Mimmi Löfwenius Veum (born 16 February 1994) is a Swedish

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

forward Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward. Forward may also refer to: People * Forward (surname) Sports * Forward (association football) * Forward (basketball), including: ** Point forward ** Power forward (basketball) ** Sm ...

, currently playing for

Vålerenga Vålerenga () is a neighbourhood in the city of Oslo, Norway, belonging to the borough of Gamle Oslo. Vålerenga is located between the neighbourhoods of Gamlebyen, Jordal, Ensjø, Etterstad and Lodalen. Vålerenga is in particular known for it ...

in the

Toppserien The Toppserien is the top level of women's association football in Norway. It was founded in 1984. History Women's league football was introduced on a county basis in 1977. These leagues acted as qualification for the regional (South) league in 1 ...

. She won the

2012 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship The UEFA Women's U-19 Championship 2012 Final Tournament was held in Antalya, Turkey between 2 and 14 July 2012. Players born after 1 January 1993 were eligible to participate in this competition. Tournament structure The regulations make up f ...

in Turkey with Sweden U19 national team. In 2009 Löfwenius collapsed during a match and was diagnosed with

cardiac dysrhythmia Arrhythmias, also known as cardiac arrhythmias, heart arrhythmias, or dysrhythmias, are irregularities in the heartbeat, including when it is too fast or too slow. A resting heart rate that is too fast – above 100 beats per minute in adults ...

. Although doctors advised her to quit football, she carried on and signed for

Dalsjöfors GoIF Dalsjöfors GoIF is a football club in Dalsjöfors, Sweden. They play in the highest level of women's soccer leagues in Sweden, the Damallsvenskan. Dalsjöfors GoIF play their home games at Borås Arena Stadium in Borås, also home of IF Elfsb ...

in 2010. After impressing in the 2011

Damallsvenskan The Damallsvenskan, Swedish for ''ladies all-Swedish'' and also known as OBOS Damallsvenskan for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is also referred to as the women's Allsvenskan. The term Allsvenskan ...

season Löfwenius joined Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC ahead of 2012. She left part way through the season, for

Jitex BK Jitex BK, more commonly known as just ''Jitex'', is a football club in Mölndal, Sweden, that competes in Elitettan, the second tier of Swedish women's football. The club was founded January 21, 1971 and previously played in the Elitettan, Sweden ...

, hoping to get more playing time. She gained Norwegian citizenship through marriage, and in 2023 she won her first cap for

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

References

External links

*
archive
1994 births Living people People from Alingsås Women's association football midfielders Swedish women's footballers Sweden women's youth international footballers Dalsjöfors GoIF players BK Häcken FF players Jitex BK players Damallsvenskan players Toppserien players LSK Kvinner FK players Lyn Fotball Damer players Vålerenga Fotball Damer players Swedish expatriate women's footballers Expatriate women's footballers in Norway Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Norway Swedish emigrants to Norway Norwegian women's footballers Norway women's international footballers {{Sweden-footy-midfielder-stub