It was no surprise as to who was the center of focusing on Media Day at the German Women’s Training Camp in the small southern city of Herzenourach.
The time has been called in her international career with Alexandra Pope, it is the Bayern Munich’s Giulia Gin, which is assigned to the head of Germany in the next month’s euro in Switzerland.
Five months after his appointment as the new Captain of Germany, Gin told DW, “I feel a great respect and pride.”
“I think there is a different (level) responsibility, but I think I have adjusted it well,” he said.
He said, “I try to hear what is going on in the team and positivity is spreading.” “We all behave very open and honestly.”
‘A great personality’
Now one of the best right-backs in the world, Gin does what you expect a captain. For example, she pushes herself to her physical boundaries and constantly communicates with her teams.
“He is a great personality,” Chalsey Midfield Sjoeke Nüsken said
“But she can be loud and lead in the way things are not going well on the pitch. And she can kill us all from behind,” she combined with a smile.
“We have a great captain,” veteran midfielder Sarah Dabritz said.
‘As if his life depended on him’
Gin began to play football at the age of eight – as the only girl in a boys team in her hometown TSG Illingen in South -West, Germany.
In an interview with German television, Gin said, “I always wanted to make myself vocal, showing who was who was.” Gin’s mother Gabi said, “She depended on her, which depended on her.”
Gin got the first taste of international football at the age of 13, when in 2013, she was first called to the German Women’s U15 team. A year later, he signed for Frebberg.
“Football is everything for me,” he said in a TV documentary. “This is a passion, it is the one that fulfills me, and it is what I have put in my heart.”
‘Worst diagnosis’
After four years in Frebberg, Gin moved to Bayern Munich in 2019. Everything was going to plan, but in 2020 he suffered a serious blow of his career, which torn a cruel ligament in his right knee during a European Championship qualifier against Ireland.
Just two years later, he tore a cruciate ligament in his left knee.
“This is the worst diagnosis you can receive,” he said. “You know that it will mean a very long and difficult period.”
The injury ruled Gin, who started his national team out of the 2023 World Cup in 2017. But with winning two league titles since he recovered, one was not seen back with a German cup with Bavaria in two season.
“It was a very bitter fact that I missed the tournament (World Cup) due to injury, but I would see it as a great opportunity to come back.”
She returns to action for the national team only for the national team in a national league match against Denmark against September 2023, and was a member of the German team that won bronze at the Olympic Games in Paris.
‘We will be very entertaining’
Looking forward to the next month’s euro, Gin is positive about Germany’s ability on the pitch, but see his team’s role bigger than that.
“We think the tournament is the best opportunity to take women’s football to a new level. It is our responsibility to promote it and take the next step,” she said.
Shehe said, “We are developing a very good feeling here, with our personality and desire to achieve something great,” Shehe said.
After producing several high scoring performances in recent months, Germany wants to continue in a similar vein in Switzerland.
“We are all about attacking power; We have players who perform at the highest level and score,” Gin said. “We will be very entertaining in summer.”
This article was the original published in German.
