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Martina Voss-Tecklenburg
22 December 1967, Duisburg
, Midfielder
Clubs as a player:
1982–1989 KBC Duisburg
; 1989–1994 TSV Siegen
; 1994–2003 FCR 2001 Duisburg
Honours:
German Champion: 1985, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 2000
DFB Cup winner: 1983, 1989, 1993, 1998
National team:
125 appearances (27 goals)
World Cup runner-up: 1995
European Champion: 1989, 1991, 1995, 1997
The former national team coach’s discreet entry into women’s football was followed by a meteoric rise. No sooner had she joined KBC Duisburg – although she initially kept her participation in training sessions a secret due to resistance from her own family – than she went on to win the DFB Cup shortly afterwards. At just 15 years of age. She climbed further rungs of the career ladder at the same pace. At 16, she made her debut for the national team; at 17, she became German champion; and at 21, she played a key role in helping Germany win the Women’s European Championship for the first time in 1989.
Voss-Tecklenburg was therefore always there early on whenever there was something to be won. Even when the ‘Footballer of the Year’ award was first presented in 1996, there was no getting round her. She was also the first player to win the award twice. Thanks to her successes, but above all because of her determination and strong ambition, she developed great leadership qualities on the pitch. Off the pitch, too, she led the way with strong opinions, though not always to everyone’s liking. “Sometimes I overwhelmed those around me with my determination,” she says today.
The fact that the 125-time international ended her career as a four-time European champion, World Cup runner-up, six-time German champion and four-time cup winner is a clear indication that the direction she set rarely proved to be the wrong one. She also reached the very top as a coach.
Hall of Fame
The German Football Hall of Fame was established on the initiative of the German Football Museum. In November 2018 and January 2019, leading sports journalists voted to select the inaugural men’s and women’s teams. The jury members were asked to nominate their choice of players and managers from German men’s and women’s football. Players who were eligible to play for German national teams and whose playing careers had ended at least five years previously were eligible for nomination. The HALL OF FAME honours the greatest legends of German football in one central location for the first time. It forms part of the permanent exhibition at the German Football Museum in Dortmund. Opened on 1 April 2019, it has become a permanent place of pilgrimage for all football fans. The jury decides annually on further inductees from men’s and women’s football.
