Pernille Harder (footballer)

Not to be confused with Pernille Harder (badminton) (born 1977), badminton player.
Pernille Harder
Personal information
Full name Pernille Mosegaard Harder
Date of birth (1992-11-15) 15 November 1992
Place of birth Ikast, Denmark
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current team
 Linköping
Number 16
Youth career
1997–2005 Tulstrup-Faurholt IK
2005–2007 FC Ikast
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2010 Viborg
2010–2012 Skovbakken
2012– Linköping 87 (70)
National team‡
2008 Denmark U17
2009– Denmark 77 (37)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 30 November 2016.

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 27 September 2016

Pernille Harder Mosegaard (born 15 November 1992) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Linköping FC of Sweden's Damallsvenskan.[1] She made her debut for the Denmark national team in 2009 and represented her country at UEFA Women's Euro 2013 in Sweden.[2]

Club career

Before signing for Linköpings in June 2012 Harder played for Team Viborg and IK Skovbakken in her country's Elitedivisionen.[3] Skovbakken had made Harder and her contemporary Sofie Junge Pedersen contracted players in April 2010, in recognition of their exception potential.[4]

Harder chose a Swedish club for her next destination because she wanted a new challenge, but also because she wanted to remain in Scandinavia. In September 2013 she scored all four goals in Linköpings' 4–1 win at relegation-bound Sunnanå SK.[5]

In the 2015 Damallsvenskan season Harder scored 17 goals in 22 appearances for Linköpings, winning a series of national awards including Årets Anfallare (English: Forward of the Year) and Årets Allsvenska Spelare (English: League Player of the Year). At the annual awards gala she shared the stage with male winner Zlatan Ibrahimović and was described as "hyper-talented" and "world class" by Swedish national coach Pia Sundhage.[6][7] Harder was also voted Danish Football Player of the Year in 2015.[8] In June 2016, Harder was among 30 local worthies to be named in a Wall of Fame by Linköping Municipality.[9]

International career

At the inaugural 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in New Zealand, Harder was part of the Denmark team who won their group before losing 4–0 to eventual champions North Korea in the quarter-final.[10] Still 16 years old, she contributed a hat-trick to a crushing 15–0 win over Georgia in her senior international debut in October 2009, and she has continued to score regularly for the Danish team ever since.[11]

Harder scored further hat-tricks against Austria and Armenia in 2011 and Russia in 2013.[12] She was named in national coach Kenneth Heiner-Møller's Denmark squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2013.[13] With nine goals she had been the team's top goalscorer in qualifying.[14]

In October 2013, Harder won her 50th cap for Denmark in a 1–1 draw with Serbia. She scored Denmark's goal in the match.[15]

References

  1. ↑ Profile in Linköping FC's website
  2. ↑ Profile in UEFA's website
  3. ↑ Harder and Nadia leave Skovbakken. IK Skovbakken's website
  4. ↑ Dahl Mikkelsen, Tejs (27 April 2010). "To talenter på kontrakt i Skovbakken" (in Danish). Århus Stiftstidende. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  5. ↑ Fussganger, Rainer (14 September 2013). "Pernille Harder – Player of the Week". Our Game Magazine. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  6. ↑ Bråstedt, Mats; Kristoffersson, Daniel (9 November 2015). "Alla vinnare på Fotbollsgalan 2015" (in Swedish). Expressen. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  7. ↑ Lyngbach Johnsson, Katja (9 November 2015). "Pernille Harder på scenen med Zlatan" (in Danish). DR (broadcaster). Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  8. ↑ "Pernille Harder kåret til årets spiller" (in Danish). TV 3 (Denmark). 4 December 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  9. ↑ "Wall of fame" (in Swedish). Linköping Municipality. 21 June 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  10. ↑ "List of Players - Denmark" (PDF). FIFA. 27 October 2008. p. 5. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  11. ↑ Profile in the Danish Football Association's website
  12. ↑ Boye Estrup, Rasmus (10 July 2013). "Portræt af Pernille Harder" (in Danish). Footy.dk. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
  13. ↑ Bruun, Peter (21 June 2013). "Upbeat Heiner-Møller confirms Denmark squad". uefa.com. UEFA. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
  14. ↑ "Denmark". UEFA.com. UEFA. 1 October 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
  15. ↑ "Dansk uafgjort i Serbien" (in Danish). Danish Football Association. 26 October 2013. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
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