Marion Isbert
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Marion Isbert is a former German international
Germany women's national football team
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 football player. The goalkeeper was capped 58 times for Germany. She won two German championships
German football champions
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 with TSV Siegen
Sportfreunde Siegen
Sportfreunde Siegen is a German association football club based in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was founded in 1899 as the football department of the gymnastics club Turn Verein Jahn von 1879 Siegen...

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Club career

Isbert's career started at TuS Ahrbach
TuS Ahrbach
TuS Ahrbach is a German sports club based in Ruppach-Goldhausen, Rhineland-Palatinate. The club was founded in 1921 and today has departments for football, handball, and gymnastics. It is best known for its women's football section, which played in the German Bundesliga for several years.- History...

. In 1989, she reached the final of the German championship
German football champions
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, but Ahrbach failed to qualify for the Bundesliga
Fußball-Bundesliga (women)
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 at its inception one year later. She then switched to TSV Siegen
Sportfreunde Siegen
Sportfreunde Siegen is a German association football club based in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was founded in 1899 as the football department of the gymnastics club Turn Verein Jahn von 1879 Siegen...

, winning the championship in 1991
Fußball-Bundesliga (women) 1990-91
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 and 1992
Fußball-Bundesliga (women) 1991-92
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. Siegen also came close to winning the cup in both seasons, losing out in finals to Grün-Weiß Brauweiler and FSV Frankfurt
FSV Frankfurt
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. After the season she lost her place in the starting eleven to Silke Rottenberg
Silke Rottenberg
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International career

She was capped 58 times for Germany's national team
Germany women's national football team
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. Her debut was on November 10, 1982 against Switzerland
Switzerland women's national football team
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. In the semifinal of the 1989 EURO against Italy
Italy women's national football team
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, she held three times in the penalites, before scoring the deciding goal herself. The team went on to win the championship and defended the title two years later. In 1991, she was also part of the team at the World Cup. The third place game against Sweden
Sweden women's national football team
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was her last cap.
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