Having a history as a high jumper, and after being a member of football clubs Eintracht Wetzlar and VfB Gießen she was with 1. FFC Frankfurt (1st Frankfurt Women's Football Club) starting 1997.
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She was born in Mochudi, Botswana as Nia Tsholofelo Künzer (her first name being Swahili for "aim" or "intention"), where her parents were on a two year's tour with a development aid organization.
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She grew up in the Albert-Schweitzer-Kinderdorf (children's village) in Wetzlar-Garbenheim, alongside her brother and seven foster-children.
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