Simone Laudehr has resigned from the women's national team. After the caderbekanntgabe of the DFB and their non-nomination for the Football World Cup, which will take place in France from June, the 2007 World Champion and 2016 Olympic champion in a statement on Instagram announced her resignation. Laudehr had completed a total of 103 games in their international career.

"After careful consideration and after I have no more consideration for the squad of the national team for the upcoming World Cup, although I could reach with great effort again the full fitness for my injuries," wrote the 32-year-old, "I am the decision come to concentrate on my involvement with FC Bayern in the future and regard my career in the national team as finished. "

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Dear fans, dear football fans, after careful consideration and after I have received no more consideration for the squad of the national team for the upcoming World Cup, although I could reach with great effort again the full fitness after my injuries, I have come to the decision, me in the future, to concentrate on my involvement with FC Bayern and regard my career in the national team as finished. I have loved and proudly played 103 times for the German national team and have experienced all the highs (World Champion, European Champion, Olympic Champion) and some downs (premature retirement at the World Championships in Germany, injury at the 2016 Olympics followed by an eternally long one Way back to full fitness, removal from the squad before the European Championship 2017 without giving any reason by the former national coach and also the lack of support from the club coach to me with appropriate deployment times bring back to my actual power and give me a chance, qualify for the World Cup squad). Mostly, however, the many positive and fantastic memories of years of grandiose time with the German women's national team in the absolute world top. The experiences and impressions from the more than 10 years of belonging to the national team will accompany me throughout my life. I wish my team all the best and much success on the way to the 3rd star at the upcoming World Cup in France. Your Simone

A post shared by Simone Laudehr (@simone_laudehr) on May 14, 2019 at 3:24 PDT

Due to injury Laudehr had not heard since 2017, the squad of the national team, but in March, but returned to the extended squad of the national team. Another international match did not come to that.

As one of the low points of her career, she stated in the statement, among other things, the removal before the European Championship 2017 "without giving reasons by the former coach and also the lack of support from the club coach". In 2016 she moved from 1. FFC Frankfurt to Bayern Munich.

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In qualifying for the World Cup in France Laudehr was still used in four games. In the closed season she came to only seven games in the Bundesliga and missed with the Bayern the German championship. Laudehr still lacks in her trophy collection, so far, she was only six times second.

National coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg nominated not only experienced players like Lena Goessling or Alexandra Popp but also very young players. So Lena Oberdorf (17 years), Giulia Gwinn (19) and Klara Bühl (18) are still teenagers.