Anna Sjöström

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 as an eight- year-old playing soccer when her father built a girls team at Umeå Södra FF. Later she moved within the city to Umeå IK damfotboll in the Damallsvenskan. After they had contributed in the 2000 for the first winning the league title, they nominated Marika Domanski Lyfors for the opening international match in January of the following year against Norway. The 1-2 defeat was on the side of Caroline Jönsson, Malin Moström, Victoria Svensson and Therese Sjögran and could subsequently determined to play in the squad debuted the selection.

Even at club level Sjöström was still successful, with the club defending one hand the championship title and was able to celebrate winning the doubles in the final of the National Cup after a 2-1 win over Djurgårdens IF. The following year, the title hat-trick, as in addition to league and cup success came in the summer of 2003 in the final of the UEFA Women's Champions League 2002/ 03 against the Danish representative Fortuna Hjørring each return game has been won. The great triumph with four titles to her was denied because, although with the Swedish national team that reached the final of the 2003 World Cup, but after this Golden Goal lost against the German national team.

2004 defended Sjöström with their club the title. In addition, she appeared in her third final of the UEFA Women 's Cup in a row and was in the 5-0 away win at the 1st FFC Frankfurt in duplicate to the Statistic, which guaranteed the regained the title. In the same year she was part of the national squad at the Summer Olympic Games in Athens. After the retirement in the semifinal against the Brazilian national team, she took after a new defeat against Germany with the selection of the fourth and remained without a medal. Also at the European Championships 2005, she was a member of the team that in the duel against Norway retired after a 2:3 defeat after extra time in the semi-finals, despite two goals.

In the seasons 2005 and 2006 Sjöström won under coach Andrée Jeglertz on the side of Anna Paulson, Lisa Dahlkvist and Karolina Westberg with Umeå IK again the Swedish national championship. In November 2006, she announced her retirement from sport. After a three-year maternity leave, in which they had accrued in the leisure team of the club, she returned in the summer of 2009 and trained with the team again.