Ariane Hingst (born 25 July 1979) is a German former
footballer
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who works as an analyst for
Fox Sports
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. She was primarily utilized as a
defender or a
defensive midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
Club career
Hingst had played at several local clubs at junior level. At age 15, she played for the first team of
Hertha Zehlendorf
The Hertha Zehlendorf is a German football club from the suburb of Zehlendorf in Berlin.
The club is one of the largest football clubs in the country and has a strong youth department which has won two national youth championships. The depar ...
in the
Regionalliga
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, then the second-highest division in Germany. In 1996 and 1997, Hingst won the league with Zehlendorf, but they failed to win their promotion play-offs both years. At that time, Germany's head coach
Tina Theune
Christina Theune (formerly Theune-Meyer; born 4 November 1953) is a German graduate sports teacher, and the former national coach of the German women's national football team.
Biography
Theune was born into a sporting family. Her father was a ...
had urged her to play at
Bundesliga
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level, if she wanted to continue her international career.
Hingst joined newly promoted Bundesliga side
Turbine Potsdam
1. Frauenfußballclub Turbine Potsdam 71 e. V., commonly known as 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam (or Turbine Potsdam outside of Germany), is a German women's football club located in Potsdam, Brandenburg. They are one of the most successful women's footb ...
for the 1997–98 season. From 2001 to 2003, Potsdam was runner-up in the Bundesliga for three years in a row. Hingst won the Bundesliga title with Potsdam in 2004 and 2006, and claimed the
German Cup competition from 2004 to 2006 three consecutive times. In the
2004–05 season, Potsdam also won the
UEFA Women's Cup
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The ...
.
In 2007, Hingst moved to the Swedish first division side
Djurgårdens IF Dam, where she played for two years, finishing runner-up in the league both seasons. She returned to Germany in 2009, joining
1. FFC Frankfurt
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Eintracht have won sev ...
. In her third season at the club, she won the
2011 German Cup.
It was announced after Germany's poor
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
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campaign, that she would leave
1. FFC Frankfurt
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Eintracht have won sev ...
. In October 2011 she signed to Australian club
Newcastle Jets FC
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. On 29 September 2012, she signed for
W-League side
Canberra United
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.
International career
Hingst made her debut for the
Germany national team in August 1996 against the
Netherlands
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. One year later, she won her first international title at the
1997 European Championship. The final against
Italy
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was her only game in the starting line-up. At the
1999 FIFA Women's World Cup
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, Hingst was Germany's youngest player in the squad, yet she started in all matches and scored one goal in a group match. The team was eliminated in the quarter-finals. At the
2000 Summer Olympics
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, Hingst won bronze with the German team. She scored after 88 minutes in the final first round match against
Sweden
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, which secured Germany's first place in the group.
Hingst again won the
European Championship in 2001, which was played on home soil in Germany. However, she was only used sparely and did not appear in the final of the tournament. Hingst was part of Germany's winning squad at the
2003 FIFA Women's World Cup
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, starting in all matches for Germany. One year later, she went on to win the bronze medal at the
Summer Olympics
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, and in 2005, she claimed her third European Championship. Hingst was one of the team's key players at Germany's successful title defence at the
2007 FIFA Women's World Cup
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. Alongside
Kerstin Stegemann
Kerstin Stegemann (born 29 September 1977) is a German former footballer who played as a defender or midfielder.
Career
Born in Rheine-Mesum, she made her football debut at age 15 in 1993, playing for FFC Heike Rheine in the Frauen-Bundesliga ...
,
Annike Krahn
Annike Berit Krahn (born 1 July 1985) is a German former footballer who played as a centre back.
Club career
Krahn started playing football at the age of four. She played at SV Westfalia Weitmar 09, SV Waldesrand Linden, TuS Harpen and SG Watte ...
and
Linda Bresonik
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Career Club
Bresonik began her career at the age of five at T ...
, she was part of Germany's defence which did not concede a single goal in the entire tournament.
One year later, she won her third bronze medal at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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and she was part of the team to win Germany's seventh title at the European Championship. Hingst was also called up for Germany's
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup was the sixth FIFA Women's World Cup competition, the world championship for women's national association football teams. It was held from 26 June to 17 July 2011 in Germany, which won the right to host the even ...
squad. She announced her retirement from international football following the tournament as Germany's third
most capped player with 173 appearances.
[Deutscher Fußball-Bund]
Most-capped players
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Honours
Turbine Potsdam
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UEFA Women's Cup
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The ...
:
2004–05
*
Bundesliga
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:
2003–04,
2005–06
*
DFB-Pokal
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:
2003–04,
2004–05,
2005–06,
1. FFC Frankfurt
* DFB Pokal:
2010–11
Germany
*
FIFA World Cup
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:
2003
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,
2007
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*
UEFA European Championship
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:
1997
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,
2001
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,
2005
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,
2009
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*
Olympic bronze medal:
2000
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,
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
,
2008
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Individual
*
Silbernes Lorbeerblatt
Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf), the highest sports award in Germany, was endowed on 23 June 1950 by the German President Theodor Heuss. It is awarded to athletes and teams of exemplary character that have won medals at Olympic and ...
: 2007
*
FIFA Women's World Cup All Star Team:
2007
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References
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1979 births
Living people
German women's footballers
Germany women's international footballers
1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players
2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players
2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players
1. FFC Turbine Potsdam players
Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
Footballers from Berlin
1. FFC Frankfurt players
Expatriate footballers in Sweden
FIFA Century Club
Olympic medalists in football
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
FIFA Women's World Cup-winning players
Djurgårdens IF Fotboll (women) players
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Expatriate women's soccer players in Australia
German expatriate sportspeople in Australia
Olympic footballers of Germany
UEFA Women's Championship-winning players
Women's association football defenders
Women's association football midfielders
Damallsvenskan players