He is the biggest håndboldstjerne, but at the same time also a very private one.

Add to that Mikkel Hansen rarely comes with the really big emotional eruption, while he is a public spectacle either on the track or in connection with the interviews.

It has given him a predicate as arrogant – but it has more of his landsholdskammerater hard to recognize. It tells Jyllands-Posten.

the newspaper says PSG star, that people must try to decipher him everything they want. He is not going to babble loose to get the attention as others in the community may have a tendency to.

– I can sometimes feel a little misunderstood. But it comes also from the fact that sometimes I get småprovokeret of so many in our society kæfter up with of carelessness in order to get attention. The only thing we get out of it, is that we are wasting our time. It is cool that people have something at heart, but then there must be some weight behind. So I don’t know, if it is sometimes easier just to keep a little again, he says, and explains that you don’t get to see him in tv programs such as ‘Dancing with the stars’ or ‘Djævleræs’.

Mikkel Hansen has had the predicate as arrogant hanging, since he was a youth player. Photo: AP

He admits also, that it must be hard for the intruders to get the full picture of him

– Yes, 100 per cent., and I have absolutely fine. I don’t care if people interpret me as arrogant, if not I just smile after a fight or not standing up to everything possible. Regardless of whether I’m happy or grumpy, there will always be some out there who believe that it is wrong.

Mikkel Hansen and Denmark opens the WORLD cup finals on home 10. January, in which Chile must be overcome. In addition, Denmark is in group with Norway, Austria, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia.