Anette Börjesson

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Anette Börjesson
Personal information
Full name Lilian Anette Börjesson
Date of birth (1954-11-11) 11 November 1954 (age 67)
Place of birth Sweden
Position(s) Sweeper
Youth career
Tuve IF
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1978–91 Jitex BK 181 (52)
1985–87 GAIS 52 (13)
Total 233 (65)
National team‡
1975–87 Sweden 70 (12)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17:50, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17:50, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Lilian Anette Börjesson (born 11 November 1954) is a retired female badminton player and footballer from Sweden.

Badminton[]

Börjesson is a five time women's singles champion at the Swedish National Badminton Championships and was a silver medalist at the 1980 European Badminton Championships, also in singles.

Football[]

She captained Sweden to their win in the 1984 European Competition for Women's Football. In the final against England, Börjesson struck the first penalty in Sweden's shootout victory.[1] She won a total of 70 caps between 1975 and 1987, scoring 12 goals.[2] In 1985 she scored a hat-trick of penalty kicks against France.[3]

Börjesson won the Årets Fotbollstjej Award, the forerunner of the Diamantbollen, in 1982.[3]

After her retirement from playing, Börjesson founded a magazine dedicated to women's football, called nya mål.[4]

Börjesson can be seen in the Sveriges Television documentary television series The Other Sport from 2013.

References[]

  1. ^ Andreas Nilsson (2009-08-27). "EM för damer 1984". SvenskFotboll.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2010-04-14. Retrieved 2011-10-04.
  2. ^ "Fakta och meriter för medlemmarna i SFS Hall of Fame". SFS (in Swedish). Retrieved 2011-10-03.
  3. ^ a b Heidi Silvander (2009-09-03). "Straffdrama när Sverige vann klassiskt guld". Sydsvenskan (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2009-09-05. Retrieved 2011-10-04.
  4. ^ "Straffdrama när Sverige vann klassiskt guld". Damfotboll.com (in Swedish). 21 July 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
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