Maria Thorisdottir

Maria Thorisdottir
Personal information
Date of birth (1993-06-05) 5 June 1993
Place of birth Norway
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current team
 Chelsea
Number 2
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2017 Klepp IL 59 (8)
2017– Chelsea 11 (0)
National team‡
2008 Norway U15 2 (0)
2008–2009 Norway U16 14 (5)
2009–2010 Norway U17 8 (0)
2010–2011 Norway U19 17 (1)
2012 Norway U20 5 (0)
2015 Norway U23 3 (0)
2015– Norway 19[1] (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:23, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 29 October 2017

Maria Thorisdottir (born 5 June 1993) is a Norwegian footballer who plays for Chelsea and for Norway national team.

Career

Klepp IL

Thorisdottir began her career for the Norwegian first division team Klepp IL.

Chelsea

In September 2017, Thorisdottir was signed by Chelsea on a contract until 2019.

International career

Thorisdottir went through all Norwegian junior teams and participated with the U-17 team in the qualification and the finals of the 2009 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship in Nyon, when Norway was fourth place.[2]

A year later, she and the Norway U17 fell in the second qualification round in the 2010 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship. In the 2011 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship she and her team reached the finals, but they lost for a massive score, 8–1 against Germany.[3] As a result of reaching the semi-finals, the Grasshoppers have qualified for the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Japan. Thorisdottir was part of the 21-roster that played the tournament. Her team reached the quarter-finals, but then they met Germany again and again they suffered a massive 4–0 defeat.[4]

After that her international career came to a halt and only three years later, she was then called for two matches for the U-23 team and on 16 February 2015 she was called for the senior team for the first time,[5] was a part of team that played at the 2015 Algarve Cup. On 23 April 2015, she was appointed to the provisional squad of 35 players for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.[6] On 14 May 2015, she was called for the final squad.[7]

Her father is Thorir Hergeirsson, the coach for the Norway women's national handball team.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Profile". FIFA.com. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "European Women U-17 Championship 2008-09". Rsssf.com. 17 September 2010. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "Women's Under-19 2011 - Norway-Germany –". Uefa.com. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Japan 2012 - Overview". FIFA.com. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "A-landslagstropp til Algarve Cup - fotball.no - Norges Fotballforbund". Fotball.no. Archived from the original on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "Norges bruttotropp til VM klar - fotball.no - Norges Fotballforbund". Fotball.no. Archived from the original on 24 April 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  7. ↑ "Her er Norges VM-tropp - fotball.no - Norges Fotballforbund". Fotball.no. Archived from the original on 14 May 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  8. ↑ Opsal, Signe; Fossum, Øystein (6 March 2015). "Islandske Maria Thorisdottir (22) debuterte mot Island" (in Norwegian). NRK. Norwegian News Agency. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
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