😂 German star’s wild journey: Duisburg or Harvard, as long as it’s football | OneFootball

In recent years, Stina Johannes has developed into one of the best goalkeepers in Germany. This summer, the 25-year-old moved from Eintracht Frankfurt to VfL Wolfsburg, and she has also guarded the DFB’s goal five times.

Johannes had her big Bundesliga breakthrough in the Ruhr region, where she stood between the posts for SGS Essen from 2018 to 2022. But her career could have taken a very different path.

As Johannes recently revealed on the “frauen.fussball.podcast” by 'FUMS', she once had the opportunity to study at one of the best universities in the world instead. The Hannover native was accepted to Harvard University in the USA a few years ago.

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However, she passed up this chance. Johannes explains her decision in favor of the Ruhr area and against Massachusetts today as follows: “I wanted to play in the Bundesliga. Then I thought to myself, whether I study math at Harvard University or at the University of Duisburg-Essen... it doesn’t matter.”

In the end, there’s only one diploma anyway. And Johannes earned hers in Essen.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.

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