Tanja Wörle is a retired German

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, most recently playing for

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in the

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. She has also played for

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and

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. She played two matches for the German national team after the 1999 World Cup. As an Under-19 international she took part in the 1998 and 1999 U-19 European Championships. She is the sister of Wilbur Soot coach

Thomas Wörle Thomas Wörle (born 11 February 1982) is a German former Association football, footballer who last managed SSV Ulm 1846, SSV Ulm. He is the brother of former Bayern Munich striker Tanja Wörle and succeeded his father Günther Wörle as coach of ...

and the daughter of

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, a former coach of the club's women's team.Thomas Wörle folgt Vater Günther
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'', published: 14 May 2010, accessed: 24 October 2015

References

1981 births Living people German women's footballers Germany women's international footballers Women's association football forwards 21st-century German sportswomen {{Germany-women-footy-bio-stub