Silke Rottenberg

Silke Rottenberg, August 2008

Silke Rottenberg ( born January 25, 1972 in Euskirchen ) is a former German football player. The goalkeeper played from 1991 to 2008 in the Bundesliga and in the years 1993-2008 in the national team active. In 1998 she was elected to Germany's footballer of the year.

Sporting career

Club football

Silke Rottenberg began with four years at SC Enzen - Dürscheven playing football. First, she played on the Libero position. Only at the age of 16, she decided, on the advice of the Central Rhine coach Tina Theune- Meyer, to be goalkeeper. In 1991 she won the DFB Cup with Green-White Brauweiler. She then moved to TSV Siegen, with whom she gained her most club successes. In 2000 she went to the FFC Brauweiler Pulheim 2000, which they, however, did not win a title. In 2002, she trained as a soccer coach at the Sports University in Cologne. From 2003 to 2006 she played the FCR 2001 Duisburg, from the 2006/2007 season was when they first FFC Frankfurt under contract.

On December 11, 2008, she ended her career due to injury.

Achievements:

  • German champion in 1994 and 1996 with the TSV Siegen
  • German Champion 2007 and 2008 with the 1st FFC Frankfurt
  • German Cup winner 1991 Green-White Brauweiler
  • German Cup winner in 1993 with the TSV Siegen
  • German Cup winner 2007 and 2008 with the 1st FFC Frankfurt
  • UEFA Cup winner in 2008 with the first FFC Frankfurt

National

Your international debut had Silke Rottenberg 1993 against the United States. In 1997 she wore at the European Championships in Norway and Sweden to win the title; they conceded just a goal. When acquired WM 2003 she was elected to the World goalkeeper. In addition, she was awarded the 2004 Sports Star Award. In 2005 she became the third consecutive European Champion with the national team.

At the Olympic Games Sydney 2000 and Athens in 2004, she won the bronze medal with the team. In January 2007 she moved when training with the national team in Guangzhou, China, a torn ACL and had to pause for half a year. In July 2007, the Germany coach Silvia Neid announced that Rottenberg will be replaced at the World Cup in China in September 2007 by Nadine Angerer as the No.1.

Due to their many injuries she resigned in May 2008 from the national team. Your last international match in the national jersey of them on 29 May 2008 at the European Championship qualifier against Wales ( 4:0) in Kassel Auestadion. At their parting she was aged 36 years and 125 days, the oldest player who had previously played in the national team. With 126 caps, she was also a record keeper of the DFB until it was overhauled in October 2013 from its long- time rival Nadine Angerer.

Achievements:

  • World Champion 2003 and 2007
  • European Champion 1997, 2001 and 2005
  • Olympic bronze medal in 2000 and 2004
  • Victory at the Algarve Cup in 2006

Sports soldier

In addition to her amateur career she learned in 1988 the profession of dental assistant, she also exercised until 1997. Because of their playing career, there were naturally more problems for waivers. So you took the offer of the DFB, they nominate for a sports promotion in the army. There she gave birth in addition to their sporting commitments training in the medical corps, which led them to rank Sergeant now. Even as a sports soldier she was successful. She won twice, most recently in 2008 in Ede, with their team, the Women's World Cup of the Conseil International du Sport Militaire ( CISM ). She is now working in the Bundeswehr Sports School in Warendorf as a trainer. On expiry of their 12 -year-old soldier time time she wants to use the continuing education of Vocational Training Service ( BFD) of the Bundeswehr.

Others

Silke Rottenberg often trained with men teams and belongs to the Board of Trustees of the youth football foundation on. The Youth Soccer Foundation was established in 2000 by Jürgen Klinsmann, another successful national team as well as the lecturers of the football coach - special course of sports high school.

It is committed to people with Down syndrome ( trisomy 21), by participating in a poster campaign of the DS- InfoCenter. On the posters and postcards, which were published in October 2005, they, together with their football colleague Pia Wunderlich and Marco Huber, a man with Down's syndrome, the amateur footballers in the old men's team is 1921 Lower blade to see. 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. "

Silke Rottenberg supports the idea of Fair Trade GEPA.

At the World Championships 2011, she starred opposite Riem Hussein and Renate Lingor as a football expert on ZDF.

1. FFC Frankfurt Hauptfeldwebel Ede, Netherlands International Military Sports Council Bettina Wiegmann Inka Grings Integrated Authority File
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