Julia Simic

Julia Simic
Simic in 2023
Personal information
Full name Julia Simic[1]
Date of birth (1989-05-14) 14 May 1989 (age 35)
Place of birth Fürth, West Germany
Height 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Tuspo Fürth
ASV Vach
DJK Eibach
SV 1873 Nürnburg Süd
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2013 Bayern Munich 105 (34)
2013–2015 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam 34 (14)
2015–2017 VfL Wolfsburg 24 (4)
2017–2018 SC Freiburg 18 (0)
2018–2020 West Ham United 16 (2)
2020–2021 Milan 4 (0)
International career
2004 Germany U15 9 (9)
2004–2006 Germany U17 20 (5)
2007 Germany U19 14 (9)
2008 Germany U20 6 (2)
2009–2013 Germany U23 6 (1)
2016–2021 Germany 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Julia Simic (born 14 May 1989) is a German retired women's footballer. She has also played for several of Germany's youth teams as well as two games with the senior national team.

Career

Simic was born on 14 May 1989 in Fürth[2] and is of German and Croatian descent. She signed a contract with Women's Bundesliga champion Wolfsburg, that began on 1 January 2015 and will end in 2017.[3]

Simic was named to the senior national team's squad for the first 2013 Euro qualification stage match against Switzerland after Dzsenifer Marozsán got injured, but she suffered an ACL injury in her first training. She missed most of the 2011–12 season.[4]

In 2018, she left Germany for the English side West Ham United.[5] In August 2020, she joined Milan.[6]

Honours

Bayern Munich

1. FFC Turbine Potsdam

VfL Wolfsburg

West Ham United

  • Women's FA Cup: Finalists 2018–19

Germany U19

References

  1. ^ "FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Chile 2008 – List of Players: Germany" (PDF). FIFA. 19 November 2008. p. 9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 May 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  2. ^ Riemke, Bernd (8 January 2013). "Julia Simic hat noch viel vor". anpfiff.info (in German).
  3. ^ "Winter addition". Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  4. ^ Albert Sigurdsson. "Wsoccernews.com". Wsoccernews.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
  5. ^ Germany, anpfiff, Bamberg. "Das ist der "Hammer": Julia Simic ist reif für die Insel". Retrieved 13 July 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "Julia Simic: West Ham Women midfielder leaves to join AC Milan". BBC Sport. 9 August 2020.


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