Nadine Angerer is a German football (soccer) coach and former goalkeeper. In 2014 she was named FIFA World Player of the Year, becoming the only goalkeeper, man or woman, to do so.
Angerer was discovered as a goalkeeping talent in 1995 when she was scouted by the Nürnberg football club. In her 20-year professional career, Angerer played for many major German teams including Wacker München, Bayern Munich, and Frankfurt.
Angerer played in the 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup stepping in at the last minute for Germany’s primary goalkeeper. During the tournament she didn’t concede a single goal, setting a new record for most consecutive minutes played without conceding a goal in World Cup play. She was the reserve goalkeeper for all of Germany’s international competitions for 10 years, and then continued as the primary goalkeeper for another 9. Overall, she played 146 games for the team, and was even team captain for a brief stint in 2011.
Angerer announced her professional playing retirement in 2015.
Since retiring as a professional player, Angerer has been coaching goalkeepers for the Portland Thorns, even substituting in as an emergency goalkeeper in a 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup game when the original goalkeeper had to isolate with coronavirus.
In a 2010 interview, Angerer told German magazine Die Zeit that she was bi. “I am very open about this because I am of the opinion that there are nice guys and nice women,” she explained. Angerer married her longtime girlfriend, Magdalena Golombek, in 2016.