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| Full name | Lisa Karolina Viktoria Dahlkvist[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1987-02-06)6 February 1987 (age 38)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Stockholm,Sweden[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adolfsbergs IK | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Karlslunds IF | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005 | KIF Örebro | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2009 | Umeå IK | 22 | (4) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC | 42 | (13) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | Tyresö FF | 44 | (5) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Avaldsnes IL | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | KIF Örebro | 9 | (6) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Paris Saint-Germain | 17 | (2) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | KIF Örebro | 30 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Eskilstuna United | 42 | (3) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2022 | Umeå IK | 61 | (3) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2017 | Sweden | 132 | (11) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 21:45, 7 August 2022 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 25 July 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Lisa Karolina Viktoria Dahlkvist (born 6 February 1987) is a Swedish former professionalfootballer who played asmidfielder. She previously played in the SwedishDamallsvenskan forUmeå IK,Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC,Tyresö FF, andKIF Örebro, in the NorwegianToppserien forAvaldsnes IL and in the FrenchDivision 1 Féminine forParis Saint-Germain.
Dahlkvist made herSweden women's national football team debut in 2008 and has accrued more than 130caps. She represented her country at the2011 and2015FIFA Women's World Cups, the2012 and2016 Olympics,[4] as well as the2009,2013 and2017 editions of theUEFA Women's Championship. Her father,Sven "Dala" Dahlkvist, played forAIK and won 39 caps for theSweden men's team between 1979 and 1985.
After one season inKIF Örebro's Damallsvenskan team, 18-year-old Dahlkvist signed for national championsUmeå IK in December 2005. She found the adjustment to a higher standard of football difficult and was close to quitting Umeå on several occasions during the first two seasons.[5] After settling into the team Dahlkvist developed into one of Sweden's best central midfielders, winning three Damallsvenskan titles with the club.[6]
Dahlkvist also played in Umeå's twoUEFA Women's Cup final defeats in2007 and2008. She scored a penalty in the away leg of the 2008 final.[7]
In autumn 2009 Dahlkvist decided to leave Umeå and received offers from leading Damallsvenkan clubsKopparbergs/Göteborg FC andLinköpings FC. She accepted the offer from Göteborg.[8] When Dahlkvist's contract expired in 2011, Göteborg wanted to keep her, but she was linked with a transfer to league championsMalmö.[9] Instead she decided to join big spendingTyresö FF on a two-year contract.[10]
Tyresö won the Damallsvenskan title for the first time in the2012 season and Dahlkvist collected her fourth league winner's medal, in addition to three won with Umeå.[11] Dahlkvist and Tyresö wereupset in the final of the Svenska Cupen, by her former club Göteborg who won 2–1 afterextra time.[12] Dahlkvist started Tyresö's 4–3 defeat byWolfsburg in the2014 UEFA Women's Champions League Final. Her first-half collision with Wolfsburg'sLena Goeßling left the German playing with a bandaged facial injury.[13]
Tyresö suffered a financial collapse in 2014 and withdrew from the2014 Damallsvenskan season, expunging all their results and making all their playersfree agents.[14] TheStockholm County Administrative Board published the players' salaries, showing Dahlkvist was one of the higher earners atSEK 39 000 per month.[15]
Former club Umeå were not interested in re-signing Dahlkvist, claiming they already had better players than her. Dahlkvist told theExpressen newspaper that salary was of secondary importance and she was prepared to take a pay cut in order to join the right team.[16] In July 2014 she agreed to join NorwegianToppserien clubAvaldsnes IL, who also made an unsuccessful attempt to sign her former Tyresö teammateMarta.[17]
After the ending of the 2014 season Dahlkvist chose to leaveAvaldsnes IL, returning to Sweden'sDamallsvenskan andKIF Örebro, the club that she played for at the beginning of her senior career.[18] After just half a season back at Örebro, Dahlkvist moved on again, joining compatriotsCaroline Seger andKosovare Asllani atParis Saint-Germain Féminine of the FrenchDivision 1 Féminine.[19]
CoachThomas Dennerby gave Dahlkvist her seniorSweden debut on 12 February 2008, a 2–0 win overEngland inCyprus. She attended the2008 Beijing Olympics as one of the squad's reserve players[20] and had been considered for the main squad when the more experienced midfielderCaroline Seger had a pre-tournament injury scare.[21]
The following year, Dahlkvist was included in the main squad forUEFA Women's Euro 2009 in Finland.[22] She started all three matches and performed well as Sweden topped their group,[23] but was dropped to the substitutes' bench for the 3–1 quarter-final defeat byNorway, making way forNilla Fischer.[24]
In June 2011 Sweden included Dahlkvist in their squad for the2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.[25] She was a notable success at the tournament, scoring in three successive games: the only goal in Sweden's second group match againstNorth Korea; putting the Swedes ahead from apenalty kick against theUnited States; and adding a goal in the 3–1 quarter-final win overAustralia.[26] Her three goals led all Swedish players in the tournament.
Sweden finished third after losing their semi-final toJapan inFrankfurt then beatingFrance 2–1 inSinsheim. Third place in the World Cup also ensured Sweden's qualification for the2012 Olympic football tournament in England. Dennerby kept Dahlkvist in Sweden's squad for the games,[27] where they lost toFrance in the quarter-finals. Dahlkvist's form had dipped since the previous year's World Cup.[28]
During the build up toUEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden, Dahlkvist recognised that new coachPia Sundhage preferred Caroline Seger andMarie Hammarström as the national team's first choice central midfield pairing.[29] Despite questionable fitness Dahlkvist was included in Sweden's squad for the2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada. Sundhage described the decision as "a gamble" and hoped Dahlkvist could rediscover the excellent form she had shown at the previous World Cup four years earlier.[30] At the finals, Sweden drew all three of their group stage matches against Nigeria, United States, and Australia. They were eliminated in the round of 16 after losing 4–1 to Germany.
Dahlkvist remained with the squad for the2016 Rio Olympics, where Sweden took home the Silver Medal.[31] Though she did not score during the run of play, she was the final taker for Sweden inpenalty shoot-outs in both theQuarter-Final match against theUSA and theSemi-Final match against hostsBrazil. Her penalty kicks were successful in both contests.[32]
Dahlkvist is a central midfield player whose main strength is her range of passing.UEFA.com wrote that Dahlkvist also reads the game well and takes responsibility during matches, a trait apparent even when she was a youngster.[33] During the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, theDagens Nyheter newspaper described the industrious Dahlkvist as a "tough workhorse in both defence and attack".[34] She is seen as a player who thrives on the big occasion and won praise for calmly converting her 2011 World Cup penalty past the United States' celebratedgoalkeeperHope Solo,[35] a feat she repeated in theRio Olympics.[36]
Dahlkvist is alesbian andcame out publicly in 2008.[37] She's married and has a daughter.[38]
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1. | 26 February 2010 | Municipal Stadium,Vila Real de Santo António,Portugal |  Iceland | 1–1 | 5–1 | 2010 Algarve Cup |
| 2. | 5–1 | |||||
| 3. | 3 March 2010 | Municipal Stadium,Albufeira, Portugal |  China | 1–0 | 2–0 | |
| 6. | 2 July 2011 | Impuls Arena,Augsburg,Germany |  North Korea | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup |
| 7. | 6 July 2011 | Volkswagen-Arena,Wolfsburg, Germany |  United States | 1–0 | 2–1 | |
| 8. | 10 July 2011 | Impuls Arena, Augsburg, Germany |  Australia | 2–0 | 3–1 | |
| 9. | 25 July 2012 | City of Coventry Stadium,Coventry,England |  South Africa | 2–0 | 4–1 | 2012 Summer Olympics |
| 10. | 11 March 2013 | Municipal Stadium,Lagos, Portugal | United States | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2013 Algarve Cup |
| 11. | 2 March 2016 | Stadion Woudestein,Rotterdam,Netherlands |  Norway | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2016 UEFA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament |
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