Dorte Dalum Jensen (born 3 July 1978) is a Danish former football defender. She played for Norwegian

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club LSK Kvinner. She won over 40 caps for the Denmark national team.

Club career

In January 2008, Dalum Jensen left Swedish

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contenders Djurgården/Älvsjö to sign for

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. In summer 2009, she returned to Norwegian football, where she had previously played for IF Liungen and

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. This time her destination was

Team Strømmen LSK Kvinner Fotballklubb is a Norwegian women's football club from Lillestrøm. They currently play in Toppserien, the top division of Norwegian football. The club was founded as Setskog/Høland Fotballklubb on 10 October 1989. History The cl ...

, who became LSK Kvinner for the 2010 season. Dalum Jensen suffered a damaged cruciate ligament in January 2011. Although Jensen's parents and two elder brothers had no interest in football, she began to play at school, aged 10. Her early career took in local club Hadsund Boldklub, Vorup FB, and then Hjortshøj Egå Idrætsforening (HEI) before she left for Norway.

National career

She represented

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at the UEFA European Championship 2005 and was named in the squad for the 2007 FIFA World Cup in China. Dalum Jensen won 14 caps and scored two goals for the Denmark under-21 team, making her senior debut against

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in September 1999. She scored a single goal for the national team, in a 3–2 friendly defeat by

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in September 2004. She won the last of 41 caps in August 2007, in a World Cup warm-up friendly defeat by

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Farum Farum is a town on the northeast of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark, 20 km northwest of Copenhagen. The town has a population of 20,312 (1 January 2022).

Personal life

Dalum Jensen's partner is the Norwegian goalkeeper

Bente Nordby Bente Dalum Nordby (born 23 July 1974) is a former Norwegian football goalkeeper, who last played for Olympique Lyonnais in Lyon, France. She played with the Norway women's national football team from 1991 to 2007. Career Nordby is the se ...

, whom she played alongside at Asker, Djurgårdens, and Lyon.

References

External links

Danish Football Union (DBU) statistics

Profile at the LSK Kvinner site

Profile at Footofeminin.fr
* 1978 births Living people Danish women's footballers Expatriate women's footballers in Norway Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Expatriate women's footballers in France Denmark women's international footballers Danish expatriate men's footballers Danish expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Danish expatriate sportspeople in Norway Danish expatriate sportspeople in France Asker Fotball (women) players Djurgårdens IF Fotboll (women) players Olympique Lyonnais Féminin players LSK Kvinner FK players Lesbian sportswomen LGBT association football players Danish LGBT sportspeople People from Hadsund Women's association football fullbacks 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players Division 1 Féminine players Damallsvenskan players 21st-century LGBT people Sportspeople from the North Jutland Region Denmark international footballers Association football defenders {{Denmark-footy-defender-stub