Ricarda Walkling (born 19 March 1997) is a German

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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Early life

Walkling was born in

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and grew up in Obergriesbach,

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Club career

Walkling started her career in 2002 with SV Obergriesbach and spent two years at

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from 2008 to 2010 before moving to the youth ranks of

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in 2010. With Bayern Munich junior, she won the 2013 German Championship, scoring the equalizer in the final against

FSV Gütersloh 2009 FSV Gütersloh 2009 (Frauensportverein, e.g. Women's Sports Club) is a German women's football club from Gütersloh. It currently competes in the 2. Bundesliga. It has its origin in the women's team of FC Gütersloh FC Gütersloh is a Germ ...

, a game that ended 3–1 in favour of Bayern Munich. She made her first team debut in the second round of the

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on 29 September 2013.Spielbericht TSV Crailsheim – FC Bayern München – FuPa
Retrieved 12 November 2015. fupa.net. Soon after, on 6 October 2013 she made her Bundesliga debut against

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as an 89th-minute substitute for Vanessa Bürki and a few moments later netted her first team debut goal to confirm the 5–2 victory. In the 2013–14 season, beside her appearances for the first team she also played for the junior team, who won their second consecutive title on 31 May 2014 after a 1–0 victory in the final over

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. In 2016, Walkling left Germany to go to the United States. She joined the North Carolina team

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. In 2020, she would return again to Germany, this time joining

International career

Walkling debuted for the national U-16 team on 11 September 2012 in

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in a 3–1 victory against Norway. She won the Nordic Cup in July 2013 in

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with the U-16 team after four wins. On 30 January 2013, she debuted for the national U-17 team in

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against

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in an exhibition game that ended 1–1. On 11 October 2013, she scored a hattrick against Switzerland in a European Championship qualifier 6–0 victory. She was part of the U-17 squad to play at the

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in England, winning all the matches (including a 3–1 win in the penalty shoot-out against

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in the final). At this tournament she also grabbed two goals in the 4–0 victory at the group stage against

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as well as the 1–0 winning goal in the semifinals against

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Honours

Bayern Munich *

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: 2014–15, 2015–16 Germany U17 *

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References

External links

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Ricarda Walkling
at fcbayern.de

at soccerdonna.de {{DEFAULTSORT:Walkling, Ricarda 1997 births Living people Footballers from Hanover German women's footballers Women's association football midfielders TSV Schwaben Augsburg players FC Bayern Munich (women) players NC State Wolfpack women's soccer players SV Werder Bremen (women) players German expatriate women's footballers German expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States 21st-century German sportswomen