Tina Theune

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Christina "Tina" Theune (born November 4, 1953 in Kleve ) is a former German soccer player and soccer coach . From 1996 to 2005 she was the national coach of the women's national team , which led her to win three European championships and, for the first time, the world championship . After marrying her first trainer Thomas Meyer, she carried the surname "Theune-Meyer" until her divorce in 2008.

Life

Tina Theune comes from a pastor's family from Kevelaer on the Lower Rhine . She spent the first two years of her life in the old rectory on Schenkenschanz .

From 1974 to 1986 she played for Grün-Weiß Brauweiler . During this time she was also active as a player and, from 1982, player-coach of the women's selection of the Mittelrhein Football Association , with which she won the DFB country cup in 1981 . After studying to be a teacher , she became the first woman in Germany to acquire a football instructor license in 1985.

In 1986 she became an honorary coach at the DFB and assistant coach for the women's national team. On August 1, 1996, she replaced Gero Bisanz as national coach. She won six European championships (three as assistant to Gero Bisanz, three as national coach) and led the German women's national team to win the 2003 World Cup . After winning the third European championship in a row under her responsibility, Theune-Meyer announced her resignation as national coach in 2005 and handed the office over to her assistant Silvia Neid .

Since then she has been working as a DFB sports teacher with special tasks in women's and girls' football. Their area of ​​responsibility includes a. organizing further training for coaches, coordinating talent promotion - she is also the sports director of the elite football schools for women and girls - and coordinating sports science projects in women's and girls' football. In addition, she held various functions at FIFA for the DFB: for example, as head of the FIFA Technical Study Group on developments in world women's football or on the FIFA committee for the organization of the Olympic Games.

Because of her sporting commitment, the certified sports teacher was elected Woman of the Year 2006 by the German Association of Citizens of the Year 2006.

In April 2007, together with Hope Powell , she oversaw the “FIFA Women's World Stars” against the Chinese women's national soccer team on the occasion of the group draw for the 2007 World Cup .

Tina Theune is the sister of the archaeologist Claudia Theune .

After her divorce, Tina Theune-Meyer took her maiden name again and has only had the surname Theune since then.

Successes (as a trainer)

Awards

  • For her sporting success she was awarded the silver laurel leaf by Federal President Köhler with the German women's soccer Olympic team on March 16, 2005.
  • 2019: Admission to the Hall of Fame as trainer of the "founding eleven"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Match Report FIFA Women's World Stars - China PR 2: 3 (2: 2)
  2. ^ Greetings from the Federal President on March 16, 2005 on the awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games
personal data
SURNAME Theune, Tina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Theune-Meyer, Christina (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and national coach of the women's national soccer team
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleve