HB Køge

HB Køge, is a Danish women's football club based in Køge, Denmark. Founded in 2009 as HB Køge Pigefodbold, the club plays in the A-Liga.

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What makes HB Køge what it is.

She started her own aesthetic clinic and would like to eventually become a reconstructive surgeon after her playing career with the aim of helping refugees.

She made her senior debut for Brøndby IF as a teenager during the 2020/2021 season.

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Quirky facts from the HB Køge squad.

She truly fell in love with football in a Danish refugee camp, where the children played on a rough grass patch with two smashed goals. She wrote that football became “our love” and “our language” during that period.

She was born in Herat, Afghanistan and raised there during her early childhood before having to flee to Denmark with her mother and four sisters.

While building her football career, she also studied medicine for years. She described that period as “sleep, study, train, repeat” and said she worked in hospital operating theatres assisting surgeons.

In 2018, she published her autobiography, My Story (Min Historie).

Music is a real personal space for her. Her playlists have included everything from Bollywood and Mozart to Arabic music, Afghan music, Chris Brown, and Rihanna.