Siri Worm has played her last game as a professional football player. The 41-time international of the Orange Lionesses planned to retire at the end of the season, but due to an injury, she is now announcing her football retirement. "I have had a very nice career," she said.
"I knew right away that my season and therefore my football career was at an end," Siri says of the moment she was injured. "All at once, seventeen years of top football were over. Of course I had a hard time with that for a while, but the knob has now been turned. I look back with a lot of pride. At the same time, I'm glad I don't regret anything, because I followed my feelings with every choice."
Siri played her last official match on Feb. 1 of this year against the club where her career began: FC Twente (2-2). "I became champion there four times, that remains special. But I also look back on my time with the Dutch national team with a lot of pride. I always wore the orange with a lot of pride. What I will miss most is the dressing room. Fortunately, I can still enjoy that in the coming months, because I will continue to work on my recovery at PSV until the end of the season."
Career
The now 32-year-old Siri Worm made her debut in professional football in the 2008-2009 season on behalf of FC Twente. In total she played eight seasons for the Tukkers, in which she played 148 league games and made thirteen appearances in the UEFA Women's Champions League. She became national champion three times and also won the BeNeLiga twice.
In 2017, Siri embarked on a foreign adventure that took her past clubs such as Everton, Tottenham Hotspur and Eintracht Frankfurt. In 2022, she returned to the Netherlands via PSV. Here she played 55 games and was involved in 13 goals. This season, Siri appeared in eight official duels.
Between 2012 and 2019, Siri played 41 times for the OranjeLeeuwinnen. She scored once, in a match for the Algarve Cup against Japan (6-2 victory). The Netherlands won that tournament.
Talent and mentality
Manager of Women's Football Sandra Doreleijers has nice words to say about Siri's career: "It is a career you can only dream of as a child. She has achieved this with innate talent, an incredibly good mentality and by not putting herself, but always the team first. It is very unfortunate for women's football that her career as a professional football star now ends."
