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Germany’s Secret Weapon Was Once Its Most Potent One on the Field

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The LinkedIn profile of the new sports psychologist for the German women’s soccer team depicts an impressively blossoming career.

She studied at Goethe University in Frankfurt and worked as a researcher at MSH Medical School in Hamburg. She has had contributed to several papers published in scientific journals, the latest one titled “Depression and anxiety symptoms in 17 teams of female football players including 10 German first league teams.”

But the online résumé of the psychologist, Birgit Prinz, also has some fairly conspicuous omissions: namely, two World Cup trophies, three FIFA World Player of the Year awards, and many, many years as one of the most dominant soccer players on the planet.