Footballer Vroni Probst from SF Föching is about to jump to the pros.
She now guards the U17 goal of FC Bayern Munich.
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football coach Markus Philipp remembers a tournament at SV Lohhof particularly well.
With his then D-youth he was on the road and was approached by a colleague from TSV 1860 about some players.
Among other things, he had a covetous eye on the strong goalkeeper.
“He thought our Vroni was a boy,” laughs the coach.
The short-haired girl from back then, who, as the reliable support of a special team, had brought strikers from well-known clubs to despair, has become a young woman who is the first goalkeeper at FC Bayern Munich in her second game of the U17 Bundesliga team has fought.
Now she's sitting in the Sportfreunde's parlor.
Behind her, on a small pedestal, the trophy from the Merkur CUP final.
On the deep window sills, there are tons of polished prizes of honor, some of which trace the athletic career of the 16-year-old who discovered her passion for playing football on the spruce wood.
The kindergarten tournament was decisive.
Vroni had enjoyed playing football with friends from the start.
"She always wore the tournament T-shirt until it no longer fit," says Papa Thomas, who unexpectedly found himself on the soccer field with his younger daughter.
She was in the swimming club with sister Kathi, but she didn't like it nearly as much, she recalls and tells how her career as a field player began.
“At that time we still had an older boy in goal,” says Philipp.
At some point they discovered that Vroni also had talent as a keeper.
At an early age, it spurred her ambition to become a regular goalkeeper.
In 2014 at the first Merkur CUP event as a younger age group, she made it and, as a rock solid, played a key role in the fact that Föching not only made it past the district finals for the first time, but also marched straight into the finals in the Unterhaching sports park.
Probst draws attention to himself in the Merkur CUP
In the second year the repetition was palpable, but FC Bayern Munich had messed up in the district finals in the preliminary round and already met group winners Föching in the semifinals.
The record winner did not allow himself a second slip, and the thankless third place remained for the SF.
One of Vroni Probst's great strengths had already paved the way to the district finals: The end against DJK Darching was in the air.
Penalty shootouts had to bring the decision, and for the first time a large audience noticed how cool the girl with the bright eyes, who clearly likes to dive, parried penalties.
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The sporting home of Vroni Probst is now the FC Bayern Campus, here with trainer Ivon Karras and her former Föchingen trainer Markus Philipp.
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Holding penalties is just one of the strengths that she played from now on in international appearances.
Among other things, last year in the semi-finals of the Mallorca Girls Cup, where she paved the way for the FC Bayern girls with three saved penalties.
Opponents included Atletico Madrid, Copenhagen, Seville and the final opponents from Bilbao.
Not the first well-known teams she competed against.
Even with Föching, she had made top clubs desperate at tournaments such as the Cordial Cup and the Innsbruck UPC Cup and received several goalkeeping awards.
Strength: Skill on the ball
Her second great strength is her ball skill - both feet and technically - with which Vroni Probst builds up the game from behind.
The fact that, with the second game right possible in girls' football, she played in the field with the home club until she was C-youth while she was in goal in Munich, pays off.
And last but not least, their zeal.
"She was always very hardworking," emphasizes Philipp several times.
Regardless of whether it is base training in Unterhaching, regional selection in the south or additional shifts at home: She uses every opportunity without just being a dogged worker.
“She's someone who goes along with all kinds of fun,” adds the ex-trainer, who is following her career and crossing his fingers that she will succeed in joining the women's team.
"She has what it takes, but it always takes luck."
Föchinger talents
Those responsible at SF Föching are particularly pleased that they, as a popular sports club, can also be a stepping stone for talented young footballers.
A number of young kickers made their way out of regional football from their outstanding year 2004.
The main goal of Markus Philipp, who took over the 16- and 17-year-olds as Bambini, is to lead the boys into the men's area.
“I'm in good spirits that we will make it,” he says.
For the first time since the club was founded, there is an A-youth whom he trains.
Of the 25 2004-ies he started with Daniel Johannesborg, 14 are still with him.
A few have recommended themselves to bigger clubs.
Nils Ortel was the first to move to FC Bayern after the Merkur CUP 2014.
Today he is with Marcel Johannesborg in the U17 Bundesliga squad of SpVgg Unterhaching.
Lukas Vollmer plays for FC Deisenhofen in the regional league, David Koll kicked for DFI Bad Aibling.
Vroni Probst, who is confidently entering her third year at Bayern, is also aware of this.
The FOS student uses the train journeys for training for homework and learning.
The family often spends the weekends on the soccer field, but supporting their daughters' sporting activities has never been an unpleasant duty, emphasizes Thomas Probst.
In the first point games after the Corona break, they will have to cheer from afar when the supposedly strongest teams meet the Munich women right at the beginning.