Education
Harder chose a Swedish club for her next destination because she wanted a new challenge, but also because she wanted to remain in Scandinavia.
Harder chose a Swedish club for her next destination because she wanted a new challenge, but also because she wanted to remain in Scandinavia.
Before signing for Linköpings in June 2012 Harder played for Team Viborg and IK Skovbakken in her country"s Elitedivisionen. Skovbakken had made Harder and her contemporary Sofie Junge Pedersen contracted players in April 2010, in recognition of their exception potential. Harder scored further hat-tricks against Austria and Armenia in 2011 and Russia in 2013.
She was named in national coach Kenneth Heiner-Møller"s Denmark squad for Union of European Football Associations Women"s Euro 2013.
With nine goals she had been the team"s top goalscorer in qualifying. She scored Denmark"s goal in the match.
In September 2013 she scored all four goals in Linköpings" 4–1 win at relegation-bound Sunnanå Saskatchewan. At the inaugural 2008 Fédération internationale de football association U-17 Women"s World Cup in New Zealand, Harder was part of the Denmark team who won their group before losing 4–0 to eventual champions North of Korea in the quarter-final. Still 16 years old, she contributed a hat-trick to a crushing 15–0 win over Georgia in her senior international debut in October 2009, and she has continued to score regularly for the Danish team ever since. In October 2013, Harder won her 50th cap for Denmark in a 1–1 draw with Serbia.
