User:Toreightyone/Carolin Größinger

Carolin Größinger
Carolin Größinger practicing with the Austrian Women's National Football Team
Personal information
Date of birth (1997-05-10) 10 May 1997 (age 26)
Place of birth Salzburg, Austria
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
FC Bergheim
Number 21
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2013 SG Bergheim/Hof 11 (0)
2014 FSK St. Pölten
2014–2016 Union Kleinmünchen 28 (0)
2016 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0 (0)
2017– FC Bergheim
International career
2013–2014 Austria U-17
2014–2015 Austria U-19
2017– Austria
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 November 2017

Carolin Größinger also Carolin Grössinger (born 10 May 1997) is an Austrian football goalkeeper for FC Bergheim.

Early life edit

Größinger was born on 10 May 1997 in Salzburg, Austria. Her brother is footballer Markus Grössinger.[1] She began playing football at the age of six and graduated from the National Centre for Women's Football Academy.[2]

Playing career edit

Club edit

In July 2012, Größinger debuted on SG Bergheim/Hof in the ÖFB-Frauenliga, making 11 appearances.[3] She was traded in 2014 to FSK St. Pölten.[4] In June 2014, Größinger was sent to Union Kleinmünchen, starting in 10 games, and 18 games the following season.[3]

In 2016, Größinger signed for Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the German Frauen-Bundesliga.[5] In 2017, she left the team in order to return to Austrian football and joined FC Bergheim.[6][7]

International edit

As goalkeeper of the first Austria U-17 women's team to qualify, Größinger played in the 2014 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship in England.[2]

The following year, Größinger played for the Austria U-19 women's team at the 2016 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship in Slovakia. She was the starting goalkeeper for all of Austria's games against Switzerland, Spain, and Germany — conceding 11 goals in total.[8]

Größinger is currently on the Austrian senior team.[9]. She was a goalkeeper for the Women's Euro 2017 in the Netherlands. Größinger sat as a substitute goalkeeper for all Austria's games against Switzerland, France, Iceland, Spain; and Austria's semi-final exit against Denmark.[10]

References edit

  1. ^ Öhlinger, Gerhard (10 June 2016). "Henndorferin Größinger in der deutschen Bundesliga". Salzburger Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  2. ^ a b James, Laure (22 July 2016). "How Austria's No1 picked up the gauntlet(s)". UEFA. Retrieved 11 November 2017. In 2014, I was with the Austria at the Under-17 EURO and we were the first women's team from our country to be at a tournament.
  3. ^ a b "Carolin Größinger » Vereinsspiele » Bundesliga". Weltfussball (in German). Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  4. ^ "SKN St. Pölten [Frauen] » Transfers 2013/2014". Weltfussball (in German). 2013–2014. Retrieved 11 November 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
  5. ^ Nachrichten, Salzburger. "Henndorferin Größinger in der deutschen Bundesliga". Salzburger Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 2017-11-18.
  6. ^ Becker, Simon (7 January 2017). "Carolin Größinger verlässt Bayer 04 Leverkusen". EASY – Dein Frauenfußball Blog (in German). Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  7. ^ Nachrichten, Salzburger. "FC Bergheim verstärkt sich mit Nationalspielerin". Salzburger Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 2017-11-18.
  8. ^ "Women's Under-19 – Matches". UEFA. Slovakia. July 2016. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  9. ^ "Austria". UEFA Women's Euro. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  10. ^ "Austria – Matches". UEFA. Netherlands. 2017. Retrieved 11 November 2017.

External links edit

Category:1997 births Category:Living people Category:Austrian footballers Category:Austrian women's footballers Category:Association football goalkeepers Category:Women's association football goalkeepers