Anja Maike Hegenauer is a German

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

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who plays for

SC Freiburg Sport-Club Freiburg e.V., commonly known as SC Freiburg () or just Freiburg, is a German football club, based in the city of Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg. It plays in the Bundesliga, having been promoted as champions from the 2. Bund ...

in the

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba ...

. As a junior international she won the 2011 U-19 European Championship.

Career

Hegenauer began playing youth football with local side TSG Söflingen, and played for the

Germany women's national under-20 football team The Germany women's national under-20 football team represents the female under-20s of Germany in the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, and is controlled by the German Football Association. History The German U-20 team and Nordic Cup The German U-20 ...

. Hegenauer has played for

since 2009, featuring regularly for the club in the Bundesliga. She also studies at

Albert Ludwig's University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemb ...

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* 1992 births Living people German women's footballers SC Freiburg (women) players Women's association football midfielders Frauen-Bundesliga players Sportspeople from Ulm Footballers from Baden-Württemberg {{Germany-women-footy-bio-stub