Lina Magull

Lina Magull
Personal information
Full nameLina Maria Magull[1]
Date of birth15 August 1994
Place of birthDortmund, Germany
Height165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Playing positionMidfielder
Club information
Current team
VfL Wolfsburg
Number14
Youth career
1999-2002Hörder SC
2002-2007Hombrucher SV
2008-2009SuS Kaiserau
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
2009-2012FSV Gütersloh 200938(23)
2012-VfL Wolfsburg25(4)
National team‡
2008-2009Germany U-158(2)
2010-2011Germany U-1717(7)
2011-2013Germany U-1917(11)
2012-Germany U-2017(3)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 6 August 2014.

† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 24 August 2014

Lina Maria Magull (born 15 August 1994 in Dortmund) is a German women's football player. She is currently playing for VfL Wolfsburg of the Frauen-Bundesliga and the Germany national under-20 football team.[2][3]

Club career

Lina Magull started her youth career playing for Hörder SC from 1999 to 2002. She spent the next six years with Hombrucher SV where she played in an all-boy team. In 2008 she moved in the course of her appointment at the girls' boarding school of the Football and Athletics Association of Westfalia in SuS Kaiserau's youth team C (boys). One year later she started her senior career with the second division side FSV Gütersloh 2009 and helped them gain the promotion to the Bundesliga. In the season 2012/2013 Magull signed a contract with VfL Wolfsburg. She made her Frauen-Bundesliga debut on 23 September 2012 in the devastating 6-0 victory against VfL Sindelfingen.[4][5] Just four days later, she successfully came on to make her Champions League debut in VfL Wolfsburg's 5-1 away win against the Polish club Unia Racibórz.[6] On 14 November 2012, Magull scored her first league goal for VfL Wolfsburg against her former club Gütersloh in a game which eventually ended with 10-0 victory to Wolfsburg.[7] She won the 2012-13 treble with Wolfsburg. On 12 November 2014, Magull scored two goals against SV Neulengbach to help Wolfsburg past through to the quarter-final of the 2014-15 UEFA Women's Champions League.[8]

International career

Lina Magull has been chosen to represent the junior teams by the German Football Association since 2008. In 2010 and 2011, she played in the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship and finished in the third place respectively. She participated in the German squad competing in the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Japan. In the second group game against Ghana, Magull scored the only winning goal in injury time of the second half to help Germany secure their place in the quarter-final. [9] Germany eventually reached the final but lost 0-1 to the United States. In 2013 she played in the 2013 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship in Wales and reached the semi-finals, where her Germany were defeated 1-2 by France. In her second FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Canada, Germany, under Magull's captaincy, became the champions with a 1-0 victory after extra time against Nigeria.

Honors

Club

International

Individual

External link

References

  1. ↑ "FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Canada 2014 – List of Players".
  2. ↑ "VfL Wolfsburg - Lina Magull". Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "Team und Trainerin :: U20-Frauen :: Frauen :: Mannschaften :: DFB - Deutscher Fussball-Bund e.V.". dfb.de. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  4. ↑ "Liveticker: VfL Wolfsburg - VfL Sindelfingen 6:0 (Vrouwen Bundesliga 2012/2013, 3. Ronde)". voetbal.com (in Dutch). Retrieved 22 October 2014.
  5. ↑ Vollmer, Frank (23 September 2012). "FRAUEN BUNDESLIGA: VFL WOLFSBURG VS. VFL SINDELFINGEN 6:0 (3:0)". Retrieved 22 October 2014.
  6. ↑ "Lina Magull - UEFA.com". Retrieved 22 October 2014.
  7. ↑ "Liveticker: VfL Wolfsburg - FSV Gütersloh 2009 10:0 (Frauen Bundesliga 2012/2013, 1. Spieltag)".
  8. ↑ "7:0 gegen Neulengbach: Wolfsburg locker weiter". DFB.de (in German). DFB. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  9. ↑ "Ghana 0-1 Germany". FIFA.com. Retrieved 24 October 2014.