{"id":148486,"date":"2026-08-19T08:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/148486\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:01:09","slug":"they-come-here-they-have-a-career-they-make-money-they-dont-have-many-friends-how-sport-helped-one-international-find-a-community-and-how-he-is-now-building-a-sports-ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/148486\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThey come here, they have a career, they make money, they don\u2019t have many friends\u201d: how sport helped one international find a community, and how he is now building a sports-based startup to help others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many internationals moving to Denmark, building a career is only one part of the challenge. Building a social life can be just as difficult, or even more difficult. Octavian Butnaru knows that feeling well. Originally from Bra\u0219ov, in central Romania, he has been living in Copenhagen for almost three years. At 28, he is [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Full version of this article is only available to subscribers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Already a subscriber, sign in here:<\/p>\n<p>Gain\u00a0unlimited access to all of The Copenhagen Post<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our independent reporting can only be published with support from our\u00a0readers.<\/p>\n<p>Try for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Sign up NOW and get<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\">a 7-day free trial<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">After that, 59 DKK a month<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1135\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-151578\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cphpost.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/CPHpost_Circle_Turquoise_XL_RGB_background.png\" style=\"object-position:98% 100%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"98% 100%\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Save with a company subscription?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For many internationals moving to Denmark, building a career is only one part of the challenge. Building a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,26,125],"class_list":["post-148486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-premium"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117121128140308975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}