Johanna Maria Frisk (born 19 March 1986) is a Swedish former

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defender who played for Tyresö FF of the

Damallsvenskan The (; ), known as OBOS for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is one of the best women's leagues in the world, and was founded in 1988. The division consists of a league of 14 teams. From 2013, t ...

for four seasons prior to her retirement in January 2014. She previously played for

Umeå IK Umeå IK () is a women's professional association football club based in the city of Umeå, in northern Sweden, and currently playing Damallsvenskan, the first tier of women's football in Sweden. They were one of the most successful football cl ...

and in the

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for

Los Angeles Sol The Los Angeles Sol was an American professional association football, soccer club that was based in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, California, that participated in Women's Professional Soccer. The team was co-owned and operated by Anschutz E ...

Women's Professional Soccer Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) was the top-level professional women's soccer league in the United States. It began play on March 29, 2009. The league was composed of seven teams for its first two seasons and fielded six teams for the 2011 ...

(WPS). Frisk made three appearances for the senior

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. Tyresö won the Damallsvenskan title for the first time in the 2012 season and Frisk collected her fourth league winner's medal, in addition to three won with Umeå. She was the team

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, but missed five months of the title-winning season with a meniscus injury. In January 2014, Frisk announced her retirement from football after she failed to overcome another serious knee injury.

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WPS player profile
(archived) * Los Angeles Sol players Umeå IK players Swedish women's footballers 1986 births Living people Sweden women's international footballers Women's Professional Soccer players Tyresö FF players Damallsvenskan players Bälinge IF players Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Swedish expatriate women's footballers Swedish expatriate sportspeople in the United States Women's association football defenders 21st-century Swedish sportswomen People from Uppsala Municipality Footballers from Uppsala County {{Sweden-footy-defender-stub