Beverly Ranger

In Germany, she was one of the best-known players in the 1970s. She won the German Championship in 1975 with the SSG Bergisch Gladbach, and in June 1975, one of her goals was chosen as the goal of the month. She is regarded as the first professional player in Germany: she has received an equipment contract for more than 3,000 DM a month. Born in the early 1950s in the Jamaican capital Kingston, the Beverly Ranger came to London with her parents at the age of 12. There she played football in a park not far from the Wembley Stadium with boys of the same age. Her talent was accidentally discovered by a journalist who suggested that she would join a football club. Ranger first played for the Watford F.C., later at the London suburb of Amersham Town F.C In the 1970s she played in Germany. There the women's football was still in the children's shoes at that time. It was only in 1970 that the German Football Association allowed women's football under its umbrella. At that time, only one national league match was held at the national federation level. In 1974 a German championship was played for the first time in women's football. Beverly Ranger, one of the first foreign players in the higher-class women's football in Germany, was initially active in the Saarland SV Bubach / Calmesweiler and stepped from the 1974–75 season for the reigning German runner Bonner SC, who played in the Middle Rhine league on. A prominent fellow player here was the striker Anne Trabant-Haarbach, who had…