Lisa Karolina Viktoria Dahlkvist (born 6 February 1987) is a Swedish professional

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who plays for

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and the Sweden national team. She previously played in the Swedish

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for

, Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC,

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� ...

, and KIF Örebro, in the Norwegian

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for

Avaldsnes IL Avaldsnes Idrettslag is a Norwegian sports club from Avaldsnes, Karmøy, Rogaland. It was founded on 16 June 1937. The club has sections for football and handball. Women's football The women's team began play in 1989, winning the 1st Division of ...

and in the French

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for

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. Dahlkvist made her

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debut in 2008 and has accrued more than 130

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. She represented her country at the

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and

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s, the

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and

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, as well as the

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and

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editions of the

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. Her father, Sven "Dala" Dahlkvist, played for

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and won 39 caps for the Sweden men's team between 1979 and 1985.

Club career

After one season in KIF Örebro's Damallsvenskan team, 18-year-old Dahlkvist signed for national champions

in December 2005. She found the adjustment to a higher standard of football difficult and was close to quitting Umeå on several occasions during the first two seasons. After settling into the team Dahlkvist developed into one of Sweden's best central midfielders, winning three Damallsvenskan titles with the club. Dahlkvist also played in Umeå's two

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final defeats in

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and

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. She scored a penalty in the away leg of the 2008 final. In autumn 2009 Dahlkvist decided to leave Umeå and received offers from leading Damallsvenkan clubs Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC and

Linköpings FC Linköpings Fotboll Club is an association football club from Linköping, Sweden. The club was established in 2003 when Kenty DFF women's football club decided to merge with the premier division ice hockey club Linköpings HC under the new name L ...

. She accepted the offer from Göteborg. When Dahlkvist's contract expired in 2011, Göteborg wanted to keep her, but she was linked with a transfer to league champions

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. Instead she decided to join big spending

on a two-year contract. Tff 06 Dahlkvist 120218 Linköping-Tyresö 2-1 8482

Tyresö won the Damallsvenskan title for the first time in the 2012 season and Dahlkvist collected her fourth league winner's medal, in addition to three won with Umeå. Dahlkvist and Tyresö were upset in the final of the Svenska Cupen, by her former club Göteborg who won 2–1 after

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. Dahlkvist started Tyresö's 4–3 defeat by

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in the 2014 UEFA Women's Champions League Final. Her first-half collision with Wolfsburg's

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left the German playing with a bandaged facial injury. Tyresö suffered a financial collapse in 2014 and withdrew from the

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season, expunging all their results and making all their players

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s. The Stockholm County Administrative Board published the players' salaries, showing Dahlkvist was one of the higher earners at SEK 39 000 per month. Former club Umeå were not interested in re-signing Dahlkvist, claiming they already had better players than her. Dahlkvist told the ''

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'' newspaper that salary was of secondary importance and she was prepared to take a pay cut in order to join the right team. In July 2014 she agreed to join Norwegian

club

, who also made an unsuccessful attempt to sign her former Tyresö teammate

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. After the ending of the 2014 season Dahlkvist chose to leave

, returning to Sweden's

and KIF Örebro, the club that she played for at the beginning of her senior career. After just half a season back at Örebro, Dahlkvist moved on again, joining compatriots

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and

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of the French

International career

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gave Dahlkvist her senior

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debut on 12 February 2008, a 2–0 win over

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. She attended the

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as one of the squad's reserve players and had been considered for the main squad when the more experienced midfielder

had a pre-tournament injury scare. Lisa Dahlkvist, Euro 2013

The following year, Dahlkvist was included in the main squad for

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in Finland. She started all three matches and performed well as Sweden topped their group, but was dropped to the substitutes' bench for the 3–1 quarter-final defeat by

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, making way for

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. In June 2011 Sweden included Dahlkvist in their squad for the

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. She was a notable success at the tournament, scoring in three successive games: the only goal in Sweden's second group match against

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; putting the Swedes ahead from a

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against the

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; and adding a goal in the 3–1 quarter-final win over

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. Her three goals led all Swedish players in the tournament. Sweden finished third after losing their semi-final to

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then beating

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2–1 in

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. Third place in the World Cup also ensured Sweden's qualification for the 2012 Olympic football tournament in England. Dennerby kept Dahlkvist in Sweden's squad for the games, where they lost to

in the quarter-finals. Dahlkvist's form had dipped since the previous year's World Cup. During the build up to

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in Sweden, Dahlkvist recognised that new coach

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preferred Caroline Seger and

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as the national team's first choice central midfield pairing. Despite questionable fitness Dahlkvist was included in Sweden's squad for the

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in Canada. Sundhage described the decision as "a gamble" and hoped Dahlkvist could rediscover the excellent form she had shown at the previous World Cup four years earlier. At the finals, Sweden drew all three of their group stage matches against Nigeria, United States, and Australia. They were eliminated in the round of 16 after losing 4–1 to Germany. Dahlkvist remained with the squad for the

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, where Sweden took home the Silver Medal. Though she did not score during the run of play, she was the final taker for Sweden in penalty shoot-outs in both the

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match against the

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and the

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match against hosts

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. Her penalty kicks were successful in both contests.

Matches and goals scored at World Cup and Olympic tournaments

Matches and goals scored at European Championship tournaments

Playing style

Dahlkvist is a central midfield player whose main strength is her range of passing.

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.com wrote that Dahlkvist also reads the game well and takes responsibility during matches, a trait apparent even when she was a youngster. During the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, the ''

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'' newspaper described the industrious Dahlkvist as a "tough workhorse in both defence and attack". She is seen as a player who thrives on the big occasion and won praise for calmly converting her 2011 World Cup penalty past the United States' celebrated

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, a feat she repeated in the

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Personal life

Dahlkvist identifies as a

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and

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publicly in 2008. She's married and has a daughter.

Honours

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; Umeå IK *

: Winner 2006, 2007, 2008 *

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: Winner 2007 *

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: Winner 2007, 2008 ;Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC *

: Winner 2011 ;Tyresö FF *

: Winner

;Sweden *

Third place:

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: Silver Medal,

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References

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