Laura Frederikke Worsøe Nielsen (born 28 October 2001) is a Danish footballer who plays as a

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for

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in the

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and the Denmark national team.

Club career

Worsøe was born in

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. Since 10 September 2018, she has appeared for

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as both a league and 1st division team. In the 2021–22 season, she won the basic game with the club in the 1st Division, but did not win the qualification series and thus did not advance to the Gjensidige Kvindeliga.

International career

Worsøe has appeared several times for the Danish youth national teams and participated in the 2018 Under-19 European Championship in

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at just 16 years old. In May 2022, she was selected for the senior national team for the first time, for an official friendly match against

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. She was substituted after the break in the 46th minute, as a replacement for Katrine Svane. Here she kept a clean sheet until the final whistle in Denmark's 2–1 victory. Subsequently, on 16 June of the same year, she was selected for national coach

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's squad for the 2022 European Championship in

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Laura Worsøe
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