, unofficial Women's World Cup in 1971 in Mexico .

Club career

From 1970 onwards, Susanne “Susy” Augustesen played both hand and - in a mixed team with boys - soccer at the local Holbæk Bold- og Idrætsforening . In handball, she made it up to the Danish A youth national team and was one of the larger group of women who had a good chance of representing their country at the 1975 Women's World Cup in the USSR . However, by that time she had already decided to focus exclusively on football. As early as 1971 - after the soccer World Cup in Mexico (see below)  - the goal-scoring center forward had received offers from several Italian clubs to join them and, unlike in Denmark, be paid for her sport. At that time, Augustesen wanted to finish her schooling first and therefore did not join the women of the ASD Bologna until 1974 .

As a result, she moved from club to club in Italy, first from Bologna in 1975 to UCF Gamma 3 Padua , then to ACF Diadora Valdobbiadene in 1976 , to ACF Conegliano in 1978 and to Lazio Rome in 1980 . She stayed at most of her clubs for a maximum of two years before accepting a new offer. She only wore the Lazio dress for a total of six seasons, but spread over three periods in the 1980s and 1990s. Other stations were ACF Alaska Lecce , ACF Trani 80 (there together with her compatriot Lone Smidt Nielsen ), ACF Modena Euromobil and in Cagliari the FCF Flase and the ACSF Delfino . With the latter club she ended her career in 1995 after 22 years, continuously in the top division , and returned to Denmark the following year, where she later worked in the Copenhagen city ​​administration.

With her Italian teams she won six championship titles (1976, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1985 and 1986) and three times - 1978, 1979, 1985 - the national cup . She herself was also awarded the Serie A top scorer eight times between 1975 and 1987 ; their most successful season in this regard was the calendar year 1976, when they scored 42 times for Valdobbiadene. Her successor was Carolina Morace , who was Italy's most successful league goalscorer twelve times between 1985 and 1997/98 and was in an eleven with Augustesen for four seasons at Lazio and Trani. As for most countries in the early days of women's football, there is no complete statistical record of their stakes so far (November 2019) in Italy either. However, a total of 260 point games are documented for her there, in which she scored at least 360 hits; According to Thibault Rabeux, all games taken together are said to have been more than 600 goals, and according to the Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet even more than 1,000.

Stations

  • Holbæk B&I (1970–1974)
  • ASD Bologna (1974)
  • UCF Gamma 3 Padua (1975)
  • ACF Diadora Valdobbiadene (1976–1977)
  • ACF Conegliano (1978-1979)
  • Lazio Rome (1980–1981)
  • FCF Flase Cagliari (1982)
  • ACF Alaska Lecce (1983)
  • Lazio Rome (1984)
  • ACF Trani 80 (1985-1988)
  • ACF Modena Euromobil (1988–1990)
  • Lazio Rome (1990-1993)
  • ACSF Delfino Cagliari (1993–1995)

International assignments

In the second, again organized by the FIEFF and thus unofficial Women's World Cup in Mexico in 1971 , five other teams also took part in a Danish selection, which was put together by the newly founded association Kvindelig Fodbold Union ("Women's Football Union ") because the Danish Football Association DBU refused to allow women's football under its roof at that time. Danes had already won the first World Cup competition the year before; however, the team had been completely reorganized except for Helene Hansen . The 15-year-old student Susanne Augustesen also belonged to the group of players this time. In the first group game in Guadalajara , the attacker contributed a goal in a 3-0 win over France . In the 1: 1 against Italy and in the 5: 0 in the semifinals against Argentina , she got nothing. On the other hand, Augustesen managed a hat trick in the final against the hosts in the Aztec Stadium in front of almost 110,000 spectators, the highest number of spectators at a women's football game into the 21st century . The right-footed striker scored all three goals at 3-0 - and all with her left. The Danes, who , according to their goalkeeper at the time, Birte Kjems , played “at home in front of 50 or 100, when it came up, sometimes in front of 300 visitors”, hadn't let the gigantic backdrop buy their heads off. After their return home, the world champions were honored with a reception in the town hall of the Danish capital.

Susanne Augustesen had a total of seven encounters for the Danish selection. However , she has never played an official international match for the Danish national team . Danish international history doesn't officially begin until July 1974, by which time the attacker had just gone to Italy as a professional player. Regardless of this, she was inducted into the DBU's Fodboldens Hall of Fame in 2017 . In the same year the television station Danmarks Radio showed a half-hour documentary about the Danish women at the 1971 World Cup.

While FIFA does not recognize the games in this competition to this day, the world association classified a qualifier for the tournament in 2011 as the "first official international match in women's football history". This is the meeting between France and the Netherlands in April 1971, in which a young player, 16-year-old Jocelyne Ratignier, also scored a hat trick.

literature

  • Thibault Rabeux: Football féminin: Les Coupes du Monde officieuses. Le petit livre des grandes histoires. Self-published, o. O. 2019, ISBN 978-10-9590-642-2

Web links

Commons : Susanne Augustesen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Article " Every girl's dream " from June 11, 2004 at information.dk (Danish, accessed November 18, 2019)

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b c after Susanne Augustesen's appreciation on the website of the Danish Football Association
  2. ↑ a b Rabeux, Football féminin: Les Coupes du Monde officieuses, 2019, p. 19
  3. ↑ Article “ World Champion as 15-year-olds ” from September 8, 2012 at bt.dk
  4. ↑ Article “ Girl Power! “From April 9, 2012 at ekstrabladet.dk
  5. ↑ a b Article " Women's World Cup game-changing moments No 2: Denmark in 1971 " from June 13, 2019 at theguardian.com
  6. ↑ Rabeux, Football féminin: Les Coupes du Monde officieuses, 2019, p. 14
  7. ↑ see the data from the 1971 World Cup at rsssf.com
  8. ↑ Rabeux, Football féminin: Les Coupes du Monde officieuses, 2019, p. 18
  9. ↑ Article “ Fully earned: Holbækerin inducted into the hall of fame of football ” from March 22, 2017 at holbaekonline.dk
  10. ↑ TV film “ When Denmark stayed the world championship ” on dr.dk
  11. ↑ Article " Women from the very beginning " from April 8, 2011 at fifa.com
personal data
SURNAME Augustesen, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Holbæk