U-20 Women's World Cup 2010 / Germany

Line-up from the game against France

This article covers the German U-20 women's national soccer team at the 2010 U-20 Women's World Cup .

Contingent

No.	player	society	International matches *	Länderspiel- gates *	Date of birth	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Almuth Schult	Magdeburg FFC	0	0	0Feb 9, 1991	5	0	0	0	0
12	Desirée Schumann	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	2	0	0Feb 6, 1990	1	0	0	0	0
21st	Laura Benkarth	Sc freiburg	0	0	Oct 14, 1992	0	0	0	0	0
Defense
3	Tabea Kemme	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	7th	0	Dec 14, 1991	4th	0	0	0	0
4th	Marith Prießen	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	8th	0	Dec 17, 1990	6th	0	1	0	0
5	Kristina Gessat	FSV Gütersloh 2009	0	0	0Nov 8, 1990	6th	0	0	0	0
14th	Inka Wesely	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	2	0	May 10, 1991	2	0	0	0	0
15th	Valeria Kleiner	FFC Frankfurt	2	0	17th Mar 1991	1	0	1	0	0
20th	Bianca Schmidt	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	13	3	Jan. 23, 1990	5	0	0	0	1
midfield
2	Stefanie Mirlach	FC Bayern Munich	10	3	Apr 18, 1990	5	0	0	0	0
6th	Marina Hegering	FCR Duisburg	12	0	Apr 17, 1990	6th	2	0	0	0
13	Sylvia Arnold	FF USV Jena	6th	1	Nov 10, 1990	5	2	0	0	0
16	Marie-Louise Bagehorn	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	3	0	0July 7, 1991	1	0	0	0	0
17th	Turid Knaak	FCR Duisburg	3	0	Jan. 24, 1991	5	0	0	0	0
19th	Kim Kulig	Hamburger SV	11	2	0Apr 9, 1990	6th	2	1	0	0
attack
7th	Jessica Wich	1. FFC Turbine Potsdam	8th	0	July 14, 1990	2	0	0	0	0
8th	Selina Wagner	VfL Wolfsburg	8th	1	0Oct 6, 1990	5	0	0	0	0
9	Svenja Huth	FFC Frankfurt	8th	1	Jan. 25, 1991	6th	2	0	0	0
10	Dzsenifer Marozsán	FFC Frankfurt	6th	1	Apr 18, 1992	5	1	1	0	0
11	Alexandra Popp	FCR Duisburg	3	4th	Apr 16, 1991	6th	10	0	0	0
18th	Anne Bartke	FF USV Jena	4th	1	02nd Mar 1990	1	0	0	0	0

(*) only the games and goals that were played or scored in the U-20 team before the start of the World Cup are given.

Preliminary round

In the preliminary round of the 2010 World Cup in Germany, the German U-20 women's national soccer team met in Group A against Costa Rica , Colombia and France .

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Germany	3	3	0	0	011: 400	+7	09
2.	Colombia	3	1	1	1	005: 400	+1	04th
3.	France	3	1	1	1	004: 500	−1	04th
4th	Costa Rica	3	0	0	3	002: 900	−7	00

• Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 11:30 a.m. in Bochum

Germany - Costa Rica 4: 2 (2: 1)

• Friday, July 16, 2010, 6 p.m. in Bochum

Germany - Colombia 3: 1 (1: 0)

• Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 11:30 a.m. in Augsburg

France - Germany 1: 4 (0: 2)

Finals

The trophy

In the preliminary round you could win all three preliminary round games. You clearly prevailed as group first against the other teams. In the quarter-finals you met the North Korean selection, which you could defeat 2-0. In the semifinals you could win against South Korea 5: 1 and thus qualify for the final in your own country. There they met in Bielefeld on the Nigerian team that had defeated Colombia in the semifinals . The final ended 2-0 for Germany, after which the German team was not only able to receive the U-20 women's world cup and gold medals, but also the golden shoe for the top scorer and the golden ball for the best player of the tournament stayed in Germany , because Alexandra Popp received both awards.

• Saturday, July 24, 2010, 6 p.m. in Bochum

Germany - North Korea 2: 0 (1: 0)

• Thursday, July 29, 2010, 3:30 p.m. in Bochum

Germany - South Korea 5: 1 (2: 0)

• Sunday, August 1, 2010, 3 p.m. in Bielefeld

Germany - Nigeria 2: 0 (1: 0)

Web links

• Germany . In: Fifa.com , accessed August 2, 2010.
• World Cup 2010. Team . In: DFB.de , accessed on August 2, 2010.