Marina Hegering
![]() Hegering with Germany in 2020 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Marina Hegering[1] | ||
Date of birth | 17 May 1990 | ||
Place of birth | Bocholt, West Germany[2] | ||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | VfL Wolfsburg | ||
Number | 31 | ||
Youth career | |||
1995–2007 | DJK SV Lowick | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2007–2011 | FCR 2001 Duisburg | 43 | (6) |
2011–2017 | Bayer Leverkusen | 49 | (5) |
2017–2020 | SGS Essen | 54 | (5) |
2020–2022 | Bayern Munich | 24 | (7) |
2022– | VfL Wolfsburg | 28 | (7) |
International career‡ | |||
2005–2007 | Germany U17 | 21 | (14) |
2007–2009 | Germany U19 | 11 | (2) |
2008–2010 | Germany U20 | 17 | (2) |
2019– | Germany | 41 | (5) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:30, 9 August 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:54, 7 August 2024 (UTC) |
Marina Hegering (born 17 April 1990) is a German professional footballer who plays as a defender for Frauen-Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg and the German national team.
Club career
[edit]Marina Hegering began her career at DJK SV Lowick 1930. She played with them for twelve years, most recently in the male B-Youth performance class. At the age of 16, she switched to FCR 2001 Duisburg, for whose Bundesliga team she played until 2011. On 19 August 2007 (Day 1) she made her competitive debut in a 1–0 away win against Hamburger SV. She scored twice on 6 April 2008 (Day 14) in a 7–1 home win against TSV Crailsheim for her first Bundesliga goals. In the 2010/11 season, a persistent heel injury forced her to stay away from the game. During her club affiliation, she won the DFB Cup twice and the UEFA Cup once.
For the 2011/12 season she signed a two-year contract with Bayer 04 Leverkusen.[3] After recovering from the heel injury, she played her first game for them on 13 April 2013 (matchday 18) in a goalless draw at home against SGS Essen.[4] She joined SGS Essen at the start of the 2017/18 season.[5] With her team she reached the final of the DFB Cup against VfL Wolfsburg on 4 July 2020 and scored twice but was defeated 4–2 on penalties.
On 24 April 2020, she was signed by Bayern Munich for the 2020/21 season and received a contract that expired on 30 June 2022.[6][7]
She was signed by VfL Wolfsburg in 2022.[8] She received a contract for four years until 2026. She holds a B+ trainer license.[9]
International career
[edit]After Marina Hegering had played in the U-13 Niederrhein selection and the FVN national cup U-15 team, she made her debut on 3 September 2004 as a national player for the national U-15 team, which played the test international match against the selection of Canada lost 1–5. On 2 September 2005, she completed her seventh and last appearance in this age group in a goalless draw against this country selection. She scored a U-15 international goal on 29 August 2005 in a 7–0 win over Scotland, making it 6–0 in the 33rd minute.
For the U-17 national team, she played 22 international matches between 12 October 2005 and 7 July 2007 and scored one goal. Between 21 October 2007 and 19 July 2009, she played eleven international matches for the U-19 national team. She took part with her at the European Championship held from 13 to 25 July 2009 in Belarus. After she played in three preliminary round games, her team went home.
She took part in two World Cups for the U-20 national team, for which she played 18 times. Her first took place in Chile from 20 November to 7 December 2008. She and her team finished third after beating France 5–3. Her second World Cup took place from 13 July to 1 August 2010 in her own country, from which she and her team emerged as World Champions.
She made her debut for the senior German team on 6 April 2019 in Solna in a 2–1 win in a friendly against Sweden national team. For the 2019 FIFA World Cup, she was called up to the squad by national coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg.[10][11] She reached the quarterfinals with the national team.
For the 2022 European Championship in England she was called up by Voss-Tecklenburg in the squad. The German team reached the final, but were beaten by England and finished as runners-up. Hegering played in all six games. After the tournament, Hegering was voted into the "Eleven of the Tournament" by the UEFA coaching staff.[12]
Career statistics
[edit]International
[edit]- As of 6 August 2024[13]
Germany | ||
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Year | Apps | Goals |
2019 | 9 | 0 |
2020 | 5 | 3 |
2021 | 5 | 0 |
2022 | 7 | 0 |
2023 | 8 | 1 |
2024 | 7 | 1 |
Total | 41 | 5 |
International goals
[edit]Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first:[2]
Hegering – goals for Germany | ||||||
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# | Date | Location | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
1. | 7 March 2020 | Lagos Municipal Stadium, Lagos, Portugal | ![]() |
4–0 | 4–0 | 2020 Algarve Cup |
2. | 19 September 2020 | Stadion Essen, Essen, Germany | ![]() |
1–0 | 3–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2021 qualifying |
3. | 27 November 2020 | Audi Sportpark, Ingolstadt, Germany | ![]() |
1–0 | 6–0 | |
4. | 1 December 2023 | Ostseestadion, Rostock, Germany | ![]() |
2–0 | 3–0 | 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League |
5. | 25 July 2024 | Stade Vélodrome, Marseille, France | ![]() |
1–0 | 3–0 | 2024 Summer Olympics |
Honours
[edit]- FCR 2001 Duisburg
- Bayern Munich
- VfL Wolfsburg
- Germany U20
- FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup: 2010, third place: 2008
Germany
- Summer Olympics bronze medal: 2024[14]
- UEFA Women's Championship runner-up: 2022[15]
- UEFA Women's Nations League third place: 2023–24[16]
Individual
- UEFA Women's Championship Team of the Tournament: 2022[17]
- Fritz Walter Medal Gold: 2009[18]
References
[edit]- ^ "FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019 – List of Players: Germany" (PDF). FIFA. 7 July 2019. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ^ a b "Marina Hegering". Worldfootball.net. 6 January 2022.
- ^ "Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fussball GmbH". 4 March 2016. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
- ^ "Framba.de - Framba.de". 22 May 2016. Archived from the original on 22 May 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
- ^ "Marina Hegering wechselt zur SGS Essen - Der Frauenfussball-Bundesligist aus Essen". 15 August 2018. Archived from the original on 15 August 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
- ^ "Bayern gets the next national player: Hegering also comes from Essen". Archived from the original on 27 October 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
- ^ "FC Bayern women sign Marina Hegering".
- ^ "Hegering wechselt von Bayern zu Wolfsburg". DFB - Deutscher Fußball-Bund e.V.
- ^ "Zweigeteilter Vertrag bis 2026: Hegering wechselt nach Wolfsburg". kicker (in German). Retrieved 22 January 2023.
- ^ Rüttenauer, Andreas (29 June 2019). "WM-Nationalspielerin Marina Hegering: "Ich bin nicht total unerfahren"". Die Tageszeitung: taz (in German). ISSN 0931-9085. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
- ^ "Hegering on her debut: "Just awesome"". DFB – Deutscher Fußball-Bund e.V. (in German). Retrieved 3 June 2019.
- ^ "Im Nachgang der Women's EURO - Vier Titelheldinnen in der Turnier-Elf – Diacre bleibt". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 2 August 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
- ^ "Marina Hegering". dfb.de. 18 September 2021.
- ^ "Spain 0-1 Germany: Germany win women's football bronze at Paris 2024". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
- ^ Sanders, Emma (31 July 2022). "England beat Germany to win first major women's trophy". BBC. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ "Germany win Nations League play-off to reach Olympics". BBC Sport. 28 February 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
- ^ "UEFA Women's EURO 2022 Team of the Tournament announced". UEFA.com. 2 August 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ^ "menschBOCHOLT.de - Startseite". 22 October 2010. Archived from the original on 22 October 2010. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
External links
[edit]- 1990 births
- Living people
- German women's footballers
- Germany women's international footballers
- FCR 2001 Duisburg players
- Bayer 04 Leverkusen (women) players
- SGS Essen players
- FC Bayern Munich (women) players
- Frauen-Bundesliga players
- 2. Frauen-Bundesliga players
- 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- Women's association football defenders
- People from Bocholt, Germany
- Footballers from Münster (region)
- UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players
- VfL Wolfsburg (women) players
- 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- Footballers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers for Germany
- Olympic medalists in football
- Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics