Andrea Thorisson

Andrea Celeste Thorisson Díaz (born 14 March 1998) is an Icelandic footballer who plays as a forward for IFK Kalmar. She has an Icelandic father and a Peruvian mother.[1]

Andrea Thorisson
Personal information
Full name Andrea Celeste Thorisson Díaz
Date of birth (1998-03-14) 14 March 1998
Place of birth Malmö, Sweden
Position(s) Forward
Club information
Current team
 IFK Kalmar
Youth career
BK Vången
2010–2015 FCR Malmö
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2017 FC Rosengård 6 (0)
2018 Kungsbacka DFF 24 (3)
2019 Limhamn Bunkeflo 15 (1)
2020– IFK Kalmar 13 (2)
National team‡
2014–2015 Iceland U17 14 (3)
2015–2017 Iceland U19 9 (2)
2016 Sweden U19 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 31 January 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 09:51, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Thorisson and the second or maternal family name is Díaz.

Club career

In October 2015, Thorisson made her Damallsvenskan debut for FC Rosengård in a 3–0 home win over Umeå IK. She was an 87th-minute substitute for Marta.[2] Thorisson was one of six youth players to be given a first-team contract by Rosengård in December 2015.[3]

In search of regular first-team football, Thorisson left FC Rosengård in 2018 and signed for Kungsbacka DFF of the second-tier Elitettan. Despite helping Kungsbacka to promotion Thorisson left after one season. She joined Limhamn Bunkeflo because she wanted to live near her family in Scania and was unhappy that Kungsbacka Municipality failed to provide financial support they had promised to Kungsbacka DFF.[4]

International career

When Thorisson was 12 years old she played well in a match against a touring Icelandic team. Her father told the opposition coach of her Icelandic heritage and the coach passed the information on to the Football Association of Iceland. Later Thorrison was approached to play for Iceland's youth national team through her Rosengård teammates Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir and Þóra Björg Helgadóttir. Thorrison has also trained with Sweden's youth national teams at Bosön and as of 2016 remained undecided about which national team to represent at senior level.[5]

Before the men's 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, Thorisson diplomatically stated that she was supporting Sweden, Iceland and Peru equally. Ultimately she decided to make herself eligible to represent Iceland at senior international level.[6]

Honours

Club
FC Rosengård

References
  1. Þórðarson, Tómas Þór (19 June 2015). "Gæti reynst falinn fjarsjóður". Visir.is (in Icelandic). 365 (media corporation). Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  2. "FC Rosengård 2 - 0 Umeå IK FF" (in Swedish). Dalslands Fotbollförbund. 2 October 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  3. Cederlund, Christer (11 December 2015). "Unga spelare får A-kontrakt" (in Swedish). Skånska Dagbladet. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  4. Holmgren, Caroline (17 December 2018). "Avhopp och nyförvärv i KDFF" (in Swedish). Norra Halland. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  5. Laneby, Sebastian (22 March 2016). "Framtidsklubben FC Rosengård" (in Swedish). Magasinet Match. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  6. Löfvendahl, Jonas (21 June 2018). "Andrea har hjärtat i tre kulturer" (in Swedish). Kungsbacka-Posten. Retrieved 25 May 2019.


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