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Wiesbaden (dpa) - For Ann-Katrin Berger, things come full circle.
On October 27th last year, the goalkeeper was supposed to come to her first international match in the women's national team.
Against england.
In Wiesbaden.
Corona prevented it.
England, where Berger is employed by Chelsea FC, did not come to Germany because of the pandemic and the game was canceled.
On December 1, Berger was allowed to play against Ireland for the first time in Dublin.
And now this Tuesday against Norway (4 p.m. / ZDF) for the second time.
In Wiesbaden.
“Ann-Katrin is seeded at Chelsea and you saw her class in the two Champions League games against Wolfsburg when she made the Wolfsburg desperate.
She has a great presence and charisma.
She will use her skills as a type, as a personality and as a mental support against Norway.
There's someone in the gate who knows what she wants and knows what she can, ”said national coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg, praising the now 30-year-old.
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In Germany, the native of Göttingen hovers a little under the radar.
From 2011 to 2014 she played with Turbine Potsdam and became German champions with the Brandenburg team in 2012.
Then she went abroad.
Via the stations in Paris Saint-Germain and Birmingham City LFC, she finally landed at Chelsea in 2019.
But it was only the pregnancy of her German national team colleague Almuth Schult and the associated move from “Blue's” goalkeeper Hedwig Lindahl to VfL that made her a regular goalkeeper at Chelsea.
Berger provides her role as one of the substitute goalkeepers in the DFB selection behind Merle Frohms, who is currently number one.
Rather, she seeks the attention of the national coach through performance and fights for every effort.
She has learned to fight: When she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2017, she did not simply give up.
Just three months after the operation and radio-iodine therapy, she was back between the posts.
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