DFB keeper
Continues Berger? “Must be self -critical with me”
04.08.2025 – 11:49 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
At the European Championship, Ann-Katrin Berger became tragic heroine of the DFB team. Now she faces the question of whether she continues. According to her, this depends on a few factors.
After the emotional European Championship in Switzerland, Germany’s national goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger has not yet made a decision about her future in the DFB goal. “I haven’t thought at all,” said the 34-year-old in the ZDF sports studio. That would also take a “a few weeks”.
It is “a longer process to collect yourself and leave the emotions of the tournament behind,” said Berger, who is already in everyday league with her American club Gotham FC: “Then you will see what I’m doing. I don’t know yet. And mostly I do it spontaneously.”
Although you older as “fine wine” as a goalkeeper, “but I also have to be self -critical with myself, because playing at such a high level means a lot, a lot of effort.” The long trips from the USA to Germany are also a factor with regard to the 2027 World Cup in Brazil.
However, it is also about the planning of national coach Christian Wück. “He now has almost two years to concentrate on the next tournament. We have incredibly good goalkeepers in the back,” said Berger with regard to a possible competition.
Behind Berger with Stina Johannes (25/Wolfsburg) and Ena Mahmutovic (21/Bavaria) were promising alternatives in the European Championship squad. Berger himself had become a tragic heroine in Switzerland. First she kept Germany with spectacular parades in the tournament, in the semi -finals against Spain (0-1) she outwitted world footballer Aitana Bonmatí decisively in the short corner.