Petronella Ekroth

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Petronella Ekroth
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Personal information
Full name Hilda Petronella Ekroth
Date of birth (1989-12-12) 12 December 1989 (age 35) [1]
Place of birth Askim, Sweden
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
Rödsle BK
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2009 Linköping 3 (0)
2010–2011 Tyresö 10 (0)
2010 → AIK (loan) 7 (0)
2011–2012 Jitex 6 (0)
2013–2015 Hammarby IF 52 (5)
2016–2018 Djurgårdens IF 57 (0)
2018–2019 Juventus 12 (2)
2019 Djurgårdens IF 12 (1)
2020 Roma 4 (0)
2020–2021 Hammarby IF 6 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13 December 2021

Hilda Petronella Ekroth (born 12 December 1989) is a Swedish footballer who plays as a defender.

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Club career

Ekroth started her football career in the Damallsvenskan playing for Djurgårdens IF. She followed this with years at Linköpings FC, AIK, Tyresö FF, Jitex BK, Hammarby IF and Djurgårdens IF. [1] [2] [3]

After spending her entire professional career playing in Sweden, Ekroth signed with Juventus in Italy on July 17, 2018. [4] Following one year in Italy Ekroth resigned to her former Djurgården on July 10, 2019. [5]

In 2020, Ekroth returned to Hammarby IF in Elitettan, Sweden's second tier, and the club immediately got promoted back to Allsvenskan. Ekroth suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury that kept her sidelined throughout the whole 2021 season, before she left the club at the end of the year. [6] [7]

International career

Ekroth has represented Sweden in several youth national team levels, gaining over 30 caps in the process. [8]

Personal life

Ekroth's mother Yvonne is a football coach and Ekroth played for her during her time at Djurgården. Her younger brother Oliver Ekroth also plays football, for Swedish club side Degerfors IF in the men's Allsvenskan. Outside of her playing career, Ekroth has worked in football as a commentator and studio analyst for Eurosport. [9]

We Play Strong

Ekroth is one of UEFA's official ambassadors for #WePlayStrong, a social media and vlogging campaign which was launched in 2018. The series, which originally included professional footballers Sarah Zadrazil, Eunice Beckmann, Laura Feiersinger and Lisa Evans and now also includes Ekroth and Shanice van de Sanden, follows the daily lives of female professional footballers. [10] The campaign's "...aim is to promote women’s football as much as we can and to make people aware of women’s football, really,” Evans explains. “The ultimate goal is to make football the most played sport by females by 2020. So it's a UEFA initiative to get more women and girls playing football, whether they want to be professional or not.” [11]

Honours

Champion: 2009,
Champion: 2010
Champion: 2018–19
Champion: 2019

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References

  1. 1 2 "Sweden – P. Ekroth – Profile with news, career statistics and history – Soccerway". int.soccerway.com. Archived from the original on 4 June 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  2. ↑ "Ekroth till Göteborgsklubb" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 3 June 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  3. ↑ "Petronella Ekroth till Hammarby" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 3 June 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  4. ↑ "Officiellt: Ekroth flyttar till Italien - klar för italienska mästaren" (in Swedish). 17 July 2018. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  5. ↑ "Klart: Petronella Ekroth återvänder till Djurgården" (in Swedish). 10 July 2019. Archived from the original on 6 December 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  6. ↑ "Petronella Ekroth korsbandsskadad" (in Swedish). 7 September 2020. Archived from the original on 1 July 2022. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  7. ↑ "Thörnqvist, Ekroth och Ståhl lämnar Hammarby" (in Swedish). 8 December 2021. Archived from the original on 8 November 2022. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  8. ↑ "Petronella Ekroth joins CMG". Archived from the original on 18 September 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  9. ↑ "Petronella får mamma som tränare: "Jättespeciellt"" (in Swedish). 2 February 2016. Archived from the original on 25 September 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  10. ↑ "Arsenal's Lisa Evans launches scheme to get more women playing football". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 3 June 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  11. ↑ "ARSEBLOG EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ARSENAL'S LISA EVANS". Arseblog. Archived from the original on 3 June 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
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