Barbro Charlotte Rohlin (born 2 December 1980) is a Swedish former

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er who played as a defender and captained

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club

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. She won 77

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for the

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between 2007 and 2015.

Club career

Rohlin began playing for Linköpings in 1987, while they were still attached to BK Kenty, and progressed up through the youth teams. In 2009 Rohlin rejected an approach from

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of the American

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(WPS), to extend her contract with Linköpings. She decided to retire from football at the end of the 2015 season, taking a position in the club's marketing department. At the time of her retirement, Rohlin was the player with most appearances for Linköpings with more than 300 matches played in all competitions (232 of them in the league).

International career

At the

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edition of the

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, Rohlin made her debut for the senior

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team in a 3–0 win over

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. Her first appearance in the squad for a major tournament came at the

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. She was selected for

UEFA Women's Euro 2009 The 2009 UEFA Women's Championship, or just Women's Euro 2009, was played in Finland between 23 August and 10 September 2009. The host was appointed on 11 July 2006, in a UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Berlin and the Finnish proposal won over ...

and scored Sweden's first goal at the tournament, in their 3–0 group stage win over

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. Rohlin was also part of the team which secured third place at the

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in Germany. She featured in Sweden's 3–1 semi-final defeat to eventual winners

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. Sweden secured third place by beating

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2–1 in

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. Rohlin missed the

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with an

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. After a year out, she returned to club football in spring 2013 and immediately targeted a place in Sweden's squad for

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. Although selected for the

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, Rohlin was no longer first choice due to

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's switch to centre-back and the emergence of younger players such as

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and

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. When Sweden performed poorly and crashed out without winning a game, Rohlin criticised the tactics of coach

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. Charlotte Rohlin appeared Sweden in one

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( Germany 2011) and one

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(

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). She was on the roster for the

and

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World Cups, but did not see playing time in either of those tournaments. Charlotte Rohlin participated in two

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tournaments: Finland 2009 and Sweden 2013. She played every minute of both tournaments.

Career statistics

International

:''Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Rohlin goal.''

Honours

Linköpings FC *

(1): 2009 *

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(4): 2006, 2008, 2009, 2013–14 *

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(2): 2009, 2010 Sweden * Third place at the

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References

;Match reports

External links

* *
Profile
at SvFF * * *
Club Profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rohlin, Charlotte 1980 births Living people Swedish women's footballers Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Sweden Sweden women's international footballers 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Damallsvenskan players Linköpings FC players Sportspeople from Linköping Women's association football defenders 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers from Östergötland County 21st-century Swedish sportswomen