Bettina Wiegmann (born 7 October 1971) is a German former

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who played as a

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. Wiegmann scored 51 goals in 154

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for the Germany national team between 1989 and 2003. In 1997, she was selected '' German Female Footballer of the Year''.

Career statistics

International goals

Bettina Wiegmann competed in four

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: China 1991, Sweden 1995, USA 1999 and USA 2003; and two

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, and

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; played 30 matches and scored 14 goals. Along with her Germany teams, Wiegmann is a world champion from USA 2003, runner-up from Sweden 1995; and a bronze medalist at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games.

Honours

Germany *

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

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: bronze medal

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

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1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

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* 1971 births Living people German women's footballers Germany women's international footballers Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Germany German football managers People from Euskirchen Frauen-Bundesliga players Footballers from Cologne (region) FIFA Women's Century Club Olympic medalists in football 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup players 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup players 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players FIFA Women's World Cup–winning players Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Germany UEFA Women's Championship–winning players Women's association football midfielders Boston Breakers (WUSA) players Women's United Soccer Association players West German women's footballers 21st-century German sportswomen {{Germany-women-footy-bio-stub