Katja Kraus
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 Katja Kraus in 2015 | |||
| Senior career* | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| FSV Frankfurt | |||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Katja Kraus (born 23 November 1970, in Offenbach am Main) is a German former football player and official. She was the first German woman to be a board member of a Fußball-Bundesliga club, Hamburger SV.[1]
Football career
Kraus joined FSV Frankfurt when she was 16 years old, and played 220 games for the club as goalkeeper in the Women's Fußball-Bundesliga, setting a Women's Bundesliga record in the 1996–97 season, when she played 1314 minutes without conceding a goal.[2] She won the German championship with FSV Frankfurt three times, in 1985–86, 1994–95 and 1997–98, and the DFB cup four times, in 1989–90, 1991–92, 1994–95 and 1995–96. The first championship was before the Bundesliga had been established, the second was during the time that the Bundesliga was held as two regional leagues, and the third was the first championship held as a unified Bundesliga. The three championships were also the only German championships won by FSV Frankfurt.
Kraus played seven times (two of them as substitute) for the German national team[1] between 25 May 1995 and 23 March 1997,[3] and was runner-up in the World Cup in 1995 and winner of the European Championship in 1995, although she did not play in the final – Manuela Goller played in goal for Germany in that match. She was also in the German squad for the Summer Olympics in 1996, but was an unused substitute for all three matches, Manuela Goller playing in goal each time.
She played her last game on 28 May 1998.[4]
