Babett Peter

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Babett Peter
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Peter with VfL Wolfsburg in 2015
Personal information
Date of birth (1988-05-12) 12 May 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth Oschatz, East Germany
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
FSV Oschatz
1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2004–2005 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig 30 (4)
2006–2012 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam 138 (17)
2012–2014 1. FFC Frankfurt 26 (1)
2014–2019 VfL Wolfsburg 95 (8)
2019–2020 CD Tacón 18 (1)
2020–2022 Real Madrid 48 (0)
International career‡
2006–2018 Germany 118 (8)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
FIFA Women's World Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2007 China Team
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2008 Beijing Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
UEFA Women's Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2009 Finland Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 May 2022
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 November 2018

Babett Peter [1] (born 12 May 1988) is a former German professional footballer and current assistant general manager for the National Women's Soccer League club Chicago Red Stars. [2] She played as a defender for Real Madrid CF and for the Germany women's national football team. [3]

Contents

Club career

Turbine Potsdam

Peter started playing football in primary school. At the age of nine, her parents took her to the local football club FSV Oschatz. She later played for 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig and was called up for German national teams at the junior level. During the winter break of the 2005–06 season, she moved to 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam, winning the Bundesliga title and the German Cup in her first season. In September 2007, Peter received the Fritz Walter medal in gold as the best female junior player of the year. One month later, she scored her first Bundesliga goal for Potsdam against SG Essen-Schönebeck from the penalty spot. [4]

From 2009 to 2011, Peter won three consecutive Bundesliga titles with Turbine Potsdam. [4] In the 2009–10 season, Potsdam also claimed the inaugural UEFA Women's Champions League title, with Peter scoring during the penalty shoot-out in the final. [5] One year later, Potsdam again made it to the final, but lost against Olympique Lyonnais.

FFC Frankfurt, 2012 - 2014

On 29 February 2012, Peter signed a three-year contract and moved to 1. FFC Frankfurt on 1 July 2012. [6]

Wolfsburg, 2014 - 2019

In March 2014, Peter joined VfL Wolfsburg. [7] She won three Frauen-Bundesliga titles with Wolfsburg as well as the DFB-Pokal Frauen five times.

CD Tacón, 2019 - 2022

On 17 September 2019, VfL Wolfsburg agreed to mutually terminate Babett's contract so she could immediately join Spanish Primera División team CD Tacón, signing a two-year deal with the Madrid-based club. [8] On 2 May 2022, Peter announced she intended to retire at the conclusion of the season. [9]

International career

Peter made her debut in the German national team in March 2006 against Finland. She was part of Germany's winning team at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, but did not play in any game. One year later, she won the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she became a regular starter for Germany in the knockout stage of the tournament. Peter was part of Germany's team winning the country's seventh title at the 2009 European Championship. She scored her first goal for the national team at the Algarve Cup facing China in March 2010. Peter was called up for Germany's 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup squad. [4]

She was part of the squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics, where Germany won the gold medal. [10]

On 26 April 2019, she announced her retirement from the national team. [11]

International goals

Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first:

Peter – goals for Germany
#DateLocationOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.1 March 2010 Faro, Portugal Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 4–05–0 2010 Algarve Cup
2.19 November 2011 Wiesbaden, Germany Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 13–017–0 Euro 2013 qualifying
3.14–0
4.17–0
5.6 March 2016 Nashville, United States Flag of England.svg  England 2–12–1 2016 SheBelieves Cup
6.21 July 2017 Breda, Netherlands Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 2–12–1 UEFA Women's Euro 2017
7.25 July 2017 Utrecht, NetherlandsFlag of Russia.svg  Russia 1–02–0
8.24 October 2017 Großaspach, GermanyFlag of the Faroe Islands.svg  Faroe Islands 4–011–0 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying

Source: [4]

Executive career

Chicago Red Stars, 2022 - Present

Peters has worked for the Chicago Red Stars as an assistant general manager since 2022, although she was never formally introduced by the club. [2]

Personal life

Peter graduated from the Potsdam Sports Gymnasium in June 2007, receiving her Abitur diploma. In October 2007, she became a member of the sports support group of the German Armed Forces ( Bundeswehr ). Since the age of five, Peter has suffered from facial nerve paralysis. At the age of 15, she had an operation which improved her condition. [12]

Peter began a relationship with the American soccer player Ella Masar. [13] In September 2020, Masar gave birth to a baby boy. [14] She married Masar on 21 July 2022. [15]

Honours

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Babett Peter (2009)

Club

Turbine Potsdam
1. FFC Frankfurt
VfL Wolfsburg

International

Individual

Notes

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