Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Hansen na farko a kasashen waje ya shafe a Huddersfield Town, wanda ya kauce wa raguwa daga saman jirgin 1948 <unk> 49 Football League First Division. A cikin 1949, Hansen ya koma Italiya don buga wasa a Atalanta Bergamo, kuma ya karɓi kuɗin canja wuri na kimanin DKK150,000. A Atalanta, ya taka leda tare da dan wasan kwallon kafa na Danish Jørgen Leschly Sørensen. Hansen ya zira kwallaye 18 a wasanni 37, yayin da Atalanta ya gama a matsayi na takwas na 1949 <unk> 50 Serie A
kakar wasa.