Nia Künzer
Nia Künzer (2013 )
Nia Tsholofelo Künzer ( born January 18, 1980 in Mochudi, Botswana ) is a former German football player.
Life
Nia Künzer was born in Botswana, as their parents worked in the early 1980s there as an aid worker, and grew up in Wetzlar. She lives in Frankfurt am Main. Nia comes from the Swahili language and means "I want", the Setswana term Tsholofelo means "hope".
Your footballing career she started at Eintracht Wetzlar, before moving on to the VfB Gießen SG Praunheim and emerged from this club first FFC Frankfurt. With the first FFC Frankfurt was seven times German Champion (1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2008 ) and German Cup winner ( 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2008) and three UEFA Women's Cup champion ( 2002, 2006 and 2008).
On May 27, 1997, she made her debut in the game against Denmark in Copenhagen in the national team. On 25 October 2001 she shot her first international goal in the match against Portugal.
For media star, she was by her golden goal in the final of the 2003 World Cup on 12 October 2003 Germany against Sweden. The gate was elected to the gate of the year later. Your golden goal was the last in the history of football, there are now again the traditional extension. It was Künzers second and final international goal. In 34 appearances for the German national team's defensive player scored two goals. In her career, she suffered a total of four ACL tears. Therefore, they declared 2006 her retirement from the national team. Already on 15 November 2003 she performed at 13:0 against Portugal their last international match. After the 2007/ 08 season, she also finished her club career.
In 2004 she was elected to the Maxim Woman of the Year in the sports section. Since March 2006 she works as a women's football expert for ARD. She was involved again and again for various prevention projects, including since 2007 for the transport prevention project " roadworthy -in- hessen medium ", which also includes the BOB action belongs.
In spring 2008, she graduated from the Pedagogy at the Justus -Liebig- University of Giessen. Since 14 April 2008, she is honorary ambassador of Central Hesse region.
Nia Künzer 2011 was awarded the Walter Scheel Prize for engagement in development cooperation. She is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador of the girls football project ' Galz & Goals " in Namibia. Together with the organization " POWER Bangladesh " Nia Künzer is committed and against the marriage of minors for the education of girls in Bangladesh. In the same year she was awarded the Albert Schweitzer Award of the Albert Schweitzer Association of Family and Children's Villages works.