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Iva Landeka
Personal information
Full name Iva Landeka
Date of birth (1989-10-03) 3 October 1989 (age 35)
Place of birth Posušje, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
ŽNK Split
Number 19
Youth career
ŽNK Marjan
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2008 Dinamo Maksimir
2008–2011 St. Veit 47 (14)
2011 Unia Racibórz 15 (4)
2012–2016 USV Jena 94 (13)
2016–2019 FC Rosengård 49 (12)
2019–2022 Montpellier 36 (3)
International career
2006–2022 Croatia 102 (14)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 00:10, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 07:46, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Iva Lažeta (née Landeka; born 3 October 1989) is a Croatian football midfielder for ŽNK Split. From 2012 until 2016 she played for USV Jena of the German Bundesliga.[1] She previously played for Dinamo Maksimir in the Croatian 1st Division, FC Kärnten in the Austrian Frauenliga and Unia Racibórz in the Polish Ekstraliga, also playing the Champions League with Dinamo and Unia.[2] She is a member of the Croatian national team since 2006.[3]

Early life

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Landeka was born in the town of Posušje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia. She left for Zagreb when she was 14 years old, to pursue her football career.[4]

Club career

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In August 2016, Swedish champions FC Rosengård announced that they had agreed to sign Landeka from USV Jena on a two-year contract. Rosengård's sporting director Therese Sjögran said that Landeka was not intended as a direct replacement for the outgoing Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir, who was a more defensive midfielder.[5]

International career

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Goals scored for the Croatian WNT in official competitions
Competition Stage Date Location Opponent Goals Result Overall
2009 UEFA Euro Qualifiers 2006–11–18 Adana  Georgia 2 6–0 3
2006–11–20 Adana  Turkey 1 2–1
2011 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers 2010–08–25 Belfast  Northern Ireland 1 1–3 1
2015 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers 2014–05–08 Ptuj  Slovenia 1 3–0 1
2017 UEFA Euro Qualifiers 2015–09–17 Erzurum  Turkey 1 4–1 1

References

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  1. ^ Jena signs Iva Landeka. Archived 9 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine Womensoccer.de
  2. ^ Profile in UEFA's website
  3. ^ Statistics in the Croatian Football Federation's website
  4. ^ "Interview: Iva Landeka najbolja Hercegovačka nogometašica" (in Croatian). Hercegovina.info. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  5. ^ Wiman, Max (6 August 2016). "Sydsvenskan avslöjar: Kroatiska klar för FCR" (in Swedish). Sydsvenskan. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
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