Eunice Nketiah Beckmann (born 8 February 1992) is a German professional

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who plays for German side

Viktoria Berlin Fußball-Club Viktoria 1889 Berlin Lichterfelde-Tempelhof e.V., commonly known as FC Viktoria 1889 Berlin or Viktoria Berlin, is a German association football club based in the locality of Lichterfelde (Berlin), Lichterfelde of the Boroughs and ...

. Beckmann was born in

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, with a population of 355,000. Wuppertal is the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and List of cities in Germany by population, 17th-largest in Germany. It ...

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parents. She started playing with her local youth side, Wuppertaler SV.

Club career

Duisburg, 2008–2010

Beckmann started her senior career at age 17 with

Duisburg Duisburg (; , ) is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine (Lower Rhine) and the Ruhr (river), Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruh ...

, originally playing for the second team and then moving to the first time in the

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in 2009. She made 8 appearances for the first team scoring 2 goals.

Bayern Leverkusen, 2010–2013

Following two seasons Duisburg Beckmann moved to

club

Bayer 04 Leverkusen Bayer 04 Leverkusen, officially known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH () and commonly known as Bayer Leverkusen or simply Leverkusen, is a German professional association football, football club based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia. ...

where she played for three seasons. She made 51 regular season appearances with the club, scoring 10 goals.

Linköpings FC, 2013

Beckmann then moved to Swedish

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club

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signing a one season contract for the 2013 season. She played 9 regular season games for the club.

Bayern Munich, 2014–2016

Following her season in Sweden Beckman returned to the

, this time signing with

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. In December 2014 Beckmann extended her contract with Bayern. In her two and a half seasons with Bayern Beckmann scored 10 goals in 38 regular season appearances. She went on to win the

twice with Bayern in 2014–15, where she finished tied for 8th top scorer in the league, and 2015–16.

Boston Breakers, 2016

In May 2016 Beckmann signed with

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club the

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. Beckmann spent one season with the club, making 11 regular season appearances.

FC Basel 2017–2018

Beckmann signed an 18 month contract with

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, of the Swiss Nationalliga A Women in January 2017. During her second season with the club Beckmann was the top scorer in the Nationalliga, scoring 25 goals in 26 games. Beckmann opted to leave the club after her contract expired.

Madrid CFF, 2018–2019

In August 2018, she transferred to La Liga Iberdrola side

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1. FC Köln, 2019–2022

In June 2019, Beckmann returned to the Frauen-Bundesliga by transferring to 1. FC Köln, where she signed a two-year contract. In August 2020, Köln extended the contract through 2022 after being relegated to 2. Frauen-Bundesliga. Köln won 46 of 48 possible points to win the south group of the

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and was promoted back to the top flight. On 11 March 2022, Beckmann suffered an injury in a challenge from Lena Lattwein during the 82nd minute of a match against

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and was carried off the pitch on a

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. On 12 March, the club announced that Beckmann's anterior cruciate and

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s in her knee were torn. By 18 March 2022, she had undergone surgery and began rehabilitating the injury. On 15 May 2022, the club announced that Beckmann would not return to the club after the end of the

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We Play Strong

Beckmann is one of UEFA's official ambassadors for #WePlayStrong, a social media and vlogging campaign which was launched in 2018. The campaign's "...aim is to promote women's football as much as we can and to make people aware of women's football, really," Evans, another participant explains. "The ultimate goal is to make football the most played sport by females by 2020. So it's a UEFA initiative to get more women and girls playing football, whether they want to be professional or not." The series, which also originally included professional footballers

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, Laura Feiersinger and now also includes

Petronella Ekroth Hilda Petronella Ekroth (born 12 December 1989) is a Swedish footballer who plays as a defender. Club career Ekroth started her football career in the Damallsvenskan playing for Djurgårdens IF. She followed this with years at Linköpings F ...

and Shanice van de Sanden, follows the daily lives of female professional footballers.

Honours

FCR 2001 Duisburg *

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: Runner-up (1) 2009–10 *

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: Winner (1) 2009–10 FC Bayern München *

: Winner 2014–15, 2015–16 1. FC Köln * 2. Frauen-Bundesliga: Winner, south group

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References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Beckmann, Eunice 1992 births Living people Footballers from Wuppertal German women's footballers German expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate women's footballers in Spain German expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate women's footballers in Switzerland FCR 2001 Duisburg players Bayer 04 Leverkusen (women) players Damallsvenskan players Linköpings FC players FC Bayern Munich (women) players German sportspeople of Ghanaian descent Boston Breakers players Madrid CFF players National Women's Soccer League players Women's association football forwards German expatriate sportspeople in Sweden German expatriate sportspeople in the United States FC Basel Frauen players Women's Super League (Switzerland) players Frauen-Bundesliga players 1. FC Köln (women) players 21st-century German sportswomen