Women’s European Championship 2025: National coach criticizes goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger

When football goalkeepers are risky to dribbling, the audience stops the air. National coach Christian Wück is no exception. He finds the dribbling of German goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger clearly too risky in front of his own goal. When asked whether the national goalkeeper’s offensive style of play in the 2-1 in the European Championship group game in Basel against Denmark, the soccer coach replied with a clear “no”.

For the time being, he couldn’t say more about the topic, added Wück, “but I will of course sit at the table with her that we have to find other solutions – because otherwise I won’t get old”.

The 34-year-old goalkeeper had let Danish players run into void three times in front of their own goal in St. Jakob-Park on Tuesday evening instead of clarifying the ball early. The risky maneuvers always went well.

The goalkeeper who was under contract with the US Club NY/NJ Gotham FC defended her fins on request after the game. “Maybe it looks like this with you, but I have to honestly say: The three actions I had, I actually had a really good feeling.” Despite Wück’s criticism, she does not necessarily want to deviate from her risky game – especially since she sees the topic very relaxed: “If I sometimes look at the football clips, it just looks very different from your perspective as with me and that’s why I would probably do it again,” she said with a smile.

She will still speak with Wück to look for a common solution. “If the head coach says something else now, see if I will continue.” Berger was a bit struck in the final phase of the game after getting a blow on the upper body.

After the success against Denmark and 2-0 at the start against Poland, the German team is in the quarter -finals before the final group game against Sweden on Saturday (9:00 p.m./ZDF and DAZN). In Zurich, the Wück selection is about first place in Group C. Sweden also collected six points.