Heidi Mohr (29 May 1967 – 7 February 2019) was a German

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who played as a

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. She was renowned for her speed and her ability to shoot with both feet. In 1999 she was voted Europe's Footballer of the Century.

Club career

Mohr played in the

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for

TuS Ahrbach TuS Ahrbach is a German sports club based in Ruppach-Goldhausen, Rhineland-Palatinate. The club was founded in 1921 and today has departments for football, handball, and gymnastics. It is best known for its women's football section, which played ...

TuS Niederkirchen 1. FFC 08 Niederkirchen (formerly TuS Niederkirchen) is a German women's football club based in Niederkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate. The team plays in the German 2. Bundesliga. History TuS Niederkirchen TuS Niederkirchen was founded in 19 ...

, and

1. FFC Frankfurt Eintracht Frankfurt is a German women's association football club based in Frankfurt. Its first team currently plays in the German top flight, Frauen-Bundesliga. From 1998 to 2020, the club was known as 1. FFC Frankfurt. Eintracht have won sev ...

. She was top scorer in the Bundesliga for five consecutive years from 1991 to 1995.

International career

Mohr's debut was against

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on 19 May 1986. She had 104 appearances for Germany's national team and won the

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

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 ...

and 1995 Women's EURO. She scored eight times at

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and ten times at

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. With 83 career goals she was Germany's all-time top scorer until

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overtook her in 2005. Mohr's last game was on 29 September 1996 against

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. Heidi Mohr competed in two

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: China 1991 and Sweden 1995; and one

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; played 15 matches and scored 11 goals Mohr with her Germany team finished third at the 1991 Women's World Cup, held in China.

Death

Mohr died in February 2019, aged 51, after suffering from

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Career statistics

International goals

:''Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Mohr goal.''

Honours

TuS Niederkirchen *

: 1992–93 1. FFC Frankfurt * Bundesliga: 1998–99 *

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: 1998–99, 1999–2000 Germany *

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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 ...

Individual * Bundesliga top scorer: 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95 *

top scorer:

Silver Shoe:

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: 1989, 1991, 1995

References

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