PELOVA Victoria

FIFA Women's World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Senior	2019	France

FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
6	U20	2018	France

Playing chess, listening to music. (telegraaf.nl, 21 Feb 2021)

Athlete

Mathematics - Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Dutch, English

Ajax [Netherlands] since 2019

Danny Schenkel [club], NED; Sarina Wiegman [national], NED

She played chess in her youth and competed in a national competition in the Netherlands at age 11. (telegraaf.nl, 21 Feb 2021)

2018 for Netherlands Against Spain, Friendly Match in La Manga del Mar Menor, Spain (delta.tudelft.nl, 21 Apr 2021; ad.nl, 31 Jan 2018)

Her training was disrupted ahead of the 2019 World Cup in France due to a shoulder injury. The injury sidelined her for four months, but she returned in time for the World Cup. (AFC Ajax YouTube channel, 22 Jul 2020; omroepwest.nl, 14 Jun 2019)

A knee injury kept her out of the 2020 Tournoi de France in France. (fcupdate.nl, 05 Mar 2020)

Eredivisie [NED] (ajax.nl, 31 May 2021)

She took up the sport at age seven at Concordia club in Delft, Netherlands. She first played football in a boys' team, and joined the women's team at ADO Den Haag at age 17. (AFC Ajax YouTube channel, 22 Jul 2020; telegraaf.nl, 21 Feb 2021; omroepwest.nl, 14 Jun 2019)

"I always played football with a friend on the streets and that's why we decided to go to a football club." (AFC Ajax YouTube channel, 22 Jul 2020)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (delta.tudelft.nl, 21 Apr 2021)

Danish footballer Christian Eriksen, Spanish footballer Andres Iniesta, Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi. (AFC Ajax YouTube channel, 22 Jul 2020; telegraaf.nl, 21 Feb 2021)

In 2021 she was named Female Player of the Year by her club Ajax. (ajax.nl, 31 May 2021)