Inka Grings
Grings with Duisburg in 2010.
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| Full name | Inka Grings | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 31 October 1978 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Düsseldorf, West Germany | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Striker | ||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| 1984–1990 | TSV Eller 04 | ||||||||||||||
| 1990–1995 | Garather SV | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1995–2011 | FCR 2001 Duisburg | 271 | (353) | ||||||||||||
| 2011–2013 | FC Zürich Frauen | 31 | (55) | ||||||||||||
| 2013 | Chicago Red Stars | 16 | (3) | ||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | FC Köln | 19 | (23) | ||||||||||||
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| 1996–2012 | Germany | 96 | (64) | ||||||||||||
| Teams managed | |||||||||||||||
| 2014– | Duisburg | ||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 June 2011. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 26 October 2011 |
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Inka Grings (born 31 October 1978) is a retired German international footballer. She played sixteen years as a striker for FCR 2001 Duisburg. Afterwards she played for FC Zürich Frauen. She also played for the German national team. Grings is the second all-time leading goalscorer in Germany's top division, the Fußball-Bundesliga (women), with 195 goals and claimed the league's top-scorer award for a record six seasons. Playing for Germany, she has also been the top-scorer at two UEFA European Championships. Grings was named German Female Footballer of the Year in 1999, 2009 and 2010.
She currently is coach for MSV Duisburg.
As a child, Grings wanted to be a tennis player. However, after no tennis club had accepted her, she instead started playing football at TSV Eller 04 in 1984. She later played for Garather SV.
Grings signed with FCR 2001 Duisburg in 1995. She quickly became an important player for the club and in the following years one of the most successful goalscorers in Germany. In 1998, Grings won the German Cup, her first major title. She scored three goals in the final against FSV Frankfurt. The following year in the 1998–99 season she became the Bundesliga's top-scorer for the first time. Grings was named German Female Footballer of the Year in 1999 by the country's sports journalists.
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