22.02.2010, 12:56
Viborg sign rival goalkeeper

The reigning Women’s Champions League winners have solved their goalkeeper problem.

Viborg HK sign goalkeeper from rivals

After the Norwegian international goalkeeper Katrine Lunde Haraldsen will leave Viborg HK for Hungarian Györ after this season the reigning Women’s Champions League winners Viborg HK have now solved their goalkeeper problem.

Viborg’s new goalkeeper from next season will be Danish international Christina Pedersen who is joining on a two year contract from Viborg’s Danish rivals, FCK Håndbold.

The Copenhagen side have also been in the Champions League the past two years, but who have not made it any further than the Group Phase.

"I am really looking forward to joining Viborg. It is a great club and a great team with a lot of highly skilled players, so this is really going to be an exciting challenge to me," the 27 year old Christina Pedersen said, as the contract was announced Monday.

"I hope that I can help Viborg to maintain the proud traditions the club stands for, and that I can improve my own game at the same time," Pedersen added.

Due continues too

At the same time Viborg also announced that Pedersen’s partner in the goal has also been found. Louise Bager Due, who is currently pregnant, is going to continue her career in the club after having signed a three year extension of her current contract which was due to expire after this season.

"I am really looking forward to three more years in Viborg. I like the club and I like the town. I think there are some fine challenges waiting ahead, and I am really looking forward to being back on the court which I expect to be in full from the start of the new season," 27 year old Due said.

Viborg director Peter Cassøe was quite understandably a happy man as the contracts with the two goalkeepers were presented.

"We are very proud to be able to introduce Christina and Louise as our new pair of goalkeepers. It is a big wish for us to create a team with a more Danish profile than we had in the past. Now we have two Danish goalkeepers who are both on a very high international level. We are sure that they will be great supplements to each other, and that they are the right players to continue the tradition for having strong goalkeepers, which has also been a brand for Viborg HK," Cassøe said.

TEXT: Peter Bruun