Magdalena Eriksson

Magdalena Lilly Eriksson (also Ericsson, born 8 September 1993)[4] is a Swedish footballer who plays as a defender for Chelsea Women in the English Women's Super League as well as for the Swedish national team.[5] A left and centre-back, she used to play for Hammarby IF, Djurgårdens IF and Linköpings FC in the Swedish Damallsvenskan.

Magdalena Eriksson
Eriksson after a match with Chelsea in November 2019
Personal information
Full name Magdalena Lilly Eriksson[1]
Date of birth (1993-09-08) 8 September 1993
Place of birth Stockholm, Sweden
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[2]
Playing position(s) Full back
Club information
Current team
 Chelsea
Number 16
Youth career
Enskede IK
2009–2010 Hammarby IF DFF
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011 Hammarby IF DFF 19 (0)
2012 Djurgårdens IF 19 (1)
2013–2017 Linköpings FC 77 (5)
2017– Chelsea 45 (5)
National team‡
2008 Sweden U15 2 (0)
2009 Sweden U16 8 (1)
2009–2010 Sweden U17 18 (3)
2011–2012 Sweden U19 24 (0)
2013 Sweden U23 4 (0)
2014– Sweden 60[3] (6)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15:57, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 16:05, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Club career

Eriksson began her football career with local team Enskede IK, but was encouraged by her father to join Hammarby IF DFF in order to improve her game. Aged 17, she broke into Hammarby's first team in the 2011 Damallsvenskan season and made her debut against Umeå IK.[6]

In November 2011, Eriksson left relegated Hammarby for their Stockholm rivals Djurgården.[7] After scoring one goal in 19 appearances in the 2012 Damallsvenskan, she left Djurgårdens, who were facing relegation, for Linköpings FC.[8]

In July 2017, after almost 5 years with Linköpings FC, she signed a two-year contract with Women's Super League team Chelsea FC Women.[9][10] On 20 August 2018, she extended her contract until 2021.[11] On 6 September 2019, Chelsea announced that Eriksson would be the new captain.[12]

International career

As a Swedish under-19 international, Eriksson was part of the victorious squad at the 2012 U-19 European Championship.[13] In November 2013, national team coach Pia Sundhage called up Eriksson to a senior squad training camp at Bosön.[14] Eriksson made her debut for the senior Sweden team in a 3–0 friendly defeat by France in Amiens on 8 February 2014. In early 2014, she had a knee injury after colliding with her own goalkeeper, which left her injured for three months.[5] She was part of the Swedish squad that won silver at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[2] In July 2017, Pia Sundhage named Eriksson to Sweden's UEFA Women's Euro 2017 squad.

Honours
Chelsea FC Women
Linköpings FC
Sweden
Sweden U19

Personal life

As a young player at Hammarby, Eriksson's pre-match ritual included listening to "Heroes" (David Bowie song).[6] Since May 2014, Eriksson has been in a relationship with former Linköpings FC teammate and Danish international, Pernille Harder.[15]

During her upbringing, she assumed her last name was spelled with a C because that was how her father spelled it. It wasn't until she was 17 and looked in her passport that she realised it was actually spelled with a K. As such, her last name is often misspelled as "Ericsson" rather than the correct "Eriksson".[16]

Eriksson has a Bachelor's degree in Political science and is currently taking a course in Feminist Theory and Intersectional Power Analysis.[17]

References
  1. "FIFA Women's World Cup France 2019™ List of Players – Sweden" (PDF). FIFA. 27 May 2019. p. 22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  2. Magdalena Eriksson. rio2016.com
  3. "Player Profile". svenskfotboll.se. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  4. "Magdalena Eriksson – Sveriges Olympiska Kommitté". sok.se.
  5. Magdalena Eriksson Archived 2016-09-20 at the Wayback Machine. nbcolympics.com
  6. Andersdotter, Anna (19 May 2011). "Morsning Magda!". Hammarby IF DFF. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  7. "Hammarby tappar Magdalena Ericsson". Damfotboll.com (in Swedish). 22 November 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  8. "Ännu en vinnare till LFC" (in Swedish). Linköpings FC. 6 December 2012. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  9. "Linköpings FC – Linköpings Fotboll Club". Linköpings Fotboll Club.
  10. "Ladies sign Sweden international". www.chelseafc.com.
  11. "ERIKSSON EXTENDS AND AIMS TO BE EVEN BETTER".
  12. "MAGDALENA ERIKSSON TO CAPTAIN CHELSEA WOMEN".
  13. Hammarlund, Pauline (13 July 2012). "Hammarlund's inside track on finalists Sweden". Uefa.com. Antalya: UEFA. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  14. Åhlin, Per. "Ericsson uttagen i landslaget" (in Swedish). Östgöta Correspondenten. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  15. Wrack, Suzanne (13 February 2018). "Pernille Harder: 'I was the only girl in the team but they wanted to play with me'". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  16. Bråstedt, Mats. ""Det är min pappa som har lurat mig"" (in Swedish). Expressen. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  17. "Eriksson hemma" (in Swedish). Sport Bladet. 10 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
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