Eunice Nketiah Beckmann (born 8 February 1992) is a German professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays for 1. FC Köln. Beckmann was born in

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and to ...

Ghanaian Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in Ghana–Ivory Coast border, the west, Burkina ...

parents. She started playing with her local youth side, Wuppertaler SV.

Club career

Duisburg, 2008–2010

Beckmann started her senior career at age 17 with

Duisburg Duisburg () is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine and the Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruhr Region, Duisburg is the 5th largest city in Nor ...

, originally playing for the second team and then moving to the first time in the

Frauen-Bundesliga The Frauen-Bundesliga (German for ''Women's Federal League''), currently known as the FLYERALARM Frauen-Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of league competition for women's association football in Germany. In 1990 the German Foo ...

in 2009. She made 8 appearances for the first team scoring 2 goals.

Bayern Leverkusen, 2010–2013

Following two seasons Duisburg Beckmann moved to

club

Bayer 04 Leverkusen Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH, also known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen (), Bayer Leverkusen, or simply Leverkusen, is a professional football club based in Leverkusen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The club competes in the Bundesliga, t ...

where she played for three seasons. She made 51 regular season appearances with the club, scoring 10 goals.

Linköpings FC, 2013

Beckmann then moved to Swedish

Damallsvenskan The Damallsvenskan, Swedish for ''ladies all-Swedish'' and also known as OBOS Damallsvenskan for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is also referred to as the women's Allsvenskan. The term Allsvenskan ...

club

Linköpings FC Linköpings Fotboll Club is an association football club from Linköping, Sweden. The club was established in 2003 when Kenty DFF women's football club decided to merge with the premier division ice hockey club Linköpings HC under the new name L ...

signing a one season contract for the 2013 season. She played 9 regular season games for the club.

Bayern Munich, 2014–2016

Following her season in Sweden Beckman returned to the

, this time signing with

Bayern Munich Fußball-Club Bayern München e. V. (FCB, ), also known as FC Bayern (), Bayern Munich, or simply Bayern, is a German professional sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional men's football team, which pla ...

. In December 2014 Beckmann extended her contract with Bayern. In her two and a half seasons with Bayern Beckmann scored 10 goals in 38 regular season appearances. She went on to win the

twice with Bayern in 2014–15, where she finished tied for 8th top scorer in the league, and 2015–16.

Boston Breakers, 2016

In May 2016 Beckmann signed with

National Women's Soccer League The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) is a professional women's soccer league at the top of the United States league system. It is owned by the teams and, until 2020, was under a management contract with the United States Soccer Federatio ...

club the

Boston Breakers The Boston Breakers were an American professional soccer club based in the Boston neighborhood of Allston. The team competed in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). They replaced the original Breakers, who competed in the defunct Women's ...

. Beckmann spent one season with the club, making 11 regular season appearances.

FC Basel 2017–2018

Beckmann signed an 18 month contract with

FC Basel Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss football club based in Basel, in the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been Swiss national champions 20 times, Swiss Cup winners 13 times, and ...

, of the Swiss Nationalliga A Women in January 2017. During her second season with the club Beckmann was the top scorer in the Nationalliga, scoring 25 goals in 26 games. Beckmann opted to leave the club after her contract expired.

Madrid CFF, 2018–

In August 2018, she transferred to La Liga Iberdrola side

Madrid CFF Madrid Club de Fútbol Femenino (; ''Madrid Women's Football Club'') is a Spanish women's football club based in San Sebastián de los Reyes, Community of Madrid, that currently plays in Liga F. History Madrid CFF was founded in 2010 by Alfred ...

Honours

FCR 2001 Duisburg

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 ...

: Runner-up (1) 2009–10 *

German Cup The DFB-Pokal ( is a German knockout football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga. It is considered ...

: Winner (1) 2009–10

FC Bayern München

: Winner 2014–15, 2015–16

We Play Strong

Beckmann is one of UEFA's official ambassadors for #WePlayStrong, a social media and vlogging campaign which was launched in 2018. The campaign's "...aim is to promote women's football as much as we can and to make people aware of women's football, really," Evans, another participant explains. "The ultimate goal is to make football the most played sport by females by 2020. So it's a UEFA initiative to get more women and girls playing football, whether they want to be professional or not." The series, which also originally included professional footballers

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Lisa Evans Lisa Catherine Evans (born 21 May 1992) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays for West Ham United in the FA WSL, the top-tier for women's football in England, and for the Scotland national team. She previously played club football fo ...

Laura Feiersinger Laura Feiersinger (born 5 April 1993) is an Austrian footballer who plays as a midfielder for German Frauen-Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt and the Austria women's national team. Club career USK Hof, 2008–2010 Feiersinger starter her se ...

and now also includes

Petronella Ekroth Hilda Petronella Ekroth (born 12 December 1989) is a Swedish footballer who plays as a defender. Club career Ekroth started her football career in the Damallsvenskan playing for Djurgårdens IF. She followed this with years at Linköpings FC ...

and

Shanice van de Sanden Shanice Janice van de Sanden (born 2 October 1992) is a Dutch professional Football player, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), forward for Women's Super League club Liverpool F.C. Women, Liverpool and the Netherlands women ...

, follows the daily lives of female professional footballers.

Social media

InstagramTwitterWePlayStrong

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Beckmann, Eunice 1992 births Living people Sportspeople from Wuppertal German women's footballers German expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate women's footballers in Spain FCR 2001 Duisburg players Bayer 04 Leverkusen (women) players Damallsvenskan players Linköpings FC players FC Bayern Munich (women) players German sportspeople of Ghanaian descent Boston Breakers players Madrid CFF players National Women's Soccer League players Women's association football forwards Footballers from North Rhine-Westphalia German expatriate sportspeople in Sweden German expatriate sportspeople in the United States FC Basel Frauen players Swiss Women's Super League players Frauen-Bundesliga players 1. FC Köln (women) players