Christiane Endler

About

Claudia Christiane Endler Mutinelli (born 23 July 1991) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as goalkeeper for Première Ligue club Lyon. She has previously played for Colo-Colo, Valencia, Paris Saint-Germain, and the University of South Florida.
Endler is widely regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the world. In all seasons from 2019 to 2022 she was among the three finalists nominated for Best Women’s Goalkeeper at the Best FIFA Football Awards. She won the award in 2021.

Endler was born in Santiago, Chile, to a Chilean mother with Italian ancestry and a German father. From childhood, Endler showed talent for sports, playing tennis, swimming, hockey, basketball, volleyball, and gymnastics before dedicating herself full time to football. At 10 years old, she went to her first football club, Stadio Italiano, and as a teenager she attended a German high school where she started to get formal football training. Throughout her youth, she played as a forward, but when she was 15, Endler had trials with the Chile U17 national team. Because of her height, former Chilean goalkeeper and then-coach Marco Cornez advised her to switch her position to goalkeeper…