Christiane Endler, full name Claudia Christiane Endler Mutinelli, is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Paris Saint-Germain and the Chile women’s national team. She is widely regarded as one
Christiane Endler, full name Claudia Christiane Endler Mutinelli, is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Paris Saint-Germain and the Chile women’s national team. She is widely regarded as one of the top goalkeepers in the world. In both 2019 and 2020, she was among the three finalists nominated for Best Women’s Goalkeeper at the Best FIFA Football Awards.
Christiane Endler was born on July 23, 1991, in Santiago, Chile. From childhood, she showed a talent for sports, playing tennis, swimming, hockey, basketball, volleyball, and gymnastics before dedicating her full time to football. At 10 years old, she went to her first football club, Stadio Italiano, and as a teenager, she attended a German high school where she started to get formal football training. Throughout her youth, she played as a forward, but when she was 15, Endler had trials with Chile’s U17 national team.
During the 2011 Pan American Games, she was recruited to play in the United States for the D1 University of South Florida Bulls. After three years of playing semi-professionally in Chile, Christiane Endler departed the country in July 2011 to attend college for two years.
In 2009, Christiane Endler participated in the first-ever edition of the Copa Libertadores Femenina. In 2010, Endler reached her first-ever Copa Libertadores final with Everton, where she would play Santos, a team that contacted her to play the year before. Everton was the first-ever Chilean team to make the final of an international women’s tournament. Christiane Endler held off the tournament’s most effective attack for most of the match but conceded in the 89th minute. Santos won 1-0 and took the title.
In 2011-2012, she played for Colo-Colo, while in 2014 moved to the National Women’s Soccer League and signed with Chelsea LFC, before returning to Colo-Colo in 2015–2016, where she played 3 matches.
In 2016-2017, Christiane Endler played for Valencia CF, where played 23 matches. In 2017, she signed with Paris Saint-Germain, where took part in 43 matches.
