Doris Fitschen

Fitschen ( born October 25, 1968 in Zeven, Lower Saxony ) is since August 2009 manager of the German women's national team and a former German football player.

The midfielder won four European championships, three national championships and won three of the DFB Cup. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, she won the bronze medal with her team. After a hand injury in July 2001, she ended her active career. Since November 2001 she has been working in the marketing department of the DFB, since 25 January 2008, directs the five -man team in the Women's World Cup 2011 in Germany Marketing.

Sporting career

Club football

Fitschen was nine years old when in 1978 her first football club FC Hesedorf joined. 1982 closed the girls' team together with the TuS Westerholzmuehle. With this team she grew up in the national league. In 1988, she moved to Eintracht VfR Wolfsburg. There she also saw the women's Bundesliga start in 1990. During the season of 1991/92 Fitschen was 16 goals scorer of the northern group and only player to score a hat -trick during the season.

From 1992 to 1996 she played for TSV Siegen, with whom she DFB Cup winner was German champion twice and once. In January 1995, she retired to a torn ACL. During the six- month break, they had to follow from the stands EM victory against Sweden and also the World Cup in the same year. In 1996, she joined the German Vice Champion SG Praunheim. Although she had a highly doped offer from Japan, they extended their 1997 agreement by the year 2000. DFB then threatened not to take into account players abroad. With the newly formed 1st FFC Frankfurt in 1999, she won the "double" and once again the DFB Cup.

In March 2001, she moved to Philadelphia Charge in the newly founded American women's professional league ( WUSA ). On July 30, 2001, she broke her left wrist in a league game against the New York Power. Then she ended her active football career. Despite its relatively short appearance she was elected at the end of the season the best player of the year.

National

On October 4, 1986 Fitschen made ​​her debut as a national player. In the 2-0 win against Denmark they scored the first goal. Since then, she belonged to the tribe of players. In the European Championship finals in Germany in 1989, in which the DFB secured the title for the first time, she was the youngest player at 20 years. At the European Championship quarter- final first leg against England in the autumn of 1990, she played for the first time on the Libero items. Since then, she wore the jersey with the number 5

1991 she succeeded with the national team, the second European title. During the subsequent World Cup in China it was considered the best player of the tournament and was celebrated in the Chinese media as " female Beckenbauer ". As a result of the knee injury she could not attend the two major tournaments in 1995. Your returned in 1996 at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta was to have played for their " greatest sporting disappointment " where she admitted, may also be " pretty weak."

In 1997, the success returned. During the Championship, which Germany won again, they replaced the injured captain Martina Voss, was the performance of the wearer and the UEFA elected to the All- Star team. On 6 November 1997 Fitschen denied her hundredth international game. After Silvia Neid, Martina Voss and Heidi Mohr, she was the fourth German woman in "hundreds Club". My 144th and last match they played on 7 July 2001 in the European Championship final win against Sweden in Ulm.

Professional career

Hinge plates bought in 1988 by the High School. After school, she completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk and later to the system analyst at Volkswagen AG. Between 1993 and 1996 she was a freelancer in the sports department of the West German Radio, followed by a study of business, which she completed at the School of Economics in Frankfurt am Main in 1999. Since 2001 Fitschen works for the German Football Association. Until her appointment to the organizing committee for the World Cup 2011 she was employed in the marketing department. Since August 2009, when acting as manager of the women's national team.

From 2001 to 2004 worked as an expert hinge plates for women's football for ARD.

Others

Fitschen is a member of the German Academy for football culture.