Sandra Voitāne (born 16 September 1999) is a

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Defender who plays for ÍBV in the Úrvalsdeild kvenna. Voitāne began her career as a forward, but over time has transitioned to a defender.

Club career

Rīgas FS

Apollon Ladies

Voitāne joined

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club Apollon Ladies in July 2019, and scored five goals in her first 14 appearances.

SV Meppen

In August 2020, Voitāne joined

SV Meppen SV Meppen is a German association football club playing in Meppen, Lower Saxony. The club was founded on 29 November 1912 as ''Amisia Meppen'' and joined ''Männer-Turnverein Meppen'' on 8 February 1920 to form ''TuS Meppen 1912''. The football ...

, becoming the first Latvian to play in the

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. She made her debut on 13 September 2020, as a substitute coming on at the end of the match against

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. Altogether, she played six matches for the club during the 2020–21 season.

Wacker Innsbruck

In June 2021, Voitāne joined Austrian club

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International career

Voitāne debuted for the Latvia senior national team in February 2015, at the age of 15 years old. With the national squad, she has twice won the Baltic Cup.

International goals

Honours

Individual *

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: 2021, 2020

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* 1999 births Living people Latvian women's footballers 21st-century Latvian sportswomen Women's association football forwards Apollon Ladies F.C. players Rīgas FS players Latvia women's youth international footballers Latvia women's international footballers Frauen-Bundesliga players Latvian expatriate women's footballers Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate women's footballers in Germany {{Latvia-women-footy-bio-stub