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Kerstin Ingrid Therese Sjögran (born 8 April 1977) is a Swedish
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club FC Rosengård and the Sweden national team. A modern pioneer and source of inspiration in women's football, she is considered one of the greatest Swedish footballers of all time and imagined by some as a possible future head coach for the national team. Nicknamed "Terre", Sjögran made her first Damallsvenskan appearances for Kristianstad/Wä DFF. She joined Malmö FF Dam in 2001 and remained with the club through its different guises as LdB FC and FC Rosengård. Sjögran spent the 2011 season with American
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(WPS) club
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. Sweden's all-time record appearance holder, Sjögran is the first player to win 200
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for ''Blågult'' and is tied with
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at 214 for the most capped European footballer in national teams. She made her national team debut in October 1997 and represented her country in the
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editions of the UEFA Women's Championship, as well as at the
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s. She also played at the
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due to injury. Sjögran twice won the Diamantbollen, the award for Sweden's female player of the year, in 2007 and 2010. Today she is
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in
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Club career

Sjögran began playing football with boys at Harlösa IF and moved on to Veberöds AIF at the age of 12. She has mentioned on several occasions as an adult that
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was her greatest inspiration, whom she first saw in the
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. Aged 14, she was already playing for Veberöds' women's team in Division 3. After signing for Division 1 club Wä IF in 1997 Sjögran was part of the team promoted into the Damallsvenskan for the first time that year. She came to the attention of bigger clubs and joined Wä's local rivals Malmö FF Dam in 2001. Malmö showed good form but were prevented from winning trophies by the dominant
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team of the era. With Sjögran playing as a left winger, the 2003
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final finished Umeå 1–0 Malmö, after an
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goal by Umeå's
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. In April 2005, Sjögran rejected advances from several rival clubs to extend her Malmö contract. Consistent performances from Sjögran at Malmö saw her honoured as Sweden's female Midfielder of the Year in 2007 and 2008. In 2007, she won the Diamantbollen award for the best female footballer in the country. In March 2009, Sjögran indicated her interest in playing in the English
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, which was supposed to start the following year but was delayed. Later in 2009, she was picked in the American
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(WPS) International Draft by Atlanta Beat, but remained loyal to Malmö. Inspired by 33-year-old Sjögran, Malmö won their first Damallsvenskan championship since 1994 in the 2010 season. It was delighted Sjögran's first league winner's medal after finishing in second place on five previous occasions. Sjögran won the Diamantbollen again in 2010. Her acceptance speech paid tribute to the influence of her step-father. A surprised Sjögran had expected Charlotte Rohlin to win the award. In December 2010 Malmö let Sjögran move to America, with WPS club
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. Sky Blue coach Jim Gabarra had made Sjögran one of his top transfer targets, describing her as "consistently exceptional". Sjögran played just 13 matches for Sky Blue, as the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup was scheduled during the 2011 season. Starting 12 of the games, she posted six assists as Sky Blue finished fifth of six teams. The deal had a clause that Sjögran would return to Malmö after the short American season. She helped Malmö retain their Damallsvenskan title in
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and represented the club in the 2011–12 UEFA Women's Champions League. After a serious knee injury in May 2012, veteran Sjögran eventually returned to full fitness but found it difficult to break back into the starting line-up as Malmö were battling rivals Tyresö FF for the league title. Strong performances for the Swedish national team saw her win back her club place. Malmö and Sjögran won their third title in four seasons in
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. She was happy to secure her third league winner's medal in October 2013, as Malmö beat
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2–0 to take an unassailable six-point lead over Tyresö at the top of the table. Sjögran signed a new contract with Malmö, now known as FC Rosengård, in May 2014. She wanted to remain with the club for the rest of her playing career. In June 2014 she was linked with a coaching role at the club. Sjögran helped Rosengård defend their title in
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. On 28 April 2015 Rosengård announced that Sjögran had been appointed as the club's next
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, starting 1 August, replacing Erling Nilsson (who would remain in the club as a "mentor") and that she intended to retire from playing after the summer's World Cup in Canada. On 21 May 2015 Sjögran played what seemed to be her final league game, but she didn't want to celebrate then. It was reported in July 2015 that Sjögran would play her 426th and final game for the club in their
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semi-final against Umeå. She was thanked and celebrated right before and after that match. On 20 July Therese Sjögran hastily took over as head coach, meant temporarily, after Markus Tilly went on sick leave for family reasons. She didn't like it much. Shortly after, with Rosengård suffering a dip in form, having several players injured and star player Anja Mittag recently left the club, and locked in a title challenge with Eskilstuna United, Sjögran was pressed into another hastily endeavor, making a temporary playing comeback on 26 July despite having said just a few days earlier that she would not do so. On 1 August Rosengård announced they had signed with a new head coach, thus relieving Sjögran. Sjögran stepped in and played once more 5 August against Eskilstuna and on 9 August 2015, in the Svenska Cupen final against
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, a game Rosengård lost, this time promising it would definitely be her last time. In the league Rosengård overcame the absence of coach Markus Tilly and the departure of star players Anja Mittag and Ramona Bachmann to secure their third successive title, with a final day 5–0 win over Linköpings FC. Sjögran disclosed in an interview about a children's book based on her youth years, ''Rött kort, Therese!'', that the only time she received a red card was in Veberöd after having practiced lately on sliding and tried to execute that in a match with bad result. Sjögran made another temporary playing comeback on 7 February 2016 in a friendly against
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, as FC Rosengård suffered many sick and injured players, but she was only in the
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as a substitute and never actually played.


International career

Sjögran made her first appearance for the senior Swedish national team on 30 October 1997; a 3–1 friendly defeat by the
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. She was fast-tracked into the national team by coach Marika Domanski-Lyfors although she had not yet played in Sweden's top division. After some injury problems kept her out of club football, Sjögran was not selected for the
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in the United States. She returned to the squad for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, but was mainly an understudy and was restricted to substitute appearances as Sweden crashed out in the first round. Sjögran was a more established first team player by the time of
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. She came on as a substitute in all Sweden's games except the final, which she started. Sweden lost 1–0 to Claudia Müller's
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for hosts
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. At the
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, Sjögran was substituted at half-time in Sweden's first match, a 3–1 loss to hosts the United States. She came on as a substitute in Sweden's remaining matches and won praise for her performance in the
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, which Sweden again lost to Germany on a golden goal. In its tournament review, the ''
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'' newspaper described Sjögran as a talented enigma who seemed incapable of translating her best performances to the international stage. Following the retirement of midfield star
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in late 2006, Sjögran was given a more prominent role by coach
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. As part of the Sweden team surprisingly eliminated in the first round of the
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, Sjögran was one of few Swedish players to emerge with any credit from the tournament. She also played a leading role as Sweden beat rivals
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in a qualification play-off for the following year's
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. In China 2008 she participated in the Swedes' 2–0 quarter-final defeat by Germany. At the
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Sjögran surpassed Victoria Sandell Svensson's national record of 166 caps, after playing in a 2–1 defeat to
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. She marked the occasion by scoring her 17th international goal, direct from a free kick. Experienced "elder stateswoman" Sjögran helped Sweden achieve third place at the
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in Germany. She assisted Lisa Dahlqvist's winning goal against
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in the group stage, and started Sweden's 3–1 semi-final defeat to eventual winners
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. Sjögran played the whole match as Sweden secured third place by beating
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2–1 in Sinsheim. Third place ensured Sweden's qualification for the 2012 Olympic football tournament in
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. In May 2012, Sjögran tore her
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and was ruled out of the Olympics. Although she was aged 35, Sjögran did not consider retirement. She aimed to recover in time for
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, which Sweden were hosting. Incoming coach
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selected Sjögran in the Sweden squad for Euro 2013, admitting it was something of a gamble and demanding that Sjögran should expend "the last drop of sweat" to justify her place. Sjögran had not expected to be recalled and had even purchased tickets to attend the tournament as a supporter. At the final tournament Sjögran made substitute appearances in the 3–1 group win over
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and the 1–0 defeat by Germany in the semi-final. Team-mate
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praised Sjögran's contribution, describing her as "an old gem". In November 2013, the
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(SvFF) sparked a
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scandal at its annual awards Fotbollsgalan when it presented Anders Svensson with a
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XC60 car for winning 146 caps. SvFF was widely criticised for failing to honour Sjögran, who had 187 caps. Afterwards SvFF claimed that they had planned to reward and celebrate Sjögran at a later occasion, but failed to properly inform internally. Chairman Karl-Erik Nilsson later regretted the decision, saying it would have been better if they paid tribute to Sjögran as well. Car manufacturers
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and
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voluntarily on their own initiative offered to lend one of their newest models to Sjögran. Coach Sundhage continued to select Sjögran for Sweden's successful 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification campaign. She played alongside Lotta Schelin as a forward against
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, deputising for the injured Kosovare Asllani, a move that surprised some, as older players tend to get moved backward a bit and have a more defensive role. She scored the first goal. That was her 193rd game in the national team. In October 2014 Sjögran reached her 200th appearance for Sweden, in a 2–1 home friendly defeat by Germany. She became the first Swedish player to achieve the milestone and only the third European after
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and Katrine Pedersen. In November 2014, SvFF again sparked a
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scandal involving Therese Sjögran at Fotbollsgalan, this time in conjunction with TV4. There was a celebration planned and prepared for the ceremony for her achieving 200 caps, but it was cancelled in the middle of the show before it occurred because of time constraints. At the
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, Sjögran made her 214th and final appearance in Sweden's 4–1 round of 16 defeat by Germany, putting her in split first place with Birgit Prinz for most capped European footballer in national teams. She left the field with tears in her eyes and kept the match ball as a souvenir for her mother. Afterwards she felt empty and woeful having exited and quit that way with a heavy loss. Before Fotbollsgalan 2015 Sjögran said she didn't want to be honoured this time, as she thought it was too late. But SvFF kept their plan and this time actually followed it though, rewarding her with ''Fotbollskanalens hederspris'', The Football Channel's honorary award.


Managerial career

Since 1 August 2015 Sjögran is
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in FC Rosengård.


Personal life

In an interview made in 2005 before the European Championship Sjögran states that she would choose '' innebandy'' if she wouldn't play football. Her favourite food was
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, her favourite music was
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and her favourite movie was
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. She thought
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was the best current player and that golfer
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was the best Swedish athlete of all time. In a short interview made in 2013 she also mentioned
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as a secondary sports choice.
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graduate Sjögran took legal action when she was refused
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on the grounds that her football career stopped her being available for work. She later worked part-time for the
insurance Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to protect ...
company, Trygg-Hansa. Sports journalist Anja Gatu wrote a fictional biographical children's book, with illustrations by Maria Borgelöv, about Sjögran's early years in Harlösa IF titled ''Rött kort, Therese!'' ("Red card, Therese!") in 2015. One and a half-year later Gatu wrote a sequel titled ''Snygg fint, Therese!'' ("Nice feint, Therese!"). Sjögran participated in SVT's 2017 season of '' Mästarnas mästare'' which was recorded in Algarve, Portugal in September 2016. She was once again miscredited for her deeds as SVT in a press release before a press gathering for the show had left out most of her merits and claimed that Anders Svensson was the most capped Swedish player. The car incident from Fotbollsgalan was supposedly brought up during recording of her recap in the show, but was ultimately cut from the broadcast. She still played football regularly in 2016, but only in Swedish amateur league ''Korpen''.


Career statistics


Matches and goals scored at World Cup & Olympic tournaments


Matches and goals scored at European Championship tournaments


Honours

Veberöds AIF * Division 3: 1994 Wä FF * Division 1: 1997 LdB FC Malmö/FC Rosengård *
Damallsvenskan The (; ), known as OBOS for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is one of the best women's leagues in the world, and was founded in 1988. The division consists of a league of 14 teams. From 2013, t ...
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2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
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2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
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2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
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2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
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2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
* Svenska Supercupen: 2011,
2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...
, 2015 Sweden *
FIFA Women's World Cup The FIFA Women's World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior list of women's national association football teams, women's national teams of the members of the FIFA, Fédération Internationale de Footb ...
: runner-up
2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...
; third place
2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
* UEFA Women's Euro: runner-up
2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
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Algarve Cup The Algarve Cup is an invitational tournament for national teams in women's association football hosted by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). Held annually in the Algarve region of Portugal since 1994, it is one of the most prestigious and ...
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2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
*Australia Cup: 2003Australia Cup
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2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
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2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
* Best female midfielder in Sweden: 2007,
2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
* Soccer Channel special prize:
2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...


References

;Match reports


External links

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Sjögran Interview

Video interview Swedish midfielders Therese Sjögran and Caroline Seger
in 2015 Algarve Cup by SOCCER.COM on YouTube
Article with a dozen of historical images of Sjögran
by Sportbladet/Aftonbladet.
Video of the press conference of Sjögran's plans to quit playing and become sporting director
by Sydsvenskan on YouTube.
Sjögran receives ''Fotbollskanalens Hederspris''
by TV4 Sport on YouTube.
Interview in her role as sporting director. Unknown date, but from the content seems to be 2018 or 2019.

Another interview in her role as sporting director
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