Signe Kallesøe Bruun (born 6 April 1998) is a Danish professional

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who plays as a striker for French

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club

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and the Denmark national team.

Club career

Bruun joined

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 ...

from

IK Skovbakken Vejlby Skovbakken Aarhus (; commonly known as VSK Aarhus) is a Danish football club based in Risskov, a neighbourhood in Aarhus. The club was founded in 2016 when the football departments of Vejlby IK Fodbold and Idrætsklubben Skovbakken deci ...

in 2014. She made her Fortuna debut on 16 August 2014 and scored twice in a 5–1 Elitedivisionen win over

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. On 8 November 2014, Bruun made her

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debut as a 74th minute substitute for

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in a 2–1

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defeat to Swedish team

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. In 2016, Bruun won the 2015–16 Elitedivisionen and

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double with Fortuna. On 31 August 2018, Fortuna confirmed the transfer of Bruun to French D1 Féminine club

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. In her debut season, Bruun made 17 appearances in all competitions, scoring four goals. In June 2019, Bruun suffered an ACL injury that kept her out for a year. She made her competitive comeback in the delayed

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semi-final on 2 August 2020, scoring an 84th minute winner in a 2–1 win against

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. Seven days later she appeared as a substitute in the cup final against

. The game finished goalless after extra-time. Bruun scored during the penalty shootout but PSG lost 4–3. Later that month, Bruun appeared as a 74th minute substitute during the delayed 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League quarter-final against

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. She scored three minutes later, the winning goal in the single-legged 2–1 win. The following season, Bruun won the

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title with PSG, the club's first league title, ending Lyon's 14-year streak at the top in the process. In June 2021, Bruun joined

. On 27 January 2022, Bruun made a deadline day move to English

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club

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on loan for the remainder of the 2021–22 season. The spell was marred by injury, limiting Bruun to seven appearances in all competitions in which she failed to score a goal for the club.

International career

Youth

Bruun played as a youth international for Denmark at under-16, under-17, under-19 and under-23 level. She finished as top scorer during

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, scoring 10 overall. The total included eight in a qualifying round match against

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on 18 October 2014. It equalled the competition record for goals in a single match set by

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against the same opposition in 2012. In 2015, having scored in three matches during qualifying, Bruun was selected to represent Denmark at the

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held in Israel. She appeared in all three matches as Denmark were eliminated at the group stage.

Senior

On 24 October 2017, Bruun debuted for the senior Denmark national team in a 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifier against

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. She entered play two minutes into stoppage time as a substitute for

and scored her first goal two minutes later in Denmark's 4–0 victory. In 2021, Bruun went on a run of scoring in six consecutive matches for Denmark, scoring 12 goals in total all during

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Personal life

In August 2021, Bruun joined a FIFPro 10-year research project tracking players' physical and mental wellbeing.

Career statistics

Club

International

International goals

:''Scores and results list Denmark's goal tally first. Score column indicates score after each Bruun goal''.

Honours

Club

Fortuna Hjørring *

Elitedivisionen The Danish Women's League ( da, Danmarksturneringens Kvindeliga, Kvinde-DM Liga or Kvindeligaen) is a semi-professional top-flight league for women's football in Denmark. It is organised by the Danish Football Association (DBU) as part of the ...

: 2015–16, 2017–18 *

: 2016 Paris Saint-Germain *

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Lyon *

: 2021–22

Individual

* Danish Breakthrough Player of the Year: 2017 *

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: 2021

References

External links

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Profile
at the Danish Football Association website {{DEFAULTSORT:Bruun, Signe 1998 births Living people People from Randers Danish women's footballers Women's association football forwards Denmark women's international footballers Fortuna Hjørring players Elitedivisionen players Danish expatriate women's footballers Danish expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate women's footballers in France Paris Saint-Germain Féminine players Division 1 Féminine players Olympique Lyonnais Féminin players Danish expatriate sportspeople in England Expatriate women's footballers in England Manchester United W.F.C. players Women's Super League players Sportspeople from the Central Denmark Region UEFA Women's Euro 2022 players Association football forwards Denmark international footballers Denmark women's youth international footballers