Women's champions bursting with pride

Vital goals
Pohlers claimed three over two legs when 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam defeated Djurgarden/Älvsjö to win the 2005 edition and the next year managed two more as her team fell to Frankfurt. But it was for Frankfurt and against another Swedish side, Umeå IK, that Pohlers equalised in last week's 1-1 away draw and in the home return she struck two more to delight the record crowd of 27,640 and help secure a 4-3 aggregate success.

Doing her job
"We went out there with a lot of confidence for this game," Pohlers said. It is an honour to have won this trophy with two different clubs. I am always motivated, but especially so for these kind of matches. I am really happy about the goals but that is my job as a striker. I have to thanks my parents for all the energy I had today – I was born like that! Everybody was up for this game and we feel like world club champions."

Prinz pride
Her fellow forward Birgit Prinz may not have matched the feat of Pohlers and Wimbersky in playing a part in final wins for two different clubs, but the Germany captain and her club skipper Tina Wunderlich now have three winners' medals in the UEFA Women's Cup, having helped Frankfurt to victory in 2002 against Umeå and 2006 versus Potsdam. "After we scored the third goal I was confident we could win this match but we could never be sure as it was tight right until the end," Prinz said. "We had a lot of fun out there today due to the atmosphere created by the crowd, it was just amazing. Today we had real women's football fans in the stadium, I congratulate the administration of the club for attracting so many spectators."

Rottenberg relieved
Goalkeeper Silke Rottenberg only played the first half due to injury, replaced by another former Potsdam player Stephanie Ullrich. But Rottenberg, a world and European national-team champion with Germany, is delighted to have her first continental club honour following her 2006 transfer from FCR 2001 Duisburg. "It really feels good to have won this final because this was one of the reasons I came here from Duisburg, to play in such games and win such games," Rottenberg said. "I think we deserved to win, we were the better team but I feel a bit unfortunate. The foot injury happened when I kicked the ball but it first flared up a few weeks ago. I felt I had to leave the pitch for the sake of the team but I think I will be back by Thursday when Germany play Wales."