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Nadine Angerer was rubbing shoulders with Pele and Cristiano Ronaldo in Zurich on Tuesday morning, but come Sunday, the world's best female player will be slugging it out at Edensor Park in Sydney's west in Brisbane Roar colours.
And the newly crowned FIFA women's player of the year wouldn't want it any other way on a football journey that brought her to Queensland a few months ago.
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"Nadine was looking for a different challenge, wanted to experience a different culture and play in a different competition," Brisbane W-League coach Belinda Wilson said in explaining how the Roar snared the services of the veteran goalkeeper.
The Roar can also thank their striker Tameka Butt, who last year played alongside Angerer at German club FFC Frankfurt.
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"Tameka was having a conversation with her about football, told her about the W-League and the Roar, and she became interested," Wilson said.
"Her agent then sent the club an email and the club agreed that it would be great for us to bring her out here.
"It's fantastic for us, her and the W-League. She's had a fantastic attitude since she's been here and her experience has helped the girls so much."
Germany's women's world player of the year Nadine Angerer returns to the W-League this weekend. Source: AP
The 35-year-old keeper, who captained Germany to 2013 UEFA European Championship glory and saved two penalties in the final, outpolled last year's winner, American Abby Wambach, and Brazilian legend Marta to claim the gong.
She joined Ronaldo on the winner's dais, with the Portuguese star claiming FIFA's Ballon d'Or ahead of Lionel Messi and Franck (FRANCK) Ribery.
"I still can't believe it, but I'm totally calm and can't really take it in," Angerer said.
"I think I'll have to sleep on it for a couple of nights until it finally all hits me.
"I have to thank everybody that voted for me and I just want to pay my respects to Marta and Abby who have had an incredible year too."
Germany's women's world player of the year Nadine Angerer returns to the W-League this weekend. Source: AFP
At the end of the W-League season, Angerer will join American National Women's Soccer League club Portland Thorns.
But Wilson hasn't given up hope of the custodian returning to the Roar for the 2014-15 W-League season.
"We've talked about it, so hopefully it can happen. "It's going to depend on the terms and length of her contract with Portland, and whether they'd be willing to loan her back to us if it's a longer-term deal," Wilson said.
W-League boss Damien de Bohun said Angerer's success had proved "the calibre of international stars" that played in the national women's competition.
"Women's football is playing a significant role in the positive growth of football in Australia and this award shows the point of difference football enjoys in that it is a sport played by men, women, boys and girls," de Bohun said.
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