Carina Holmberg (born 4 October 1983) is a

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player for

Sunnanå SK Sunnanå SK is a football club from Skellefteå, Sweden who in 2024 plays in Elitettan, the second highest division of women's football in Sweden. The club was established in 1939 and the women's division was added in 1974. Sunnanå has played man ...

in the Swedish

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who is a

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. She has represented

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at the senior international level. She made her senior international debut in a 6–1 win over

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at the

2013 Algarve Cup The 2013 Algarve Cup was the twentieth edition of the Algarve Cup, an annual invitational women's football tournament hosted by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). Teams The following teams were taking part. There were no debutantes, as all ...

on 8 March 2013. A succession of injuries caused Holmberg to drop out of national team contention before

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. Holmberg had joined

from

Bälinge IF Bälinge IF is a sports club from Bälinge, a village 10 kilometres north-west of Uppsala, Sweden. Background Bälinge Idrottsförening was established on 15 March 1936 and is currently active in men's and ladies' football, cross-country skiing ...

ahead of the 2005 season.

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Sweden player profile
Swedish women's footballers 1983 births Living people Sweden women's international footballers Damallsvenskan players Bälinge IF players Sunnanå SK players Women's association football forwards 21st-century Swedish sportswomen {{Sweden-women-footy-bio-stub