Anna Sjöström

Anna Sjöström
Personnel
birthday	April 23, 1977
place of birth	Skelleftea ,  Sweden
position	Midfielder
Juniors
Years	station
	Umeå Södra FF
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1997-2006	Umeå IK damfotboll
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2001-2006	Sweden	67 (7)
1 Only league games are given.

Anna Sjöström (born April 23, 1977 in Skellefteå ) is a Swedish football player . The midfielder took part in several international tournaments with the Swedish national team.

Career

Sjöström started playing football at the age of eight when her father was building a girls' team at Umeå Södra FF . She later moved to Umeå IK damfotboll in Damallsvenskan within the city . After she had contributed to the first win of the championship title in the season 2000 , she nominated Marika Domanski Lyfors for the opening international game in January of the following year against Norway . In the 1: 2 defeat he made his debut alongside Caroline Jönsson , Malin Moström , Victoria Svensson and Therese Sjögran and was subsequently able to become part of the selection team.

Sjöström was also successful at club level, with the club on the one hand she defended the championship title and was able to celebrate winning the double after a 2-1 win over Djurgårdens IF in the final of the national cup . In the following year, the title hat trick succeeded, when in addition to the championship and cup success in summer 2003 in the final of the UEFA Women's Cup 2002/03 against the Danish representative Fortuna Hjørring were won both home and away. The big triumph with four titles was denied to her, as she reached the final of the 2003 World Cup with the Swedish national team , but lost it to the German national team after the Golden Goal .

In 2004 Sjöström defended the championship title with her club. In addition, she appeared in her third final in the UEFA Women's Cup in a row and was one of the goalscorers twice in the 5-0 away win at 1. FFC Frankfurt , which guaranteed to win the title again. In the same year she was part of the national team at the Summer Olympics in Athens . After being eliminated in the semi-finals against the Brazilian national team , after another defeat against Germany, she finished fourth with the selection and remained without a medal. Also at the European Championships in 2005 she was a member of the team that was eliminated in the semifinals after a 2-3 defeat after extra time despite two goals in the duel against Norway.

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In the seasons 2005 and 2006 Sjöström won again the Swedish national championship with Umeå IK under coach Andrée Jeglertz at the side of Anna Paulson , Lisa Dahlkvist and Karolina Westberg . In November 2006, she announced her retirement from active sports. After a three-year baby break, during which she played on her club's leisure team, she returned in the summer of 2009 and trained with the team again.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ sr.se: "Umeå IK: s Anna Sjöström slutar"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 10, 2010)  
2. ↑ fotboll.expressen.se: "Därför gör Anna Sjöström comeback i Umeå" ( Memento from July 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 10, 2010)