Annemieke Kiesel (née Griffioen; born 30 November 1979) is a former

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and

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. She played for clubs in the Netherlands, United States, England and Germany, winning titles with Dutch and German clubs. She also played for the Dutch national team between 1995 and 2011, retiring with 156

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, making her the player with the second most appearances for the Dutch national team (men and women) of all time. Following her playing career, she took on coaching and has worked either as assistant coach or as head coach.

Club career

Born in

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, she started playing football at the age of 7 for amateur club OSV Nita in

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, as the club did not have a girls team, she played in the boys youth teams. At the age of 11 she changed club and played in the girls team of CS Wilnis and after a couple of years she was in the club's first women's team. In 1994 she arrived at Hoofdklasse (first division) club

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, where she played for 10 years, winning the Dutch League six times and the

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on three occasions, it was also during her time at the club that she first played in the

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, making her debut on 25 September 2002 in the

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match against

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. In the summer of 2004, she left the Netherlands and went to the United States, where she played 8 matches for

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in the 2004 USL W-League season. Later that year (2004) she returned to Europe, joined English

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club Bristol Academy and played a total of 20 matches (16 league and 4 cup) scoring 5 goals (3 league and 2 cup) during her single season at the club. In 2005, she joined German

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club

FCR 2001 Duisburg FCR 2001 Duisburg (full name: ''Fußballclub Rumeln 2001 Duisburg'') was a German women's football club from Duisburg. The first team played in the Bundesliga. They originate from a women's team formed in 1977 under the umbrella of FC Rumeln-Kald ...

. She did not manage to win the league at the club, was runner-up on four occasions, but won the

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twice ( 2008–09 and 2009–10) and won the

in 2008–09. After the 2010–11 season she announced her retirement from football, having played over 120 official matches in all competitions (104 league matches) for CR 2001 Duisburg.

International career

Her debut for the Netherlands women's national football team came when she was 16 years old, on 9 December 1995 against

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in a 1997 UEFA Women's Euro qualification match. Over the years she was regularly picked in the starting line-up team and featured in many matches, but the team only played minor tournaments (she won a silver medal in the 2001 Universiade) as it did not manage to qualify for major tournaments. At

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, the first major tournament the women's team played, Kiesel-Griffioen played a very good tournament and had an important role in the Dutch midfield. The team beat

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and

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(lost to

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) in the group stage, to then eliminate

(on penalty shoot-out) in the quarter-final and were 3 minutes away from another penalty shoot-out in the semi-final but fell to

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's winning goal. The semifinal match was Kiesel-Griffioen 141st match for the Dutch team (equalling

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record). On 24 October 2009, she broke the record against Norway women's national football team, Norway earning her 142nd

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. Her last match for the national team, on 18 May 2011 against

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, was her 156th cap making her the player with the most appearances for the Dutch national team (men and women) of all time.

International goals

:''Scores and results list the Netherlands goal tally first.''

Coaching career

Since retiring as a player, she took on

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women's teams and was first appointed as an assistant coach at Dutch club

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in 2011. She returned to Duisburg to work between 2012 and 2014 as assistant coach and head coach at the youth teams of

and subsequently

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(which absorbed FRC 2001 Duisburg in 2014). She gave up on coaching and has worked as a

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for the

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(KNVB), she watched opponents and informed the KNVB staff about them in the 2013 UEFA Women's Euro and 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Honours

Clubs

;SV Saestum * Hoofdklasse: Winner (6) 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2001–02 *

: Winner (3) 1997–98, 1998–99, 2003–04 ;FCR 2001 Duisburg *

: Runner-up (4) 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2009–10 *

: Winner (2) 2008–09, 2009–10, Runner-up (1) 2006–07 *

: Winner (1) 2008–09

Individual

*Best player Hoofdklasse: 2002–03

References

External links

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Player German domestic football stats
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kiesel, Annemieke 1979 births Living people People from Breukelen Dutch women's footballers Netherlands women's international footballers Women's association football midfielders Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Expatriate women's footballers in England Expatriate women's footballers in Germany Dutch expatriate sportspeople in the United States Footballers from Utrecht (province) USL W-League (1995–2015) players FA Women's National League players Frauen-Bundesliga players Bristol Academy W.F.C. players FCR 2001 Duisburg players FIFA Century Club Dutch expatriate women's footballers Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Germany Dutch expatriate sportspeople in England SV Saestum players Charlotte Lady Eagles players