Christiane Endler

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, Endler departed the country in July 2011 to attend college for two years. She was enrolled on a scholarship and at first studied physical education, but switched her major to instead study business administration. It was there that she learned English. In 2012, she started all 19 games and throughout the season recorded 83 saves with an .847 (84.7%) save percentage. She also recorded nine shutouts and was named Big East goalkeeper of the week twice and Big East freshman of the week once. In 2013 she was named to the second team for the AAC and was named AAC goalkeeper of the week three times. That same season she had an .806 (80.6%) save percentage and a career-high 87 saves for the season. In 2014, she helped lead the Bulls to a regular season conference championship. During her fall break in 2012, Colo-Colo were playing the Copa Libertadores, so she very briefly went on loan to compete in the beginning stages of the tournament.

2009–2010: Beginnings with Everton

In 2009, Endler participated in the first ever edition of the Copa Libertadores Femenina. In 2010, Endler reached her first ever Copa Libertadores final with Everton de Viña del Mar, 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. 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, their second in a row.

2011–2012: Establishing herself with Colo-Colo

In 2011, after impressing at the previous year's Copa America, she was signed to Chilean team Colo-Colo. In 2011, Endler participated in her second consecutive and Colo-Colo's first Copa Libertadores final, where they fell to São José Esporte Clube. The following month in June, she announced her departure from Colo-Colo, opting to go to the United States and pursue a college education. In 2012, while still in college, Endler took advantage of her brief fall break to participate in her third Libertadores final in a row. Luckily for her, the match went to penalties after regulation time. Endler had anticipated the probability of a penalty shootout and reviewed strategy with her coach the day before. To end the shootout, she stopped the final penalty and won her first Copa Libertadores title. Along with Santos, Colo-Colo became the only other club to win both…

Youth teams

In 2008, Endler participated in the first ever edition of the U17 Copa America, hosted in Chile. She was a regular starter, playing all four games of Chile's campaign as they finished third in Group A with five points and exited the tournament. Endler's second international tournament experience came as a 17-year-old when Chile hosted the 2008 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Prior to the tournament, her starting position was disputed between her and then-Colo-Colo goalkeeper Romina Parraguirre. Endler ended up establishing herself as a starter and played every minute of each of Chile's three group stage matches. Chile finished last in their group and 14th overall, but Endler impressed enough to make the Team of the Tournament.

Ten years later, in an interview with FIFA, Endler said that the tournament was crucial in her decision to dedicate her life to football. Before that championship I'd never imagined that I could play the game professionally, but it was thanks to that tournament that I realised there was a whole different world out there, that women's football was growing outside Chile. Her final international youth tournament experience would come in the 2010 U20 Copa America, where Endler found greater success. She conceded just two goals in the four-round group stage as she moved onto the knockout rounds of an international tournament for the first time in her career. Chile were defeated 3–1 by Brazil in the semifinals and 6–0 by Paraguay in the third place…

Endler was born in Santiago, Chile, to a Chilean mother with Italian ancestry and a German father. From childhood, Endler showed talent for sports, playing tennis, swimming, hockey, basketball, volleyball, and gymnastics before dedicating herself 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 the Chile U17 national team. Because of her height, former Chilean goalkeeper and then-coach Marco Cornez advised her to switch her position to goalkeeper. At 17 years old, she started playing semi-professionally with Unión La Calera's women's team. She spent two years with the club where she finished fifth and sixth in the league table, respectively.