 Røddik in May 2013 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Line Røddik Hansen | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1988-01-31)31 January 1988 (age 37) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Copenhagen, Denmark | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft9+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Defender | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| BK Skjold | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| Skovlunde IF | |||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2009 | Brøndby IF | 58 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2014 | Tyresö FF | 85 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | FC Rosengård | 17 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Lyon | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2018 | Barcelona | 23 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Ajax | 8 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | FC Nordsjælland | 18 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2017 | Denmark | 132 | (13) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals as of 5 August 2017 | |||||||||||||||||
Line Røddik Hansen (born 31 January 1988) is aDanish formerfootballer who played as adefender for Danish clubFC Nordsjælland and theDenmark women's national team. She previously played for French clubLyon and Spanish clubFC Barcelona, as well asTyresö FF andFC Rosengård of the SwedishDamallsvenskan. She accrued 132caps for theDenmark women's national football team between her debut in February 2006 and her retirement in December 2020.[1]
After joiningBrøndby IF in 2007 Røddik Hansen won the Danish championship in her first season with the club. She was named club Player of the Year in 2008.[2] She scored seven goals for Brøndby in a total of 78 appearances across all competitions.[3]
Copenhagen-born Røddik Hansen left Brøndby IF for newly promotedDamallsvenskan club Tyresö FF ahead of the 2010 season, rejecting a competing offer from the AmericanWomen's Professional Soccer (WPS).[4] She spent three seasons playing atleft-back, before moving inside tocentre back when the Swedish club signedSara Thunebro in 2013.[5]
Tyresö dramatically won the Damallsvenskan title for the first time in the2012 season and Røddik Hansen collected her first league winner's medal.[6] She played in Tyresö's 4–3 defeat byWolfsburg in the2014 UEFA Women's Champions League Final.[7]
Tyresö suffered a financial implosion in 2014 and withdrew from the2014 Damallsvenskan season, expunging all their results and making all their playersfree agents. TheStockholm County Administrative Board published the players' salaries, showing Røddik Hansen was one of the lower paid players, atSEK 25 000 per month.[8]
In July 2014, Røddik Hansen signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with reigning Damallsvenskan champions,FC Rosengård, ofMalmö.[9] She transferred to French championsLyon in January 2016.[10] She wascup-tied for Lyon's win in the2016 UEFA Women's Champions League Final. In July 2016 Røddik Hansen signed forFC Barcelona.[11]
Røddik Hansen spent the final year of her career playing for Danish clubFC Nordsjælland. She announced her retirement from football in anInstagram post in December 2020.[12]
On 25 February 2006 Røddik Hansen made her senior Denmark debut, playing the second half of a 3–2friendly win inSwitzerland.
She was the youngest member of the Danish squad at the2007 FIFA Women's World Cup in China at the age of 19 but did not appear in any matches. AtUEFA Women's Euro 2009 in Finland Røddik Hansen played in all three group games as Denmark made a first round exit.
In 2010, she was namedDanish Football Player of the Year.[13]
The2013 Algarve Cup match againstGermany marked Røddik Hansen's 75th internationalcap.[14] She was named in nationalcoachKenneth Heiner-Møller's squad forUEFA Women's Euro 2013.[15] She was also named in nationalcoachNils Nielsen's squad forUEFA Women's Euro 2017 where she was an integral part of Denmark achieving second place.
Upon joining Barcelona, Røddik Hansen said that she liked the team'spossession-based tactics: "I play both at centre back and left back, and I think I’m good at playing the ball out of defence."[11]
Røddik Hansen graduated from theSwedish School of Sport and Health Sciences in June 2013, with a qualification in sportscoaching.[5]
