Christiane Endler

Christiane Endler
Personal information
Full nameClaudia Christiane Endler Mutinelli[1]
Date of birth23 July 1991
Place of birthSantiago, Chile
Height1.82 m (5 ft 11 12 in)
Playing positionGoalkeeper
Club information
Current team
Chelsea LFC
Number1
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2008–2009Unión La Calera
2010Everton
2011–2012Colo-Colo
2012–2014South Florida Bulls
2012Colo-Colo (loan)
2014Chelsea LFC5(0)
2015-Colo-Colo
National team
2008Chile U-203(0)
2009–Chile8(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Endler and the second or maternal family name is Mutinelli.

Claudia Christiane Endler Mutinelli (born 23 July 1991) is a Chilean footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Colo-Colo and the Chilean national team. Endler was born in Santiago, Chile to a father from Germany and a mother from Chile. She holds both Chilean and German passports.

Trajectory

From childhood she showed talent for sports. She practiced tennis, swimming, hockey, basketball, volleyball and gymnastics. However, she chose to dedicate to football. She tried her luck as a defender, but the ex-Club Deportivo Universidad Católica target Marco Cornez, decided to try her as a of goalkeeper. As an Under-19 international she played the 2008 U-20 World Cup.[2]

Awards

Named Chilean Female Player of the Year in 2008, 2009 and 2010,.[3] She has played the Copa Libertadores's final with Everton and Colo-Colo, winning it with the latter in 2012.[4][5]

Playing style

She's been labeled as a strong, good penalty stopper, having great reflexes, excellent shot stopping abilities and distribution of the ball. Her style of play is compared with the German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer.

Personal

Endler's hero and idol as a child was German footballer and former Bayern Munich goalkeeper Oliver Kahn.

She can speak Spanish, English and German.

References

Christiane Endler wants to make history in the Pan American Games. La Tercera