Martina Müller (footballer)
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 18 April 1980 | ||
Place of birth | Kassel, West Germany | ||
Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
SG Helsa | |||
FSC Lohfelden | |||
SG Kaufungen | |||
TSV Jahn Calden | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1998–2000 | FSV Frankfurt | 22 | (15) |
2000–2005 | SC 07 Bad Neuenahr | 79 | (65) |
2005–2015 | VfL Wolfsburg | 210 | (138) |
National team‡ | |||
2000–2012 | Germany | 101 | (37) |
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Honours | |||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:05, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[2] ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20:12, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[1] |
Martina Müller (born 18 April 1980) is a retired German footballer. She played as a striker for VfL Wolfsburg and the German national team.
Career[]
Club[]
Müller had played at several smaller clubs at youth level, before joining the reigning German champions FSV Frankfurt in 1998. Because many of club's star players, such as Birgit Prinz and Sandra Smisek, had left that summer, Müller immediately became a regular starter and helped the team avoid relegation. After two years, she moved to SC 07 Bad Neuenahr, where she played for four seasons. In 2005, she joined VfL Wolfsburg, at a time when the club had just been relegated to the second division. With 36 goals, Müller was the second Bundesliga top-scorer the following season, helping Wolfsburg to achieve immediate promotion back to the German top flight.
Müller remained with Wolfsburg in their 2012–13 breakout season, when they won a treble of Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and UEFA Women's Champions League. In May 2013's Champions League final at Stamford Bridge Müller scored the decisive penalty kick to defeat Olympique Lyonnais 1–0. The result halted Lyon's 118–match unbeaten run and stopped the French team winning a third successive continental title.[3]
On 13 April 2015 she announced that she would retire at the end of the 2014–15 season.[4][5]
International[]
Müller made her debut for the German national team against the United States in July 2000. In the following years, she won several major titles with Germany, almost exclusively as a reserve player, often coming on as a late substitute. Müller won her first international trophy at the 2001 European Championship. Two years later, she was part of Germany's winning team at the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup. She had three appearances and scored twice in the tournament.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Müller claimed the bronze medal. She again became world champion at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, where she played in four matches, coming from the bench in all of them. She scored Germany's third goal in the semi-final against Norway. Müller won the European Championship a second time with Germany in 2009, and was called up for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup squad.[1]
International goals[]
Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first:
showMüller – goals for Germany |
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Source:[6]
Honours[]
Domestic[]
International[]
- FIFA World Cup: Winner (2) 2003, 2007
- UEFA European Championship: Winner (2) 2001, 2009
- Olympic bronze medal: (1) 2004
- UEFA Women's Champions League: Winner (2) 2012–13, 2013–14
Individual[]
- Silbernes Lorbeerblatt: 2003, 2007
- German Women's Footballer of the Year: 2013[7]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Nationalspielerin Martina Müller" (in German). DFB.de. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ "Martina Müller" (in German). Framba.de. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
- ^ "Women's Champions League: Wolfsburg beat Lyon in final". British Broadcasting Corporation. 23 May 2013. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
- ^ "Martina Müller hört zum Saisonende auf". dfb.de. 13 April 2015.
- ^ "Fußball im Norden: News, Ergebnisse, Tabellen, Teams".
- ^ "Players Info M. Müller Goals". DFB. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
- ^ "Bastian Schweinsteiger ist Fußballer des Jahres" (in German). kicker.de. 28 July 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
External links[]
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- Martina Müller – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Profile at VfL Wolfsburg
- Profile at the German Football Federation (in German)
- Profile at Weltfussball.de (in German)
- 1980 births
- Living people
- German women's footballers
- Germany women's international footballers
- 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- SC 07 Bad Neuenahr players
- Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers of Germany
- Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
- Sportspeople from Kassel
- VfL Wolfsburg (women) players
- FSV Frankfurt (women) players
- Olympic medalists in football
- 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- FIFA Women's World Cup-winning players
- FIFA Century Club
- Women's association football forwards
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Footballers from Hesse
- Olympic women's footballers of Germany
- UEFA Women's Championship-winning players