Noelle Maritz
 Maritz with Wolfsburg in 2015 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 23 December 1995 | ||
| Place of birth | Newport Beach, California, United States | ||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Arsenal | ||
| Number | 16 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1999–2001 | Hillsborough FC | ||
| 2001–2005 | PDA SC | ||
| 2006–2007 | |||
| 2007–2008 | FC Staad | ||
| 2008–2011 | FC Wil 1900 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2011–2013 | FC Zürich | 28 | (1) |
| 2013–2020 | VfL Wolfsburg | 89 | (4) |
| 2020– | Arsenal | 12 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2010–2012 | Switzerland U17 | ||
| 2012 | |||
| 2012 | Switzerland U20 | ||
| 2013– | Switzerland | 80[1] | (1) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2 May 2021 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 July 2020 | |||
Noelle Maritz (born 23 December 1995) is a Swiss-American professional footballer who plays as a defender for Arsenal of the FA WSL and the Switzerland women's national football team. She previously played for VfL Wolfsburg in the German Bundesliga and FC Zürich in Switzerland's Nationalliga A.
Club career[]
Wolfsburg coach Ralf Kellermann signed Maritz in 2013 on the strength of her national team performances in Cyprus.[2]
Maritz signed for FA WSL club Arsenal in 2020.[citation needed] She made her Arsenal debut in their opening game versus Reading on September 6, 2020. Maritz played the whole 90 minutes.
International career[]
Since her debut at the 2013 Cyprus Cup, Maritz has been a member of the Switzerland women's national football team.[3]
Honours[]
FC Zürich
- Nationalliga A (2): 2012, 2013
- Swiss Women's Cup (2): 2012, 2013
VfL Wolfsburg
- Bundesliga (5): 2013–14, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20
- DFB-Pokal (6): 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- UEFA Women's Champions League (1): 2014
Personal life[]
Maritz was born in the United States and moved to Switzerland when she was ten; therefore, she has dual citizenship.[citation needed]
References[]
- ^ "Profile". Retrieved 11 July 2020.
- ^ "VfL Wolfsburg verpflichtet Noelle Maritz" (in German). Framba.de. 20 May 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
- ^ Portrait in the Swiss Football Association's page
External links[]
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- Noelle Maritz – FIFA competition record (archived)
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- 1995 births
- Living people
- Swiss women's footballers
- American people of Swiss descent
- People from Newport Beach, California
- Soccer players from California
- Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Expatriate women's footballers in Germany
- VfL Wolfsburg (women) players
- Switzerland women's international footballers
- 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- Women's association football defenders
- American women's soccer players
- FC Zürich Frauen players
- Nationalliga A (women's football) players
- Expatriate sportspeople in England
- Arsenal W.F.C. players
- Swiss women's football biography stubs