Sara Mella
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 14 April 1998 | ||
| Place of birth | Pordenone, Italy | ||
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Sassuolo | ||
| Number | 3 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014–2015 | Pordenone | 20 | (0) |
| 2015–2016 | Vittorio Veneto | 20 | (5) |
| 2017–2019 | Tavagnacco | 36 | (0) |
| 2019–2021 | Hellas Verona | 35 | (2) |
| 2021–2022 | Empoli | 20 | (0) |
| 2022– | Sassuolo | 17 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| 2013–2015 | Italy U17 | 5 | (0) |
| 2015–2017 | Italy U19 | 12 | (2) |
| 2018 | Italy U23 | 1 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Sara Mella (born 14 April 1998) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Italian Women's Serie A club Sassuolo.[1] [2]
Coming through the youth ranks of her home town club Pordenone, Mella made her Serie A debut as a substitute in a 7–0 away loss to eventual champions AGSM Verona (now Hellas Verona) on 1 March 2014. Pordenone finished 7th out of 16 in the league that season, but finished second-from-bottom the following campaign, including another 7–0 loss at Verona, and were relegated.
Mella left that summer to move to Vittorio Veneto, suffering relegation from Serie A at the end of 2015–16, departing at the start of 2017 to go to Tavagnacco.[3][4] Two impressive seasons followed, with Tavagnacco finishing sixth in 2016–17, and third behind runaway top-two Juventus and Brescia in 2017–18.
A move to the renamed ASD Verona followed from 2019 to 2021, and for the 2021–22 season, Mella went to Empoli.[5]
Mella moved to Sassuolo at the start of the 2022–23 season, finishing top of the relegation play-offs group and clinching sixth spot that season.
The following campaign, Mella helped Sassuolo to their joint second-best finish ever by taking fourth place in Serie A Femminile for 2023–24.
