From working shifts at a bank to deciding a Champions League final — Fridolina Rolfö’s journey is anything but ordinary. By the time she signed for Barcelona in 2021 as the club’s first-ever Swedish female player, she was already on an upward trajectory. In Catalonia, she etched her name into history.
It is 2020. While much of the world is still grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic, history is being made in London. Chelsea sign Danish forward Pernille Harder from Wolfsburg for a reported fee of around £300,000 — a figure unprecedented in women’s football at the time.
"I am just happy to be the inspiration," said the goalkeeper known for her all time smiley face. And she really is an inspiration, especially for little girls in England. She became England's first ethnic minority goalkeeper.