Pia Wunderlich

Pia Wunderlich, 2008

Pia Wunderlich ( born January 26, 1975 in Bad Berleburg ) is a former German football player. She has played since 1993 in the Bundesliga and for the women's team.

Sporting career

Club football

Pia Wunderlich began with seven years at TuS Schwarzenau. Together with her sister Tina, she played there with the boys. In 1989, she joined the women's team of TSV Battenberg. With this club, it rose in 1992 in the Bundesliga. In 1993 she moved to the first FFC Frankfurt.

Achievements:

  • UEFA Cup winner in 2002, 2006 and 2008 with the 1st FFC Frankfurt
  • German Champion 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007 and 2008 with the 1st FFC Frankfurt
  • German Cup winner 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2008 with the 1st FFC Frankfurt
  • Indoor Cup winner in 1997, 1998 with the SG Praunheim
  • Indoor Cup winner in 1999 with the first FFC Frankfurt

National

Your first international match they had in 1993 against Russia. After sporadic inserts it in 1996 for master player. The midfielder is regarded as a goal threat, dribbling and fast. From 1999 to 2000, she had to cope with many failures. At first they suffered on glandular fever and had to pause for a year. Hardly recovered, she fell ill with thyroid, shortly after she had to undergo a knee surgery.

Pia Wunderlich won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004. In 2005 she became European Champion for the third time with the national team.

Achievements:

  • World Champion 2003
  • Vice World Champion 1995
  • European Champion 1997, 2001 and 2005
  • Bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics

Others

In 2005, Pia Wunderlich dedicated for people with Down syndrome ( trisomy 21), by participating in a poster campaign of the "German Down Syndrome Info Center". On the posters and postcards, which will be published in October 2005, they, together with their football colleague Silke Rottenberg and Marco Huber, an amateur soccer player with Down syndrome to see in the old men's team of TV 1921 low - blades. The motto of the series of images is: "People with Down syndrome make strange movements. As anyone who has tried to play a difficult ball. " Since 1 August 2008, she is the coordinator of the girls soccer boarding the FLVW in sports Kaiserau.

1. FFC Frankfurt Tina Wunderlich
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