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Cecilie Pedersen
Personal information
Full name	Cecilie Vedel Pedersen
Date of birth	19 March 1983 (age 41)
Place of birth	Denmark
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	Hvidovre IF
Senior career*
Years	Team
2000–2006	Brøndby IF
International career‡
1999–2000	Denmark U-17
2000–2002	Denmark U-19
2002–2005	Denmark
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:29, 29 November 2018 (UTC); ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:29, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Cecilie Vedel Pedersen (born 19 March 1983) is a Danish former footballer. She played for Elitedivisionen club Brøndby IF and also represented the Denmark national team.

Club career

Pedersen made a total of 89 appearances for Brøndby between 2000 and 2006, scoring nine goals.^[1] She was part of the Brøndby team which reached the 2003–04 UEFA Women's Cup semi-finals.^[2]

International career

Pedersen represented Denmark at the 2002 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship in Canada. She made her debut for the senior Denmark women's national football team in October 2002; a 2–0 defeat by Germany in Ulm. She was named in national coach Peter Bonde's squad for UEFA Women's Euro 2005,^[3] where Denmark were eliminated at the group stage.

Personal life

After injury ended Pedersen's football career, she began a relationship with her Indian yoga instructor Rahul Alinje. In December 2015 they were married in Manmad, India, in a traditional Marathi Buddhist ceremony.^[4]^[5]

References

^ "Kampstatistik på spillere" (in Danish). Brøndby IF. 9 September 2012. Archived from the original on 4 January 2014. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
^ Duret, Sébastien (7 July 2004). "UEFA Club Championship (Women) 2003/04 – Details Knock-Out Phase". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
^ Bruun, Peter (3 May 2005). "Bonde names party for EURO". UEFA. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
^ Balajiwale, Vaishali (17 December 2015). "Manmad all keen on welcoming its Danish bahu". Daily News and Analysis. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
^ Najmi, Quaid (18 December 2015). "What a goal! Maharashtra yoga teacher to marry Danish woman football star". Indo-Asian News Service. Retrieved 29 November 2018.