Célia Šašić

Célia Šašić (2012 )

Célia Šašić, born WM, (* June 27, 1988 in Bonn ) is a German football player. The midfielder has played in 2013 for the first FFC Frankfurt and the German national team since 2005.

Career

Clubs

Her career began at the age of Célia Šašić five years at TuS Germania Hersel. Her older brother had then taken to the training. About the stations SC Widdig, TuS Pützchen 05 and FC St. Augustine they came in 2004 for SC 07 Bad Neuenahr, where she immediately became master player. On 18 March 2007 she suffered the away game at Bayern Munich a broken leg. At this time she led the scoring charts in the Bundesliga. 2013 she left Bad Neuenahr, after the club had to declare bankruptcy, and transferred to 1 FFC Frankfurt.

National

The talent of Šašić fell to the scouts of the DFB. Beginning of 2004, the player who was a French citizen, a German citizen. In the U - 17 national team, they scored 15 goals in 13 missions. On 2 July 2004, she scored a 7-0 victory against Iceland five goals. Her biggest success as a junior national team was the victory in the U-19 World Cup 2004 in Thailand. A year later, she reached the semi-finals of the U-19 European Championship.

Since they in March 2007 with FC Bayern Munich drew upon a broken leg in the Bundesliga game, they could not participate at the 2007 World Cup.

In August 2008, she won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games and the following year the European Football Championship Women 2009 in Finland.

At the World Cup in Germany in 2011 it belonged to the team squad and scored in the opening game in a 2-1 victory against Canada in front of nearly 74,000 spectators at Berlin's Olympic Stadium, the pre-decisive 2-0.

In March 2012, she was at the Algarve Cup with six goals, the scorer of the tournament. In the final group game against the FIFA world rankings Fifth Sweden they scored three goals (final score 4-0). With another three goals in the final in Faro against world champions Japan (4:3) had contributed significantly to the title of their team. With these three goals is the first German player, who get three goals in one game against a team of the top - 3 of the FIFA world rankings. In the European Championship qualifier against Spain on 31 March, she was able to complete successfully four times and is the first German player who scored at least three goals in three consecutive games. This record it expanded by four more matches in the European Championship qualifier against Switzerland on April 5, yet. In August, she was elected with a clear lead of Germany's footballer of the year. She received the award on 19 September 2012 the European Championship qualifier against Turkey.

When discharged from the 10th to July 28th, 2013 European Championship in Sweden, they played all tournament games. Her two goals they scored tournament on July 14 in their second group game in the 3-0 win against the selection Islands the deficit to intermediate 2-0 in the 55th minute and the hit to the final score in the 84th minute. With a 1-0 won the final against Norway's selection, she was with the team European champion.

Achievements

• European Champion 2009, 2013 Top scorer in the European Championship qualifiers 2013

• Scorer at the Algarve Cup in 2012.

Awards

• Choice in the All- Star team EURO 2013
• Player of the Year 2012

Private

Célia Šašić is the daughter of a Cameroonian father and a French. She has an older brother, Nicolas, and a younger sister, Laurence. At 18, she opted for German citizenship on the grounds that she was born in Germany and grew up. The part " will die " of her birth name means " ( daughter) of Mbabi ," her father's name is Elias Mbabi because Yombi. The name part WM comes from her paternal grandmother. Because of the long family name Célia WM was the only player in the Bundesliga, wearing only her first name on the club jersey for reasons of space. On the jersey of the national team, however, her full last name was read.

In spring 2007 Šašić passed her Abitur at the Friedrich -Ebert -Gymnasium in Bonn. Her main subjects were sports and French. On 1 August 2007, she began training as a clerk for marketing communications. She studied Cultural Studies at the University of Koblenz -Landau.

In the 2011 broadcast shortly before the World Cup of Women Crime scene: Sidelined she had a cameo.

Since 1 August 2013 she is married to the Croatian amateur footballer Marko Šašić, son of the football coach Milan Šašić.

Social Commitment

Since October 2010 Šašić along with the national team and Cacau, Serdar Taşçı and the referee Sinem Turac has worked as a DFB Integration ambassador. In addition, it also supports the Theo Zwanziger - Foundation, which is dedicated to the promotion of sport, in particular the promotion of girls' and women 's football.