Emilia Elisabeth Brodin (née Appelqvist; born 11 February 1990) is a Swedish

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who played as a

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for the

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team

Djurgårdens IF Djurgårdens Idrottsförening, commonly known simply as Djurgårdens IF, Djurgården (), and (especially locally) Djurgår'n (), Dif or DIF – is a Swedish sports association with several sections, located in Stockholm. Name The club is named ...

. She joined previous club Piteå IF for the 2014 season, having been on

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from

Tyresö FF Tyresö Fotbollsförening is a Swedish football club in Tyresö, a municipality in Stockholm County. The club was founded in 1971 and is primarily known for its main women's team, which competed in the top-tier league Damallsvenskan in the 2010� ...

for the second part of the 2013 season. She has also played top-level club football for

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and

AIK AIK Fotboll (), more commonly known simply as AIK (), an abbreviation for Allmänna Idrottsklubben (meaning ''the public'' or ''general sports club''), is a Swedish football club competing in Allsvenskan, the top flight of Swedish football. The ...

. Appelqvist made her debut for the

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in February 2014.

Club career

Brodin, a defensive central midfielder, began her senior career with local team

. In October 2007, at the age of 17, she was given a four-year contract with the club and was described by the coach as a future national team player. Brodin spent three seasons with Bälinge before their

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from the

in 2008. Ahead of the 2009 season, she rejected an offer from

and joined

instead. When AIK suffered relegation in 2010, a disappointed Brodin moved to Tyresö explaining that she had to keep playing Damallsvenskan football to be considered for the national team. Emilia Appelqvist 2

Tyresö won the Damallsvenskan title for the first time in the 2012 season and Brodin collected her first league winner's medal. With competition for places increasingly fierce at Tyresö, Brodin moved to Piteå on loan during the

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mid-season break. In November 2013 Brodin made her transfer to Piteå permanent, despite reported interest from other clubs. After helping Piteå to a third-place finish in 2015, she left for

, explaining that the social aspect of living back in Stockholm had attracted her. A serious knee injury sustained in January 2017 ruled Brodin out of the entire

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season and UEFA Women's Euro 2017. Although that was the final year of her Djurgårdens contract, she was happy to sign a one-year extension in October 2017 and expected to be back to full fitness in 2018. In March 2018 Brodin announced that she was

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with her first child. Although she had already resumed training after her knee injury, she was forced to put her football comeback plans on hold.

International career

As a Swedish under-19 international, Brodin played the 2009 U-19 European Championship where she was chosen one of the Top 10 players by UEFA.com as well as the 2010 U-20 World Cup, serving as the team's

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. At the latter competition Brodin played every minute of Sweden's campaign, which ended with a 2–0 defeat by

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in the quarter-final. In February 2010, Brodin and

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were called up to train with the senior national team for the Algarve Cup. By June 2013, Brodin had collected 11 caps for Sweden at the Under-23 level. National

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called Brodin up to a senior team training camp at

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in November 2013. Brodin made her debut for the senior

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team in a 3–0

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defeat by

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on 8 February 2014. In May 2015, Brodin and Piteå teammate

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were both confirmed in Sweden's squad for the

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in Canada. On 8 April 2016, Brodin scored her first goal for the Swedish national senior team, making it 1–0 as Sweden beat

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3–0 in Poprad during a qualifying game for the 2017 European Championship in the

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. Despite requiring surgery on a meniscus injury in mid-May 2016, Brodin was named in Sweden's 18-player squad for the

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. She described her selection as a "dream come true". She made a 15-minute substitute appearance against hosts

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in a disappointing 5–1 defeat, then started the semi-final victory over the same opposition as Sweden ultimately secured silver medals.

International goals

Personal life

In July 2017, Brodin married her childhood sweetheart

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, a professional

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player for

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of the

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. In September 2018 she gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter named Mila Ida.

Honours

Club

; Tyresö FF *

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International

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: Silver medal,

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References

External links

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at Swedish Football Association * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Brodin, Emilia 1990 births Living people Footballers from Uppsala Swedish women's footballers Sweden women's international footballers AIK Fotboll (women) players Tyresö FF players Piteå IF (women) players Damallsvenskan players Bälinge IF players 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Djurgårdens IF Fotboll (women) players Olympic footballers of Sweden Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in football Women's association football midfielders