Simone Melanie Laudehr (born 12 July 1986) is a German former

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who played as a

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or winger.

Career

Club

Laudehr began her career at the age of three at FC Tegernheim. In 1996, she joined SC Regensburg, before playing for

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for one season. At Bayern she made her

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany and the highest level of the German football league system. The Bundesliga comprises 18 teams ...

debut. Laudehr transferred to

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 (women), Bundesliga. They originate from a women's team formed in 1977 under the umbrel ...

in 2004, where she was runner-up in the Bundesliga five times, including four seasons in a row from 2005 to 2008. She won the

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twice with Duisburg and claimed the UEFA Women's Cup with the club in the 2008–09 season. For the 2012–2013 season she moved to 1. FFC Frankfurt. She extended her contract until the 2016–17 season on 21 April 2015. In 2016, Laudehr joined Bayern Munich. Prior to the end of the 2020–21 season, Laudehr announced her retirement from football. She won the first and only league title of her career on the final matchday of the 2020–21 Frauen-Bundesliga, making her 210th Bundesliga appearance by substituting into the match with 10 minutes to spare.

International

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In 2004, Laudehr was runner-up with Germany at the 2004 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship and later that year won the 2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship. She made her debut for the German senior national team in July 2007 against

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. Only two months later she was part of Germany's 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup squad. Laudehr was a starter for Germany in five matches, including in the World Cup final, in which she scored after 86 minutes to seal the German 2–0 victory. Her World Cup winning header was later voted Germany's Goal of the Month. One year later, she won the bronze medal at the

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and was part of Germany's team which won the country's seventh title at the 2009 European Championship. Laudehr has been 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 List of women's national association football teams, women's national association football, football teams. It was held from 26 June to ...

squad. She was part of the squad for the

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, where Germany won the gold medal. In 2019, she retired from the Germany national team after being left out of their squad for the

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International goals

''Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first:'' Source:

Personal life

Laudehr was born in

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, Bavaria, Germany. She is the daughter of a Romanian mother, Doina, and a

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father, Hubert.

Honours

Club

;FCR 2001 Duisburg *

DFB-Pokal The DFB-Pokal (), also known as the German Cup in English language, English, is a German knockout Association football, football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competiti ...

: 2008–09, 2009–10; Runner-up 2006–07 *

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: 2008–09 ;1. FFC Frankfurt *

: 2014–15 *

: 2013–14 ;FC Bayern Munchen *

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

: 2020–21

International

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2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

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: Bronze medal

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

, Gold medal

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

* FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship:

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 60 ...

* UEFA Women's U-19 Championship: Runner-up

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Individual

* Silbernes Lorbeerblatt: 2007 * Goal of the Month: September 2007 * 2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship All star team

References

External links

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at DFB * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Laudehr, Simone Melanie 1986 births Living people Footballers from Regensburg German women's footballers German people of Romanian descent Germany women's international footballers FC Bayern Munich (women) players FCR 2001 Duisburg players Eintracht Frankfurt (women) players Frauen-Bundesliga players Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in football 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics FIFA Women's World Cup–winning players Women's association football midfielders Olympic footballers for Germany UEFA Women's Championship–winning players FIFA Women's Century Club 21st-century German sportswomen