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Hanna Ljungberg

Hanna Ljungberg

Swedish international footballer

Hanna Carolina Ljungberg (born 8 January 1979) is a Swedish former football player, who played the position of forward. She played for the club side Umeå IK and for the Swedish national football team. She debuted for Sweden, at age 17, on 6 February 1996, when Sweden won 8-0 against Spain.

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Career

Hanna Ljungberg was one of several professional players in the Swedish women's league, Damallsvenskan. She was chosen as Swedish Player of the Year in 2002, winning the Diamond Ball (Diamantbollen).[4] She also scored a record setting number of goals that season with 39 goals (roughly 1.78 goals per game).[5] Ljungberg made altogether 227 league appearances for Umeå IK and scored 196 goals.

As a world class striker, Ljungberg was instrumental in the Swedish side that were runners up in the FIFA Women's World Cup 2003 held in the United States, scoring three goals and assisting another. She was also voted 3rd best World Player of the Year by FIFA in 2003. Until October 2014 when she was surpassed by Lotta Schelin, Ljungberg was the goal leader of the Swedish national team with 72 goals.[6] During the UEFA Women's Cup 2002-03, Ljungberg was the top goalscorer in the tournament with 10 goals.[7] Italian men's football club Perugia contacted Ljungberg to hire her for their Serie A roster, but the deal aborted.[8][9]

She debuted as a goalkeeper on 17 May 2007 for Umeå IK when they played against AIK in the Swedish Cup because of Carola Söberg's injury at the 70th minute. She ended the game with a clean sheet.[10] Her fame in Sweden has led to stamps commemorating her and several other Swedish footballers for the Swedish Football Association's 100th anniversary.[11]

In August 2009 Ljungberg announced her retirement from football after a knee injury in a league match on 5 July. The right anterior cruciate ligament, previously reconstructed in 2004, was again partly torn and she decided with her doctors that to continue to play presented too high a risk of permanent disability.

For two years, Ljungberg helped Joakim Blomqvist, head coach of Umeå IK and his assistant Maria Bergkvist, in the coaching of her old team. At the same time, she was studying at Umeå University to become a physiotherapist and graduated in June 2012. She then began a new career as a personal trainer.[12]

Personal life

Ljungberg appeared in the Sveriges Television documentary television series The Other Sport from 2013.

She is not related to Freddie Ljungberg.

Matches and goals scored at major tournaments

Hanna Ljungberg featured for Sweden in three World Cups (USA 1999, USA 2003, China 2007) and three Olympic Games (Athens 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004.) She scored Sweden's lone goal in the 2003 World Cup Final, where Sweden lost to Germany for a second place finish.[13]

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Matches and goals scored at European Championship tournaments

Hanna Ljungberg appeared at three European Championship tournaments: Norway/Sweden 1997, Germany 2001, and England 2005. In the 2005 Semi-Final, she scored twice against Norway, erasing Norwegian leads each time. Her second goal in the 89th minute knotted the score at 2-2 and forced extra time. Sweden could not find a match winner though, and exited the tournament in a 2-3 defeat.[14]

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International goals

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Honours

Club

Umeå
Champion (7): 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Champion (4): 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007
Runner-up (2): 2005 ,2006
Champion (2): 2007, 2008
Runner-up (1): 2009
Champion (1): 2003
Runner-up (3): 2002, 2007, 2008

International

Sweden
Runner-up (1): 2003
Champion (1): 2001

Individual

2001–02
  • Sweden: Female Forward of the Year (1):
2004–05
  • Damallsvenskan Top Goalscorer (1):
2001–02 (39 goals)
Third place: 2002–03

Notes

  1. While UEFA lists Ljungberg as the scorer of the 4–0 goal in this game,[24] the Swedish Football Association instead recognizes it as an Italian own goal.[25] It is thus not included in Ljungberg's official total of 72 goals.

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