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On Saturday 12 November 2016, Katja Orschmann entered the dressing room after a match with her second-division club Union Berlin and picked up her phone. It was flashing to let her know she had missed a call from none other than Germany U-20 team manager Renate Lingor. The former world champion was calling to invite the 18-year-old on the biggest adventure of her life so far – to Papua New Guinea.
“When I saw her name on the screen, I guessed that might be why she was calling,” Orschmann told FIFA.com during an interview at the team hotel in Port Moresby. Less than 48 hours later she stepped out of a plane on the other side of the world to replace the injured Rieke Dieckmann at the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup 2016. “I like being spontaneous, so this was the perfect situation for me.”
Twin sister Dina, who was already at the tournament with Germany, was particularly delighted by the news and could hardly wait for Katja’s arrival. “She called me up and played a bit of a..
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