After more than a year without a Sweden goal Blackstenius has got two to earn a World Cup semi-final against the NetherlandsAt the start of the year, Stina Blackstenius had had enough. She had been with Montpellier since the summer of 2017 but after a promising start she had fallen out of favour and decided to move home to Sweden and Linköping, the club she had left 18 months earlier.For some, it would have been an admission of failure but not for Blackstenius. For the Sweden striker it was a chance to take stock and play regularly again with a World Cup coming up. The difficult time in France had been the first serious setback in a career that had seen her win the Under-19 European championship as the tournament’s leading scorer with six goals in 2015 and finish second in the Olympics the following year. Continue reading…
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