Sari Kees

Sari Kees
Personal information
Date of birth (2001-02-17) 17 February 2001 (age 23)
Place of birth Belgium
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Leicester City
Youth career
SP Budingen
KSV Drieslinter
OH Leuven
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2019 OH Leuven 43 (8)
2019–2020 Genk 15 (0)
2020–2024 OH Leuven 89 (11)
2024 - Leicester City
International career‡
2015 Belgium U15 1 (0)
2015–2017 Belgium U16 4 (1)
2016–2018 Belgium U17 16 (0)
2018–2020 Belgium U19 20 (3)
2021 Belgium U23 2 (0)
2022– Belgium 32 (5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19 November 2024[1]

Sari Kees (born 17 February 2001) is a Belgian footballer who plays as a defender for FA Women's Super League club Leicester City and the Belgium national team.

Club career

Kees started her youth career as a goalkeeper at SP Budingen. At age 10, she joined OH Leuven, and further developed as a central defender throughout their youth teams for the next eight seasons.[citation needed]

On 12 June 2019, it was announced that Kees joined Racing Genk for one season, becoming a team regular there.[2][3]

Kees returned to OH Leuven again in April 2020,[4] scoring the winning goal in their 1–0 win against defending champions Anderlecht in March 2022.[5] Leuven ended in second place behind Anderlecht for three straight seasons, from 2020-21 to 2022-23.[citation needed]

Kees stated that her ambitions for the coming years are becoming a full-time member of the national team, and earning a transfer to a foreign club.[citation needed]

International career

Kees is a member of the national team since the under-15s. As a central defender, she played for the under-19s in the UEFA U19 Championship in 2019 in their group matches against Spain, Germany and England.[6]

Kees made her debut for the Belgium national team on 16 February 2022, in a 4–0 win against Slovakia in the Pinatar Cup in Spain.[7]

Career statistics

International

As of match played 6 October 2022[8]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Belgium U15 2015 1 0
Belgium U16 2015 1 0
2017 3 1
Total 4 1
Belgium U17 2016 7 0
2017 6 0
2018 3 0
Total 16 0
Belgium U19 2018 6 0
2019 13 3
2020 1 0
Total 20 3
Belgium U23 2021 2 0
Belgium 2021 1 0
2022 13 1
Total 14 1
Career total 57 5

International goals

No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 6 September 2022 Yerevan Football Academy Stadium, Yerevan, Armenia  Armenia 7–0 7–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
2. 13 November 2022 Joseph Marien Stadium, Brussels, Belgium  Slovakia 1–0 7–0 Friendly
3. 23 February 2024 Pancho Aréna, Felcsút, Hungary  Hungary 1–1 5–1 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League play-offs
4. 5–1
5. 9 April 2024 Viborg Stadium, Viborg, Denmark  Denmark 1–4 2–4 UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying

References

  1. ^ "Al onze Red Flames" [All our Red Flames]. RBFA (in Dutch). Retrieved 19 November 2024.
  2. ^ "KRC Genk Ladies blijven zich maar versterken". Vrouwenvoetbalkrant.be (in Dutch). 12 June 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Sari Kees: Wedstrijden". Voetbalkrant.com (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Drie Genkies beproeven hun geluk in Leuven" (in Dutch). Oud-Heverlee Leuven. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  5. ^ "OHL wint van RSCA" (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Sari Kees :: OH Leuven". www.playmakerstats.com. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  7. ^ "Match Report of Slovakia vs Belgium - 2022-02-16 - Pinatar Cup - Global Sports Archive". globalsportsarchive.com. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  8. ^ "rbfa profile".


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