The Year of Fridolina Rolfo, Sweden's potential USWNT killer
Not many left backs would have found themselves eight yards from goal to score a winner in a Women’s Champions League final, but Fridolina Rolfo isn’t your average left back.
This is a left back who hit double figures for goals and assists for a dominant Barcelona team last season.
Rolfo is so productive in the attacking third that Sweden head coach Peter Gerhardsson can’t bring himself to play her anywhere close to the defence, instead giving her something of a free role further forward. Think of Rolfo as the Swedish Alphonso Davies.
2023 has been Rolfo’s year. In January, she extended her contract with Barcelona until 2026 as one of the club’s best-paid players. In April, the 29-year-old won her second Spanish title. Then she scored the winner in the Women’s Champions League final in June.
Now, in August, she could be the player who knocks a Three-peat-chasing USA out of the 2023 Women’s World Cup.
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