Our guest on 24.04.2011 Anja Mittag, German International Footballer

At 25, Anja Mittag has already scaled the heights as a sportswoman. In March 2011, she became national champion with her club Turbine Potsdam for the fifth time. She's a world and European champion, and she’s won the Champions League title as well. Anja Mittag was born on 16 May, 1985, in the Saxon city of Chemnitz (at the time, Karl-Marx-Stadt). She’s played football since she was five. She became interested in the sport through her elder brother. After finishing school, while still pursuing her career in sports, she trained as a management assistant in sports and fitness. On her local team, Potsdam, with which she’s been a striker since 2002, she wears a jersey with the number 31, the same as that of her favourite male player, Bastian Schweinsteiger. In addition to sports, Anja Mittag is active as an ambassador for a children’s aid organisation and also supports “Leben hat Gewicht” – Life has Weight – the Germany-wide campaign against eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia.

Anja Mittag has played 67 matches as a national team player so far, and looks forward to helping defend their title when Germany hosts the women's World Cup soccer tournament this summer.