# Kamila Beregszasziova

Kamila Beregszasziova (born May 3, 1980, in Košice, Slovakia) is a former Slovak footballer, who burst onto the big football scene as a junior. She represented the Slovakia women's national football team as a striker.
She fought on four fronts in parallel: Slovak Women's First League , Slovakia women's national football team, Slovak national football team for women under 18 years of age , and as a student at the Technical University of Košice
She was nominated for the award 2001 FIFA World Player of the Year, when FIFA, honors the world woman player of the Year for the first time. Beregszasziova in the world football elections took 20th place among the best players in the world, when earning 5 points for Slovakia. She is historically the first and probably only player from Slovakia to achieve this.

## Club career

At club level, Kamila Beregszasziova played for Slovak club Olympia Košice, after being discovered her talent by the well-known Czechoslovak league gunner Alojz Martinček [cs], record holder for the number of goals scored in one match in the Czechoslovak league.
Between 1995 and 2001, during six seasons in Slovak Women's First League, she scored 131 goals. She made her top-flight debut for Olympia on 26 August 1995 against Trnava wearing jersey number 8, while her first league goal at the age of 15, on 30 September 1995 against Čadci, which they won 5:1 . Her good shot at goal and nose for goals were proven when, as a 16-year-old, she managed to score her first Hat-trick (3 goals), and goal poker (4 goals) and also set her personal record 6 goals in one match in an 8:0 win over Ilava. This season, her 6 goals were the most goals scored in a single league match in the top competition of the Slovak Women's First League. Thanks to her great performances, she got into the best eleven in Slovakia, making her the first youngest striker to win this award, only at 16 years old.
In april 2001 she scored her 100th and 101st goals in the Slovak Women's First League in a derby match against ŠK Slovan Bratislava (women), helping her team to a 2–1 victory. Her three goal "poker" (4 goals in one match)in season are remarkable, two of which she were scored in two consecutive home matches ( prvý 6. october and she added the second 22. october 2001), the third "poker" she scored in the Košice derby at Spartak Košice, 17.november 2001 On 24. November 2001, she played her last match for the Košice club, when she scored – the final goal of her career- a 2–2 draw against Prešov, ending her Olympia Košice career 131 goals in 120 league appearances . In total, she has scored four goals in a single match for club "5 times" and country "1 time" during her career, and 5 on two occasions (including an impressive six, which she achieved at the age of 16). In terms of goals scored, she is the best and mostefficient scorer with 1.09 goals / match in the club's history. In the same year, she became a two-time vice-champion of the Slovak Republic with Olympia Košice.; her an excellent year also included her in the best Slovak eleven of 2001, and in the slovak magazine Futbal magazín.
In early 2002, at the age of 21, she announced her retirement from football, it concerned both Olympia Košice and the national team.
After the departure of Kamila Beregszásziová, Olympia Košice lost its breath in the highest women's football league."Unfortunately, we are missing a scorer, with the departure of Kamila Beregszásziová we lost our attacking power. Kamila was Kamila, even the opponent's players had respect for her, not only in Slovakia, but also abroad," tréner Olympia Košice Miroslav Pilčík

## International career

During her rookie season of 1995/1996, she was nominated to the Senior National Team, where she made her debut earlier than in the junior team. When she started in the starting line-up in a UEFA Women's Euro 1997 qualifying match against Finland on 14 August 1996, she became the youngest debutant in the history of the national team - at the age of 16 years - (16 years and 103 days, to be exact).
After her qualifying debut as a teenager in the Slovakia women's national football team, she managed to make the transition to the adult ranks and was a regular member of the Slovak national team 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.
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. She scored her first double in the senior national team jersey on April 1, 1998 in a 4-0 victory against Israel. 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) and two in April 2000 in Nitra, in the qualification of the European Championship 2001 with a 4:0 win.
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.
Between 1996 and 2001, she scored 13 goals in 21 fierce matches (qualifications) for the Slovak national team. Her international record is an average of 0.61 goals per match.
In the 2003 World Cup qualifiers, she scored four goals in one match against Bosnia and Herzegovina on 16 August 2001. She was the best player in the match. This makes her the first player in history to score a "goal poker" for Slovakia.
Beregszasziova played her 32nd and final match for Slovakia on 13 October 2001 in a 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA). against Turkey in a 3–0 victory, when she was won a penalty after being fouled in the penalty area. She ended her career without a red card, never knowing the shame of being sent off at club or national level. In fact, she was only cautioned once with a yellow card in a qualifying match against Romania.

## International goals

Beregszasziova played 32 matches for the senior national team, including friendlies, in which she scored 18 goals, an average of 0.56 goals per match. In 21 official matches for the senior national team, she scored 13 goals, an average of 0.61 goals per match.
    As of match played 13 October 2001
Appearances and goals by national team and year :
| National team | Year | Competitive | Competitive | Friendly | Friendly | Total | Total | Goals in matches |
| National team | Year | Matches | Goals | Matches | Goals | Matches | Goals | Goals in matches |
| Slovakia | 1996 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Slovakia | 1997 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0,3 |
| Slovakia | 1998 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 0,4 |
| Slovakia | 1999 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Slovakia | 2000 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0,83 |
| Slovakia | 2001 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 1 |
| Slovakia | Total | 21 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 32 | 18 | 0,56 |
Slovakia score listed first, score column indicates score after each Kamila Beregszasziova goal.

## Matches and goals by competition

    As of match played 13.October 2001
Matches and goals by competition :
| Competition | Matches | Goals |
| Friendlies | 11 | 5 |
| UEFA Euro qualification | 10 | 5 |
| FIFA World Cup qualification | 11 | 8 |
| Total | 32 | 18 |

## Honours
### Player
#### Olympia Košice

* Slovak Women's First League:
** Champion of Slovakia : Silver 1998–99
** Champion of Slovakia : Silver 2000–01
and then Bronze place in 1999-00

### Individual International

* 2001 FIFA World Player of the Year : 20th place in the world

### Individual National

* Best Slovak women's XI of the year : 1996
* Best Slovak women's XI of the year : 1999
* Best Slovak women's XI of the year : 2000
* Best Slovak women's XI of the year : 2001
* The best scorer of the final tournament for the Slovak champion in the Women's I. League:: 1998-99 (4 góly)
* Second best scorer in the top competition in the Women's 1st League:1996–97 (22 gólov)
* Second best scorer in the top competition in the Women's 1st League: 1998–99 (20 gólov)
* Third best scorer in the top competition in the Women's 1st League:1999–00 (18 gólov)
* Second best scorer in the top competition in the Women's 1st League: 2000–2001 (19 gólov)
* Second best scorer in the top competition in the Women's 1st League: 2001 (24 gólov)

### Records

In the Slovak national team
* She is the first and youngest Slovak national team as striker to make her debut in a qualifying match, in the starting lineup with the number drescode 11 (aged 16 age and 103 days).
* She is the first and youngest 16-year-old Slovak national team (striker) to receive an award among the best players in women's the Slovak XI of the year.
* She is the first and youngest Slovak national team a player to scored a goal for the Slovakia in a qualifying match (17 years and 122 days).
* She is the youngest player (17 years 122) to score a goal in Slovakia's first ever qualifying match for the Women's World Cup.
* She is the youngest scorer (17 years 122) to score a goal in Slovakia's biggest victory in history.
* She is the first author of the Slovak national team of the fastest qualifying goal in Slovak history in the 2nd minute and also the youngest (17 years old).
* She became the first 17-year-old player slovak national team to score a double in a single match in a qualifying match, becoming the youngest player to achieve this record in a competitive match.
* She is Slovakia's national player top scorer into the goal of the Israel women's national football team.
* She is the author of the first "pure hat-trick " in a qualifying match and also the youngest to do so at the age of 21.
* She is the first Slovak national player to unlock the special achievement, achieving the historic "goal poker" including a "pure hat-trick " for Slovakia and is also the youngest player to do so at the age of 21 years and 103 days. She entered the international "poker club", of players who have scored 4 goals in a single match. vrátane „čistého hat-trick “
* She is the youngest Slovak national player who has scored 18 international goals in 32 matches during her career, including friendly matches (without a penalty kick), -at the age of just 21 years and 103 days, which also makes her the youngest and mostefficient the she Slovak scorer ever with 0.56 goals/match.

### History of appearances and goals in the national team
## Complete chronology of appearances and goals for the national team - Slovakia

Source:
| Match date | City | Domestic | Result | Hosts | Match type | Goals | Notes |
| 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 | Women´s Harvest cup | | called up for a match/injured |
| 27.6.1997 | Trenčín | Slovakia | 0:2 | Yugoslavia | Women´s Harvest cup | | called up for a match/injured |
| 29.6.1997 | Trebatice | Slovakia | 0:2 | Ukraine | Women´s 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 | Women´s Harvest cup | - | |
| 30.7.1998 | Dubnica | Turkey | 0:4 | Slovakia | Women´s Harvest cup | 1 | |
| 01.8.1998 | Púchov | Slovakia | 0:2 | Austria | Women´s 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. | | player sitting on the bench |
| 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. | - | 24' |
| 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 | | |
| 14.4.2001 | Dekani | Slovenia | 0:8 | Slovakia | Friendly | 2 | |
| 15.4.2001 | 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 | | Maches | 32 | | Goals | 18 |