From his debut in June 1984 until March 1992, Flemming Hansen played 120 A-national matches for Denmark. It also turned into 240 goals on the national team.
In 1984, Flemming Hansen was with Denmark for the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles without getting a role on the team.
He got it since the men’s national team played in candy-striped Hummel suits, which gave them the nickname “the candy boys”.
As the son of the former handball player, it was no coincidence that Mikkel Hansen started playing handball after many trips with his father in the Elsinore hall.
The whole family loved the sport very much.
– When I was younger, I had my father as an idol. He was a strong player – a very, very strong man with a cannon good running shot, Mikkel Hansen told Fyens Stiftstidende in 2006 as a 19-year-old GOG player.
Mikkel Hansen was already well on his way to following in his father’s footsteps on the national team, and they even played the same position – as left back.
Flemming Hansen could then proudly see his son have an even bigger career than himself.
At a very young age, Flemming Hansen began his handball career in the small club Hammelev IF. He then switched to Grenaa IF, before becoming one of the driving forces on the champion team Helsingør in the country’s best row.
It was from there that he achieved his breakthrough on the national team.
A career as a handball player then and now was markedly different, he has previously explained.
– The difference is that the sport has become a profession for the handball players, where in my time it was something you did while having to look after a job 40 hours a week, Flemming Hansen told Fyens Stiftstidende in 2006.
Flemming Hansen, who today works for the North Zealand Police, together with his wife Helle, in addition to Mikkel Hansen, also has daughters Mie and Mette.