Josephine Henning
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Full name | Josephine Henning | |||||||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 8 September 1989 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Trier, West Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Centre back | |||||||||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||||||
MSG/FSG Zewen-Igel | ||||||||||||||||||||||
–2005 | MSG/FSG Schweich-Issel | |||||||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||||
2005–2009 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 50 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||
2009–2011 | 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam | 39 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||
2011–2014 | VfL Wolfsburg | 49 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||
2014–2016 | Paris Saint-Germain | 15 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||
2016 | Arsenal | 10 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||
2017 | Olympique Lyonnais | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||
2017–2018 | Arsenal | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||
National team‡ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2007–2008 | Germany U19 | 11 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||
2008–2011 | Germany U20 | 8 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||
2010–2017 | Germany | 42 | (2) | |||||||||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 07:11, 9 July 2017 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 06:43, 22 July 2017 (UTC) |
Josephine Henning (born 8 September 1989) is a former German footballer who last played as a centre-back for Arsenal and the Germany national team. Since making her debut for the national team in September 2010, she has won over 25 caps and represented her country at UEFA Women's Euro 2013 and the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Club career
Henning won the Frauen-Bundesliga four times and the UEFA Women's Champions League four times while playing with Turbine Potsdam and VfL Wolfsburg in her home country. She then signed for French club Paris Saint-Germain in June 2014.
She helped Paris Saint-Germain reach the 2015 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, where they lost 2–1 to Frankfurt. Henning missed the first half of the 2015–16 season through injury then negotiated a termination of her contract in January 2016.
In February 2016, Henning attended a pre-season training camp with Arsenal in Seville, Spain. She was named as a substitute in Arsenal's 3–1 friendly win over Bayern Munich. Her transfer to Arsenal was confirmed by the club on 18 February 2016.
She returned to Arsenal for the 2017–18 season.
On 2 July 2018 Henning announced her retirement.
International career
She was part of the squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics, where Germany went on to win the gold medal.
International goals
Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first:
Henning – goals for Germany | ||||||
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# | Date | Location | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
1. | 29 November 2016 | Stadion an der Gellertstraße, Chemnitz, Germany | Norway | 1–1 | 1–1 | Friendly |
2. | 21 July 2017 | Koning Willem II Stadion, Breda, Netherlands | Italy | 1–0 | 2–1 | UEFA Women's Euro 2017 |
Source:
Honours
Club
- 1. FC Saarbrücken
- German Cup: Runner-up 2007–08
- 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam
- Bundesliga: Winner 2009–10, 2010–11
- UEFA Women's Champions League: Winner 2009–10
- DFB-Hallenpokal for women: Winner 2010
- VfL Wolfsburg
- Bundesliga: Winner 2012–13, 2013–14
- UEFA Women's Champions League: Winner 2012–13, 2013–14
- DFB-Pokal: Winner 2012–13
- Paris Saint Germain
- UEFA Women's Champions League: Runners Up Medal 2015
- Arsenal
- Olympique Lyon
- Division 1 Féminine: Winner 2016–17
- Coupe de France Féminine: Winner 2017
- UEFA Women's Champions League: Winner 2016–17
International
- Germany
- UEFA European Women's Championship: Winner 2013
- Summer Olympic Games: Gold medal, 2016
- Algarve Cup: Winner 2012, 2014
Others
Together with her former teammate Anja Mittag she runs the podcast Mittag’s bei Henning.
- 1989 births
- Living people
- German women's footballers
- 1. FC Saarbrücken (women) players
- 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam players
- Paris Saint-Germain Féminine players
- Olympique Lyonnais Féminin players
- FA Women's Super League players
- Arsenal W.F.C. players
- VfL Wolfsburg (women) players
- Expatriate women's footballers in France
- Expatriate women's footballers in England
- German expatriate sportspeople in France
- German expatriate sportspeople in England
- Germany women's international footballers
- 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- People from Trier
- Women's association football defenders
- Olympic footballers of Germany
- Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Germany
- Olympic medalists in football
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- German expatriate footballers
- Frauen-Bundesliga players
- 2. Frauen-Bundesliga players
- Division 1 Féminine players
- Footballers from Rhineland-Palatinate
- Olympic women's footballers of Germany
- UEFA Women's Championship-winning players