Stina Johannes signs for the Eagles | OneFootball

German international goalkeeper Stina Johannes will move from SGS Essen via Japan and join Eintracht Frankfurt on 1 July 2022.

Stina Johannes is signing a three-year contract with Eintracht Frankfurt that will tie her to the club until 30 June 2025. Prior to that, the current SGS Essen goalkeeper will play for Japanese top-flight club INAC Kōbe Leonessa.

Born in Hanover, Johannes has been with Essen since 2018 and made 33 Bundesliga appearances for the club. The ‘keeper made her way up the international ranks with Germany, helping her country to the title at the U17 European Championships in the Czech Republic in 2017, saving a total of five penalties in the semi-final and the final. In early 2021, senior coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg gave the 22-year-old her full international debut.

A back injury has seen Johannes miss the first half of the current season, but by the end of 2021 she had returned to fitness, and after making a few appearances for the Essen U20 team, she will continue to get matches under her belt playing in Japan for Kobe, until her move to Eintracht in the summer.

“Really looking forward to continuing my development with Eintracht”

“I am delighted that we have been able to sign a goalkeeper like Stina Johannes ahead of the 2022/23 season,” said Eintracht sporting director Siegfried Dietrich. “She was at the top of our wish-list, and with her playing ability combined with her personality, she fits in perfectly with the way we are developing the team overall.”

“Eintracht Frankfurt is an attractive club with enormous potential,” Johannes added. “Everyone has seen how they’ve come on in recent years. I believe that I will have the opportunity to play on the international stage in the Champions League with Frankfurt in the coming years, and I’m really looking forward to continuing my development with Eintracht.”