Nadine Angerer

Nadine Angerer
Angerer as goalkeeper coach for the Portland Thorns in 2024
Personal information
Full name Nadine Marejke Angerer[1]
Date of birth (1978-11-10) 10 November 1978 (age 45)
Place of birth Lohr am Main, Bavaria, West Germany
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
Portland Thorns (player-coach)
Number 46
Youth career
ESV Gemünden
ASV Hofstetten
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–1996 1. FC Nürnberg
1996–1999 FC Wacker München
1999–2001 FC Bayern Munich 17 (0)
2001–2007 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam 126 (0)
2008 Djurgårdens IF 22 (0)
2009–2013 1. FFC Frankfurt 85 (0)
2013–2014 Brisbane Roar 9 (0)
2014–2015 Portland Thorns 28 (0)
2014Brisbane Roar (loan) 8 (0)
2020 Portland Thorns 0 (0)
International career
1996–2015 Germany 146 (0)
Managerial career
2015–2023 Portland Thorns (goalkeeping)
2024– Switzerland (goalkeeping)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing  Germany
FIFA Women's World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2003 United States Team
Gold medal – first place 2007 China Team
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sydney Team
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens Team
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing Team
UEFA Women's Championship
Gold medal – first place 1997 Norway/Sweden Team
Gold medal – first place 2001 Germany Team
Gold medal – first place 2005 England Team
Gold medal – first place 2009 Finland Team
Gold medal – first place 2013 Sweden Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11:57, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Nadine Marejke Angerer (born 10 November 1978) is a German football coach and player who is the former goalkeeping player-coach for Portland Thorns of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).[2][3]

Angerer has played for Frauen-Bundesliga clubs Bayern Munich, Turbine Potsdam (with whom she won the 2005 UEFA Women's Cup) and FFC Frankfurt. In 2008, she played for Djurgårdens IF of the Swedish Damallsvenskan and she spent two periods on loan with Brisbane Roar of the Australian W-League in 2013 and 2014. During her extensive international career, Angerer was recognised as one of the world's best female goalkeepers.

Since making her debut for the Germany women's national football team in August 1996, Angerer won a total of 146 caps. She understudied Silke Rottenberg at the UEFA Women's Championship in 1997, 2001 and 2005; the FIFA Women's World Cup in 1999 and 2003; as well as the 2000 and 2004 Olympic football tournaments. When Rottenberg was injured before the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, Angerer took over as first choice and kept a clean sheet in every round as Germany won the tournament. She remained first choice for the 2009 and 2013 editions of the UEFA Women's Championship, the 2011 and 2015 FIFA Women's World Cups and the 2008 Olympics.

Germany won the UEFA Women's Championship on each of the five occasions Angerer was involved and won the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2003 and 2007.[4] Their best finish at the Olympics was third in 2000, 2004 and 2008. Angerer is a penalty-saving specialist, having stopped Marta's kick in the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup Final and both Trine Rønning and Solveig Gulbrandsen's during the UEFA Women's Euro 2013 Final. She was appointed captain of Germany in 2011 following the retirement of Birgit Prinz. On 13 January 2014, Angerer was named FIFA World Player of the Year, becoming the first goalkeeper – male or female – to win the award.[5] She announced her retirement from the international team on 13 May 2015.[6]

  1. ^ a b "List of Players – 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). FIFA. p. 12. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 January 2016. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
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  3. ^ "Nadine Angerer: Abschied nach zehn Jahren". 11 November 2023.
  4. ^ "Angerer: I was often my own worst enemy". FIFA. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  5. ^ "Nadine Angerer wins FIFA women's world player of the year". SBNation.com. 18 December 2013. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017.
  6. ^ "Angerer beendet Nationalmannschafts-Karriere nach WM". dfb.de. 13 May 2015. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015.