Beverly Ranger

Beverly Ranger ( * in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican former football player. In Germany they belonged in the 1970s to the most famous players: With the Bonner SC she won in 1975 and with the SSG Bergisch Gladbach 1977, the German Cup, in June 1975 one of their goals was voted Goal of the Month.

Born in the early 1950s in the Jamaican capital Kingston Beverly Ranger came at the age of 12 years with her parents to London. There she played in a park near the Wembley stadium with age-matched boys soccer. Her talent was accidentally discovered by a journalist who suggesting her to join a football club. Ranger played for Watford FC, ​​later in the London suburb Club Amersham Town FC.

In the 1970s she played in Germany. There, the women's football these days was to still in its infancy. Only in 1970, the German Football Association had been able to bring themselves to admit women into its clubs. A League operation took place at this time only to state association level, in 1974 the first time a German championship was played in women's football. Beverly Ranger, one of the first foreign players in the higher-class women's football in Germany, was initially active for the Saarland SV Bubach / Calmesweiler and stepped from the season 1974/75 for the reigning German Vice Champion Bonner SC, who played in the Middle Rhine League, at. A prominent player you was here the striker Anne Trabant hair Bach, which was changed from last year's champion TuS Wörstadt to the Rhine. The team defended their title in the Middle Rhine League, what had Beverly Ranger relevant share on 26 April 1975, she scored in the playoff to the Middle Rhine Cup against SSG Bergisch Gladbach just before the break the 1:1 compensation, the Bonn team won the encounter at the end 2-1 and moved so that in the final round of the German Cup in 1975, where they penetrated again to the finals. Here the Bonn city could secure by a 4-2 win over Bayern Munich the title and even in this game, which took place before the time unusually large crowd of about 2,500 spectators, Beverly Ranger himself enlisted in the scoresheet, she scored with a header the equalizer to make it 2-2.

Your goal in the game against Bergisch Gladbach, in which they had played five opponents and the goalkeeper, was chosen by the viewers of the German sports show on the Goal of the Month in June 1975. Beverly Ranger was the second woman after Bärbel Wohlleben a year earlier, the was bestowed this award. Through the " Goal of the Month " Beverly Ranger was known abruptly to a broad public. Their popularity helped her among other things, to a sponsorship deal with the sportswear manufacturer Puma, so she was one of the first women's soccer players who could exercise the sport in Germany at least semi - professional. In 1976, she left with Anne Trabant hair Bach Bonner SC and then played for the SSG Bergisch Gladbach, with the 1977 they again reached the final and secured their second league title in the replay of the NSG Colonel Schiel with a 1-0 victory. As additional stations, the Palatinate TuS low churches, with whom she won the 1978 Southwest German Association Cup and the Offenbach Kickers joined. After the end of their active football career, she moved to the United States.