Hanna Ljungberg
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Hanna Carolina Ljungberg | ||
Date of birth | January 8, 1979 | ||
Place of birth | Umeå, Sweden | ||
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Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team
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Umeå IK | ||
Number | 10 | ||
Youth career | |||
1986–1994 | Mariehem SK | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1994–1998 | Sunnanå SK | ||
1998–2009 | Umeå IK | 227 | (196) |
International career | |||
1996–2008 | Sweden | 130 | (72) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Hanna Carolina Ljungberg (born January 8, 1979 in Umeå, Västerbotten) 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 February 6, 1996 where Sweden won 8-0 against Spain.
She is not related to Swedish male football star Fredrik Ljungberg. Ljungberg is a fairly common Swedish surname formed by the words ljung (English: calluna) and berg (English: mountain).
Ljungberg can be seen in the Sveriges Television documentary television series The Other Sport from 2013.
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).[1] She also scored a record setting number of goals that season with 39 goals (roughly 1.78 goals per game).[2] Ljungberg made altogether 227 league appearances for Umeå IK and scored 196 goals.
As a world class forward, 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.[3] During the UEFA Women's Cup 2002-03, Ljungberg was the top goalscorer in the tournament with 10 goals.[4] Italian men's football club Perugia contacted Ljungberg to hire her for their Serie A roster, but the deal aborted.[5][6]
She debuted as a goalkeeper on May 17, 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.[7] Her fame in Sweden has led to stamps commemorating her and several other Swedish footballers for the Swedish Football Association's 100th year anniversary.[8]
In August 2009 Ljungberg announced her retirement from football after a knee injury in a league match on July 5. 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 Maria Bergkvist assistant coach, 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.[9]
Honours
Individual
- Diamond Ball (1):
- 2001-02
- Sweden: Female Forward of the Year (1):
- 2004-05
- Damallsvenskan Top Goalscorer (1):
- 2001-02 (39 goals)
- 3rd Place: 2002-03
Club
- Champion (7): 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
- Svenska Cupen Damer:
- Champion (4): 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007
- Runners-up (2): 2005 ,2006
- Champion (2): 2007, 2008
- Runners-up (1): 2009
- Champion (2): 2003, 2004 (did not play in final)
- Runners-up (3): 2002, 2007, 2008
National Team
- Runners-up (1): 2003
- Champion (1): 2001
- 3rd Place (3): 2002, 2006, 2007
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External links
- Club Profile (in Swedish)
- Ljungberg and Svensson
- National Team Profile
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- 1979 births
- Living people
- People from Umeå
- Swedish women's footballers
- Damallsvenskan players
- Sunnanå SK players
- Umeå IK players
- Sweden women's international footballers
- Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers of Sweden
- 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- FIFA Century Club
- Umeå University alumni
- Association football forwards