Jenny Palmqvist

Jenny Palmqvist ( born November 2, 1969) is a Swedish football referee.

Palmqvist was born in South Korea, but grew up as the daughter of adoptive parents in Sweden Falköping. Early in her career she worked as a sales manager for an interior design company in Alingsås. Since 1 January 2009, she is an employee of the Swedish Football Association and professional referee.

Your first games they led in 1996. A year later, she whistled already in the Swedish Division 1, the second division of the Swedish women's football. In the Damallsvenskan, the first division, it has been used since 1999. There they brought it since then more than 140 missions. Parallel she whistles sporadically Lord Games of the third Swedish League.

2002 Jenny Palmqvist received the FIFA certificate. A first career peak, she experienced the 2004 women's football tournament of the Olympic Games in Athens. Here, she was entrusted to the final game between the U.S. and Brazil. Twenty minutes before the normal end of the game she sprained his right foot. When, after 90 minutes and an intermediate result of a 1:1 extension was necessary, therefore, her colleague Dianne Ferreira - James took over the management of the game.

At the World Cup in China in 2007 she was on the staff of the 14 FIFA referees; among other things, she refereed the group stage match between Germany and England. In 2008 she was nominated for the women's football tournament of the Beijing Olympic Games, in 2009, she was invited to the European Championship in Finland. To use it also reached at the 2011 World Cup in Germany. It plays an important role in international association football. In 2009, she led one of the two UEFA Cup finals between the Russian champions Zvezda Perm and FCR 2001 Duisburg.

In 2005, she was honored in their home country as an arbiter of the year. (As of: 1 July 2011)

2012, it is the third time in the Olympic football tournament of the women in uniform. This makes it next to Kari Seitz is the only referee with three participants.

Also for the European Football Championship Women 2013 she was nominated and headed the group match between France and Russia.

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