 Rohlin in April 2013 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Barbro Charlotte Rohlin[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1980-12-02)2 December 1980 (age 45)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Linköping, Sweden[3] | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Defender | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1987–1994 | BK Kenty | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1995–2015 | Linköpings FC | 232 | (16) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2015 | Sweden[4] | 77 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 00:48, 18 February 2016 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 15:10, 23 June 2015 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Barbro Charlotte Rohlin (born 2 December 1980) is a Swedish formerfootballer who played as adefender andcaptainedDamallsvenskan clubLinköpings FC. She won 77caps for theSweden women's national football team between 2007 and 2015.
Rohlin began playing for Linköpings in 1987, while they were still attached toBK Kenty, and progressed up through the youth teams. In 2009 Rohlin rejected an approach fromPhiladelphia Independence of the AmericanWomen's Professional Soccer (WPS), to extend her contract with Linköpings.[5]
She decided to retire from football at the end of the2015 season, taking a position in the club's marketing department.[6] At the time of her retirement, Rohlin was the player with most appearances for Linköpings with more than 300 matches played in all competitions (232 of them in the league).[7][8]
At the2007 edition of theAlgarve Cup, Rohlin made her debut for the seniorSweden team in a 3–0 win overFinland. Her first appearance in the squad for a major tournament came at the2008 Beijing Olympics.[9]
She was selected forUEFA Women's Euro 2009 and scored Sweden's first goal at the tournament, in their 3–0 group stage win overRussia. Rohlin was also part of the team which secured third place at the2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany. She featured in Sweden's 3–1 semi-final defeat to eventual winnersJapan inFrankfurt. Sweden secured third place by beatingFrance 2–1 inSinsheim.
Rohlin missed the2012 London Olympics with ananterior cruciate ligament injury. After a year out, she returned to club football in spring 2013 and immediately targeted a place in Sweden's squad forUEFA Women's Euro 2013.[10]
Although selected for the2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, Rohlin was no longer first choice due toNilla Fischer's switch to centre-back and the emergence of younger players such asEmma Berglund andAmanda Ilestedt. When Sweden performed poorly and crashed out without winning a game, Rohlin criticised the tactics of coachPia Sundhage.[11]
Charlotte Rohlin appeared Sweden in oneWorld Cup (Germany 2011) and oneOlympic Games (Beijing 2008). She was on the roster for the2007 and2015 World Cups, but did not see playing time in either of those tournaments.
Charlotte Rohlin participated in twoEuropean Championship tournaments:Finland 2009 andSweden 2013. She played every minute of both tournaments.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref. |
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| August 25, 2009 | Turku, Finland |  Russia | 1–0 | 3–0 | UEFA Women's Euro 2009 | [m 1] |
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