Kamila Beregszasziova

Personal information
Full name	Kamila Beregszasziova
Date of birth	(1980-05-03) 3 May 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth	Košice, Slovakia
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1995 – 2001	Olympia Košice	120	(131)
International career
1996 – 1997	Slovakia U18	5	(2)
1996 – 2001	Slovakia	22	(13)
1996,1999-2001	SW Football 11	4
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Kamila Beregszasziova (born May 3, 1980, in Košice, Slovakia) is a former Slovak footballer. She played for the Slovakia women's national football team in four qualifiers at the World Cup and the European Championship. She received a great honor when she received a FIFA nomination and became the only Slovak player to be nominated FIFA World Player of the Year in 2001. Beregszasziova ranked 20th among the best players in the world.

Her talent was noticed by the well-known Czechoslovak league gunner Alojz Martinček [cs]. Beregszasziova made her debut in the senior national team rather than in the junior team,^[1] when she played on August 14, 1996 even in the starting line-up of the UEFA Women's Euro 1997 qualifying match against Finland, on this occasion at the age of 16 (more precisely 16 and 103 days) she became the youngest debutant in the history of the national team.^[2][3]

After making her debut at a young age, she continuously played for Slovakia from 1996 to 2001 in friendly and qualifying matches of the UEFA Women's Euro 1997 qualifying and 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA), in UEFA Women's Euro 2001 qualifying and 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA).

She scored her first goal for the national team as a teenager on September 2, 1997, when she scored a 2–0 goal in 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA) against Bosnia and Herzegovina, a goal she scored at the age of 17 years 122 earned her the record for the youngest goalscorer in the history of the senior national team. Thanks to this goal, she participated in the historically highest victory of Slovakia in Šala in the match with Bosnia and Herzegovina 11:0.^[4]

Six days later, she scored her first international junior goal on September 8, 1997, in the historically first friendly junior match under 18 against the Czech Republic in Brumov, scoring the equalizing goal to make it 1:1 and at the same time being named the best player in Slovakia.^[5]

She scored her first double in the senior national team jersey on April 1, 1998 in a 4-0 victory against Israel.^[6] which made her the best scorer of Slovakia in the net of Israel, against whom she scored a total of 4 goals in 5 matches (two in Bat Jam, 1.4.1998 in the qualification for the 1999 World Cup in a 4:0 victory)^[7] and two in April 2000 in Nitra, in the qualification of the European Championship 2001 with a 4:0 win.^[8][9]

On May 1, 1998, in a 7-0 away win against Bosnia and Herzegovina in a qualifying match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, just in the 2nd minute after the opening whistle of the match, she was the first to score the fastest goal in the history of Slovakia.^[10]

Between 1996 and 2001, she scored 13 goals in 22 fierce matches (qualifications) for the Slovak national team. Her international record is an average of 0.59 goals per match.

In the 2003 World Cup qualifiers, she scored four goals in one match against Bosnia and Herzegovina on 16 August 2001.^[11][12] She was the best player in the match. This makes her the first player in history to score a "goal poker" for Slovakia.^[13]

Appearances and goals by national team and year National team Year Competitive Friendly Total Goals in Matches Matches Goals Matches Goals Matches Goals Slovakia 1996 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 1997 2 1 1 0 3 1 0,3 1998 5 3 4 1 9 4 0,4 1999 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2000 5 5 1 0 6 5 0,83 2001 4 4 4 4 8 8 1 Total 21 13 10 5 31 18 0,58

Slovakia score listed first, score column indicates score after each Kamila Beregszasziova goal.

* FIFA Women's World Player 2001 of the Year (20th place)

• Slovak Women's Football Eleven of the Year 1996

• Slovak Women's Football Eleven of the Year 1999

• Slovak Women's Football Eleven of the Year 2000

• Slovak Women's Football Eleven of the Year 2001

* She scored the first goal poker in the history of Slovak national women's football.

* The second best scorer in Slovakia with 18 goals until October 13, 2001.

Match date	City	domestic	result	hosts	Match type	goals	reference
14.8.1996	Kauniainen	Finland	2:1	Slovakia	Euro 97 Qual.	-	Debut
31.8.1996	Levice	Slovakia	0:4	Norway	Euro 97 Qual.	-
7.9.1996	Aalst	Belgium	3:1	Slovakia	Euro 97 Qual.	-
28.8.1996	Michalovce	Slovakia	1:2	Belgium	Euro 97 Qual.	-
31.3.1997	Novi Sad	Yugoslavia	1:2	Slovakia	Friendly	-
7.5.1997	Štúrovo	Slovakia	2:1	Czech Republic	Friendly		called up for a match/injured
26.6.1997	Dubnica	Slovakia	1:0	Belarus	Harvest cup		called up for a match/injured
27.6.1997	Trenčín	Slovakia	0:2	Yugoslavia	Harvest cup		called up for a match/injured
29.6.1997	Trebatice	Slovakia	0:2	Ukraine	Harvest cup		called up for a match/injured
2.9.1997	Šaľa	Slovakia	11:0	Bosnia and Herzegovina	World Cup 99 Qual.	1
13.9.1997	Câmpina	Romania	1:1	Slovakia	World Cup 99 Qual.	-
5.10.1997	Neulengbach	Austria	0:2	Slovakia	Friendly		called up for the match/moved to the junior team
22.10.1997	Trenčín	Slovakia	4:0	Hungary	World Cup 99 Qual.		called up for a match/injured
1.4.1998	Bat-Yam	Israel	0:4	Slovakia	World Cup 99 Qual.	2
26.4.1998	Žiar nad Hronom	Slovakia	1:1	Romania	World Cup 99 Qual.	-
1.5.1998	Hrasnica (Ilidža)	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0:7	Slovakia	World Cup 99 Qual.	1
13.5.1998	Prešov	Slovakia	5:0	Israel	World Cup 99 Qual.	-
3.6.1998	Bük	Hungary	3:0	Slovakia	World Cup 99 Qual.	-
29.7.1998	Trenčín	Slovakia	2:2	Israel	Harvest cup	-
29.7.1998	Dubnica	Turkey	0:4	Slovakia	Harvest cup	1
29.7.1998	Púchov	Slovakia	0:2	Austria	Harvest cup	-
29.8.1998	Brezová pod Bradlom	Slovakia	0:2	Switzerland	Friendly	-
4.9.1999	Kuressaare linnastaadion	Estonia	0:4	Slovakia	Euro 2001 Qual.		not called up for the match
7.10.1999	Molodechno	Belarus	1:0	Slovakia	Euro 2001 Qual.
16.11.1999	Bat-Yam	Israel	0:5	Slovakia	Euro 2001 Qual.
25.4.2000	Nitra	Slovakia	4:0	Israel	Euro 2001 Qual.	2
18.5.2000	Campina	Romania	4:1	Slovakia	Euro 2001 Qual.	-
15.6.2000	Myjava	Slovakia	0:3	Romania	Euro 2001 Qual.	-
5.8.2000	Stropkov	Slovakia	6:1	Belarus	Euro 2001 Qual.	2
29.8.2000	Žiar nad Hronom	Slovakia	3:1	Estonia	Euro 2001 Qual.	1
27.9.2000	Grado, Friuli-Venezia Giulia	Italy	2:1	Slovakia	Friendly	-
7.4.2001	Dekani	Slovenia	0:8	Slovakia	Friendly	2
9.4.2001	Dekani	Slovenia	1:4	Slovakia	Friendly	2
26.4.2001	Subotica	Yugoslavia	0:0	Slovakia	Friendly	-
29.04.2001	Subotica	Yugoslavia	2:2	Slovakia	Friendly	-
27.7.2001	Zakopane	Poland	0:0	Slovakia	Friendly	-
16.8.2001	Zavidovici	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0:7	Slovakia	World Cup 2003 Qual.	4
8.9.2001	Mogilev	Belarus	3:2	Slovakia	World Cup 2003 Qual.	-
29.9.2001	Žiar nad Hronom	Slovakia	0:2	Hungary	World Cup 2003 Qual.	-
13.10.2001	Istanbul	Turkey	0:3	Slovakia	World Cup 2003 Qual.	-
Total			31	Maches		18	Goal

• "Kamila Beregszásziová". futbalsfz.sk (in Slovak).

• "Kamila Beregszásziová". sportnet.sme.sk (in Slovak).
• FIFA Women's World Player 2001 (pdf)
• FIFA Women's World Player 2001
• Player profile on the official FIFA website