Kaja Erzen

Kaja Erzen (born 21 August 1994) is a Slovenian footballer who plays for Napoli and the Slovenia women's national team. On 9 July 2021, it was announced that Erzen joined Napoli.

Club Career

Erzen began her career as a 14-year old midfielder with Slovenian club Velesovo in 2008. Erzen stayed with Velesovo for three seasons, helping the club achieve promotion to Slovenia's first division. Erzen then moved to Pomurje in the summer of 2011, where she began to score goals at a prolific rate. She won the Slovenian league and cup double as well as two consecutive league winner's medals during her stay with the Pormuje. After a run of games where Erzen scored 27 goals in 19 starts, she decided to move abroad to Austrian club Carinthians in 2014.

Erzen struggled to establish herself in her lone season at Carinthians and took up the offer to join compatriot coach Boris Ljubic, as well as seven fellow Slovenian teammates, at LUV Graz for the OFB-Frauenliga 2015–16 season. The team clinched seventh position in the league and saved themselves from relegation, before Erzen chose to return to her native Slovenia and sign with Olimpia Ljubljana for the 2016–17 season.

It was with Olimpia Ljubljana that Erzen rediscovered her goalscoring touch in attack, scoring 22 goals in 19 starts and ranking as the team's second-highest goalscorer for the season. Her attacking prowess caught the attention of Italian Serie A club Tavagnacco across the border, and Erzen signed for the Italian team in July 2017.

During her two seasons with Tavagnacco, Erzen played mostly as a winger and helped her side compete near the top of the Serie A table as well as reaching the Coppa Italia semi-final. During her second season with Tavagnacco, Erzen would score against Roma in a league match on 31 October 2018. Erzen's goals and performances from the wing captured the attention of Roma, who then signed the Slovenian in the summer of 2019.

During her stay with Roma, Erzen converted herself to a full-back role for