Amalie Vangsgaard's story is not like others who play football at the highest level.

In her teens, she lost both the joy of football and herself.

When she felt that her friends' lives attracted more at the same time as she herself felt worse and worse, she chose to stop after long deliberations.

What she had loved most had now become what she hated most.

"No good place to be"

- It is an age when a lot happens and it can be difficult to close everything other than football outside.

I was not happy when I went to the training and when you do it five or six times a week there is a lot of stress and negative energy.

It was not a good place to be mentally, she says.

She describes it as a great relief when she made the decision.

- Mentally, I came to the conclusion that I needed a balance between football and social life and everything else I wanted to do.

As a football player, you are often told where you should be and you have no choice.

For me, it was about changing so that I do it for my own sake and not for someone else's.

Amalie Vangsgaard was away from football for two and a half years and did everything she dreamed of besides football.

"Traveled and partyed"

- I worked at the amusement park with all my friends, I traveled, partyed and bent over everything.

I jumped bungee jumps, dived and stuff like that.

I definitely needed those years and would not change my choice, she says.

That it even became a football comeback was almost a coincidence.

Her old coach had taken over FC Nordsjælland's fairly new women's team and wondered if she wanted to help the team to the top league.

- It was a perfect way back.

I had no pressure and was told that I could come and go as I pleased.

But once I said yes, I bet 100 percent.

I do not know how to do things half-heartedly.

Change position in LFC

Amalie Vangsgaard was recruited to Linköping as a wingback last summer.

When the team's goal scorer Ochenna Kanu left the team after the season, the question was who would score the goals.

Vangsgaard, who is trained as a forward, had to jump into the position this year after an illness on the attacking side.

The result was, to say the least, a success.

With five goals, including a hat trick, in the five matches she played, the Danish top league tops.

She was also named player of the month in the damallsvenskan.

- I did not take a break from football to come back and did not have that pressure.

It just happened.

And when I came back, I did not have the press.

Now I'm in a good place.

I play because I want to and I want to see how far I can go.

Amalie Vangsgaard missed the last match due to back problems but has high hopes of being one hundred percent soon.

Today she dreams of playing for the Danish national team, but does not think she is relevant already for this summer's championship.

- I have no hopes for the European Championships.

If that happened then it would be more of a shock to me.

But I think they watch when you score five goals in five games.

There are many good offensive players in the national team and tough competition, so I do not expect anything.