AGF gifts signed match shirt to 13-year-old fan after club censored her jersey

A 13-year-old girl whose AGF football shirt was blurred in an official photo by FC Midtjylland has received a signed match-worn jersey from the Aarhus club, reports DR Midt- og Vestjylland.

Ida Nørgaard Frandsen, a student at FC Midtjylland’s talent academy Guldminen, wore her beloved AGF shirt during Football Shirt Friday, a national fundraising event for childhood cancer. Though her classmates and FCM staff praised her choice, the club later edited the photo posted to social media—removing the AGF logo and sponsor—just days before a heated cup semifinal against AGF.

“I zoomed in and thought it was sunlight or bad quality at first. But up close, I saw the lines over the shirt—I knew it had been erased,” Frandsen told DR. While the incident sparked outrage online, she insisted the backlash never felt personal: “No one contacted me directly. I just focused on my matches that weekend.”

After FC Midtjylland apologised, calling it a “human error,” AGF fans rallied behind Frandsen. They crowdfunded over 2,000 DKK for a custom AGF shirt with captain Patrick Mortensen’s name—donating the excess to the childhood cancer charity—and the club later gifted her the match-worn jersey of player Gift Links.

“When I was called to the staff room and saw the shirt, it was overwhelming,” she said. “It’s missing some of the magic since it’s been washed, but I’m super happy.”

Frandsen, whose father has been an AGF supporter since the 1980s, inherited her allegiance despite training with FCM’s youth system. She called the gesture “wild” but reiterated her disappointment that the original controversy overshadowed the charity’s purpose.