Sara Mella

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Sara Mella
Fiorentina Women's FC vs UPC Tavagnacco 2018-06-16 - Mella (cropped).jpg
Personal information
Date of birth (1998-04-14) 14 April 1998 (age 26)
Place of birth Pordenone, Italy
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Sassuolo
Number 3
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2014–2015 Pordenone 20 (0)
2015–2016 Vittorio Veneto 20 (5)
2017–2019 Tavagnacco 36 (0)
2019–2021 Hellas Verona 35 (2)
2021–2022 Empoli 20 (0)
2022– Sassuolo 17 (0)
International career
2013–2015 Italy U17 5 (0)
2015–2017 Italy U19 12 (2)
2018 Italy U23 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Sara Mella (born 14 April 1998) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Italian Women's Serie A club Sassuolo. [1] [2]

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Career

Coming through the youth ranks of her home town club Pordenone, Mella made her Serie A debut as a substitute in a 7–0 away loss to eventual champions AGSM Verona (now Hellas Verona) on 1 March 2014. Pordenone finished 7th out of 16 in the league that season, but finished second-from-bottom the following campaign, including another 7–0 loss at Verona, and were relegated.

Mella left that summer to move to Vittorio Veneto, suffering relegation from Serie A at the end of 2015–16, departing at the start of 2017 to go to Tavagnacco. [3] [4] Two impressive seasons followed, with Tavagnacco finishing sixth in 2016–17, and third behind runaway top-two Juventus and Brescia in 2017–18.

A move to the renamed ASD Verona followed from 2019 to 2021, and for the 2021–22 season, Mella went to Empoli. [5]

Mella moved to Sassuolo at the start of the 2022–23 season, finishing top of the relegation play-offs group and clinching sixth spot that season.

The following campaign, Mella helped Sassuolo to their joint second-best finish ever by taking fourth place in Serie A Femminile for 2023–24.

International career

She has played 18 times for underage Italy sides, including one cap for the Olympic selection at under-23 level.

With the Azzurrine of the Italian Under-17 national team, she achieved third place in the 2014 European Championship in the category and third place in the World Cup in Costa Rica.

Corradini later called her up to the Under-19 team involved in the qualifications for the 2016 European Championship in Slovakia. With the U-19 team, on 17 September 2015 she made her debut in an official UEFA competition in the match won 11–0 against her peers from Cyprus, scoring the third and seventh goals of the match in the 41st and 69th minutes of the first qualifying phase. She also played two other matches in the elite phase where the Azzurrine finished only in third place in group 4, missing out on access to the final phase.

Also in the squad for the next qualifying phase for the European Championship in Northern Ireland 2017, he played all six matches of the first phase and the elite phase, with Italy managing to reach first place in group 5 and thus access the final phase after their last participation in the European Championship at home in 2011. She played all three matches in group B, finishing with two defeats and a draw in last place, thus being eliminated from the tournament.

Called up to the Under-23 team, she made her debut against the United States Under-20s, losing 3–1 on 9 April 2018.

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References

  1. ↑ "Permac Vittorio Veneto | Sito Ufficiale » Mella, bronzo ai mondiali, vestirà rossoblu". 21 July 2015. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015.
  2. ↑ Berardi, Giuseppe (1 November 2019). "Intervista esclusiva a Sara Mella: "Mi ispiro a Lucy Bronze"". L Football.
  3. ↑ Femminile, Tavagnacco (15 July 2017). "Sara Mella torna a giocare in Friuli: vestirà la maglia del Tavagnacco".
  4. ↑ Cesare, Alessandro (14 July 2017). "Sara Mella torna a giocare in Friuli: vestirà la maglia del Tavagnacco".
  5. ↑ "Sara Mella è una nuova calciatrice azzurra". Empoli FC. 20 July 2021.
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