Sara Agrež Explained

Sara Agrež
Birth Date:2000 12, df=yes
Birth Place:Žalec, Slovenia
Position:Defender
Currentclub:VfL Wolfsburg
Clubnumber:3
Years1:2016–17
Clubs1:ŽNK Rudar Škale[1]
Caps1:7
Goals1:2
Years2:2017–18
Clubs2:ŽNK Radomlje
Caps2:15
Goals2:5
Years3:2018–19
Clubs3:Pomurje
Caps3:16
Goals3:7
Years4:2019–2022
Clubs4:Turbine Potsdam[2]
Caps4:43
Goals4:4
Years5:2022–
Clubs5:VfL Wolfsburg
Caps5:7
Goals5:0
Nationalyears1:2017–
Nationalteam1:Slovenia
Pcupdate:2 July 2020
Ntupdate:30 August 2019

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.

Club career

Agrež 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

Agrež 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

Agrež graduated from Gimnazija Šiška in Ljubljana in the summer of 2018.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sara Agrež. Sara Agrež. Slovenian. 24 October 2019. Football Association of Slovenia.
  2. Web site: Sara Agrež. Sara Agrež. German. 24 October 2019. German Football Association.
  3. Web site: V elitno nemško ligo tudi Sara Agrež . 2023-05-17 . www.nzs.si . en.
  4. Web site: NZS – Nogometna zveza Slovenije . 2023-05-17 . www.nzs.si . en.
  5. Web site: Pomurke močnejše za reprezentantko Slovenije Saro Agrež - Pomurec.com . 2023-05-17 . www.pomurec.com . sl.
  6. Web site: 2019-05-26 . Turbine Potsdam verpflichtet Sara Agrež . 2023-05-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190526233442/https://www.womensoccer.de/2019/05/16/turbine-potsdam-verpflichtet-sara-agrez/ . 26 May 2019 .
  7. Web site: Next signing confirmed. www.vfl-wolfsburg.de.
  8. Web site: Slovenia [Women] – AppearancesWomen World Cup Qualifiers Europe 2017/2018 ]. 2023-05-28 . worldfootball.net . en.
  9. Web site: Women World Cup Qualifiers Europe 2017/2018 » Teams (Slovenia) . 29 August 2019 . WorldFootball.net.
  10. Web site: Gimnazija Šiška v letu 2018 .