Angelica Burevik

Angelica Burevik
Personal information
Full name Angelica Burevik Törnqvist[1]
Date of birth (1958-12-07) December 7, 1958
Place of birth Helsingborg, Sweden
Playing position Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Stattena IF
National team‡
1981–1985 Sweden[2] 30 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of October 18, 2007

Angelica Burevik Törnqvist (born 7 December 1958) is a Swedish former association football defender who won 30 caps for the Sweden women's national football team. She is nicknamed Agge.

Club career

Burevik's performances for local team Stattena IF earned her a place in the Helsingborgs Idrottsmuseum Hall of Fame in 1983.[3] She later served the club as chairperson.[4]

International career

Burevik made her senior Sweden debut in a 6–1 win over France in Montauban on 23 May 1981.[5] She won the first UEFA championships for national women's teams in 1984. Sweden beat England in the final, on a penalty shootout at Kenilworth Road after a 1–1 aggregate draw.[6] Burevik's break down the right wing and cross had created Pia Sundhage's headed goal for Sweden in the first leg at Ullevi.[7] Her exertions in central defence on the muddy Kenilworth Road pitch left her too exhausted to participate in the shootout.[8]

Burevik played 30 games in a row for Sweden, the last of which was on 9 October 1985. Only two games were lost while 22 resulted in Swedish victories.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Damer EM Matchinformation: Sverige - England". Svenskfotboll.se. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
  2. ↑ "Damlandslagsspelare 1973–2011". Svenskfotboll.se. Retrieved 2012-01-06.
  3. ↑ "Hall of Fame" (in Swedish). Helsingborgs Idrottsmuseum. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
  4. ↑ "Ny damfotbollsklubb i Helsingborg" (in Swedish). Fotbollskanalen.se. 2009-11-16. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
  5. ↑ "Spelarporträtt". Svensk Damfotboll. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
  6. ↑ Leighton, Tony (2009-05-19). "England's shoot-out jinx begins - England, 1984". The Guardian. Retrieved 2010-10-12.
  7. ↑ Nilsson, Andreas (2009-08-27). "EM för damer 1984" (in Swedish). Svenskfotboll.se. Retrieved 2012-05-20.
  8. 1 2 Andersson, Jan (2009-05-27). "25 år sedan enda EM-guldet" (in Swedish). Helsingborgs Dagblad. Retrieved 2012-05-20.


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