Mia Rej got a bloody debut at the WORLD championships and endured a few nervous minutes where she feared a broken nose.
With three objectives were Mia Rej a fine debut at the WORLD championships, as håndboldkvinderne defeated the Netherlands with 27-24. But she feared the way that the first WORLD cup match would also be the last in this place.
She had only been on the pitch for a few minutes, when she got a blow over the nose. Shortly after she went in the dressing room with blood pouring, and the 29-year-old bagspiller endured a few nervous minutes.
– I was mega afraid that it was broken. I knew then that it would be over before it really had come in time.
– I was just about to be a falling out with the doctor. “Is it broken”, I cried. But we do not believe that there is something happened with the nose. I’ve got a gash, to be sewn later, and it has been shown it.
She has been in Japan as a reserve, but was on Monday morning downloaded into the Danish WORLD cup squad as replacement for Simone Böhme.
the Message she got of the coach Klavs Bruun Jørgensen at two o’clock on the night of Monday.
– First, he said that they were considering to put me into, and that I would get the message at breakfast. But an hour later knocked on again and told that now they had decided.
I actually slept fine. Of course I was happy, but it is also sad, when it is at someone else’s expense. Also, when she is not injured, says Mia Rej.
at Home in Copenhagen Handball is she sovereign league top scorer with 102 goals in 13 matches in the fall.
And she got against the Netherlands demonstrated that målnæsen has not been damaged by the bloody gash.
– We had not talked about it, that I should do something special. I had to play, as I usually do, says Mia Rej, as found in a good cooperation with its former klubkammerat Anne Mette Hansen.
– I have played along with the “AM” in the past, and we have, after all, one or the other timing. Mie Højlund also fell well into the game, says Mia Rej.
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