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Full name
  
Dorte Dalum Jensen

1997–2002
  
HEI

Partner
  
Place of birth
  
Name
  
Dorte Jensen

Current team
  
LSK Kvinner FK

Number
  
16

Role
  
Football player

Playing position
  
Defender

Years
  
Team

Height
  
1.72 m


Date of birth
  
(1978-07-03) July 3, 1978 (age 37)

Dorte Dalum Jensen (born 3 July 1978) is a Danish football defender. She currently plays for Norwegian Toppserien club LSK Kvinner. Dalum Jensen won over 40 caps for the Denmark women's national football team.

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Club career

In January 2008 Dalum Jensen left Swedish Damallsvenskan contenders Djurgården/Älvsjö to sign for Olympique Lyonnais. In summer 2009 she returned to Norwegian football, where she had previously played for IF Liungen and Asker SK. This time her destination was Team Strømmen, who became LSK Kvinner for the 2010 season. Dalum Jensen suffered a damaged cruciate ligament in January 2011.

Although Dalum Jensen's parents and two elder brothers had no interest in football, she began to play at school, aged 10. Her early career took in local club Hadsund Boldklub, Vorup FB and then Hjortshøj Egå Idrætsforening (HEI) before she left for Norway.

National career

She represented Denmark at UEFA Women's Euro 2005 and was named in the squad for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup in China.

Dalum Jensen won 14 caps and scored two goals for the Danish Under–21 team, making her senior debut against Netherlands in September 1999. She scored a single goal for the national team, in a 3–2 friendly defeat to France in September 2004. She won the last of 41 caps in August 2007, in a World Cup warm–up friendly defeat to Sweden in Farum.

Personal life

Dalum Jensen's partner is the Norwegian goalkeeper Bente Nordby, whom she played alongside at Asker, Djurgårdens and Lyon.

References

Dorte Dalum Jensen Wikipedia


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