Gitte Pedersen

Gitte Pedersen
Personal information
Full name Gitte Kousgaard Pedersen
Date of birth (1979-01-22) 22 January 1979 (age 47)
Position Midfielder
Youth career
Ringive/Lindeballe IF
Give Fremad
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996 Vejle B
1997–2001 HSV
2001 Everton
2001–2005 Vejle B
2006– B.93
International career
2000–2006 Denmark 3 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gitte Kousgaard Pedersen (born 22 January 1979) is a Danish nurse and former international footballer who played as a midfielder. At club level she represented Vejle B, HSV, Everton, and B93/HIK/Skjold. Pedersen earned 3 caps with the Denmark national team.

After football

Pedersen returned to Denmark to train as a nurse. In 2013, she was working in the accident & emergency department of Bispebjerg Hospital.

Private life

While in a relationship with male footballer Thomas Gravesen, Pedersen played in Germany with HSV and England with Everton, corresponding with the men's teams Gravesen represented at the time.