Magdalena Eriksson has announced her retirement from international football

Magdalena (also known as Magda) Eriksson announced her retirement from international football through instagram, in the video she states ‘im listening to my body and my mind, instead of my heart’ This is a decision that took her a while and she will ‘be the national team's biggest fan’ from now on. She has achieved a lot with the Swedish national team
such as silver at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics and her last major tournament for Sweden would have been the 2025 Euros in Switzerland, which they got to the semi finals which ended in a defeat due to England winning the penalty shoutout. Eriksson has represented Sweden at loads of major tournaments and has even captained them. "To represent my country will be the one thing I'm absolutely most proud of when I look back on my career ’, Eriksson also said this in her announcement video, she has done so much for Sweden and thanked all of the players and supporters for her amazing time playing for Sweden.

After the 2023 World Cup, Eriksson spoke about her experience at the world cup in an interview with the soccer bible, she spoke about the growth of the game and how she’s “never felt that much attention and that much attention specifically to the women's game” and also "I've never felt that respect, a genuine respect towards us”. In the 2023 world cup Sweden won the bronze medal match and went to Gothenburg to celebrate their achievement, 30,000 people turned up to go and celebrate the achievement with the team. Magda has been a part of the growth of the women's game from beginning her career with her local team Enskede Ik before joining Hammarby If (which was encouraged by her dad) to
captaining Chelsea, representing her national team and now playing at Bayern Munich. Magda broke through into Hammarby's first team in 2011 at just aged 17 and she made her international debut in 2014. She represented Sweden at all the youth groups and she won the U19 Euros in 2012.

Eriksson will now continue to focus on winning trophies with Bayern Munich adding onto her lists of honours. Magda has many honours such as being 5 time WSL winner, 4 time FA cup winner, 2 time Bundesliga winner, 2 time Swedish Cup winner, Swedish player of the year 2020, third place at the 2023 world cup, and has won the Swedish league and more. Magda has made her country proud and has helped them with all of their achievements, she will now have an amazing international career to look back and remember. She’s an inspiration to many people, not only in football but also with the work she does of the pitch, she will continue to thrive with Bayern Munich whilst everyone remembers who much of an asset she was for Sweden.