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{{short description|Danish footballer (born 1975)}}
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{{for-multi|the Danish badminton player|Louise Hansen (badminton)|the Danish cyclist|Louise Hansen (cyclist)}}

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'''Louise Hansen''' (born 4 May 1975) is a Danish retired [[association football|football]] player. She is considered the most successful Danish woman footballer ever.<ref name="3f"/>

She played for [[Hillerød Fodbold (women)|Hillerød GI]] and Rødovre BK in Denmark.<ref name="dbu">[http://www.dbu.dk/landshold/landsholdsdatabasen/PlayerInfo/4357 Danish national team profile] at [[Danish Football Association]]</ref> In 1995, she started playing for German club [[TSV Siegen]], transferring to rival team [[1. FFC Frankfurt]] in the summer 2001.<ref>[http://www.dbu.dk/news/newsShow.aspx?id=1110 Louise Hansen tilbage på landsholdet], [[Danish Football Association]], 2 October 2001</ref> With Frankfurt she won six [[List of German women's football champions|German Bundesliga]] championships, four [[Frauen DFB-Pokal|German Cup]] trophies, and three [[UEFA Women's Cup]]s. She ended her footballing career in the summer 2008 after increasing injury problems,<ref name="3f">Anne Dot Eggers Nielsen, [http://tema.3f.dk/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008907450724&template=fodboldportal&sectioncat=fodboldportal Nedtælling: Louise Hansen stopper til sommer], 3F, 14 May 2008</ref> in order to concentrate on a career in marketing.<ref>[http://www.louise-hansen.de/ Louise Hansen - Sportsmarketing - Events]</ref>

She played 98 games for the [[Denmark women's national football team|Denmark national team]] from February 1995 to August 2007,<ref name="dbu"/> and participated in the 1995 and 1999 [[FIFA Women's World Cup|FIFA World Cup]]s and the 1997 and 2005 [[UEFA Women's Championship|UEFA European Championships]].<ref>{{FIFA player|400}}</ref>

Since the 2006 World Cup, she has led and managed "Girls Wanted", an initiative aimed at attracting girls to [[Women's association football|football]], in cooperation with 1. FFC Frankfurt and the Frankfurt Stadtwerke Verkehrsgesellschaft.<ref>[http://www.girlswanted-soccer.de/ueber_uns.php Girls Wanted - Wir Über Uns] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100427220450/http://girlswanted-soccer.de/ueber_uns.php |date=2010-04-27 }}</ref>

==Honours==
*[[List of German women's football champions|German Bundesliga]]: [[2000–01 Frauen-Bundesliga|2001]], [[2001–02 Frauen-Bundesliga|2002]], [[2002–03 Frauen-Bundesliga|2003]], [[2004–05 Frauen-Bundesliga|2005]], [[2007–08 Frauen-Bundesliga|2008]]
*[[Frauen DFB-Pokal|German Cup]]: [[2000–01 DFB-Pokal Frauen|2001]], [[2001–02 DFB-Pokal Frauen|2002]], [[2002–03 DFB-Pokal Frauen|2003]], [[2007–08 DFB-Pokal Frauen|2008]]
*[[UEFA Women's Cup]]: [[2001–02 UEFA Women's Cup|2002]], [[2005–06 UEFA Women's Cup|2006]], [[2007–08 UEFA Women's Cup|2008]]

==References==
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==External links==
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{{Denmark Squad 1995 Women's World Cup}}
{{Denmark women's football squad 1996 Summer Olympics}}
{{Denmark Squad 1999 Women's World Cup}}
{{Denmark Squad 2005 UEFA Women's European Championship}}
{{Denmark Squad 2007 Women's World Cup}}

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[[Category:1975 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Hørsholm Municipality]]
[[Category:Danish women's footballers]]
[[Category:21st-century Danish sportswomen]]
[[Category:Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic footballers for Denmark]]
[[Category:Danish expatriate women's footballers]]
[[Category:Denmark women's international footballers]]
[[Category:1995 FIFA Women's World Cup players]]
[[Category:Eintracht Frankfurt (women) players]]
[[Category:TSV Siegen players]]
[[Category:Frauen-Bundesliga players]]
[[Category:Expatriate women's footballers in Germany]]
[[Category:Danish expatriate sportspeople in Germany]]
[[Category:Women's association football midfielders]]
[[Category:2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players]]
[[Category:1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players]]
[[Category:Footballers from the Capital Region of Denmark]]
[[Category:UEFA Women's Champions League–winning players]]


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