Sara Agrež (born 9 December 2000) is a Slovenian footballer who plays as a defender for VfL Wolfsburg and has appeared for the Slovenia national team.
 Agrež in 2018 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 9 December 2000 | ||
| Place of birth | Žalec, Slovenia | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | VfL Wolfsburg | ||
| Number | 3 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2016–17 | ŽNK Rudar Škale[1] | 7 | (2) |
| 2017–18 | ŽNK Radomlje[1] | 15 | (5) |
| 2018–19 | Pomurje[1] | 16 | (7) |
| 2019–2022 | Turbine Potsdam[2] | 43 | (4) |
| 2022– | VfL Wolfsburg | 7 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2017– | Slovenia | ||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2 July 2020 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 30 August 2019 | |||
Club career
editAgrež started her career at ŽNK Žalec and joined ŽNK Rudar Škale in the 2014–15 winter break.[3] At Škale, she qualified for the first team at the age of 16 and made her Slovenian Cup debut on 12 March 2017. In the 1–0 win over ŽNK Ankaran, she scored the decisive goal.[4] After her debut season, in which she played in seven games, she moved to ŽNK Radomlje and a year later signed with league rivals ŽNK Pomurje Beltinci.[5] On May 10, 2019, Agrež moved to Germany to join Bundesliga side 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam.[6] In 2022, she signed to join VfL Wolfsburg.[7] She was used since the first day of the championship, taking over for Felicitas Rauch in the 66th minute in the home match won 4–0 over the opponents of SGS Essen, then making her debut in the Champions League, as a starter, on 20 October 2022 in the match won 4–0 over the Austrians of St. Pölten, the first match of group B of the group stage of the 2022–2023 edition.
International career
editAgrež was called up by the Slovenian Football Federation in 2015 at age 14 to the Under-17 team for the qualifiers for the 2016 European Championship in Belarus. She was used in two of the three matches of the first phase where her national team, despite having the same number of points (6) with two wins and one defeat, failed to pass the round due to a worse goal difference than Switzerland and Serbia. She also remained at altitude for the subsequent qualification for the 2017 European Championship in the Czech Republic, taking the field in all six matches of the two phases, where Slovenia got a good performance by closing the elite phase in second position one point from the Netherlands, however not enough to access the final phase.
After she had played for the U-19 team in the qualifiers for the 2018 U19 European Championship,[8] Agrež was called up to the senior team for the first time on May 25, 2017. She earned a cap for the Slovenia national team, making her debut with the first in the two-legged friendly against Albania on June 6 and 9, and appearing for the team during the 2019 World Cup qualifying cycle.[9]
Personal
editAgrež graduated from Gimnazija Šiška in Ljubljana in the summer of 2018.[10]
International goals
edit| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 24 November 2017 | Ajdovščina Stadium, Ajdovščina, Slovenia |  Faroe Islands |
2–0 | 5–0 | 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
References
edit- ^ a b c "Sara Agrež" [Sara Agrež] (in Slovenian). Football Association of Slovenia. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
- ^ "Sara Agrež" [Sara Agrež] (in German). German Football Association. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
- ^ "V elitno nemško ligo tudi Sara Agrež". www.nzs.si. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
- ^ "NZS – Nogometna zveza Slovenije". www.nzs.si. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
- ^ "Pomurke močnejše za reprezentantko Slovenije Saro Agrež - Pomurec.com". www.pomurec.com (in Slovenian). Retrieved 17 May 2023.
- ^ "Turbine Potsdam verpflichtet Sara Agrež". 26 May 2019. Archived from the original on 26 May 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
- ^ "Next signing confirmed". www.vfl-wolfsburg.de.
- ^ "Slovenia [Women] – AppearancesWomen World Cup Qualifiers Europe 2017/2018". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ "Women World Cup Qualifiers Europe 2017/2018 » Teams (Slovenia)". WorldFootball.net. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
- ^ "Gimnazija Šiška v letu 2018" (PDF).
External links
edit- Sara Agrež – UEFA competition record (archive)
- Sara Agrež at Soccerway.com
- Sara Agrež at WorldFootball.net
- Sara Agrež at FBref.com
- Sara Agrež at the German Football Association
