Angelica Burevik

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| name = Angelica Burevik

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| fullname = Angelica Burevik Törnqvist{{cite web|title=Damer EM Matchinformation: Sverige - England|url=https://svenskfotboll.se/cuper-och-serier/information/?scr=result&fmid=1568715|publisher=Svenskfotboll.se|access-date=2012-05-20}}

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|12|7}}

| birth_place = Helsingborg, Sweden

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| position = Defender

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| clubs1 = Stattena IF

| nationalyears1 = 1981–1985

| nationalteam1 = Sweden{{cite web|title=Damlandslagsspelare 1973–2011|url=https://svenskfotboll.se/ImageVault/Images/id_69553/ImageVaultHandler.aspx|publisher=Svenskfotboll.se|access-date=2012-01-06}}

| nationalcaps1 = 30

| nationalgoals1 = 0

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| ntupdate = October 18, 2007

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Angelica Burevik Törnqvist (born 7 December 1958) is a Swedish former association football defender who won 30 caps for the Sweden women's national football team. She is nicknamed Agge.

Club career

Burevik's performances for local team Stattena IF earned her a place in the Helsingborgs Idrottsmuseum Hall of Fame in 1983.{{cite news|url=http://www.idrottsmuseum.org/halloffame.aspx |title=Hall of Fame |publisher=Helsingborgs Idrottsmuseum |access-date=2012-05-20 |language=Swedish |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100715075904/http://www.idrottsmuseum.org/halloffame.aspx |archive-date=2010-07-15 }} She later served the club as chairperson.{{cite news|url=http://www.fotbollskanalen.se/dam/ny-damfotbollsklubb-i-helsingborg/|title=Ny damfotbollsklubb i Helsingborg|publisher=Fotbollskanalen.se|access-date=2012-05-20|date=2009-11-16|language=Swedish}}

International career

Burevik made her senior Sweden debut in a 6–1 win over France in Montauban on 23 May 1981.{{cite web|url=http://www.svenskdamfotboll.se/index_spelarprofil.php?spelare=57|title=Spelarporträtt|publisher=Svensk Damfotboll|access-date=2012-05-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042333/http://www.svenskdamfotboll.se/index_spelarprofil.php?spelare=57|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}} She won the first UEFA championships for national women's teams in 1984. Sweden beat England in the final, on a penalty shootout at Kenilworth Road after a 1–1 aggregate draw.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/may/19/seven-deadly-sins-football-penalty-women-england|title=England's shoot-out jinx begins - England, 1984|first=Tony |last=Leighton|work=The Guardian|date=2009-05-19|access-date=2010-10-12}} Burevik's break down the right wing and cross had created Pia Sundhage's headed goal for Sweden in the first leg at Ullevi.{{cite web|title=EM för damer 1984|url=http://fogis.se/om-svff/ar-for-ar/klassiska-landslag/em-for-damer-1984/|publisher=Svenskfotboll.se|access-date=2012-05-20|date=2009-08-27|first=Andreas|last=Nilsson|language=Swedish}} Her exertions in central defence on the muddy Kenilworth Road pitch left her too exhausted to participate in the shootout.{{cite news|url=http://hd.se/sport/2009/05/27/25-aar-sedan-enda-em-guldet/ |title=25 år sedan enda EM-guldet |first=Jan |last=Andersson |publisher=Helsingborgs Dagblad |date=2009-05-27 |access-date=2012-05-20 |language=Swedish |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090529052125/http://hd.se/sport/2009/05/27/25-aar-sedan-enda-em-guldet/ |archive-date=2009-05-29 }}

Burevik played 30 games in a row for Sweden, the last of which was on 9 October 1985. Only two games were lost while 22 resulted in Swedish victories.

References

Category:Living people

Category:1958 births

Category:Swedish women's footballers

Category:Sweden women's international footballers

Category:Footballers from Helsingborg

Category:Women's association football defenders

Category:UEFA Women's Championship–winning players

Category:20th-century Swedish sportswomen

Category:Stattena IF (women) players