Nanna Christiansen

Nanna Christiansen

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Personal information
Full name Nanna Christiansen
Date of birth (1989-06-17) 17 June 1989
Place of birth Denmark
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
Brøndby
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–2007 Skjold
2007– Brøndby
National team‡
2009– Denmark 49 (4)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17:05, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Nanna Christiansen (born 17 June 1989) is a Danish football midfielder currently playing in the Elitedivisionen for Brøndby IF, with whom she has also played the Champions League.[1] She was named Danish Young Footballer of the Year in 2006.[2]

Christiansen has been a member of the senior Danish national team since 2009;[3] making her debut in a 2–0 defeat to the United States at the Algarve Cup and being named in the squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2009.[4] As a junior international she had played at the 2006 and 2007 U-19 European Championships.[5]

She was named in national coach Kenneth Heiner-Møller's Denmark squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013.[6]

Personal life

Christiansen has been diagnosed with diabetes but states it has not affected her football.[7] In 2013 she was working as an assistant in a nursery school.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Profile in UEFA's website
  2. ↑ Young Talent. Danish Football Association's website
  3. ↑ Profile in the Danish Football Association's website
  4. ↑ "UEFA Competitions Association player list" (PDF). UEFA. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
  5. ↑ Norway delived knockout blow. UEFA
  6. ↑ Bruun, Peter (21 June 2013). "Upbeat Heiner-Møller confirms Denmark squad". uefa.com. UEFA. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
  7. ↑ "Nanna Christiansen". UEFA.com. UEFA. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
  8. ↑ "Nanna Christiansen" (in Danish). Danish Football Association. Retrieved 13 July 2013.


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