Claudia Alexandra Scheunemann (born 24 April 2009) is an Indonesian

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 ...

who plays a

forward Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward. Forward may also refer to: People * Forward (surname) Sports * Forward (association football) * Forward (basketball), including: ** Point forward ** Power forward (basketball) ** Sm ...

for Young Warrior FA and the Indonesia women's national team.

International career

Claudia played for the

Indonesia U20 Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guin ...

at the

2022 AFF U-18 Women's Championship The 2022 AFF U-18 Women's Championship was the 2nd edition of the AFF U-19 Women's Championship, an international women's youth football tournament organised by ASEAN Football Federation (AFF). It was hosted by Indonesia. Australia Aus ...

and scored a goal against Singapore at the age of 13. Claudia also got called up to the Indonesia women's national team for the 2024 AFC Women's Olympic qualification. On 8 April 2023, she made her debut against

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to Lebanon–Syria border, the north and east and Israel to Blue ...

, making her the youngest Indonesia's women player of all time in the senior team, at the age of 13 years and 349 days old.

Personal life

Claudia is of mixed Indonesian-German blood. She is the niece of former Indonesia women's national team coach

Timo Scheunemann Timo Scheunemann (born 29 November 1973) is an Indonesian-German youth football coach and manager. He is also a former professional football forward. He used to play professionally in Indonesia's Liga Indonesia and Singapore's S-League. He al ...

, and the cousin of Indonesia U-20 national team player,

Brandon Scheunemann Brandon Marsel Scheunemann (born 9 March 2005) is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga 2 club Persipura Jayapura on loan from PSIS Semarang. Brandon is the son of Timo Scheunemann. Club career Youth As a ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scheunemann, Claudia 2009 births Living people Indonesian women's footballers Women's association football forwards Indonesia women's international footballers Sportspeople from Tangerang Footballers from Banten Indonesian people of German descent