The Danish television channel TV2 affirmed this Thursday morning: Mikkel Hansen will leave PSG at the end of his contract at the end of the 2022 season, the year of his 35 years.
The Dane will return home and join Aalborg, the number 1 club in the country of double world champions.
The star of PSG confirmed the information on the website of the Parisian club by reaffirming his attachment to PSG: “Since my arrival in 2012, specifies the double world champion, my affection for PSG and for the city has become indelible.
I feel a deep gratitude to all the people who have accompanied me and whom I still meet within the club.
Wearing the Paris Saint-Germain jersey was the opportunity to be an actor in one of the most beautiful projects of modern sport.
I will never forget the exceptional moments we shared and I am convinced that the next 17 months will give us more ”.
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reacts to news of his departure for Aalborg in summer 2022
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Mikkel Hansen ends his tribute by clearly confirming his departure: “Then it will be time to come home and open a new chapter in my career.
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Also according to Danish television, Mikkel Hansen could sign a three-year contract in favor of Aalborg, a club that could well find its way from the knockout stages of the Champions League in March.
In recent days, the European federation has changed the course of the competition.
All the teams involved are qualified for the round of 16, the formations of the two groups will intersect and a PSG - Aalborg is currently part of the possibilities.
He won almost everything with PSG
In his country meanwhile, Hansen, 33, is a superstar.
He is the player who brought the national team to the top of the world.
Covered in gold at the Rio Olympics in 2016, Denmark is double world champion in 2019 and 2021 with the prodigy of PSG at the helm.
Arrived in Paris in 2012, the Olympic champion won (almost) everything with Paris: 7 French championship titles, 3 French Cups, 3 League Cups and 3 champions' trophies.
Under the colors of PSG, he was also twice crowned best player in the world in 2015 and 2018 after having been for the first time in 2011 when he was playing in Copenhagen.
Only one trophy is missing from his XXL record: the Champions League.