Ana-Maria Crnogorčević

Ana-Maria Crnogorčević
Ana-Maria Crnogorčević, August 2011
Personal information
Full name Ana-Maria Crnogorčević
Date of birth (1990-10-03) 3 October 1990
Place of birth Steffisburg, Switzerland
Height 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Striker, defender
Club information
Current team
 Portland Thorns FC
Number 7
Youth career
2001–2004 FC Steffisburg
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2009 FC Rot-Schwarz Thun
2009 FC Thun
2009–2010 Hamburger SV 39 (13)
2011–2018 FFC Frankfurt 112 (21)
2018– Portland Thorns FC 15 (5)
National team‡
2009– Switzerland 101[1] (50)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 July 2018
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Ana-Maria Crnogorčević (born 3 October 1990) is a Swiss footballer. She plays as a striker for Portland Thorns FC in the NWSL and represents the Switzerland women's national football team. A fast player with good heading ability,[2] Crnogorčević is considered alongside Ramona Bachmann one of Switzerland's most talented female footballers.[3][4]

Club career

Crnogorčević began her club career with FC Steffisburg at age 11. In 2004, she moved to FC Rot-Schwarz Thun, then later to FC Thun. In 2009, she helped Rot-Schwarz win the Swiss Cup final. Crnogorcevic scored a hat-trick in the 8–0 win over FC Schlieren.[5] She was also top-scorer with 24 goals in the Nationalliga A.[5] In September 2009 she joined German Bundesliga team Hamburger SV. She made her debut for HSV on 27 September, scoring in a 3–2 win at SG Essen-Schönebeck. Crnogorčević finished her first season in Germany with eight goals from 19 appearances.[6]

After a body painting photo shoot with the Bild newspaper, Crnogorčević was proclaimed the most attractive footballer in Germany.[3][4]

She signed with Portland Thorns FC ahead of the 2018 National Women's Soccer League season[7][8]

International career

Crnogorčević in December 2011

Crnogorčević, who has dual nationality, turned down an approach to play for Croatia when she was 17.[2] Instead she scored 25 goals in 29 games for the Switzerland U19 team.[2] At the 2009 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship in Belarus, she reached the semi-final with her team. On 12 August 2009 she made her debut for the Swiss senior team in a friendly against Sweden.[9] In August 2010 she scored five goals in an 8–0 World Cup qualifying win over Kazakhstan.[10]

Honours

References

  1. ↑ "Profile". FIFA.com. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Michael Krobath (2010-09-07). "Ana Crnogorcevic: "I Don't Have the Figure for It"". Credit Suisse. Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
  3. 1 2 "Ana Marie (18): Wir haben die schönste Bundesliga-Spielerin!" (in German). Blick. 2009-09-30. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
  4. 1 2 "Swiss outsiders thinking big". FIFA.com. 2010-05-12. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
  5. 1 2 Erik Garin (2009-12-31). "Switzerland (Women) 2008/09". RSSSF.com. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
  6. ↑ "Ana-Maria Crnogorcevic" (in German). Framba.de. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
  7. ↑ "Portland Thorns sign Swiss forward Ana-Maria Crnogorcevic". Oregon Live. 21 March 2018.
  8. ↑ "Instagram". Ana-Maria Crnogorcevic. 22 March 2018.
  9. ↑ "Portrait" (in German). Football.ch. Archived from the original on 28 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
  10. ↑ "Switzerland 8–0 Kazakhstan". UEFA.com. Archived from the original on 4 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-29.


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