Sarai Linder
Sarai Linder (born 26 October 1999 in Sinsheim) is a German football player who plays as a defender for 1899 Hoffenheim and for the Germany national team. Career

Clubs
Linder started playing football in the Sinsheimer district club SV Hilsbach and switched to the youth department of TSG 1899 Hoffenheim in 2010, to which she belonged until 2016 and in her last season in the southern season of the B-Junior Bundesliga played league games. For the 2015/16 season, she was promoted to the second team, for which she scored five goals in 15 league games in the 2nd Bundesliga South. She crowned her senior debut on 30 August 2015 (1st matchday) in a 4–1 win in the home game against 1. FFC Frankfurt II with her first goal, scoring the final score in the 81st minute. The end of the season was celebrated in first place. She made her Bundesliga debut unexpectedly on 30 October 2016 (matchday 6) in a 1–0 away win against Bayer 04 Leverkusen with a substitution in the 88th minute for Anne Fühner. From 2017 to 2020, belonging to the first team, she played in a further 46 league games, in which she scored two goals. She then spent a year at the University of Central Florida and was welcomed as one of five new additions to the Knights, the varsity athletic team. In the 2020 season, she played seven games from 14 February to 11 April. Returning to Germany, she will play again for TSG 1899 Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga from the 2021/22 season. National team
Within five years, Linder went through the youth national teams from the age group U15 to U19 before she made her debut for the U20 national team on 18 October 2017 in the 0–2 defeat in the friendly against the national team of Serbia. With the U17 national team, she took part in the European Championship, which was held in Belarus from 4 to 16 May 2016, played the first and third games in group B, the semi-finals, which she won 4–3 against England, and the 3:2 finals won on penalties against Spain. At the U17 World Cup that same year, she played the first two matches of Group B and the quarter-finals, which they lost 2–1 to Spain. In 2022 Linder was called up to the senior Germany national team. Career statistics

International

Achievements
 U17 European Champion 2016 
 Champion 2nd Bundesliga South 2016

References

External links

 Sarai Linder in the worldfootball.net database
 Sarai Linder in the soccerdonna.de database
 Sarai Linder in the German Football Association database

Living people
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (women) players
1999 births
German women's footballers
Women's association football defenders
Women's association football midfielders
Germany women's youth international footballers
People from Sinsheim
Footballers from Karlsruhe (region)
UCF Knights women's soccer players
German expatriate women's footballers
German expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States
Germany women's international footballers