Simona Koren

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Simona Koren
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Koren in 2014
Personal information
Full name Simona Koren [1]
Date of birth (1993-03-28) 28 March 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth Graz, Austria
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 LSK Kvinner
Number 15
Youth career
FC Stattegg
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2013–2016 ETSU Buccaneers
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2008–2011 FC Stattegg
2011–2012 DFC LUV Graz
2016 Medkila IL 6 (2)
2017 MSV Duisburg 3 (0)
2017–2018 Sunderland 5 (1)
2018–2019 Vaxjo 8 (2)
2020– LSK Kvinner 0 (0)
International career‡
2014–2017 Austria 9 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 00:43, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 00:43, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Simona Koren (born 23 March 1993) is an Austrian footballer who plays as a forward for Norwegian club LSK Kvinner and the Austria national team. [2]

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Career

She started her football career in Union Luv Graz in November 2004 when she was only 11 years old. She later went on to join FC Stattegg in June 2008 [3] where she scored 32 goals in 32 games as 16 year old striker.[ citation needed ] 2009 season she followed up her impressive season before by scoring 20 goals in 40 games for FC Stattegg in the Austrian League.[ citation needed ] She became a highly rated talent in Austria. She was known for her speed, dribbling abilities and her finishing skills. In 2011 her abilities got noticed by DFC LUV Graz, where she went on and kept her scoring record.

In 2013 she moved to America to play college soccer for East Tennessee State Buccaneers. After an impressive spell with ETSU, she got picked by MSV Duisburg in 2017 for a short-term contract.

FA WSL team Sunderland signed a one-year contract with the Austrian international for the 2017–18 FA WSL season. Koren got a flying start for her new club and scored on her debut against Reading where they won the game 0–1. Unfortunately Sunderland Ladies had financial problems and they got relegated from the Women's Super League regardless how they performed in the league.

Koren moved to Växjö DFF in the Damallsvenskan. Struggling with injuries, she didn't manage to play a full season for Växjö. She suffered from shinsplints.

In 2020 she signed contract with LSK Kvinner in Norway. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Simona Koren at the Norwegian Football Federation (in Norwegian) OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. ↑ "La selección de Austria publica su convocatoria para la Cyprus Cup" (in Spanish). Royal Spanish Football Federation. 23 February 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  3. ↑ "Simona Koren". oefb.at (in German). Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  4. ↑ "Simona Koren (LSK Kvinner) - Player Profile - Flashscore.in". www.flashscore.in. Retrieved 4 July 2020.


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