Angela Anna Christ (born 6 March 1989) is a Dutch football goalkeeper, who played for Eredivisie club PSV and for the Netherlands women's national football team.[2]
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| Full name | Angela Anna Christ | |||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1989-03-06) 6 March 1989 (age 33) | |||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Eindhoven, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||||||
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Current team | PSV | |||||||||||||||
| Number | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
| s.v. Lew | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
| 2002–2004 | ODC Boxtel | |||||||||||||||
| 2004–2007 | Saestum | |||||||||||||||
| 2007–2012 | Utrecht | 91 | (0) | |||||||||||||
| 2012– | PSV/FC Eindhoven | 59 | (0) | |||||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2017 | Netherlands | 17 | (0) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:30, 8 June 2015 (UTC) | ||||||||||||||||
While playing with previous club FC Utrecht she was twice named the Eredivisie's best goalkeeper, in 2010 and 2011.[3] Before Eredivisie's foundation in 2007, she won two Hoofdklasse titles with SV Saestum and had debuted in the top division as a 14-year-old, with ODC Boxtel in 2003–04.[4]
In 2012, she joined PSV/FC Eindhoven ahead of the newly created BeNe League.[5]
Christ made her senior Netherlands women's national football team debut on 13 July 2009, a 3–2 win over South Africa in Amsterdam.[6][7] She was taken to UEFA Women's Euro 2009 in Finland as one of two back-ups to recognised first choice goalkeeper Loes Geurts.
In June 2013 national team coach Roger Reijners selected Christ in the squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden.[8] She was also part of the Dutch teams of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup[1] and the winning team of the UEFA Women's Euro 2017.[9]
On 24 November 2017, she played her 17th match for the national team against Slovakia in a 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification match which the Netherlands won by 5–0, a few days later, she announced her retirement from the national team.[10][11]
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