Former Bull Christiane Endler Selected to FIFA FIFPro Women’s World11 Team
TAMPA, Dec. 19, 2020 – Former University of South Florida goalkeeper Christiane Endler earned a spot on the FIFA FIFPro Women's World11 team announced during the FIFA The Best Awards Ceremony. Endler was chosen as a finalist for the The Best FIFA Women's Goalkeeper for the second straight year, but was runner-up to Sarah Bouhaddi.
The FIFA FIFPro Women's World11 team includes one goalkeeper, three defenders, three midfielders and four forwards and is chosen by members of FIFPro, which is made up of professional soccer players in FIFA member countries.
Endler earned runner-up to The Best FIFA Women's Goalkeeper for the second consecutive year. She finished with 22 points, while Bouhaddi, a French national team member and Lyon player in France's Division 1 Feminine, finished in first with 24.
National team coaches and captains, the media and fans all represent voting groups for the award and each group holds an equal weight regardless of the size of the voting base. Endler won decisively in the fan vote, receiving 119,307 points to Bouhaddi's 66,904 and also edged the Frenchwoman in the captain's vote, 397-361. Bouhaddi was able to secure the award with leads in the coaches vote, 429-302, and the media vote, 602-302.
Endler is a member of the Chilean National Team and Paris Saint-Germain. She played in three games in international play during 2020, helping lead Chile to two shutouts over Ghana and Kenya en route to winning the 2020 Turkish Women's Cup.
Endler helped Paris Saint-Germain finish second in a shortened 2019-20 Division 1 Féminine season in France, which qualified the squad for the 2020-21 UEFA Women's Champions League. She played in the first game of the championship, aiding PSG's defensive efforts and earning a clean sheet in a 2-0 win in the first leg against Górnik Leczna of Poland. The second leg was scheduled for Dec. 16.
In 2019, Endler finished second for The Best FIFA Women's Goalkeeper award behind the Netherlands' Sari van Veenendaal.
As a Bull, Endler started all 19 games in goal for USF as a freshman in 2012 and capped off her collegiate career with American Athletic All-Conference Second Team honors in 2013.
In her first season at USF, Endler recorded nine shutouts and was named Big East Goalkeeper of the Week twice during the season.
In her second season, she earned American Goalkeeper of the Week honors three times during the season, leading the category among the conference's goalkeepers. She also helped the team reach the conference's semifinals in the AAC's inaugural season.
Overall, she finished her Bulls career with 170 saves and 15 shutouts. She also holds the record for lowest career goals-against average in USF women's soccer history, allowing 0.9 goals on average in her time with the Bulls.
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