The Denmark midfielder on the benefits of growing up in a place that had a thriving girls’ team, making the step up to the WSL and helping the game to grow
When Kathrine Kühl was five, growing up in the small Danish town of Hillerød, she joined a girls’ football team. Hillerød has a tiny population of just over 36,000 but unlike many of the players around her at Arsenal, Kühl never had to play with boys because girls’ football was available to her.
“I was really lucky that they had a girls’ team at almost every age range,” says the 20-year-old Denmark midfielder. “So, I just started playing. It was my parents who found the little club for me because I wanted to do a sport and then they were like: ‘Oh there’s something called football. Do you want to try?’”
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