Eva Zeikfalvy
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Eva Zeikfalvy | ||
| Date of birth | 18 April 1967 | ||
| Place of birth | Veberöd, Sweden | ||
| Position | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Malmö FF Dam | |||
| Tyresö FF | |||
| Malmö FF Dam | |||
| International career‡ | |||
| 1988–2000 | Sweden[1] | 69 | (2) |
|
* Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals as of 18 October 2007 | |||
Eva Zeikfalvy (born 18 April 1967) is a Swedish former association football defender who won 69 caps for the Sweden women's national football team, scoring two goals. She represented Sweden at the FIFA Women's World Cup in 1991 and 1995. She is nicknamed Zäta.
Growing up in Veberöd, Zeikfalvy played football with the local Veberöds AIF girls' team until her family moved to Malmö in 1977.[2]
Zeikfalvy left Malmö and stopped playing after the 2000 Damallsvenskan season.[3]
International career
Zeikfalvy made her senior Sweden debut in 1988.[4] At the 1988 FIFA Women's Invitation Tournament in Guangdong she was part of the Swedish team who finished runners-up to Norway. The Chinese press voted her into the tournament's official all-star team.[5]
In 1991 Zeikfalvy helped Sweden to a third-place finish at the inaugural FIFA Women's World Cup. The previous year she had collected the Diamantbollen award for the best female footballer in the country.
Continued good form at club level meant Zeikfalvy was linked with a call-up to Sweden's 2000 Sydney Olympics squad. She was unable to attend due to her studies.[6]
