| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 2 June 1998 | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| National team‡ | |||
| Slovenia | |||
| ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 19:49, 30 August 2019 (UTC) | |||
Katarina Gadnik (born 2 June 1998) is a Slovenian footballer who plays as a midfielder and has appeared for the Slovenia women's national team.
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.
A midfielder is an association football position. Midfielders are generally positioned on the field between their team's defenders and forwards. Some midfielders play a disciplined defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are otherwise known as defensive midfielders. Others blur the boundaries, being more mobile and efficient in passing: they are commonly referred to as deep-lying midfielders, play-makers, box-to-box, or holding midfielders. The number of midfielders on a team and their assigned roles depends on the team's formation; the collective group of these players on the field is sometimes referred to as the midfield.
The Slovenia women's national football team represents Slovenia in international women's football competition and is controlled by the Football Association of Slovenia. They played their first match in 1993 after the split of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991. Before that, Slovenian players played for the Yugoslav national team.
