28/02/2020
Landsholdsspiller Line Kold spiller for Marselisborg Hockey Klub - Aarhus. Her en reminder om, at få mennesker godt kan opnå noget stort! Godt klaret, Line og Co.! 😊🏑
Dansk Hockey Union
Normally, if you drive over 1500 km for three match days, you are a professional athlete doing your favorite sport for a living – or you play field hockey in Jutland, Denmark.
The hard fact: Field hockey, as one of the oldest team sports in the world, dating back nearly 3,000 years to the Greek classical era, does not enjoy great popularity among Denmark. Whereas the majority of clubs is located in and around Copenhagen, only one adult team from Jutland is currently participating the Danish men’s league.
In order to challenge this status quo, we formed a female team in the colors of Marselisborg Hockey Klub last fall, we joined successfully the indoor competition in the season 2019/2020 and thereby, represented the first women’s team from Aarhus in over 20 years.
Besides the struggle due to for example an understaffed team, late night cancellations and a broken car, we highly enjoyed the past months and are very grateful for the warm welcome by the Dansk Hockey Union.
From the first minute of this season, we enjoyed being part of this small but very hyggelig community.
Hockeyklubben Odin - We hope you didn’t mind hosting us for your trainings/games outdoors and then playing against us indoors. You all are awesome no matter if you are our teammates or opponents! 🙂
Copenhagen Field Hockey Club - Est. 1904 - We highly appreciate the fact that you chose our game to dress up in your brand-new kit for the first time 😉 Thanks for the very fair game, sorry that the revanche is not happening next Sunday but we promise, next time we play against you, we show up as a complete team 🙂
Slagelse Hockeyklub / Sørbymagle Hockey Klub - Your cohesive team performance last weekend was very impressive. And thanks for showing us that we are not the only team that struggles to find enough players for a matchday 😉
Gentofte Hockey Klub - Copenhagen field hockey - Your hospitality is awesome! Thanks for always helping out when we missed any equipment and for organizing very good referees that made the games even more fun 🙂
Last but not least, there three internal heroes from our own club:
Midas Nouwens - Thanks, coach 😀
Andreas Østerbye - Thank you for believing in us and buying a new goalkeeper kit before we even had a goalie
Giorgio Maizza & GMvinduespolering - Thank you for spontaneously sponsoring our travel expenses to our last game. This generous gesture is not self-evident and shows once again that you are always ready to support Girl-power. 💪🏼
Our happy end: With this support behind you, you don’t need to be a professional athlete to make history and celebrate the very first victory in the last game of the season as a female hockey team from Jutland.
Thank you & hope to see you all soon,
MHK ladies 💚
