Edwin Van Der Sar Career Stats

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Van Der Sar Stats
Full Name	Edwin Van Der Sar
Birthplace	Vourhoot, Netherlands
Date of Birth	29/10/1970
Height	200cm (6ft 6ins)
Weight	187lbs (13st 5lbs)
Position	Goalkeeper
Squad Number	1
Leaugue Club Football
Club		Apps	Goals
Ajax (90-99)		281	1
Juventus (99-01)		88	0
Fulham (01-05)		154	0
Man Utd (05-?)		243	0
Total		766	1
Leaugue Club Football
Holland (94-08)		130	0

Ajax, Juventus and Fulham
Edwin Van Der Sar began his footballing career at Foreholte and VV Noordwijk where his incredible talent didn't go un-noticed. He was quickly snapped up by Dutch giants Ajax Amsterdam, where he enjoyed great success, winning 4 League titles, 3 Dutch Cups, the UEFA Cup and the European Cup (UEFA Champions League) in 1995.

In 1999 after Ajax finished a disappointing 6th in the Eridivisie and bottom of their Champions League group, Van Der Sar decided that the time was right to move to pastures new and subsequently joined The Old Lady (of Italian football) Juventus for a transfer fee of £5m.

Edwin Van Der Sar's stay at Juventus was a short lived one, he played Just 66 league games for the club before he was was replaced by an outstanding young goalkeeper by the name of Gianluigi Buffon, whom the Italian's paid a transfer fee of £32.6m a world record for a goalkeeper and the 4th highest of all time.

It was at this point that Edwin joined Mohamed Al Fayed's revolution at newly promoted Fulham for a fee of £7.7m. There he played 126 League games, establishing himself as on of the Leagues best stoppers.

The Manchester United Years
After 6 years and many failed attempts to sign a perfect replacement (or as near perfect as you can get) for the Great Dane Peter Schmeichel, Manchester United switched their sights to veteran Dutch goalkeeper Edwin Van Der Sar and in the summer of 2005 readily paid Fulham a fee believed to be in the region of £2m to secure his safe pair of hands.

So far at Manhester United Edwin Van Der Sar has proved himself to be a more than a worthy replacement for Peter Scmeichel and this is evident in his meadal haul since joining the club. In his relatively short stay at the United he has helped his team-mates win two League titles, one League Cup and the European Champions League, in which his heroics in the penalty shoot-out against fellow finalists Chelsea secured victory for the Red Devils. Edwin Van Der Sar - in doing this - became the first goalkeeper to win the Champions League with two different clubs.

Edwin Van Der Sar's Honours

Ajax
Eredivisie (League title): 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998
KNVB Cup: 1993, 1998, 1999
UEFA Champions League: 1995
UEFA Cup: 1992
European Super Cup: 1995
Intercontinental Cup: 1995

Juventus
UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1999

Fulham
UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2002

Manchester United
FA Premier League: 2007, 2008
English League Cup: 2006
Community Shield: 2007
UEFA Champions League: 2008
FIFA Club World Cup: 2008

Edwin Van Der Sar Personal Honours
Best European Goalkeeper: 1995
Dutch Football Goalkeeper of the Year: 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
Dutch Golden Shoe: 1998
PFA Team of the Year Goalkeeper: 2007

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