Minna Heponiemi (born 10 August 1977) is a Swedish former women's international footballer who played as a

forward Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward. Forward may also refer to: People *Forward (surname) Sports * Forward (association football) * Forward (basketball), including: ** Point forward ** Power forward (basketball) ** Smal ...

. She was a member of the

Sweden women's national football team The Sweden women's national football team (), nicknamed ''Blågult'' ("The Blue-Yellow"), represents Sweden at international women's association football competitions. It was established in 1973 and is governed by the Swedish Football Associatio ...

and took part in the

1999 FIFA Women's World Cup The 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup was the third edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the world championship for List of women's national association football teams, women's national association football, soccer teams. It was hosted as well as ...

Early life

Heponiemi was born to Finnish parents and grew up in

Vagnhärad Vagnhärad is a locality situated in Trosa Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 3,324 inhabitants in 2010. Landslide On 23 May 1997 a landslide along the banks of the Trosaån, or Trosa River, damaged or destroyed 7 residential house ...

, Sweden. A Finnish citizen by birth, she changed to Swedish citizenship when she was 15 years old.

References

1977 births Living people Swedish women's footballers Sweden women's international footballers Place of birth missing (living people) 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players Women's association football forwards Hammarby Fotboll (women) players Naturalized citizens of Sweden Swedish people of Finnish descent People from Trosa Municipality {{Sweden-women-footy-bio-stub