Hanna Marklund
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Hanna Gunilla Marklund | ||
Date of birth | November 26, 1977 | ||
Place of birth | Skellefteå, Sweden | ||
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Centre Back | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1990–1999 | Sunnanå SK | ||
2000–2004 | Umeå IK | ||
2005–2008 | Sunnanå SK | ||
International career‡ | |||
1997–2008 | Sweden | 118[1] | (6[1]) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:00 13 October 2007 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 2007-09-30 |
Hanna Gunilla Marklund (born November 26, 1977, in Skellefteå) is a Swedish former football player. She played as a defender and wore shirt number 4.
Career
Marklund started playing in Varuträsk IF near Skellefteå, where she grew up. She moved on to play in Damallsvenskan with Sunnanå SK. In 2000, she joined Umeå IK, with whom she won Damallsvenskan three years in a row (2000–2002). After the 2004 season she decided to move back to Skellefteå and rejoin Sunnanå SK, where her two sisters Carolina and Mirjam also played. She went on to captain Sunnanå SK.
She made her first appearance in the Swedish national team on August 8, 1997, against Iceland. She became a regular member of the team, winning a total of 118 caps and scoring six international goals.[2]
In November 2005 she won Diamantbollen, an award given the best female player in Sweden each year.[3]
On January 7, 2008, Marklund announced her retirement from both the national team and Sunnanå SK as a result of her pregnancy.[4][5]
Hanna Marklund appeared for Sweden in two World Cups (USA 2003, China 2007) and two Olympic Games (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004.) Marklund was on the roster for the 1999 World Cup as well, but did not see any playing time.
Hanna Marklund participated in two European Championship tournaments: Germany 2001, and England 2005.
Career statistics
International
- Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Marklund goal.
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref. |
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17 August 2004 | Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos, Greece | Nigeria | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2004 Summer Olympics | [m 1] |
Honours
- Umeå IK
- Damallsvenskan: 2000, 2001, 2002; Runner-up: 2003, 2004
- Svenska Cupen: 2001, 2002, 2003; Runner-up: 2004
- UEFA Women's Champions League: 2002–03, 2003–04
- Sunnanå SK
- Svenska Cupen Runner-up: 1997
Sweden
- FIFA Women's World Cup runner-up: 2003
- Summer Olympics fourth place: 2004
- UEFA Women's Championship runner-up: 2001; semi-finalist: 2005
- Individual
- Fotbollsgalan 2005
- Diamantbollen: Best female player in Sweden 2005
- Best female defence in Sweden 2005
- Fotbollsgalan 2006
- Best female defence in Sweden 2006
- Fotbollsgalan 2007
- Best female defence in Sweden 2007
References
- ^ a b Caps and goals
- ^ "Damlandslagsspelare 1973–2012". Svenskfotboll.se. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
- ^ "Diamantbollen" (in Swedish). Swedish Football Association. Archived from the original on 21 November 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
- ^ Lukas Muller. "'Dam: Hanna Marklund slutar'". svenskfotboll.se. Archived from the original on 2008-01-20. Retrieved 2007-09-27.
- ^ Jens Brandberg. "'Hanna Marklund slutar – för att bli mamma'". expressen.se. Archived from the original on 2008-01-23. Retrieved 2008-01-22.
- Match reports
- ^ "2004 Olympic Games: MATCH Report: Sweden – Nigeria: Group Matches". FIFA. Archived from the original on March 18, 2013.
External links
- The Hanna Marklund Club on Yahoo!
- Profile of Swedish Womens National Team players on Expressen (in Swedish)
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers for Sweden
- Swedish women's footballers
- Sweden women's international footballers
- FIFA Women's Century Club
- Damallsvenskan players
- Umeå IK players
- People from Skellefteå Municipality
- Sunnanå SK players
- 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- Women's association football defenders
- Footballers from Västerbotten County