Andrea Thorisson

Andrea Thorisson
Personal information
Full name	Andrea Celeste Thorisson Díaz
Date of birth	14 March 1998 (age 26)
Place of birth	Malmö, Sweden
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	IK Uppsala
Youth career
	BK Vången
2010–2015	FCR Malmö
Senior career*
Years	Team
2015–2017	FC Rosengård
2018	Kungsbacka DFF
2019	Limhamn Bunkeflo
2020–2021	IFK Kalmar
2022-	IK Uppsala
International career‡
2014–2015	Iceland U17
2015–2017	Iceland U19
2016	Sweden U19
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 31 January 2020; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 09:51, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

Andrea Celeste Thorisson Díaz (born 14 March 1998) is an

Swedish footballer who plays as a midfielder for IK Uppsala. She has an Icelandic father and a Peruvian mother.^[1]

Club career

In October 2015, Thorisson made her Damallsvenskan debut for FC Rosengård in a 3–0 home win over Umeå IK. She was an 87th-minute substitute for Marta.^[2] Thorisson was one of six youth players to be given a first-team contract by Rosengård in December 2015.^[3]

In search of regular first-team football, Thorisson left FC Rosengård in 2018 and signed for

Limhamn Bunkeflo because she wanted to live near her family in Scania and was unhappy that Kungsbacka Municipality failed to provide financial support they had promised to Kungsbacka DFF.^[4]

International career

When Thorisson was 12 years old she played well in a match against a touring Icelandic team. Her father told the opposition coach of her Icelandic heritage and the coach passed the information on to the Football Association of Iceland. Later Thorrison was approached to play for Iceland's youth national team through her Rosengård teammates Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir and Þóra Björg Helgadóttir. Thorrison has also trained with Sweden's youth national teams at Bosön and as of 2016 remained undecided about which national team to represent at senior level.^[5]

Before the men's 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, Thorisson diplomatically stated that she was supporting Sweden, Iceland and Peru equally. Ultimately she decided to make herself eligible to represent Iceland at senior international level.^[6]

Honours

Club

FC Rosengård

Damallsvenskan: 2015
Svenska Cupen: 2015–16, 2016–17
Svenska Supercupen: 2015, 2016

References

^ Þórðarson, Tómas Þór (19 June 2015). "Gæti reynst falinn fjarsjóður". Visir.is (in Icelandic). 365 (media corporation). Retrieved 6 August 2016.
^ "FC Rosengård 2 - 0 Umeå IK FF" (in Swedish). Dalslands Fotbollförbund. 2 October 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
^ Cederlund, Christer (11 December 2015). "Unga spelare får A-kontrakt" (in Swedish). Skånska Dagbladet. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
^ Holmgren, Caroline (17 December 2018). "Avhopp och nyförvärv i KDFF" (in Swedish). Norra Halland. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
^ Laneby, Sebastian (22 March 2016). "Framtidsklubben FC Rosengård" (in Swedish). Magasinet Match. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
^ Löfvendahl, Jonas (21 June 2018). "Andrea har hjärtat i tre kulturer" (in Swedish). Kungsbacka-Posten. Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2019.