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You are reading news’s ​​new interview column “På hjembane”. Here we meet well-known sports profiles and ask them a series of questions about big and small things. Today: Soccer player Tuva Hansen (25). Current with: Going for gold in the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich and success in this summer’s World Cup with Norway. First of all, we start with five fixed questions: – Apart from sports, what do you spend most of your time on? – Vilja, my dog. A hundred percent. I am very fond of her. She is more famous than me, is big on Instagram and even bigger on TikTok. I try not to talk about her all the time, but it’s one hundred percent what I spend most of my time on outside of football. That’s also why I have her, so I have to think about something other than football and that helps me a lot. DOG MOTHER: Tuva Hansen has brought her dog Vilja to Germany and spends a lot of time with her. Photo: Maria Gunnarsdotter Svedal – When was the last time you spent NOK 1,000 or more on a dinner? – It was when the girlfriend was visiting a few days ago. I was the one who did the trick. That’s how it is in the relationship, no matter what he says. – What is the stupidest purchase you have made in the last year? – It must be the Nintendo Wii, which I used for two months and passed on to my aunt’s kid because I got bored. I bought a lot of games, covers. I bought everything. I think I spent ten grand on it. It was a bit of a bargain. – What makes it really mad? – It is quite clear to lose and especially when people rub it in. That’s the worst thing I know of. Aurora Mikalsen (keeper for Norway and Brann) is the worst to lose to in training, one hundred percent. Because she doesn’t shut up afterwards. HATE TO LOSE: Tuva Hansen is perhaps the national team’s worst loser, and it gets extra bad when former club friend Aurora Mikalsen “rubs it in”. Photo: Torstein Bøe / NTB – What is your most controversial opinion? – I feel that we women sometimes abuse the equality card. That we use it in situations where it might not belong, just to have something to say. I don’t have a concrete example that I can think of, but more on a general basis. There are many important equality issues, and I am for that. Don’t get me wrong. But sometimes I feel we use it even when it’s not about equality once. You get a little frustrated that it always appears in the comment field, for example. Because there are some differences between women and men. There are physical differences, and you have to accept that instead of going to war against the opposite sex every time, I think. – How has the first time after the transfer to Bayern Munich been? – It has been a lot of fun. I feel surprisingly well. I thought that I would enjoy being in the group, but I didn’t know that it was such a good group. – You say you are surprised, what did you expect? – It is a competitive environment and a very high level, so I might have expected that there would be a bit more fighting within the group. But no. I’m very lucky I think. FOLLOWED THE COACH: Tuva Hansen (tv) went to Bayern Munich shortly after Alexander Straus took over as coach at the big German club. Before that, they were both in Brann. Photo: Beate Oma Dahle / NTB – It seems that you and the Norwegian coach Alexander Straus have a very good relationship, is there anything that could cause problems? – We have a good relationship, and we always have. That’s just the way it is with some players and coaches. I don’t think it creates any complications. I very often say what I mean and we have our discussions and arguments. I won’t be a favorite stamp at all. But you notice that we have a good relationship and that is really only positive. – So you dare to yell at Straus? – Yes, and he dares to shout at me too. It goes both ways. I think some of the girls get a bit of a chin drop if we start discussing and we scream and use Norwegian slang. People say I need to calm down and stuff like that. But that’s the way we are – both are very committed. – How was the transition from the Toppserien to the Bundesliga for you? – The run-up came on a bit suddenly with two-hour sessions twice a day. It came just after the last game in Norway, which was the cup final on 5 November, so it went straight on. It actually resulted in a lot of treatment. The muscles were just completely dead. There was so much strain that you hardly feel that you are tired because you are constantly tired. It was the first few weeks, but in season you get more profit. – Was there any point in the run-up where you thought “what have I done?”. – No, I feel I was very keen on it. I had a bit of surplus because I was so excited to be there. I think I lived on it a bit at the beginning until I noticed that the muscles needed some treatment to keep up. There were some blemishes, stiff groins. I had to take some responsibility and say “no, I have to leave because I have to “needle” (get acupuncture), otherwise my groin will burst”. I’m glad I did. I think it’s a bit about the fact that I’m 25 and know my own body. If I had been 20, I’m not sure if I would have been able to stop in time. BROADCAST TRANSITION: The body did not quite cope with the transition from the Toppserien to the hard-fought run-up in the Bundesliga. It led to a tired body and a lot of treatments in the first time in Germany. Photo: Eskil Wie Furunes / news – What was supposed to be your Bundesliga debut did not come to pass. The away game against Turbine Potsdam was postponed – tell us about it. – We traveled to Potsdam and there the pitch was so hard because it was frosty. It was completely frozen. It didn’t work, you didn’t get down in the grass. It was a bit strange to get there and experience it. It is, for example, with Avaldsnes and Kolbotn, that the track is not well maintained. Then you notice that it’s like that in this league too. It was a bit like that: “Oi, welcome to Germany!”. – There was criticism that it was not clarified earlier and that there are not the same requirements for warming up the pitch in the women’s Bundesliga as in the men’s. How do you think the situation was handled? – I think the whole situation is a bit strange – that it works. You know what the degrees are. If you don’t have heat under the track, it will freeze. They solved it with the game and handled it in the best possible way afterwards, but it was a tougher program for us in terms of the strain on the players. But that’s how it is, things happen. MAJOR PLAYER: It didn’t take long before Hansen got a place in the starting eleven and became a key player in Bayern Munich. Photo: JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP – In a BT report you say that you have been suffering from endometriosis for many years. Can you tell how it has affected you? – I have looked in our medicine cabinet at home in Bryne. They started taking painkillers for period pain at the age of 13. There are many years of painkillers and a lot of pain. I got so sick that I finally threw up. It was at its worst when I was around 19. Then it started happening both during ovulation and menstruation. Then I had almost no chance to deal with it. It was really, really bad. I grew up playing with the boys and they might have thought it was just period pain, but it wasn’t just that. When contraceptives and other aids have no effect, one begins to wonder what is wrong. I am very thankful that I went to the gynecologist and found out, then had surgery in 2019. I have had no pain since then, knock on the table. And I am no longer on painkillers. It has been absolutely fantastic for me. It has gone from hell to heaven. Facts about endometriosis Endometriosis is an inflammation-like condition where tissue similar to that in the uterus grows outside the uterus. It takes an average of seven years to be diagnosed. It is usually detected by peephole surgery. Because the symptoms can be very different, misdiagnosis is common. Common symptoms can include severe pain during menstruation, heavy bleeding, difficulty in conceiving, pain during intercourse and fatigue. Endometriosis occurs in approximately 10 percent of women and is the most common female disease we have Many live without symptoms About 40 percent of infertile people have endometriosis The tissue can grow on fallopian tubes, ovaries, peritoneum, intestines, ureter and bladder The most common form of treatment is peephole surgery and contraceptives such as birth control pills or spirals Source: Endometriosis Association – Vistte what was it like before you got the diagnosis? – No, not until I found out that I had it myself. People didn’t talk about it much. I joined various groups and started talking about it openly with others there. I don’t understand why it should be taboo. That’s just the way it is – that’s how the body works. If one in ten ladies has it, then there are many out there who struggle with this. – You spent ten years in pain. How did it affect your football career? – It meant that I had to take time off from training. I remember glimpses and have been retold a bit from gatherings at the U national team, when I have struggled. I had started my period and was lying in the room throwing up. I had to follow the cycle all the time and I had to take so many painkillers. It’s like being high when you run around and feel dizzy. You just have to get rid of the pain. So it has certainly affected me, but I feel in a way that it has made me stronger – that I would rather grit my teeth when I feel a bit, than go off the track. PAINFUL TIME: Pain characterized Tuva Hansen’s football career for many years. The operation in 2019 changed her life and suddenly she was pain free. Photo: Berit Roald / NTB – What did it mean for your career that you had the operation in 2019? – One thing is the pain, but I also went on double hormone tablets in addition to get rid of the pain. After the surgery, I stopped taking those medications. It meant a lot, and I quickly found out what my body really was like without these extra things. It was actually in Klepp in the summer after the operation that my development accelerated, before I came to Sandviken. – I really hope that people dare to go to the gynecologist and talk openly about endometriosis. If you really struggle with it, surgery can be a good solution, if other things don’t work. To me it meant everything. WC READY: Tuva Hansen and the Norwegian stars will play the WC in New Zealand in July. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB



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