If anyone fancy some football, the danish cup final takes place in 20 minutes (18:30) and there’s already a prematch studio going on - and it’s DR so it’s the very good one. Just use a Danish vpn
Keep an eye out for Karoline Olesen (47) in Fortuna, one of the brightest talents in the league and called up for the wwc precamp next week!
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Seven minutes separate national team twins for four months
The twins Sara and Karen Holmgaard have always played on a team together. Now they are separating for the first time in their careers. For a while.
Bording, Vejle, Fortuna Hjørring, Turbine Postdam and now Everton. Sara and Karen Holmgaard, who also play for the Danish women's national team, have always played together as a team since they started playing football.
Regardless of whether it was in the childhood club in Bording or a foreign contract in German FFC Turbine Potsdam. Now they switch together again - to English Everton.
It is not by chance, even if they are not a package solution, emphasizes Karen Holmgaard.
- We emphasize very strongly that when we change, there must be a good plan for both of us, because we are two different people. But when there is a club that wants us both, we think there are so many advantages in switching, and as twins you just have a bond with each other that you don't get anywhere else, says the midfielder.
That bond is temporarily broken. Sara Holmgaard has to send her twin sister alone to England. In the wake of Brexit, new rules for entry into England have been implemented, which are decided according to a points system.
24 points were required for Sara Holmgaard, who only had 23. Just seven more minutes on the grass in Germany had qualified Sara for the last and decisive point.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE POINTS SYSTEM HERE.
After Brexit, there have been new rules for the registration of foreign players. They have created a new points system where they are evaluated based on the following criteria:
International appearances as a senior player.
The quality of the selling club, which league they play in and previous league position.
Club appearances based on minutes from the national league and continental competition.
Source: www.thefa.com
- It's so crazy what seven minutes can do, says Sara Holmgaard.
- I actually knew it before the EC started. At first I was told that I had all the points and that everything had gone well. Then the points system changed and then I was told I was seven minutes short. I've known this for a long time, but was told that it would work out, and everything had fallen into place. But it wasn't.
The plan was originally for the two siblings to have traveled to England together, but only recently, shortly before departure, they received the message that Sara Holmgaard could not travel with them.
- I would have liked to have known that two months ago, and not one day before I had to leave. We also know that it is difficult to find your way around the points system, and very few people can do it. These are some strange rules in relation to Brexit, says Sara Holmgaard.
- But this is also what makes the English league so competitive - that it is so difficult to enter, Karen Holmgaard breaks in.
The solution to the problem will be for Everton to lease Sara Holmgaard to the twins' former club Fortuna Hjørring, where she must accumulate points until December.
- I had hoped that I could be loaned out to Fortuna Hjørring just three weeks before the transfer window closes, get three games and that's it - and then Everton pick me up on the last day before the transfer window closes, says Sara Holmgaard.
But the three matches were not enough when you do the accounting for a year. After this summer 's European Championship finals, Sara Holmgaard's first half-year ends, which means that she only has points for the last half-year in Turbine Postdam - where she was plagued by injuries. It therefore requires Sara Holmgaard to have a few more matches.
'We can do without each other'
It will therefore be the first start in a new club for Karen Holmgaard without Sara by her side.
- It will be a bit strange. It gets weird. On the other hand, it will also be very educational for us. We can do without each other, and it will also be cool to try. And now that it's only half a year, and I know that Sara is coming for Christmas, I put on the developmental glasses and see it as a positive part, says Karen Holmgaard.
Although Karen Holmgaard has to do without her sister for a while, there is still plenty of opportunity to keep the Danish glosses alive. Everton has Danish Brian Sørensen as manager , as well as national team colleagues Nicoline Sørensen and Rikke Sevecke.
- That makes it all a little easier, says Karen Holmgaard.
Everton's Danish coach, Brian Sørensen, also coached the twins at Fortuna Hjørring. He has a large share in the twin pair choosing Everton, although the national team players also had other good opportunities. Both together and separately.
- There has been a lot to turn around, but we think Everton was the best match for us, and they have laid out the best plan for both of us. The English league suits Sara and me well, and the development English women's football is in.
- At the same time, we have a Danish coach, who we had in Fortuna Hjørring. Brian is a skilled coach and we developed a lot. So that has also been an advantage at Everton, says Karen Holmgaard.
However, the football twins do not have to wait until Christmas to share grass. On Thursday 1 September, the national team will play a World Cup qualifying match when they take on Montenegro at home in Viborg.
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