Full name Theresa Nielsen 0000–2002 Hvidovre IF Years Team Height 1.68 m | Number 8 Role Football player Place of birth Denmark Name Theresa Nielsen Current team Brondby IF | |
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Date of birth (1986-07-20) 20 July 1986 (age 29) | ||
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Theresa Nielsen (born 20 July 1986) is a Danish football defender who plays for Vålerenga Fotball Damer in Norway. Since 2008, she has been a member of the senior Danish national team.
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Club career
Nielsen began playing football with Rikken, a club based in Valby.
In 2012, Nielsen was named Denmark's Female Footballer of the Year after helping Brøndby to a league and cup double. Nielsen's buttocks went viral in November 2014, when she posted photographs to Instagram of Brøndby's dressing room celebrating a 3–2 win over rivals Fortuna Hjørring.
International career
At the girls' football tournament at the 2003 European Youth Olympic Festival, Nielsen scored in the final as Denmark beat Switzerland on penalties after a 1–1 draw at Stade Sébastien Charléty in Paris.
Nielsen made her senior international debut for Denmark in March 2008, substituting in for Johanna Rasmussen 73 minutes into a 1–0 win over Germany at the 2008 Algarve Cup.
She was named in national coach Kenneth Heiner-Møller's Denmark squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013.