Raluca Sârghe

Romanian footballer
Monica Raluca Sârghe Simes
Monica Raluca Sârghe playing for Konak Belediyespor in the 2014–15 season.
Personal information
Full name Monica Raluca Sârghe Simes
Date of birth (1987-07-24) 24 July 1987 (age 36)
Place of birth Hunedoara, Romania
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2009 Clujana
2009-2010 AS Volos
2010–2012 Olimpia Cluj
2012–2018 Konak Belediyespor 88 (18)
International career
2011– Romania 52 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of retirement

Monica Raluca Sârghe Simes is a former Romanian football player and current manager. She helped her teams win eight championships in Romania and five in Turkey also amassing 40 appearances in the UEFA Champions League as well as 52 caps for her country.[1]

Playing career

Sârghe performed athletics before she switched over to football playing. "This advantage makes her one of the fastest wingers in Europe" as noted in a Turkish newspaper.[2]

Club

Monica Raluca Sârghe (navy/rose) attacking Ataşehir Belediyespor in the 2014–15 season .
Monica Raluca Sârghe (red) playing for Konak Belediyespor against Beşiktaş J.K. in the 2017–18 season's away match.

Sârghe played in the Romanian 1st League for Clujana,[3] She enjoyed six championships with them,[2] and took part at the Champions League.[4] She took part in three qualification and two knockout round matches of the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League matches. Sârghe played in three qualifying matches and one knockout stage matches of the 2012–13 UEFA Women's Champions League, scoring one goal.

She moved to Greece in 2009-2010 season to join AS Volos.

After a year away, Sârghe returned to Romania when she was transferred to Olimpia Cluj.[4] During her time there, she lifted two league championship trophies.[2]

In November 2012, she moved together with her fellow countrywoman Cosmina Dușa to Turkey to join Konak Belediyespor in Izmir, which played in the First league.[2] She inspired her team to win five back to back championship titles between the 2012 and 2017. During this time she helped her team reach the UEFA Women's Champions League quarter finals. Sârghe took part in six matches of the 2013–14 UEFA Women's Champions League, in three matches of the 2014–15 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round and three matches of the 2016–17 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round, and scored two goals in total.[5][6] At the 2017–18 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round in Tbilisi, Georgia, she played in two of the three matches for her team. [7][8]

International

She was a member of the Romanian national team, earning 52 caps,[4] and served as their captain.[9]

In 2010 and 2011, she played in four matches of the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 4, and scored one goal.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]

She participated at the UEFA Women's Euro 2013 qualifying – Group 2, capping in all ten matches and scoring one goal.[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]

In 2013 and 2014, she appeared in ten matches for the national team at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2, and scored one goal.[28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]

Goals for the Romanian WNT in official competitions
Competition Stage Date Location Opponent Goals Result Overall
2011 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers 2010–03–27 Sarajevo  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 5–0 1
UEFA Euro 2013 Qualifiers 2011–10–27 Mogoşoaia  Turkey 1 7–1 1
2015 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers 2013–09–20 Strumica  North Macedonia 1 9–1 1

Coaching and managerial career

Sârghe began her coaching career with historic Turkish club Altay SK which she took from the third division until they were promoted to the first divisin.

She then transferred to her former club and most successful Turkish women's football team Konak Belediyespor as an assistant manager. She guided them to the playoff quarter finals where they lost to Turkish powerhouse Beşiktaş JK.

Her feats attracted the attenion of Carmen Bucharest where she signed the following year. With a newborn baby, she became the face of footballer mothers by helping the team achieve remarkable performances against established teams in Romania and also helped guide them to the Romania Cup final, before being let go by club officials for unexplainable reasons. Carmen Bucharest dissolved at the end of the season.

Her success in such a short attracted the attention of Romanian footballing legend Gheorghe Hagi who signed Sârghe to Farul Constanta for the 2023-24 season.

Personal life

Sârghe married Andrew Simes in 2019. In 2022, they had a son, named William.

Career statistics

As of March 18, 2018.[1][38][39][6][7][8]
Club Season League Continental National Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Clujana
Olimpia Cluj 		2004–12 Liga I Feminin 9 1 18 2
Total 9 1 18 2
Konak Belediyespor 2012–13 First League 14 6 – – 0 0 14 6
2013–14 First League 11 1 6 0 7 1 24 2
2014–15 First League 16 9 3 1 3 0 22 10
2015–16 First League 17 1 0 0 0 0 17 1
2016–17 First League 17 1 3 1 0 0 20 2
2017–18 First League 13 0 2 0 0 0 15 0
Total 88 18 14 2 10 1 112 21
Career total 23 3 28 3

Honours

Turkish Women's First Football League
Konak Belediyespor
Winners (5): 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17
Romania Women's First Football League
Clujana
Winners (6): 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09
Olimpia Cluj
Winners (2): 2010-11, 2011-12

References

  1. ^ a b "Player Details – Monica Raluca Sarghe". Turkish Football Federation. Retrieved 2014-05-15.
  2. ^ a b c d "Raluca Sarghe 11 yılda 9 şampiyonluk gördü". Medya Faresi (in Turkish). 2015-01-03. Retrieved 2016-08-29.
  3. ^ 2011–12 squad Archived 2011-09-03 at the Wayback Machine in Olimpia's website
  4. ^ a b c Profile in UEFA's website
  5. ^ "UEFA Women's Champions League 2015 Qualifying round Konak-Rīgas". UEFA. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
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  7. ^ a b "David Petriashvili Stadium – Tbilisi 25/08/2017 Qualifying – Group 1 Partizan Bardejov 1–5 Konak". UEFA. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
  8. ^ a b "David Petriashvili Stadium – Tbilisi 25/08/2017 Qualifying – Group 1 Konak 1–3 Gintra". UEFA. Retrieved 2017-08-28.
  9. ^ "Raluca Sarghe, "extraterestra" fotbalului feminin romanesc". City News (in Romanian). 2011-05-04. Archived from the original on 2016-09-16. Retrieved 2016-08-29.
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