Julie Rydahl Bukh (born 9 January 1982) is a
Danish
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former
football midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
who most recently played for
Brøndby IF and the
Denmark national team. As well as teams in her native Denmark, Rydahl Bukh played for clubs in
Sweden,
Australia, and the
United States
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. She was described by
UEFA
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as a technically gifted and creative left-sided attacking midfielder.
Club career
Rydahl won six successive
Elitedivisionen
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championships with Brøndby IF, before moving to Swedish club Linköpings FC alongside her girlfriend
Cathrine Paaske in November 2008. She was recovering from a serious knee injury and did not play until March 2009. Rydahl and Paaske left three games before the end of Linköpings' championship-winning season for contracts with
Sydney FC in the
Australian W-League. Rydahl struck the winning goal in Sydney's 3–2
Grand Final
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win over
Brisbane Roar
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Brisba ...
.
After leaving Sydney FC, Rydahl and Paaske had expected to join the American
Women's Professional Soccer
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(WPS) league, having signed contracts with
Los Angeles Sol
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The team was co-owned and operated by Blue Star, LLC and AEG, a subsidia ...
. When the Sol went into
liquidation Rydahl returned to Denmark and joined Brøndby's sworn rivals
Fortuna Hjørring
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instead. In January 2011, she rejoined Brøndby, after a short interlude with
Pali Blues
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.
International career
In March 2001 Rydahl Bukh made her senior international debut against
Finland
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. She scored her first goal in her second appearance, the Danes' 2–1 defeat to
Italy
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in their opening group game at
UEFA European Championship 2001.
Injury kept Rydahl Bukh out of
UEFA European Championship 2005, but she returned to the team for the
2007 FIFA World Cup and the
UEFA European Championship 2009.
She was named in national
coach
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Kenneth Heiner-Møller
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Denmark
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squad for
UEFA European Championship 2013. In November 2013 Rydahl Bukh announced that she had retired from football.
Honours
With
Brøndby IF:
* Elitedivisionen: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013
* Danish Women's Cup: 2004, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013
With
Linköpings FC
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:
* Damallsvenskan: 2009
* Svenska Cupen: 2009
With
Sydney FC:
* W-League Premiership:
2009
* W-League Championship:
2009
With
Fortuna Hjørring
Fortuna Hjørring is a women's association football team from Hjørring, Denmark. The club was formed in 1966 and play in green and white. Their biggest achievement in European football was reaching the 2002–03 UEFA Women's Cup final where they ...
:
* Elitedivisionen: 2010
References
External links
Danish Football Union (DBU) statistics
1982 births
Living people
Danish women's footballers
Pali Blues players
Sydney FC (A-League Women) players
Expatriate women's soccer players in Australia
Denmark women's international footballers
Expatriate footballers in Sweden
Fortuna Hjørring players
USL W-League (1995–2015) players
Linköpings FC players
Damallsvenskan players
Brøndby IF (women) players
Danish expatriates in Australia
2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players
Women's association football midfielders
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