Line Røddik Hansen (born 31 January 1988) is a Danish former

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who played as a defender for Danish club

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and the Denmark women's national team. She previously played for French club

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and Spanish club

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, as well as

Tyresö FF Tyresö Fotbollsförening is a Swedish football club in Tyresö, a municipality in Stockholm County. The club was founded in 1971 and is primarily known for its main women's team, which competed in the top-tier league Damallsvenskan between 19 ...

and

FC Rosengård FC Rosengård (), known as Malmö FF Dam () until 2007 and later LdB FC Malmö until 2013, is a professional football club based in Malmö, Scania, Sweden. The team was established as Malmö FF Dam in 1970. It started out with playing 7 seasons ...

of the Swedish

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. She accrued 132

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for the

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between her debut in February 2006 and her retirement in December 2020.

Club career

After joining

Brøndby IF Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening (, usually abbreviated to Brøndby IF (), is a Danish professional Football club (association football), football club based in Brøndbyvester. Brøndby IF denotes the professional football section of Brøndbyernes ...

in 2007 Røddik Hansen won the Danish championship in her first season with the club. She was named club Player of the Year in 2008. She scored seven goals for Brøndby in a total of 78 appearances across all competitions.

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-born Røddik Hansen left Brøndby IF for newly promoted

club Tyresö FF ahead of the 2010 season, rejecting a competing offer from the American

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(WPS). She spent three seasons playing at

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, before moving inside to

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when the Swedish club signed Sara Thunebro in 2013. Line Roddick Hansen

Tyresö dramatically won the Damallsvenskan title for the first time in the 2012 season and Røddik Hansen collected her first league winner's medal. She played in Tyresö's 4–3 defeat by

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in the 2014 UEFA Women's Champions League Final. Tyresö suffered a financial implosion in 2014 and withdrew from the

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season, expunging all their results and making all their players

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s. The Stockholm County Administrative Board published the players' salaries, showing Røddik Hansen was one of the lower paid players, at SEK 25 000 per month. In July 2014, Røddik Hansen signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with reigning Damallsvenskan champions,

, of

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. She transferred to French champions

in January 2016. She was

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for Lyon's win in the

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. In July 2016 Røddik Hansen signed for

. Røddik Hansen spent the final year of her career playing for Danish club

. She announced her retirement from football in an

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post in December 2020.

International career

On 25 February 2006 Røddik Hansen made her senior Denmark debut, playing the second half of a 3–2 friendly win in

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. She was the youngest member of the Danish squad at the

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in China at the age of 19 but did not appear in any matches. At

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in Finland Røddik Hansen played in all three group games as Denmark made a first round exit. In 2010, she was named

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. The

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match against

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marked Røddik Hansen's 75th international

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. She was named in national

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's squad for

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. She was also named in national

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's squad for

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where she was an integral part of Denmark achieving second place.

Honours

;Brøndby IF *

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: Winner 2007, 2008 *

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: Winner 2007 ;Tyresö FF *

: Winner

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;FC Rosengård *

: Winner

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; FC Barcelona *

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: Winner

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: Winner 2016, 2017

Style of play

Upon joining Barcelona, Røddik Hansen said that she liked the team's possession-based tactics: "I play both at centre back and left back, and I think I’m good at playing the ball out of defence."

Personal life

Røddik Hansen graduated from the

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in June 2013, with a qualification in sports

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References

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Roddik, Line 1988 births Living people Danish women's footballers Denmark women's international footballers Tyresö FF players Damallsvenskan players Brøndby IF (women) players Danish Women's League players FC Rosengård players Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Danish expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Danish expatriate sportspeople in France Danish expatriate sportspeople in Spain OL Lyonnes players Expatriate women's footballers in France Expatriate women's footballers in Spain FIFA Women's Century Club Liga F players FC Barcelona Femení players Première Ligue players Women's association football defenders Danish expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players FC Nordsjælland (women) players Ballerup-Skovlunde Fodbold (women) players Footballers from Copenhagen UEFA Women's Euro 2017 players 21st-century Danish sportswomen