Ulla-Karin Rönnlund
Ulla -Karin Rönnlund, born Ulla -Karin Thelin ( born February 19, 1977 in Härnösand ) is a Swedish former football player. The goalkeeper, who was champion four times with Umeå IK and reached the final of the UEFA Women's Champions League 2007/ 08, took each as a substitute goalkeeper with the Swedish national team in a World Cup finals, two European Championship tournaments and the Olympic Games in 2000 in part.
Career
Under her birth name Ulla -Karin Thelin, she joined Älandsbro FF playing football. As of 1996, she played for Bollsta IK before she moved to Umeå IK in early 1998 in the Damallsvenskan. At the end of the season 1998, she received the award of Rookie of the Year. After she had already accumulated in the Swedish junior national teams, she also debuted in October of the year in the 0-2 defeat against Norway in Jersey the senior team. As a substitute goalkeeper behind Ulrika Karlsson they belonged to the squad of Marika Domanski Lyfors for the 1999 World Cup, but was not in the tournament are used. In the following year it was only the role of surrogate wife at the Olympic Games in Sydney.
In the 2000 Thelin celebrated the greatest success to date her career when she on the women's team of Malmö FF took on the side of Tina Nordlund, Hanna Ljungberg and Malin Moström one point ahead for the first time in club history the Swedish championship title. While she was successful with her club in the following season, she sat at the European Championship in 2001 as a replacement goalkeeper Caroline Jönsson behind again on the substitutes' bench and was without minutes, Vice - European Champion. At the end of the year she ended her career in order to devote themselves to their family.
The end of 2006 Umeå IK took the now mother of two, which is called after her marriage Ulla -Karin Rönnlund, back to the football field. At first she was behind Carola Söberg substitute goalkeeper, when the team won the third title in series at the end of the season 2007. During the following season she became the master force and reached to the side of Madelaine Edlund, Anna Paulson, Karolina Westberg and Lisa Dahlkvist the final of the UEFA Women 's Cup. After a 1-1 draw against 1 FFC Frankfurt in the first leg they missed winning the title due to a 2:3 away defeat in the return leg. Nevertheless, she was awarded at the end of the season the one hand, for the fourth time champion and on the other hand, as the goalie of the year. In July 2009, she finally returned under coach Thomas Dennerby back in the national team. As the third substitute goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl behind and Kristin Hammarström she stood in a row at the 2009 European Championship in the squad, but stopped again at a tournament without playing time. After the 2009 season was finished as runner-up, she declared in November of the year after 86 Premier League matches and a Erstligator again her resignation.