Sarah Gregorius

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Sarah Gregorius
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Personal information
Full name Sarah Joelle Gregorius [1]
Date of birth (1987-08-06) 6 August 1987 (age 36) [2]
Place of birth Lower Hutt, New Zealand [3]
Height 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) [2]
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 AFC AMSTERDAM
Number 12
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Lynn-Avon United
Three Kings United
Eastern Suburbs AFC
2011–2013 SC 07 Bad Neuenahr 41 (7)
2013–2015 Liverpool 6 (0)
2015– AS Elfen Saitama
2021 - AFC Amsterdam 27 (25)
International career‡
2006 New Zealand U-20 11 (4)
2010–2020 New Zealand 100 (34)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 June 2015
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 4 March 2020

Sarah Joelle Gregorius (born 6 August 1987), is a New Zealand association football player who has represented New Zealand at international level. [4] She plays for AFC Amsterdam since August 2021.

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Education

Gregorius completed a master's degree at Massey University, with a thesis exploring cultural distance in female footballers. [5]

International career

Gregorius was a member of the New Zealand side at the 2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship, playing in all three games at the finals in Russia, where they lost to Australia (0–3) and Russia (2–3), before holding Brazil to a goalless draw. [6]

She made her senior Football Ferns debut in a 14–0 win over Vanuatu in the Oceania Women's Nations Cup on 29 September 2010. [4] [7] She scored her first senior international goal in her second appearance as she claimed a hat-trick in a 10–0 win over Cook Islands on 1 October 2010. [8]

She played all New Zealand's matches at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany and 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada, with 6 matches overall (3 in each tournament). [9]

Gregorius scored a goal against England in a friendly match on June 1, 2019, helping New Zealand win 1–0. [10]

She was part of New Zealand's 2012 and 2016 Olympic teams. [11] She also played in the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France. [12]

On 4 March 2020, Gregorius played her 100th match for New Zealand against Belgium in the 2020 Algarve Cup, when she also announced her retirement from international football. [13]

Club career

In July 2013, Gregorius signed for FA WSL league-leaders Liverpool from German Frauen-Bundesliga club SC 07 Bad Neuenahr. [14]

Honours

Club

Liverpool

Individual

International goals

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.17 June 2012 Centre Park, Māngere, New ZealandFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2–03–1Friendly
2.25 October 2014 Kalabond Oval, Kokopo, Papua New Guinea Flag of Tonga.svg  Tonga 2–016–0 2014 OFC Women's Nations Cup
3.7–0
4.10–0
5.19 November 2018 Stade Numa-Daly Magenta, Nouméa, New Caledonia Flag of Tonga.svg  Tonga 7–011–0 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup
6.8–0
7.9–0
8.25 November 2018Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji 2–010–0
9.3–0
10.10–0
11.1 December 2018Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji 2–08–0
12.7–0


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  1. ↑ "List of Players — 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Football Association . 17 June 2011. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  2. 1 2 "List of Players - 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Football Association . Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  3. ↑ Profile at NZF
  4. 1 2 "Caps 'n' Goals, New Zealand Women's national representatives". The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  5. ↑ Gregorius, Sarah (2017). The world at her feet : an exploration of the experiences of cultural distance for professional female footballers (Masters thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/12233.
  6. ↑ "Match report – Brazil vs New Zealand". FIFA. 23 August 2006. Archived from the original on 19 November 2007.
  7. ↑ "Football Ferns – Line-ups". The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  8. ↑ "Ferns continue scoring ways". New Zealand Football. Retrieved 1 October 2010.
  9. ↑ "FIFA player's stats". FIFA. Archived from the original on 10 November 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  10. ↑ "England vs New Zealand: Women's Friendlies · 2 Jun 19". www.google.com. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  11. ↑ "Sarah Gregorius Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
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  13. ↑ "Sarah Gregorius one of the lucky ones as she retires after her 100th Football Ferns match". stuff.co.nz. 5 March 2020.
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  15. ↑ "IFFHS WOMAN TEAM - OFC - OF THE DECADE 2011-2020". IFFHS. 31 January 2021.


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