Hanna Ljungberg
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Hanna Carolina Ljungberg | ||
| Date of birth | January 8, 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Umeå, Sweden | ||
| Height | 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Umeå IK | ||
| Number | 10 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1986–1994 | Mariehem SK | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–1998 | Sunnanå SK | ||
| 1998–2009 | Umeå IK | 227 | (196) |
| National team | |||
| 1996–2008 | Sweden | 130 | (72) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Hanna Carolina Ljungberg (born January 8, 1979 in Umeå, Västerbotten) is a Swedish former football player, who played the position of forward. She played for the club side Umeå IK and for the Swedish national football team. She debuted for Sweden, at age 17, on February 6, 1996 where Sweden won 8-0 against Spain.
She is not related to Swedish male football star Fredrik Ljungberg. Ljungberg is a fairly common Swedish surname formed by the words ljung (English: calluna) and berg (English: mountain).
Ljungberg can be seen in the Sveriges Television documentary television series The Other Sport from 2013.
Hanna Ljungberg was one of several professional players in the Swedish women's league, Damallsvenskan. She was chosen as Swedish Player of the Year in 2002, winning the Diamond Ball (Diamantbollen). She also scored a record setting number of goals that season with 39 goals (roughly 1.78 goals per game). Ljungberg made altogether 227 league appearances for Umeå IK and scored 196 goals.
As a world class forward, Ljungberg was instrumental in the Swedish side that were runners up in the FIFA Women's World Cup 2003 held in the United States, scoring three goals and assisting another. She was also voted 3rd best World Player of the Year by FIFA in 2003. Until October 2014 when she was surpassed by Lotta Schelin, Ljungberg was the goal leader of the Swedish national team with 72 goals. During the UEFA Women's Cup 2002-03, Ljungberg was the top goalscorer in the tournament with 10 goals. Italian men's football club Perugia contacted Ljungberg to hire her for their Serie A roster, but the deal aborted.
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