Personal information | |||
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Full name | Caroline Møller Hansen | ||
Date of birth | 19 December 1998 | ||
Place of birth | Hobro, Denmark | ||
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Real Madrid | ||
Number | 16 | ||
Youth career | |||
2014–2015 | IMG Academy | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2013–2014 | IK Skovbakken | ||
2015–2020 | Fortuna Hjørring | 53 | (30) |
2020–2021 | Inter Milan | 20 | (5) |
2021– | Real Madrid | 49 | (7) |
International career‡ | |||
2013–2014 | Denmark U-16 | 9 | (0) |
2015–2017 | Denmark U-19 | 22 | (11) |
2017 | Denmark U-23 | 3 | (1) |
2017– | Denmark | 11 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19 May 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 December 2022 |
Caroline Møller Hansen (born December 19, 1998) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Real Madrid and for Denmark.[1]
Club career
Møller began playing football with the Hobro Idræts Klub in her hometown in 2006. At the age of 15 in 2023, she joined the Idrætsklubben Skovbakken, with whom she played for one season on the first team.
After her professional debut, she moved to the United States during the winter break, and entered the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. Upon her return to Denmark in the summer of 2015, she started playing for Danish champion Fortuna Hjørring in the Elite Division.[2] With the club, Møller won three national championships, in 2016, 2018. and 2020.. With her team she finished second behind Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening on three occasions. She and her club won two Danish Cups, in 2016 and 2019. With Fortuna she made her debut in the Champions League on November 16, 2016 in the second leg of the round of 16. In the match, against SSD Brescia, coming on as a substitute in the 70th minute of the match.[3] On September 11, 2019, she scored her first goal in the competition, the final 0-1 in the first leg of the round of 32 against KF Vllaznia Shkodër. She scored a double in the 2-0 victory in the second leg.[4]
In 2020 she moved to Inter Milan for one season.[5]
In 2021 Møller moved to Real Madrid, the team only formed one year prior.[6] Møller became the club's eighth signing before the start of the new season.[7] She scored her first goal on matchday six, in a 2-1 victory against SD Eibar. In the first match of the year for 2024, Møller scored the winning goal in the 2-1 victory over Madrid CFF in the 99th minute.[8]
International career
Møller received his first call-ups from the Danish Football Union in 2013, at the age of 14, for the under-16 team, with which he played nine games until 2014. In 2015 she joined the under-19 team, where she played in the qualifiers for the U19 European Championship in Slovakia 2016 and Northern Ireland 2017, without qualifying for the final phase. By the end of her time with the team in 2017, she had 22 appearances and 11 goals. On the same date she was selected for the under-23 category.
In August 2017 Møller was selected for the senior national team for a friendly match against the Netherlands, which was cancelled, and for the World Cup qualifier against Hungary. Despite these games being cancelled, she kept her spot on the team.[9] She made her debut for the national team on March 4 at the 2020 Algarve Cup in the 1–2 defeat against Norway, when she was substituted after 61 minutes for Emma Snerle.
Honours
Fortuna Hjørring
- Elitedivisionen: 2015–16, 2019–20
- Danish Women's Cup: 2016
References
- ↑ "Dansk landsholdsspiller skifter til italiensk fodbold: 'Kvindefodbolden vokser helt vildt hernede'". dr.dk. DR. 21 July 2020. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
- ↑ "Verdens bedste nedlagde Fortuna | Nordjyske.dk". 16 April 2017. Archived from the original on 16 April 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
- ↑ "Fortuna Hjørring vs. Brescia - 16 novembre 2016 - Soccerway". it.soccerway.com. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ↑ "Vllaznia vs. Fortuna Hjørring - 11 settembre 2019 - Soccerway". it.soccerway.com. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ↑ "Caroline Møller Hansen è una nuova giocatrice dell'Inter | Inter.it". www.inter.it (in Italian). Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ↑ "Dansk landsholdsspiller skifter til italiensk fodbold: 'Kvindefodbolden vokser helt vildt hernede'". DR (in Danish). 21 July 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
- ↑ Gil, Aimara G. (18 August 2021). "Caroline Moller apuntala el ataque del Real Madrid". Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ↑ Infobae, Por Newsroom (7 January 2024). "2-1. El Real Madrid tira de épica y remonta en la prolongación". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ↑ Valbjørn, Solveig (31 August 2017). "Caroline Møller om A-landsholdsudtagelse: Det er overvældende". Fodbold for piger (in Danish). Retrieved 19 January 2023.
External links
- Caroline Møller – UEFA competition record (archive)
- Caroline Møller national team profile at the Danish Football Association (in Danish)