She is the mother of fellow Faroe Islands international player Eyðvør Klakstein and they played together in the senior national team in 2012 and 2013.
[7] The Faroe Islands Football Association (FSF) relaunched their senior women's national team in 2004 after an eight-year hiatus.
[5][8] The match was staged in Klaksvík on 12 October 2004, the day before the nations' senior men's teams met at Lansdowne Road, Dublin.
[11] The duo "stood out" as the Faroe Islands qualified from the group, the first time the nation had progressed from any stage at any level of football.
[19] The Norðlýsið newspaper compared them to other prominent football families in an article headlined: "The Shanklys, The Maldinis, The Laudrups, The Charltons and The Klaksteins".