Christiane Endler

Endler held off the tournament's most effective attack for most of the match, but conceded in the 89th minute.

Santos won 1-0 and took the title, their second in a row.

Claudia Christiane Endler Mutinelli (born 23 July 1991) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as goalkeeper for Division 1 Féminine club Lyon.

She has previously played for Colo-Colo, Valencia, Paris Saint-Germain, and the University of South Florida.

Endler is widely regarded as one of the best female goalkeepers in the world.

In 2009, Endler participated in the first ever edition of the Copa Libertadores Femenina.

In 2010, Endler reached her first ever Copa Libertadores final with Everton de Viña del Mar, where she would play Santos, a team that contacted her to play the year before.

Everton was the first ever Chilean team to make the final of an international women's tournament.

During the 2011 Pan American Games, she was recruited to play in the United States for the D1 University of South Florida Bulls.

After three years of playing semi-professionally in Chile, Endler departed the country in July 2011 to attend college for two years.

She was enrolled on a scholarship and at first studied physical education, but switched her major to instead study Business Administration.

It was there that she learned English.

In 2011, after impressing at the previous year's Copa America, she was signed to Chilean team Colo-Colo.

In 2011, Endler participated in her second consecutive and Colo-Colo's first Copa Libertadores final, where they fell to São José Esporte Clube.

The following month in June, she announced her departure from Colo-Colo, opting to go to the United States and pursue a college education.

In 2012, she started all 19 games and throughout the season recorded 83 saves with an .847 (84.7%) save percentage.

She also recorded nine shutouts and was named Big East goalkeeper of the week twice and Big East freshman of the week once.

During her fall break in 2012, Colo-Colo were playing the Copa Libertadores, so she very briefly went on loan to compete in the beginning stages of the tournament.

In 2012, while still in college, Endler took advantage of her brief fall break to participate in her third Libertadores final in a row.

Luckily for her, the match went to penalties after regulation time.

Endler had anticipated the probability of a penalty shootout and reviewed strategy with her coach the day before.

To end the shootout, she stopped the final penalty and won her first Copa Libertadores title.

Along with Santos, Colo-Colo became the only other club to win both the Men's and Women's Copa Libertadores.

Chilean publication Dale Albo cites this victory as a turning point for women's football in Chile, allowing other women's clubs to establish themselves and find success in the tournament.

In 2013 she was named to the second team for the AAC and was named AAC goalkeeper of the week three times.

That same season she had an .806 (80.6%) save percentage and a career-high 87 saves for the season.

In 2014, she helped lead the Bulls to a regular season conference championship.

In 2014, Endler was signed by Chelsea.

She made her WSL Cup debut in a 5-1 win against Watford and was in goal for another WSL Cup against Millwall.

Endler was having a convincing start to her season, but due to the newfound intensity of training and workouts, she began feeling discomfort in her knee that developed into a season-ending ruptured meniscus injury.

Chelsea offered to extend Endler's contract, but she believed the contract didn't offer enough to sustain the expensive cost of living in England.

In all seasons from 2019 to 2022 she was among the three finalists nominated for Best Women's Goalkeeper at the Best FIFA Football Awards.

She won the award in 2021.

Endler was born in Santiago, Chile, to a German father and a Chilean mother with Italian ancestry.

From childhood, Endler showed talent for sports, playing tennis, swimming, hockey, basketball, volleyball and gymnastics before dedicating herself full time to football.

At 10 years old, she went to her first football club, Stadio Italiano, and as a teenager she attended a German high school where she started to get formal football training.

Throughout her youth, she played as a forward, but when she was 15, Endler had trials with the Chile U17 national team.

Because of her height, former Chilean goalkeeper and then-coach Marco Cornez advised her to switch her position to goalkeeper.

At 17 years old, she started playing semi-professionally with Unión La Calera's women's team.

She spent two years with the club where she finished fifth and sixth in the league table, respectively.