02.01.2008, 09:25
Viborg take first title of the season

The green girls celebrate New Year's Eve with winning the Danish Cup.

Viborg take first title of the season

In spite of the many injuries and illnesses, Danish Women’s Champions League team, Viborg HK, took their first title of the season by winning the Danish Cup Final against FC Håndbold between. The match was played after Christmas in front of 4,000 spectators in the NRGI Arena of Aarhus, the usual venue of the men’s and women’s cup finals. Viborg won 27-21 after 14-7 at half time.

After an equal start, Viborg managed to open a gap from the middle of the first half. The green girls turned a 4-3 FCK lead into an 8-4 Viborg lead. From this point on Viborg increased their lead almost constantly through the rest of the first half. They were 7 goals up at half time.

Easy second half

With this big lead, the second half was quite easy for Viborg. They soon increased their lead to 8 goals at 22-14. FCK managed to come a little closer towards the end (25-21), there was no doubt about the result.

Montenegrin star, Bojana Popovic, was top scorer with 8 goals despite a touch of flu before the game.

“As we only had a couple of trainings together after the World Championship and Christmas, I think it was a great achievement today. It was obvious from the start that FCK had trouble breaking through our defence and as soon as we got our defence together, it was an easy job for us,” Viborg coach Tomas Ryde said.

It was the sixth time for Viborg to win the Danish Cup.

TEXT: Peter Bruun