Bälinge signs former US U21-player
Newcomers Bälinge IF has signed the 23 year old american midfielder Julianne Sitch, who has 6 matches with the US U21 team on her resume. Bälinge's coach Magnus Wikman says Sitch has been on his shortlist for a while and will be a key player for the team. Sitch played college football at De Paul University and has played in the north american A-league with Chicago Cobras and Hampton Roads Pirhanas.
Bälinge used Wikman's US network already last season, when attacker Annette Kent, defender Fanta Cooper and goalie Jenni Brannam helped the team secure promotion to Damallsvenskan.
Damfotboll.com: Amerikanska med U21-meriter klar för Bälinge IF
Bälinge used Wikman's US network already last season, when attacker Annette Kent, defender Fanta Cooper and goalie Jenni Brannam helped the team secure promotion to Damallsvenskan.
Damfotboll.com: Amerikanska med U21-meriter klar för Bälinge IF
Josefine Öqvist resigns with Linköping
After a long wait and probably not entirely uncomplicated negotiations, it was today announced that national team attacker Josefine Öqvist has signed a new one year contract with her club Linköping FC. Öqvist has been petitioned by several other clubs, among them KIF Örebro and Kopparbergs/Göteborg FC, but eventually decided to stay with Linköping.
Earlier this week a Linköping long-timer, defender/midfielder Malin Gustafsson, decided to leave the club since she couldn't accept the financial part of the offer the club proposed. "I would lose to much money if I accepted the club's bid". The 26-year old will probably leave top football.
Svt: Öqvist stannar i Linköping
Damfotboll.com: "Jossan" har äntligen bestämt sig - stannar i Linköping
Corren: Gustafsson har gjort sitt i LFC
Earlier this week a Linköping long-timer, defender/midfielder Malin Gustafsson, decided to leave the club since she couldn't accept the financial part of the offer the club proposed. "I would lose to much money if I accepted the club's bid". The 26-year old will probably leave top football.
Svt: Öqvist stannar i Linköping
Damfotboll.com: "Jossan" har äntligen bestämt sig - stannar i Linköping
Corren: Gustafsson har gjort sitt i LFC
Yet another Nigerian signs for QBIK
QBIK has signed Nigerian international defender Yinka Kudaisi. Late last year the club got Kudaisi's Nigeria team mates Maureen Mmadu and Faith Ikidi from Norwegian premier side Klepp.
Including their German striker Jennifer Meier, QBIK now has four full time professionals on the squad. But the club chairman Lars-Inge Hallstenson doesn't worry: "We've got sponsors for each player and our own finances are pretty good as well. Last season we spent SEK 5 million and I think we will reach 7 million this year."
Svt: OS-meriterad mittback klar för Qbik
Värmlands Folkblad: Ny stjärna till Qbik
Including their German striker Jennifer Meier, QBIK now has four full time professionals on the squad. But the club chairman Lars-Inge Hallstenson doesn't worry: "We've got sponsors for each player and our own finances are pretty good as well. Last season we spent SEK 5 million and I think we will reach 7 million this year."
Svt: OS-meriterad mittback klar för Qbik
Värmlands Folkblad: Ny stjärna till Qbik
Newcomers Jitex signs Sweden U21 players
Jitex, just promoted to Damallsvenskan from 1st division, has signed two players with experience from Sweden's U21 and other youth natiuonal teams; Amelie Rybeck from the 1st division side Holmalund and Emma Herbring from KIF Örebro. Herbring's move was partly motivated by her boyfriend Ola Toivonen (also a U21 player) being signed by the men's premier league side Örgryte. Örgryte is like Jitex in the Göteborg area.
Damfotboll.com: Emma valde Jitex
Damfotboll.com: Amelie Rybeck lämnar Holmalund för Jitex
Göteborgsposten: Jitex värvar inför återkomsten
Göteborgsposten: Emma Herbring valde Jitex
Jitex is one of the pioneer Swedish women's football clubs, founded 1971, won 6 Swedish championships and had players like Pia Sundhage in the 70's and 80's. They got relegated from Damallsvenskan 1997 and even folded operations 2001. But the club restarted the year after and is now back in the highest division.
Damfotboll.com: Emma valde Jitex
Damfotboll.com: Amelie Rybeck lämnar Holmalund för Jitex
Göteborgsposten: Jitex värvar inför återkomsten
Göteborgsposten: Emma Herbring valde Jitex
Jitex is one of the pioneer Swedish women's football clubs, founded 1971, won 6 Swedish championships and had players like Pia Sundhage in the 70's and 80's. They got relegated from Damallsvenskan 1997 and even folded operations 2001. But the club restarted the year after and is now back in the highest division.
Själevad's Sanna Frostevall goes to Sunnanå
Sanna Frostevall, relegated Själevad's main star, has decided to accept an offer from Sunnanå. The 26-year old has mainly played centre defense at Själevad but will probably find another position with Sunnanå, as Hanna Marklund and Rebecca Smith was a very successfull duo last season.
Sanna is the second player to leave Själevad for Sunnanå. Late last year the young forward Emma Jonsson signed for the northern club.
Damfotboll.com: Själevads bästa går till Sunnanå
Sanna is the second player to leave Själevad for Sunnanå. Late last year the young forward Emma Jonsson signed for the northern club.
Damfotboll.com: Själevads bästa går till Sunnanå
Djurgården/Älvsjö reaches deal with Asker over Nordby and Dalum Jensen
Asker FK tells local daily Budstikka that they have reached an agreement with Djurgården/Älvsjö over Bente Nordby's and Dorte Dalum Jensen's transfer to teh Swedish side. Asker's manager Rolf-Magne Walstad says the clubs have agreed not to disclose any transfer sum. He says they don't want to start an upwards spiral in transfer sums, "but we're not getting rich on this".
Budstikka: Nordby og Dalum Jensen til Sverige
Budstikka: Nordby og Dalum Jensen til Sverige
Denmark's captain has signed for Djurgården/Älvsjö
Katrine S Pedersen, Danish national team captain and last with Norwegian third place Fløya, has signed a one year deal with Djurgården/Älvsjö with an option for another year. The Swedish Cup champions have also agreed on 2 year contracts with Norwegian national team goalkeeper Bente Nordby and Danish national team defender Dorte Dalum Jensen, but they are still under contract with Norwegian Asker FK. Djurgården/Älvsjö has been in negotiations with Asker and so has the Norwegian players union, since there is a conflict between the players and Asker concerning unpaid player compensation. Djurgården/Älvsjö's chairman expects all three to be present when the preseason training starts next week.
Radiosporten: Dansk landslagskapten klar för Dif/Älvsjö
Radiosporten: Dansk landslagskapten klar för Dif/Älvsjö
Djurgården/Älvsjö in negotiations over Nordby and Dalum Jensen
Djurgården/Älvsjö has today been negotiating the conditions for the transfer of Norwegian goalkeeper legend Bente Nordby and Danish international defender Dorte Dalum Jensen with their financially stricken Norwegian club Asker FK. Asker, that today recieved the anticipated decision from the Norwegian FA's licensing board that this year's Norwegian Cup winners does not qualify for a licence for the 2006 season, seems ready to part with Nordby and Dalum Jensen, but wants to get as much money out of the deal as possible. Asker's price for Nordby's contract alone is rumoured to be somewhere close to NOK 100,000. The negotiations are set to continue tomorrow.
Djurgården/Älvsjö, that have lost several players since the season ended, is close to signing a third player from the Norwegian league, Fløya's Danish national team defender Katrine S Pedersen. According to the rumour they are also courting UEFA Cup winner Turbine Potsdam's Conny Pohlers and the Russian super talent Jelena Danilova.
Svenska Dagbladet: Dif/Älvsjö på väg värva tunga namn
Dagens Nyheter: Djurgården/Älvsjö värvar i världsklass
Asker FK: Forhandler med svenskene
Norges Fotballforbund: Asker uten lisens
Norwegian club targeting QBIK players
Norwegian top side Team Strømmen, that has just signed canadian attacker Rihan Wilkinson, reveals that they are also interested in QBIK's defenders Therese Lückner and Charlotte Nygren. Team Strømmen's swedish coach Janne Jansson, formerly at Mallbacken, says he has informed QBIK's management and will start talks with the players.
US club targeting Marta
The US club FC Indiana, winner of the WPSL league, will send representatives to Sweden to look for a replacement for their top striker Paty Perez. Perez, a Mexican national team player, will move to Barcelona, and Indiana's head coach Shek Borkowski tells Damfotboll.com that he knows Sweden is the best place to find a replacement. Umeå's and Brasil's Marta is on top of his list.
Umeå signs young forward talent
Umeå has been looking for someone "young, really talented and ambitious" to fill the spot Jessica Julin left open when she went to Göteborg. Now the search is over and they have signed 18 year old Erika Karlsson, a forward from 1st division side Alvik, with several matches with the U16-19 national teams.
UIK
Norbottenskuriren: Erika Karlsson till Umeå IK
Expressen: Lovande forward till Umeå
UIK
Norbottenskuriren: Erika Karlsson till Umeå IK
Expressen: Lovande forward till Umeå
Australian national team player to Örebro
Pia Sundhage announced a couple of weeks ago that she has given up on findning an american replacement for Kristine Lilly. Now she reveals that the australian national team player Joanne Peters, an attacking midfielder, will join KIF Örebro "as soon as possible". Peters played in the american professional league WUSA with New York Power the last year before the league folded and has been a steady starter for Australia since 1996. Sundhage's hopes are of course that she'll bring much meeded experience to the team.
Yolanda Odenyo leaves AIK
AIK's strong defender Yolanda Odenyo, who has several caps for the national youth teams, has left for college studies in USA, AIK's head coach Christer Söderberg reveals in an interview at AIK's website.
Players leaving
Djurgården/Älvsjö's midfielder Ingrid Bohlin and Hammarby's midfielder Hanna Olsson has both played their last Damallsvenskan match for the season. They are both leaving for studies in the USA. Hope they've found colleges with good soccer programs.
Edit: I just found out that Hanna Olsson is going to Northeastern University to play with the Huskies. I think that's a pretty good team.
Kopparbergs/Göteborg's midfielder Therese Bjurenlind goes on loan to 1st division side Jitex.
With Bohlin's leaving, Malin Nykvist's time-out and Marijke Callebaut's transfer to Hammarby, there are now only 17 players left on Djurgården/Älvsjö's squad. They really ought to find reinforcements before they go into the UEFA Women's Cup qualifacations in September.
The news on Bohlin was found in Dagens Nyheter's article on Jane Törnqvist and Turbine Potsdam, Hanna Olsson was mentioned in a Hammarby match report and Bjurenlind at Kopparbergs/Göteborg fan site Kopps.
The Törnqvist - Potsdam affair revisited
The usually reliable German football magazine Kicker didn't do the neccesary footwork - in their season start issue they have Jane Törnqvist listed for Turbine Potsdam, in spite of the fact that it is more than a month since the transfer came to naught. But Swedish leading daily Dagens Nyheter picked up the "news" and the good side is that we now have comments from the Swedish side. Djurgården/Älvsjö's chairman Per Darnell confirms that the club gave Turbine permission to talk to Jane. Jane says there were talks, she found the proposition exciting but it never came to an actual deal being presented. And anyway this wasn't a good time to leave Stockholm and Djurgården. But, she continues, it would be fun to try out another league and she likes German football.
Dagens Nyheter: Jane Törnqvist på väg till tysk toppklubb
I have previously blogged about this here, here, here and here.
Dagens Nyheter: Jane Törnqvist på väg till tysk toppklubb
I have previously blogged about this here, here, here and here.
New goalkeeper to Själevad to replace injured Anna Hofwing
Anna Hofwing suffered a serious knee injury in Själevad's draw against Linköping this weekend. It's is probably some kind of cartilage damage, but further medical investigations this week will tell for sure. To be on the safe side Själevad has decided to take home Sandra Fahlén, who has been on loan to 2nd division team Husum.
Örnsköldsviks Allehanda: Husum-målvakt ersätter Hofwing
Örnsköldsviks Allehanda: Husum-målvakt ersätter Hofwing
Magdalena Esseryd resigns with Sunnanå
Sunnanå's wide defender/winger Magdalena Esseryd, this week playing with Sweden's U21 in the Nordic Cup, has signed a deal that ties her two more years with her club. Sunnanå's chairman Sören Gustafsson is pleased and says Esseryd is a cornerstone in the team they are building.
Damfotboll.com
Damfotboll.com
Marijke Callebaut leaves Djurgården/Älvsjö
Marijke Callebaut, belgian midfielder with national team experience, has decided to leave her club Djurgården/Älvsjö and join Stockholm competitor Hammarby. Callebaut has mostly come from the bench in the matches she has played in her one and a half years with the club. Her contract with Djurgården allowed her to change clubs during the transfer period. Papers with Hammarby will be signed in the week to come.
Callebaut revealed her thoughts about changing clubs already this winter in an interview with a belgian football site.
Damfotboll.com
Callebaut revealed her thoughts about changing clubs already this winter in an interview with a belgian football site.
Damfotboll.com
Two americans to Mallbacken?
Last month Mallbacken announced that they've signed the american college player (UCLA Bruins) Lindsay Greco, after she had spent some time with the team on trial. She will join the team July 25 and she will bring another player with her, Whitney Jones. Jones is a defensive midfielder and was Greco's teammate at UCLA. "She will get a try-out with the team and then we'll decide if she is good enough", says Mallbacken coach Glenn Johansson.
It seems like it is not a question about professional contracts with these players. Just like with the recent college graduates that QBIK (Sarah and Annie Hawkins from Gonzaga University) and Hammarby (Maureen Metzger and Lindsay Demaree from Yale) has signed, it seems like getting to play a couple of months in Damallsvenskan is interesting enough in itself.
Värmlands Folkblad: DUBBELVÄRVNING
It seems like it is not a question about professional contracts with these players. Just like with the recent college graduates that QBIK (Sarah and Annie Hawkins from Gonzaga University) and Hammarby (Maureen Metzger and Lindsay Demaree from Yale) has signed, it seems like getting to play a couple of months in Damallsvenskan is interesting enough in itself.
Värmlands Folkblad: DUBBELVÄRVNING
Formiga stays with Malmö FF
Malmö FF's brasilian midfielder Formiga has extended her original 6 match contract and will stay with the club until the season finishes in october. Her contract is entirely sponsor financed.
Malmö FF
Malmö FF