Line Røddik Hansen

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| name = Line Røddik

| image = Line Roddik Hansen May 2013.jpg

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| caption = Line Røddik in May 2013

| fullname = Line Røddik Hansen

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1988|1|31}}

| birth_place = Copenhagen, Denmark

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| position = Defender

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| youthclubs1= BK Skjold

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| years2 = 2007–2009

| years3 = 2010–2014

| years4 = 2014–2015

| years5 = 2016

| years6 = 2016–2018

| years7 = 2018–2019

| years8 = 2019–2020

| clubs1 = Skovlunde IF

| clubs2 = Brøndby IF

| clubs3 = Tyresö FF

| clubs4 = FC Rosengård

| clubs5 = Lyon

| clubs6 = Barcelona

| clubs7 = Ajax

| clubs8 = FC Nordsjælland

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| caps2 =58

| goals2 = 5

| caps3 = 85

| goals3 = 8

| caps4 = 17

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| caps5 = 4

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| goals6 = 1

| caps7 = 8

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| nationalyears1= 2006–2017

| nationalteam1= Denmark

| nationalcaps1= 132

| nationalgoals1 = 13

| ntupdate = 5 August 2017

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Line Røddik Hansen (born 31 January 1988) is a Danish former footballer who played as a defender for Danish club FC Nordsjælland and the Denmark women's national team. She previously played for French club Lyon and Spanish club FC Barcelona, as well as Tyresö FF and FC Rosengård of the Swedish Damallsvenskan. She accrued 132 caps for the Denmark women's national football team between her debut in February 2006 and her retirement in December 2020.{{cite web |url=https://www.dr.dk/sporten/fodbold/kvindeligaen/efter-talrige-landskampe-mesterskaber-og-em-medaljer-stopper-line |title=Efter talrige landskampe, mesterskaber og EM-medaljer stopper Line Røddik karrieren: 'Messi-foto gav mig mere eksponering end alle triumfer på banen' |last=Muminovich |first=Arnela |date=17 December 2020 |website=dr.dk |publisher=Danmarks Radio |access-date=18 December 2020}}

Club career

After joining Brøndby 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.{{cite web|url=http://en.archive.dr.infra.uefa.com/competitions/woco/players/Player=96080/index.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130630123233/http://en.archive.dr.infra.uefa.com/competitions/woco/players/Player=96080/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 June 2013|title=Line Røddik Hansen|publisher=UEFA|access-date=30 May 2013}} She scored seven goals for Brøndby in a total of 78 appearances across all competitions.{{cite web|url=http://www.brondbyif.net/page.aspx?id=42159 |title=Kampstatistik på spillere |publisher=Brøndby IF |language=Danish |access-date=3 July 2014 |date=9 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104212738/http://www.brondbyif.net/page.aspx?id=42159 |archive-date= 4 January 2014 }}

Copenhagen-born Røddik Hansen left Brøndby IF for newly promoted Damallsvenskan club Tyresö FF ahead of the 2010 season, rejecting a competing offer from the American Women's Professional Soccer (WPS).{{cite web

|url=http://www.brondbyif.net/news/newsShow.aspx?id=26598

|title=3F : Røddik til Sverige

|publisher=Brøndby IF

|date=5 December 2009

|access-date=30 May 2013

|first=Henrik

|last=Stokholm

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709125921/http://www.brondbyif.net/news/newsShow.aspx?id=26598

|archive-date= 9 July 2015

}} She spent three seasons playing at left-back, before moving inside to centre back when the Swedish club signed Sara Thunebro in 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.ourgamemagazine.com/danish-dynamite-from-tyreso-line-roddik-hansen/|title=Danish dynamite from Tyresö – Line Røddik Hansen|publisher=Our Game Magazine|date=29 May 2013|access-date=30 May 2013|first=Rainer|last=Fussganger|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130630022055/http://www.ourgamemagazine.com/danish-dynamite-from-tyreso-line-roddik-hansen/|archive-date=30 June 2013|df=dmy-all}}

File:Line Roddick Hansen.jpg

Tyresö dramatically won the Damallsvenskan title for the first time in the 2012 season and Røddik Hansen collected her first league winner's medal.{{cite news|url=https://www.dn.se/sport/fotboll/tyreso-vann-sm-guld-efter-dramatik/|title=Tyresö vann SM-guld efter dramatik|newspaper=Dagens Nyheter|date=3 November 2012|access-date=3 July 2013|language=Swedish|first=Johannes|last=Cleris}} She played in Tyresö's 4–3 defeat by Wolfsburg in the 2014 UEFA Women's Champions League Final.{{cite web|url=https://www.uefa.com/womenschampionsleague/match/2014107--tyreso-vs-wolfsburg/|title=Müller the hero again as Wolfsburg win classic final|publisher=UEFA|date=22 May 2014|access-date=3 July 2014|first=Paul|last=Saffer}}

Tyresö suffered a financial implosion in 2014 and withdrew from the 2014 Damallsvenskan season, expunging all their results and making all their players free agents. The Stockholm County Administrative Board published the players' salaries, showing Røddik Hansen was one of the lower paid players, at SEK 25 000 per month.{{cite web|url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/sverige/damallsvenskan/article19010400.ab|title=Tyresö lämnar damallsvenskan|publisher=Aftonbladet|date=5 June 2014|access-date=3 July 2014|language=Swedish|first1=Fredrik |last1=Jönsson|first2=Kasja|last2=Nordmark }}

In July 2014, Røddik Hansen signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with reigning Damallsvenskan champions, FC Rosengård, of Malmö.{{cite news|title=Röddik Hansen till Rosengård|url=https://www.gp.se/sport/1.2419437-roddik-hansen-till-rosengard|access-date=3 July 2014|work=Göteborgs-Posten|publisher=Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå|date=3 July 2014}} She transferred to French champions Lyon in January 2016.{{cite news|title=La Danoise Line Røddik Hansen a signé à l'OL|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/La-danoise-line-roddik-hansen-a-signe-a-l-ol/629671|access-date=30 January 2016|publisher=L'Equipe|date=30 January 2016|language=French}} She was cup-tied for Lyon's win in the 2016 UEFA Women's Champions League Final. In July 2016 Røddik Hansen signed for FC Barcelona.{{cite news|title=Line Røddik Hansen joins FC Barcelona from Olympique Lyon|url=https://www.fcbarcelona.com/football/womens-football/news/2016-2017/line-r-ddik-hansen-joins-fc-barcelona-from-olympique-lyon|access-date=9 July 2016|publisher=FC Barcelona|date=8 July 2016}}

Røddik Hansen spent the final year of her career playing for Danish club FC Nordsjælland. She announced her retirement from football in an Instagram post in December 2020.{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CI6Dt6oh827/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/CI6Dt6oh827 |archive-date=24 December 2021 |url-access=registration|title=I'm saying goodbye to who I have been for as long as I remember, a FOOTBALLPLAYER. |via=Instagram |date=17 December 2020 }}{{cbignore}}

International career

On 25 February 2006 Røddik Hansen made her senior Denmark debut, playing the second half of a 3–2 friendly win in Switzerland.

She was the youngest member of the Danish squad at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup in China at the age of 19 but did not appear in any matches. At UEFA 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 named Danish Football Player of the Year.{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/01eb-0e11fe1e8f27-1b9450129f23-1000--roddik-hansen-gets-danish-recognition/|title=Røddik Hansen gets Danish recognition|publisher=UEFA |date=16 November 2010|access-date=30 May 2013}}

The 2013 Algarve Cup match against Germany marked Røddik Hansen's 75th international cap.{{cite web|url=http://forsiden.3f.dk/article/20130306/FODBOLD/130309929|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130701041954/http://forsiden.3f.dk/article/20130306/FODBOLD/130309929|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 July 2013|title=Line Røddik fejrede 75 kamps jubilæum mod Tyskland|publisher=Fagligt Fælles Forbund|first=Helle|last=Møller Riis|language=Danish|access-date=30 May 2013|date=6 March 2013}} She was named in national coach Kenneth Heiner-Møller's squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013.{{cite web|url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/020a-0e1416d60e73-ef0048a5dc34-1000--upbeat-heiner-moller-confirms-denmark-squad/|title=Upbeat Heiner-Møller confirms Denmark squad|date=21 June 2013|access-date=13 July 2013|work=UEFA|first=Peter|last=Bruun}} She was also named in national coach Nils Nielsen's squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2017 where she was an integral part of Denmark achieving second place.

Honours

;Brøndby IF

Elitedivisionen: Winner 2007, 2008
Danish Women's Cup: Winner 2007

;Tyresö FF

Damallsvenskan: Winner 2012

;FC Rosengård

Damallsvenskan: Winner 2014, 2015

; FC Barcelona

Copa de la Reina de Fútbol: Winner 2017, 2018
Copa Catalunya: Winner 2016, 2017

Style of play

Upon joining Barcelona, Røddik Hansen said that she liked the team's possession-based tactics: "I play both at centre back and left back, and I think I’m good at playing the ball out of defence."