Hanna Marklund

Hanna Marklund

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Personal information
Full name	Hanna Gunilla Marklund
Date of birth	(1977-11-26) November 26, 1977
Place of birth	Skellefteå, Sweden
Height
Position(s)	Centre Back
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1990–1999	Sunnanå SK
2000–2004	Umeå IK
2005–2008	Sunnanå SK
International career‡
1997–2008	Sweden	118	(6)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:00 13 October 2007 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 2007-09-30

Hanna Gunilla Marklund (born November 26, 1977 in Skellefteå) is a Swedish former football player. She played as a defender and wore shirt number 4.

Marklund started playing in Varuträsk IF near Skellefteå, where she grew up. She moved on to play in Damallsvenskan with Sunnanå SK. In 2000 she joined Umeå IK, with whom she won Damallsvenskan three years in a row (2000–2002). After the 2004 season she decided to move back to Skellefteå and rejoin Sunnanå SK, where her two sisters Carolina and Mirjam also played. She went on to captain Sunnanå SK.

She made her first appearance in the Swedish national team on August 8, 1997 against Iceland. She became a regular member of the team, winning a total of 118 caps and scoring six international goals.

In November 2005 she won Diamantbollen, an award given the best female player in Sweden each year.

On January 7, 2008, Marklund announced her retirement from both the national team and Sunnanå SK as a result of her pregnancy.

International tournaments with the national team

• FIFA Women's World Cup 1999 in USA
• World Cup 2003 in USA
• 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney
• 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens
• World Cup 2007 in China

External links

• The Hanna Marklund Club on Yahoo!
• Profile of Swedish Womens National Team players on Expressen (in Swedish)