Full name Caroline Graham Hansen Years Team Date joined 2011 Number 26 Height 1.78 m | Playing position Role Footballer Name Caroline Hansen | |
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Date of birth (1995-02-18) 18 February 1995 (age 20) Profiles | ||
Caroline Graham Hansen - Road To World Cup 2019
Caroline Graham Hansen (born 18 February 1995) is a Norwegian footballer who plays as a winger for Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg and the Norway women's national football team. She spent the second part of the 2013 Damallsvenskan season in Sweden, playing for Tyresö FF. Hansen represented Norway at youth international level, and made her debut for the senior team in 2011. In 2013, she was a part of the Norwegian team that won silver at the 2013 UEFA Women's Championship.
Contents
- Caroline Graham Hansen Road To World Cup 2019
- Caroline Graham Hansen Player of the Match Norway v Australia
- Club career
- International career
- Career statistics
- Honours
- References
Caroline Graham Hansen – Player of the Match – Norway v Australia
Club career
Born and brought up in Oslo, Hansen played for Lyn up to age 15, and was a part of the team that won the under-16 girls' class in the Norway Cup.
She transferred to Stabæk in August 2010, and made her Toppserien debut the same week, as a 73rd-minute substitute in the match against FK Donn. Hansen made an assist as Stabæk won 3–0. Stabæk won the league title later that year with a 3–0 home win over Trondheims-Ørn. She was a part of Stabæk's 2011 Norwegian Women's Cup winning team, who beat Røa on penalties after extra time. Hansen assisted Katrine Pedersen's equalizer during the extra time, but was the only Stabæk player to miss in the shoot out.
In August 2013 Hansen signed for Swedish Damallsvenskan champions Tyresö FF. In the second half of the season she started five of her seven league appearances and scored three goals. She also helped Tyresö qualify for the 2013–14 UEFA Women's Champions League quarter finals.
Hansen returned to Stabæk in January 2014 to complete her high school education, as she did not get the grades necessary to do so in Sweden. She continued to be monitored by several leading European clubs and intended to move away again after finishing school in June 2014. Realising that female footballers do not earn enough money to retire on, Hansen was planning for her career after football. At Stabæk she arranged to play Toppserien matches for the women's team while training with the male youth teams.
On May 8, 2014 the German club VfL Wolfsburg announced that it had signed a two-year contract with Hansen. Norwegian media stated her annual salary as around £100,000.
International career
In 2011, 16-year-old Hansen was a part of the Norwegian under-19 team who finished as runners-up in the 2011 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship, after losing the final against Germany. Hansen was also included in the Norwegian squad for the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Japan, where the team reached the quarter-final.
She made her senior debut for Norway against Belgium in November 2011. In June 2012 Hansen scored her first senior international goal in an 11–0 rout of Bulgaria, a match in which she also assisted more than half of Norway's goals.
Hansen was named in Norway's squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013 by veteran coach Even Pellerud. Winger Hansen and fellow teenager Ada Hegerberg at centre forward were important players in the Norwegian team which reached the competition final. In the final at Friends Arena, Hansen won a 61st-minute penalty after drawing a foul from Saskia Bartusiak, but Germany's goalkeeper Nadine Angerer made her second penalty save of the match. Anja Mittag's goal gave the Germans their sixth successive title.
She was ruled out of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup after failing to recover from a serious knee injury in time for the competition.
Career statistics
Statistics accurate as of 20 July 2017