Women’s Euros player to watch: Stina Blackstenius (Sweden)

Worldwide caps: 76

Worldwide targets: 25

Worldwide honours:

• Algarve Cup – 2018
• Olympic silver medal – 2016 & 2020
• Girls’s World Cup third place – 2019

Membership: Arsenal

Membership honours:

• Linkopings
  • 2016 Damallsvenskan
  • 2013/14 & 2014/15 Svenska Cupen
• BK Hacken
  • 2020 Damallsvenskan
  • 2020/21 Svenska Cupen

Stina Blackstenius, Sweden – One To Watch

Stina Blackstenius is one among Europe’s main strikers, and heads into Euro 2022 having scored six occasions in 11 Girls’s Tremendous League video games for Arsenal. Sweden’s star ahead has spent the vast majority of her profession in her native nation, however made the choice to modify to the Gunners earlier this yr.

Blackstenius was nominated for the 2021 Ballon d’Or Feminin and, aged simply 26, has a few of her greatest years nonetheless forward of her. She fired her nation to the silver medal on the Tokyo Olympics with a sequence of very good performances in entrance of aim. She netted a brace as Sweden shocked the USA within the teams, in addition to chipping in throughout the knockout levels and gave her nation the lead within the gold-medal match.

Sweden’s soccer staff nearly missed out on this generational expertise altogether, although: Blackstenius grew up taking part in handball and solely deserted it for soccer in 2013. Handball’s loss is soccer’s acquire, each for Swedish soccer followers and any neutrals wanting ahead to the world’s greatest gamers showcasing their abilities at Euro 2022 this summer season.