Career
She played as a striker for Gideonsbergs IF and the Sweden women"s national football team Axén is employed as a development manager for the Swedish Football Association (SvFF). That season she had also been the Swedish League"s top goalscorer with 22 goals.
In 1989 an anterior cruciate ligament injury sustained on the artificial turf at Tipshallen in Jönköping ended Axén"s playing career early.
She had reportedly been attracting interest from professional clubs in the Italian Serie A.
Axén made her senior Sweden debut in the semi final of the 1984 European Competition for Women"s Football, against Italy in Linköping. Axén was included in the squad who defeated England in the final.
At the 1988 Fédération internationale de football association Women"s Invitation Tournament in Guangdong she was part of the Swedish squad who finished runners–up to Norway.