"Anyone looking at the SC Freiburg team photo from the 2019 DFB Cup final today will probably do a double-take at some familiar faces on there: Giulia Gwinn and Klara Bühl next to each other at the bottom, captain Clara Schöne at the top left. The picture from the RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne between the then surprise finalists Freiburg and the 11-time cup winners from Wolfsburg preserves a moment when careers were still in their early stages, at least when you look at Gwinn and Bühl."
"When Schöne, now assistant coach at Bayern, looks back on that day today, her memories are tinged with a sense of melancholy. It was her penultimate match for Freiburg, she says, an intense day on which she was "firmly convinced we would win the final". In the end they came close, "we played a very good game". Bühl, who was 18 at the time, has similar thoughts: she also had "one or two good chances - we were close, we were just missing the goal"."
An SC Freiburg team photo from the 2019 DFB Cup final captures Giulia Gwinn, Klara Bühl and captain Clara Schöne at early stages of their careers, with Freiburg losing 1-0 to VfL Wolfsburg. Schöne recalls the day with melancholy, calling it her penultimate match for Freiburg and saying she was 'firmly convinced we would win the final'. Bühl remembers having 'one or two good chances' and missing the decisive goal. In 2025 FC Bayern Women ended a 13-year wait by winning the trophy; Schöne celebrated a second title while Gwinn and Bühl won their first. Freiburg provided formative years that connected the trio.
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