Emilia Elisabeth Brodin (née Appelqvist; born 11 February 1990) is a Swedish footballer who played as a midfielder for the Damallsvenskan team Djurgårdens IF. She joined previous club Piteå IF for the 2014 season, having been on loan from Tyresö FF for the second part of the 2013 season. She has also played top-level club football for Bälinge IF and AIK.[2] Appelqvist made her debut for the Sweden women's national football team in February 2014.
 Emilia Brodin training with Tyresö FF in March 2013 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Emilia Elisabeth Brodin[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 11 February 1990[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Uppsala, Sweden | ||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Defensive midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Uppsala-Näs IK | |||
| Sunnersta AIF | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2006–2008 | Bälinge | ||
| 2009–2010 | AIK | 36 | (0) |
| 2011–2013 | Tyresö | 34 | (0) |
| 2013 | → Piteå (loan) | 11 | (1) |
| 2014–2015 | Piteå | 30 | (4) |
| 2016 | Djurgårdens IF | 16 | (3) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2014–2016 | Sweden | 18 | (2) |
Medal record | |||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:24, 20 January 2018 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20:24, 20 January 2018 (UTC) | |||
Club career edit
Brodin, a defensive central midfielder,[3] began her senior career with local team Bälinge IF. In October 2007, at the age of 17, she was given a four-year contract with the club and was described by the coach as a future national team player.[4]
Brodin spent three seasons with Bälinge before their relegation from the Damallsvenskan in 2008. Ahead of the 2009 season, she rejected an offer from Tyresö FF and joined AIK instead. When AIK suffered relegation in 2010, a disappointed Brodin moved to Tyresö explaining that she had to keep playing Damallsvenskan football to be considered for the national team.[5]
Tyresö won the Damallsvenskan title for the first time in the 2012 season and Brodin collected her first league winner's medal.[6] With competition for places increasingly fierce at Tyresö, Brodin moved to Piteå on loan during the 2013 mid-season break.[7][8]
In November 2013 Brodin made her transfer to Piteå permanent, despite reported interest from other clubs.[9] After helping Piteå to a third-place finish in 2015, she left for Djurgårdens IF, explaining that the social aspect of living back in Stockholm had attracted her.[10]
A serious knee injury sustained in January 2017 ruled Brodin out of the entire 2017 Damallsvenskan season and UEFA Women's Euro 2017. Although that was the final year of her Djurgårdens contract, she was happy to sign a one-year extension in October 2017 and expected to be back to full fitness in 2018.[11]
In March 2018 Brodin announced that she was pregnant with her first child. Although she had already resumed training after her knee injury, she was forced to put her football comeback plans on hold.[12]
International career edit
As a Swedish under-19 international, Brodin played the 2009 U-19 European Championship[13][14] where she was chosen one of the Top 10 players by UEFA.com[15] as well as the 2010 U-20 World Cup,[16][17] serving as the team's captain.[18] At the latter competition Brodin played every minute of Sweden's campaign, which ended with a 2–0 defeat by Colombia in the quarter-final.[19]
In February 2010, Brodin and Antonia Göransson were called up to train with the senior national team for the Algarve Cup.[20] By June 2013, Brodin had collected 11 caps for Sweden at the Under-23 level.[21] National coach Pia Sundhage called Brodin up to a senior team training camp at Bosön in November 2013.[22]
Brodin made her debut for the senior Sweden team in a 3–0 friendly defeat by France in Amiens on 8 February 2014.[23] In May 2015, Brodin and Piteå teammate Hilda Carlén were both confirmed in Sweden's squad for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada.[24]
On 8 April 2016, Brodin scored her first goal for the Swedish national senior team, making it 1–0 as Sweden beat Slovakia 3–0 in Poprad during a qualifying game for the 2017 European Championship in the Netherlands.[25] Despite requiring surgery on a meniscus injury in mid-May 2016, Brodin was named in Sweden's 18-player squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics.[26] She described her selection as a "dream come true".[27] She made a 15-minute substitute appearance against hosts Brazil in a disappointing 5–1 defeat, then started the semi-final victory over the same opposition as Sweden ultimately secured silver medals.[28]
International goals edit
| Key (expand for notes on "international goals" and sorting) | |
|---|---|
| Location | Geographic location of the venue where the competition occurred Sorted by country name first, then by city name |
| Lineup | Start – played entire match on minute (off player) – substituted on at the minute indicated, and player was substituted off at the same time off minute (on player) – substituted off at the minute indicated, and player was substituted on at the same time |
| # | NumberOfGoals.goalNumber scored by the player in the match (alternate notation to Goal in match) |
| Min | The minute in the match the goal was scored. For list that include caps, blank indicates played in the match but did not score a goal. |
| Assist/pass | The ball was passed by the player, which assisted in scoring the goal. This column depends on the availability and source of this information. |
| penalty or pk | Goal scored on penalty-kick which was awarded due to foul by opponent. (Goals scored in penalty-shoot-out, at the end of a tied match after extra-time, are not included.) |
| Score | The match score after the goal was scored. Sorted by goal difference, then by goal scored by the player's team |
| Result | The final score. Sorted by goal difference in the match, then by goal difference in penalty-shoot-out if it is taken, followed by goal scored by the player's team in the match, then by goal scored in the penalty-shoot-out. For matches with identical final scores, match ending in extra-time without penalty-shoot-out is a tougher match, therefore precede matches that ended in regulation |
| aet | The score at the end of extra-time; the match was tied at the end of 90' regulation |
| pso | Penalty-shoot-out score shown in parentheses; the match was tied at the end of extra-time |
| Light-purple background color – exhibition or closed door international friendly match | |
| Light-yellow background color – match at an invitational tournament | |
| Light-orange background color – Olympic women's football qualification match | |
| Light-blue background color – FIFA women's world cup qualification match | |
| Orange background color – Olympic women's football tournament | |
| Blue background color – FIFA women's world cup final tournament | |
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NOTE: some keys may not apply for a particular football player | |
Goal |
Date | Location | Opponent | # | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2016-04-08 | Poprad, Slovakia |  Slovakia
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1.1 |
0–1 |
0–3 |
Euro 2017 qualifying |
| 2 | 2016-09-15 | Gothenburg, Sweden | Slovakia
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2.2 |
1–0 |
2–1 |
Euro 2017 qualifying |
Personal life edit
In July 2017, Brodin married her childhood sweetheart Daniel Brodin, a professional ice hockey player for Djurgårdens IF Hockey of the Swedish Hockey League.[29] In September 2018 she gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter named Mila Ida.[30]
Honours edit
Club edit
- Tyresö FF
International edit
- Summer Olympic Games: Silver medal, 2016
References edit
- ^ a b c "List of Players – 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). FIFA. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
- ^ Statistics in Soccerway
- ^ Frennstedt, Thorsten (13 July 2010). "Lagkaptenen som gör andra bra" (in Swedish). Damfotboll.com. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ^ Edwinsson, Lisa (19 October 2007). "Fyra 17-åringar fick fyraårskontrakt". Upsala Nya Tidning (in Swedish). Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ^ "Landslagskapten till Tyresö" (in Swedish). Damfotboll.com. 29 November 2010. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ^ Cleris, Johannes (3 November 2012). "Tyresö vann SM-guld efter dramatik". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ^ "Piteå värvar mittfältare", Piteå-Tidningen, 20 June 2013 (in Swedish)
- ^ Kent Risberg Vikström, "Piteå IF värvar från svenska mästarna", Norrbottens-Kuriren, 20 June 2013 (in Swedish)
- ^ "Landslagsspelare stannar i PIF" (in Swedish). Norrländska Socialdemokraten. 22 November 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ^ Bråstedt, Mats (9 December 2015). "Emilia Appelqvist klar för spel i Djurgården". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 December 2015.
- ^ "Förlängt med Emilia Brodin" (in Swedish). Djurgårdens IF Fotboll. 20 October 2017. Archived from the original on 7 March 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ^ "Comebacken dröjer för gravid Brodin" (in Swedish). Norrbottens-Kuriren. 13 March 2018. Archived from the original on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
- ^ Composed England enjoy final waltz. UEFA
- ^ Julien Debove, The apple of her father's eye, UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, 19 July 2009
- ^ Markus Juchem, Alexandra Popp in Top 10 berufen Archived 2 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Womensoccer.de, 27 July 2009 (in German)
- ^ Statistics on FIFA's website
- ^ Team Profile Archived 20 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine, FIFA: one of two key players.
- ^ "Sweden celebrate successful bow". FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Germany 2010. FIFA. 26 July 2010. Archived from the original on 25 May 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
- ^ Meisels, Daniel (25 July 2010). "Appelqvist: "Inte normal nivå"". Upsala Nya Tidning (in Swedish). Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ^ Persson, Patrik (10 February 2010). "Antonia Göransson åker med A-landslaget till Algarve cup". Kristianstadsbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ^ "U23 damlandslagets spelare 2013" (in Swedish). Swedish Football Association. 27 June 2013. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ^ "Fokus på fysik för damlandslaget" (in Swedish). Swedish Football Association. 24 November 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ^ "Appelqvist, Emilia". Swedish Football Association. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
- ^ Sundkvist, Peter (11 May 2015). "Piteåspelare klara för fotbolls-VM" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 31 May 2015.
- ^ Fredrik Östberg (8 April 2016). "Slovakien en enkel match för Sverige" (in Swedish). SVT Sport. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
- ^ "Appelqvist med till OS trots knäskadan i maj". Expressen (in Swedish). 28 June 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ^ Strandman, Pelle (20 July 2016). ""Det är en dröm som går i uppfyllelse"". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ^ "OS-medaljören Emilia Appelqvist" (in Swedish). Djurgårdens IF Fotboll. 1 September 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2018.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Andersson, Wilmer (3 July 2017). "Stjärnparet gifte sig under helgen". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ^ Hedlund, Tomas (19 September 2018). "Djurgårdsparet föräldrar – babyboom i Djurgården". Hockeybladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 30 June 2019.
External links edit
Media related to Emilia Brodin at Wikimedia Commons
- Emilia Brodin – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Emilia Brodin – UEFA competition record (archive)
- Emilia Brodin at the Swedish Football Association (in Swedish) (archive)
- Emilia Brodin national team profile at SvFF (in Swedish) (archived) (archive 1, archive 2)
- Emilia Brodin at Tyresö at archive.today (archived 28 June 2013) (in Swedish)
- Emilia Brodin at Soccerway