Valeria Kleiner

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Valeria Kleiner
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Valeria Kleiner, August 2011
Personal information
Full name Valeria Katharina Kleiner [1]
Date of birth (1991-03-27) 27 March 1991 (age 33)
Place of birth Lindau, Germany
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Bayer Leverkusen
Number 6
Youth career
1998–2003 TSV Oberreitnau
2003–2006 FC Wangen
2006–2007 VfB Friedrichshafen
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2007–2010 SC Freiburg 46 (1)
2010–2013 1. FFC Frankfurt 6 (0)
2012–2013 1. FFC Frankfurt II 11 (0)
2013–2014 Bayern Munich 0 (0)
2014– Bayer Leverkusen 5 (0)
International career‡
2005–2006 Germany U15 8 (3)
2006–2008 Germany U17 25 (3)
2009–2010 Germany U19 20 (1)
2010 Germany U20 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:22, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13 June 2010

Valeria Katharina Kleiner (born 27 March 1991) is a German football player who plays as defender for Bayer Leverkusen in the Women Bundesliga and for the Germany Women's National U-20.

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Career

Club career

Valeria Kleiner began playing football at TSV Oberreitnau in 1998. Later on she played for FC Wangen and VfB Friedrichshafen.

In 2007, she joined SC Freiburg and she made her first appearance in the match against FC Saarbrücken becoming the youngest player to play for SC Freiburg in Bundesliga.

She joined 1. FFC Frankfurt in 2010/11 and 2011/12 football season.

On 9 August 2013, she signed a contract with Bayern Munich. [2]

International career

In October 2008, Kleiner won her first call up to the Germany Women's National Under-17. In May 2008 she began the captain of the team and Germany won the Uefa Women's Under-17 Championship in Nyon. In the same tournament she was named in the UEFA top 11 team.

In November 2008, she was part of the Germany Women's National Under-19 that reached the third place in the 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. In 2010, after the UEFA Women's U-19 Championship, UEFA named her in the top 10 players list.

In June 2010, Kleiner was named in the Germany Women's National U-20 Team by the trainer Maren Meinert to take part in the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Germany.

Honours

National team
Individual

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References

  1. ↑ "FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Germany 2010 – List of Players: Germany" (PDF). FIFA . 27 April 2011. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2017. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  2. ↑ "Kleiner zu Bayern" (in German). sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved 15 August 2013.


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