Olivia Maria Oprea (born 19 March 1987), commonly known in Spain as Oli, is a Romanian professional

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who plays as a

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and a defensive midfielder for Spanish

Liga F The Primera División de la Liga de Fútbol Femenino, currently known as Liga F (finetwork Liga F for sponsorship reasons), is the highest level of league competition for women's football in Spain. It is the women's equivalent of the men's La Lig ...

club Alhama and the

Romania national team Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and t ...

. She has also played in Spain for

Sporting Huelva Sporting Club de Huelva is a Spanish women's football club from Huelva, Andalusia. It was founded in Huelva in 2004 as a restructuring of an homonymous junior (men's) football club, which had been founded in 1979 and dissolved nine years later ...

and

Sevilla FC Sevilla Fútbol Club () is a Spanish professional football club based in Seville, the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. It plays in Spanish football's top flight, La Liga. Sevilla have won the UEFA Euro ...

, as well as in

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's A Division for

Amazones Dramas Amazones Dramas A.S. ( el, Α.Σ. Αμαζόνες Δράμας) is a Greek women's football club from the city of Drama. It plays in Greek's highest national football league, the Greek A Division known as ''Alpha Ethniki''. The team won the cham ...

, and in the 2005-06 UEFA Women's Cup with

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

Alma KTZh BIIK Shymkent ( kk, БИІК-Қазығұрт, BİIK-Qazyğūrt) is a women's football club based in Shymkent, Kazakhstan competing in the Kazakhstani Championship. Formerly established in Almaty as Alma-KTZh, the team won five championships in a ...

. In 2011–2012 she went back to Romania to represent

Olimpia Cluj Fotbal Club U Olimpia Cluj-Napoca, commonly known as FCU Olimpia Cluj, or simply as U Olimpia Cluj, is a women's football team from Cluj-Napoca in Romania. It is Romania's top women's football club, having won all league titles since its incep ...

of the

Liga I The Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1, is a Romanian professional league for men's association football clubs. Currently sponsored by betting company Superbet, it is officially known as the SuperLiga. It is the country's top ...

. She is a member of the

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in

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* * * 1987 births Living people Romanian women's footballers Romania women's international footballers Expatriate women's footballers in Kazakhstan Expatriate women's footballers in Spain Expatriate women's footballers in Greece BIIK Kazygurt players Liga F players Sporting de Huelva players Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Greece Footballers from Târgoviște Sevilla FC (women) players Levante UD Femenino players Zaragoza CFF players Villarreal CF (women) players Alhama CF players Romanian expatriate women's footballers Segunda Federación (women) players Women's association football central defenders Women's association football midfielders FCU Olimpia Cluj players {{Romania-women-footy-bio-stub