Full name Magdalena Ericsson Number 20 Years Team Role Footballer Current team Linkopings FC | 2009–2010 Hammarby IF DFF Name Magdalena Ericsson Height 1.72 m | |
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Date of birth (1993-09-08) 8 September 1993 (age 22) | ||
VM-förberedelse med Magdalena Eriksson
Magdalena "Magda" Eriksson (also Ericsson, born 8 September 1993) is a Swedish footballer who plays as a defender for the Damallsvenskan club Linköpings FC and the Sweden women's national football team. A left back, she used to play for Hammarby and Djurgården.
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- VM frberedelse med Magdalena Eriksson
- INSIDE LFC Magdalena Eriksson Emma Lennartsson
- Club career
- International career
- Personal life
- References
INSIDE LFC - Magdalena Eriksson & Emma Lennartsson
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.
In November 2011, Eriksson left relegated Hammarby for their Stockholm rivals Djurgårdens. After scoring one goal in 19 appearances in the 2012 Damallsvenskan, she quit Djurgårdens, who were also relegated, for Linköpings FC.
International career
As a Swedish under-19 international, Eriksson was part of the victorious squad at the 2012 U-19 European Championship. In November 2013, national team coach Pia Sundhage called up Eriksson to a senior squad training camp at Bosön. 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 took her three months to recover. She was part of the Swedish team that won the silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Personal life
As a young player at Hammarby, Eriksson's pre-match ritual included listening to "Heroes" (David Bowie song).
