Jessica Wich

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Jessica Wich
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Wich playing for Potsdam in 2009.
Personal information
Full name Jessica Wich
Date of birth (1990-07-14) 14 July 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth Kronach, Germany
Height 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1996–2002 SV Höfles/Vogtendorf
2002–2003 TSF Theisenort
2003–2006 SV Reitsch
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2006–2007 SC Regensburg 18 (4)
2007–2011 1.FFC Turbine Potsdam 64 (27)
2011–2012 Hamburger SV 21 (2)
2012–2014 1. FFC Frankfurt 22 (1)
2013–2014 1. FFC Frankfurt II 8 (3)
2014–2022 Bayer Leverkusen 99 (5)
International career
2005 Germany U15 3 (3)
2005–2007 Germany U17 19 (7)
2008–2009 Germany U19 11 (3)
2009–2010 Germany U20 9 (0)
2008–2012 Germany U23 4 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 November 2018
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 4 July 2012

Jessica Wich (born 14 July 1990 in Kronach) is a German football striker.

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Career

Clubs

Jessica Wich began her career at the age of 6 years at SV Höfles/Vogtendorf. She then moved to TSF Theisenort followed by SV Reitsch. In 2006 Wich moved to SC Regensburg which just won promotion for the second division. She scored four goals in her first season. Just one year later at the age of 17 she moved to Potsdam and played for one of the best female German soccer clubs 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam. [1] On 26 August 2007 she scored her first Bundesliga goal against SG Wattenscheid 09. In January 2008, she won her first national title with the DFB-Hallenpokal. In her first Bundesliga season, she was the most successful scorer of her team with 13 goals. A year later she won with Potsdam the DFB-Hallenpokal again and got her first German championship title. She was also part of the squad, who one the UEFA Champions League in 2010. Throughout her four seasons at Potsdam she scored 35 goals in 82 appearances in the Bundesliga, the Bundesliga Cup and Champions League. In June 2011 she announced her transfer to Hamburg. [2] After the season 2011/12 Wich joined the club 1. FFC Frankfurt signing a three-year contract. [3] In this period she had 22 appearances and won the DFB-Pokal. On May 20, 2014, Bayer 04 Leverkusen announced Wich's commitment to the season 2014/15. Wich played for Leverkusen for several seasons, staying after the club's relegation. [4]

International

She made her debut with the Germany women's under-15 national football team on 29 August 2005 and scored three goals against Scotland. With the U17 team, she finished third in the Nordic Cup in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, she reached the semi-finals at the 2008 U19 European Championship in France with the U19 national team and won the FIFA U20 World Cup of 2010 at home in Germany.

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References

  1. "Jessica Wich: 16 Jahre, erste Liga" (in German). Mittelbayerische Zeitung. 21 June 2007. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  2. "Hamburger SV verpflichtet Jessica Wich". womensoccer.de. 16 June 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
  3. Wich: Vielseitige Qualitäten für den FFC, kicker.de. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
  4. ""Es war eher eine lange Leidenszeit"" (in German). Neue Presse. 23 May 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2020.