Zsanett Bernadett Kaján (born 16 September 1997) is a Hungarian professional

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who plays as a

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for Italian club

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and the Hungary national team.

Collegiate career

Kaján played forward for the St. John's University Red Storm women's soccer team in

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, from 2017 to 2021, scoring 45 goals and 11 assists in nearly 6,000 minutes played and 86 appearances. She was one of eight players to score more than 40 total points in the

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Club career

Ferencvárosi TC

While playing with the youth teams of

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, Kaján began her club career with the senior team in 2012. She left the team after the 2013–14 JET-SOL Liga Női NB I season, having tied for second-most goals scored on the team's season with 9.

MTK Hungária FC

Kaján played for

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from 2014 to 2016. In the JET-SOL Liga 2015–16 season, she scored 10 goals in 14 matches, the league's sixth-largest tally. With MTK, she started at forward in

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Round of 32 matches against

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. She scored and assisted in the first leg of the 2016 JET-SOL Liga finals, which MTK lost to Kaján's former team Ferencvárosi TC on aggregate. She then departed for St. John's University.

OL Reign

Kaján was selected eighth overall in the

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of the

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and signed with the team on 20 January 2022. She did not appear for the Reign in her six months with the team before being transferred for an undisclosed fee to

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on 27 June 2022.

Fiorentina

On 18 July 2022,

announced that the club had signed Kajan to a contract through June 2023.

International career

Kaján earned her first cap with the

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at the age of 18.

International goals

:''Scores and results are list Hungary's goal tally first.

References

External links

*
St. John's bio
1997 births Living people Hungarian women's footballers Hungary women's international footballers Ferencvárosi TC (women) footballers MTK Hungária FC (women) players Expatriate women's footballers in Italy Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Footballers from Budapest Women's association football forwards St. John's Red Storm women's soccer players Seattle Reign FC draft picks Seattle Reign FC players ACF Fiorentina (women) players Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Hungarian expatriate women's footballers Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States 21st-century Hungarian sportswomen {{Hungary-women-footy-bio-stub