Lina Maria Magull (born 15 August 1994) is a German

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who plays as a

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for Bayern Munich and the Germany national team.

Club career

Youth 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).

Senior career

One year later she started her senior career with the second division side

FSV Gütersloh 2009 FSV Gütersloh 2009 (Frauensportverein, e.g. Women's Sports Club) is a German women's football club from Gütersloh. It currently competes in the 2. Bundesliga. It has its origin in the women's team of FC Gütersloh FC may refer to: Busines ...

and helped them gain the promotion to the

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. In the season 2012/13 Magull signed a contract with

VfL Wolfsburg Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg e. V., commonly known as VfL Wolfsburg () or Wolfsburg, is a German professional sports club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. The club grew out of a multi-sports club for Volkswagen workers in the city of W ...

. She made her Frauen-Bundesliga debut on 23 September 2012 in the devastating 6–0 victory against

VfL Sindelfingen VfL Sindelfingen is a German sports club from Sindelfingen, Baden–Württemberg. The club was founded in 1862 and has more than 9,000 members, making it one of biggest sports clubs in Germany. VfL Sindelfingen has departments for various sports ...

. 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. 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. 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. On 21 May 2015, she extended her contract with Wolfsburg which will keep her at the German club until 2018. In addition, she was also loaned out to play for the Bundesliga side

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 ...

so that she will have more chances to develop her career. In May 2016, her loan at SC Freiburg was extended for another year, running until 2017.

International career

Lina Magull has been chosen to represent junior teams by the German Football Association since 2008. In 2010 and 2011, she played in the

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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

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, Magull scored the only winning goal in injury time of the second half to help Germany secure their place in the quarter-final. Germany eventually reached the final but lost 1–0 to the

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. In 2013, she played in the

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in Wales and reached the semi-finals, where her Germany were defeated 2–1 by

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. In her second FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Canada, Germany, under Magull's captaincy, became the champions after a 1–0 victory after extra time against

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. On 13 October 2015, Magull (along with Mandy Islacker) was called up to the Germany senior team for the first time in preparation for the two UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifiers against

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and

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. At the

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, she scored a goal in Germany's 4–0 win over

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. She scored Germany's lone goal in their 2-1 quarterfinal defeat against Sweden.

Career statistics

:''Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Magull goal.''

Honours

VfL Wolfsburg *

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, 2013–14 *

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, 2014–15 Bayern Munich *Bundesliga: 2020–21 Germany *

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runner-up:

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Germany U20 * FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup:

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; runner-up

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Individual *

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: Silver

References

External links

Profile on UEFA.com
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