Sara Agrež
{{short description|Slovenian footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Sara Agrež
| fullname =
| image = Sara Agrež 20180831 02.jpg
| caption = Agrež in 2018
| height = 1.72 m
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|2000|12|9}}
| birth_place = Žalec, Slovenia
| position = Defender
| currentclub = 1. FC Köln
| clubnumber = 4
| youthyears1 =
| youthclubs1 =
| years1 = 2016–2017
| clubs1 = ŽNK Rudar Škale{{cite web|url=https://www.nzs.si/tekmovanja/?action=igralecStat&id_igralca=83890 |title=Sara Agrež|language=Slovenian|accessdate=24 October 2019| publisher=Football Association of Slovenia}}
| caps1 = 7
| goals1 = 2
| years2 = 2017–2018
| clubs2 = ŽNK Radomlje
| caps2 = 15
| goals2 = 5
| years3 = 2018–2019
| clubs3 = Pomurje
| caps3 = 16
| goals3 = 7
| years4 = 2019–2022
| clubs4 = Turbine Potsdam{{cite web|url=https://datencenter.dfb.de/datencenter/personen/sara-agrez/spielerin |title=Sara Agrež|language=German|accessdate=24 October 2019| publisher=German Football Association}}
| caps4 = 43
| goals4 = 4
| years5 = 2019
| clubs5 = Turbine Potsdam II
| caps5 = 2
| goals5 = 0
| years6 = 2022–2024
| clubs6 = VfL Wolfsburg
| caps6 = 9
| goals6 = 0
| years7 = 2023
| clubs7 = VfL Wolfsburg II
| caps7 = 6
| goals7 = 2
| years8 = 2024–
| clubs8 = 1. FC Köln
| caps8 = 16
| goals8 = 0
| nationalyears1 = 2017–
| nationalteam1 = Slovenia
| nationalcaps1 = 32
| nationalgoals1 = 3
| pcupdate = 2 February 2025
| ntupdate = 16 July 2024
}}
Sara Agrež (born 9 December 2000) is a Slovenian footballer who plays as a defender for Frauen-Bundesliga club 1. FC Köln and the Slovenia national team.{{Cite web |title=Kader {{!}} 1. FC Köln |url=https://fc.de/mannschaften/frauen/kader |access-date=2025-02-01 |website=fc.de |language=de}}
Club career
Agrež started her career at ŽNK Žalec and joined ŽNK Rudar Škale in the 2014–15 winter break.{{Cite web |title=V elitno nemško ligo tudi Sara Agrež |url=https://www.nzs.si//novice/default.asp?id=48950&id_objekta=1 |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=www.nzs.si |language=en}} 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.{{Cite web |title=NZS – Nogometna zveza Slovenije |url=https://www.nzs.si//tekmovanja/Default.asp?action=tekma&id_tekme=60826 |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=www.nzs.si |language=en}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Pomurke močnejše za reprezentantko Slovenije Saro Agrež - Pomurec.com |url=https://www.pomurec.com/vsebina/48312/Pomurke_mocnejse_za_reprezentantko_Slovenije_Saro_Agrez |access-date=2023-05-17 |website=www.pomurec.com |language=sl}} On May 10, 2019, Agrež moved to Germany to join Bundesliga side Turbine Potsdam.{{Cite web |date=2019-05-26 |title=Turbine Potsdam verpflichtet Sara Agrež |url=https://www.womensoccer.de/2019/05/16/turbine-potsdam-verpflichtet-sara-agrez/ |access-date=2023-05-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190526233442/https://www.womensoccer.de/2019/05/16/turbine-potsdam-verpflichtet-sara-agrez/ |archive-date=26 May 2019 }} In 2022, she signed to join VfL Wolfsburg.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vfl-wolfsburg.de/en/newsdetails/news-detail/detail/news/next-signing-confirmed|title=Next signing confirmed|website=www.vfl-wolfsburg.de}} 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,{{Cite web |title=Slovenia [Women] – AppearancesWomen World Cup Qualifiers Europe 2017/2018 |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/team_performance/slowenien-frauen-team/frauen-wm-quali-europa-2017-2018/ |access-date=2023-05-28 |website=worldfootball.net |language=en}} 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.{{cite web |title=Women World Cup Qualifiers Europe 2017/2018 » Teams (Slovenia) |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/team_performance/slowenien-frauen-team/frauen-wm-quali-europa-2017-2018/ |access-date=29 August 2019 |website=WorldFootball.net}}
Personal
Agrež graduated from Gimnazija Šiška in Ljubljana in the summer of 2018.{{Cite web |title=Gimnazija Šiška v letu 2018 |url=https://www.gimnazija-siska.si/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/GimSiska_Letopis2018_enostransko_WEB.pdf}}
International goals
| class="wikitable" | ||||||
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 24 November 2017 | Ajdovščina Stadium, Ajdovščina, Slovenia | {{fbw|FRO}} | align=center|2–0 | align=center| 5–0 | 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification |
References
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External links
- {{UEFA player|250091480}}
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{{1. FC Köln (women) squad}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Agrez, Sara}}
Category:Slovenian women's footballers
Category:21st-century Slovenian sportswomen
Category:Slovenia women's international footballers
Category:Women's association football defenders
Category:1. FFC Turbine Potsdam players
Category:Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Category:Expatriate women's footballers in Germany
Category:VfL Wolfsburg (women) players
Category:1. FC Köln (women) players