New signing Fridolina Rolfo may well make her Manchester United debut in her native Sweden as the Red Devils prepare to face PSV Eindhoven in the qualifying phase of the UEFA Women’s Champions League.
It’s a possibility she describes as “very cool” ahead of the match at the 3Arena in Stockholm on Wednesday, 27th August.
Rolfo has already won the Women’s Champions League twice during her spell with Barcelona, and in an interview with her new club’s media channels, she said: “It’s a big thing to win the Champions League. When you’ve won it once, you want to win it more times. That’s something that I want to continue working hard for, to get there with this team.
“It’s definitely something you want to reach every year if possible.”
Rolfo: ‘WSL is probably the best in the world’
The 31-year-old already knows several of her new team-mates, having spent time at Wolfsburg with Dominique Janssen, and at Bayern Munich with Leah Galton – and of course there are her Swedish compatriots Anna Sandberg and Julia Zigiotti Olme.
However, she was also attracted to the club’s ethos and aims, explaining: “It’s a club that fits the way I want to play. It’s a big club that want to invest, do even more, and win titles. We have the same ambition.”
She described the WSL as “probably the best league in the world”, adding that Manchester United have “a badge you want to play for”.
“It’s something I want to be a part of,” she said. “I feel like I can bring my skills to this team, and help the team.
“I feel like this is a perfect match.”
Fridolina Rolfo’s sensational stats
During her stellar career thus far, Fridolina Rolfo has played for Tolo, Jitex and Linkoping in her native Sweden, and Bayern Munich and Wolfsburg in Germany. She signed for Barcelona in 2021, where she won four league titles, two Spanish Super Cups, three Copa de la Reina, and two Champions League crowns.
Rolfo has over a century of caps for her country, 33 goals, plus two Olympic silver medals from their campaigns in 2016 and 2020. She was also part of the Sweden squad that beat England to bronze in the third-place play-off in the 2019 Women’s World Cup, and featured in their campaign at the Women’s Euros in Switzerland over the summer.
Indeed, she was in the team that went 2-0 up against England in the quarter-final, although she was substituted in the 77th minute – two minutes before Lucy Bronze got a goal back, and four minutes before Michelle Agyemang’s equaliser that forced extra time and ultimately the penalty shoot-out.
