Emelie Ölander is a Swedish international football player. Since 2009 she has been part of the Swedish national team

Sweden women's national football team

Sweden women's national football team are a football team officially representing Sweden in women's football. They won the unofficial European Championships in 1984, a success the team has not managed to repeat, it has however won one World Cup-silver as well as three European Cup-silvers...

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Career

At the age of five, Emelie Ölander started to play football in the youth team of Malmö FF

Malmö FF

Malmö Fotbollförening, also known simply as Malmö FF, are a Swedish professional football club based in Malmö. The club is affiliated with Skånes Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Swedbank Stadion. The club colours, reflected in their crest and kit, are sky blue and white...

. Some years later she became a national youth player for Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

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Her first season in the Swedish women's league Damallsvenskan, she played for Malmö FF, but left the team after only one year. She moved to AIK Solna where she played a season as defender and was invited to the Swedish national team. She played on the team that won the Algarve Cup

Algarve Cup

The Algarve Cup is a global invitational tournament for national teams in women's football . Held annually in the Algarve region of Portugal since 1994, it is one of the most prestigious women's football events, alongside the Women's World Cup and Women's Olympic Football...

in 2009.

External links

• Emelie Ölander Data-base of svenskfotboll.se