Andrea Schaller
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 14 September 1976 | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| International career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2000 | Germany | 1 | (0) |
Andrea Schaller (born 1976)[2] is a German former footballer who became an academic specializing in health care research as a professor at the German Sport University Cologne and the University of the Bundeswehr Munich.
Schaller played football as a goalkeeper.[1] She played 18 matches in the Frauen-Bundesliga for SC 07 Bad Neuenahr, from 1999 through 2005,[2] and made one appearance for the Germany women's national football team in 2000.[2] She was also part of Germany's squad for the women's football tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics, but did not play in any matches.[3] Looking back on that time in a 2020 interview, she describes her professional football career more a period of failure, self-doubt, and injuries than of success.[4]
Academic career
Following her athletic career, Schaller became an academic researcher in health care research.[4] As an undergraduate, she studied sports therapy at the German Sport University Cologne and worked as a sports therapist, while later on studying epidemiology at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.[5] She completed a Ph.D. in 2009 on the relation between sports medicine and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health.[6] From 2016 to 2018, she worked as a professor for the IST-Hochschule für Management in Düsseldorf, while in 2018 she became a university professor at the German Sport University Cologne.[5] Since 2023 she has been Professor of Health, Workplace Health Promotion and Prevention in the Department of Human Sciences at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich.[6]
