David de Gea's saves justify his place in Team of the Year - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Although David de Gea was thought to be frail and not-capable of filling the shoes of Edwin van der Sar at Old Trafford but the Spaniard is only 22 years old and already he has made it into the PFA Team of the Year only in his second season in England.
Victor Valdes on Manchester United's radar - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
Manchester United's search for a permanent successor to Edwin Van Der Sar might be over soon, as reports in the English media have revealed the club's interest in signing the Barcelona keeper Victor Valdes.
My All-Time Top 10 Great Goalkeepers: #5 Edwin Van Der Sar
Nationality: Dutch
Total appearances: 815
Caps: 130
World Cups: 4
Titles: 19
When Edwin Van Der Sar signed for Manchester United in 2005, I doubt anyone at the time thought that it would herald another era at the club similar to that when legend Peter Schmeichel was there.
The concept of a "starting XI" is growing increasingly thin in modern football, as competitions take their toll and managers opt to rotate their players in a bid to have them fresh when it matters the most. Ask any fan of any club around the country and most will struggle to name more than six [...]
David de Gea was put under a ridiculous amount of pressure last season when replacing our experienced former keeper, Edwin Van der Sar.
Whilst he did make some costly mistakes, he was a target for the media, whilst other keepers' mistakes were ignored. Joe Hart has made some dreadful mistakes for City this season but some sections of the media would still tell you he's one of the best keepers in the world.
Along with the entire first-team squad and around 2,500 fans, a smattering of former Manchester United luminaries were present last night as Sir Alex Ferguson's long-overdue statue was unveiled outside Old Trafford, withEric Cantona, Edwin van der Sar, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Peter Schmeichel and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer all turning out for the occassion.
On November 4, former Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin Van Der Sar will compete in his second New York City Marathon. He is running to raise awareness and funds for the...
In the recent past, Arsenal has had problems finding a perfect goalkeeper. Of the quartet currently known as the ‘Big Four,' Manchester United relied upon the solid Edwin van der Sar, and now have the duo of David de Gea and Anders Lindegaard. Chelsea has Petr Cech and Manchester City has Joe Hart, who is arguably the best goalkeeper in the league.
In his pre-match press conference, Sir Alex Ferguson called for his players to wake up in Europe at
Old Trafford. His comments weren't heeded as we slumped to yet another defeat at home in
Europe....
The statistics this morning read; Manchester United joint top but still second in the table due to
an inferior goal difference compared to that of Manchester City. Our neighbours lost thanks to
a...
L'estartit Another prime time showdown against one of the top youth academies in world football.
The Netherlands have produced countless world class players with Ajax being the conveyer belt. Johan Cruyff, Edwin van der Sar, Dennis Bergkamp, Patrick Kluivert, Marco Van Basten, Rafael van der Vaart, Wesley Sneijder, and Nigel de Jong to name a few.
Sir Alex Ferguson was criticised for giving the officials a bollocking during United's 4-3 win over Newcastle earlier this week.
Edwin Van der Sar has stuck up for his former manager, claiming his rant showed passion and was performed for the sake of the team.
"When you see Sir Alex arguing with referees and linesmen, he is showing passion that has taken him to the very highest level of the game," Van der Sar told The Mirror.
Ahead of Robin van Persie's decision to choose Manchester United over Manchester City, countryman and former red, Edwin Van der Sar, advised him to join United.
Having met up with Van Persie at Sir Alex Ferguson's statue unveiling, Van der Sar has revealed how happy Van Persie is at United.
Edwin Van der Sar has revealed that Robin van Persie rang him up to ask him advice on who to choose between United, City and Juventus. Having played for two of the three clubs, Van der Sar was in a good position to give his verdict, but it was clear that our former keeper only wanted him to join one club.
For years now, Usain Bolt has been angling for a chance to play for Manchester United and now he
might have his chance -- in a charity match and not with the club's first team.
Bolt first wrote in his 2010 autobiography that if he played football, he would like to do it
for his favorite club, Man United.
Sir Alex has explained that David de Gea has been left out of the starting line-up for
Southampton because of his mistake against Fulham last weekend. United were comfortably winning 3-1
but after failing to make a cross his own, Fulham were let back in to the game and we looked fairly
shaky from then on.
Stats, stats, everywhere a stat. Blocking out the scenery and breakin' my mind. Do this, don't
do that, can't you read the stats? Here's the most interesting of the diligently crunched numbers
from Euro 2012 (Spain feature quite highly)...
This article titled "Euro 2012 special, part two: when did Holland last play without a 'van'?"
was written by Barry Glendenning, James Dart and Rob Smyth, for guardian.co.uk on Wednesday 13th
June 2012 08.35 UTC
"When was the last time Holland played an international fixture without any players with
'van' in their name on the pitch or substitutes' bench?
Lately I've been listening to WNYC's wonderful RadioLab show, and recently came upon "The
Loneliness of the Goalkeeper" episode. Turns out it was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, so you
Brits may have already heard it before. (And here I was hoping to break new ground.)
Lately I've been listening to WNYC's wonderful RadioLab show, and recently came upon "The
Loneliness of the Goalkeeper" episode. Turns out it was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, so you
Brits may have already heard it before. (And here I was hoping to break new ground.)
Because we just haven't got time to do everyone. With added, pointless star ratings.Â
David de Gea
United fans' staunch defence of the maligned Spaniard mid-season was admirable (well most of
them did, anyway), as they felt they had to; partly, because they'd seen flashes of a £20million
player and partly because they didn't want another Roy Carroll, anotherÂ
Raimond van der Gouw.
Former Manchester United and Dutch keeper Edwin Van Der Sar was back in unfamiliar territory as
he went about saving penalties from a boat in Amsterdam in an advert for Adidas.
Adidas is going all it can to make the canals of Amsterdam the new hotbed of Dutch football,
which does make for some very interesting commercials as well as lead to the possibility for an
interesting hybrid sport, like football-polo, but with boats. Or synchronized-soccer, which would
be fun and aesthetic.
In which, in a plug for the Amsterdam Tourist Board Adidas, Edwin van der Sar takes to the
waterways of the Dutch capital on a giant floating goal area to save penalties from all comers
including a couple of current Ajax stars...
As the season nears its end and Manchesters United and City remain in contention for the
Premier League title, the mind games have intensified as the two sides debate which club is more
desperate. "There will be plenty of ammunition," Sir Alex Ferguson warned at his Friday press
conference.
Record international Edwin van der Sar relocated his family back to Holland. After a long period
overseas ( Italy, England) the former Ajax man is back in his hometown of Noordwijk. And Sar is
busy. He supporths the hockey club of his daughter, studies at the Cruyff University and actively
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Right let's set the scene.
The cloying, suffocating heat sends up shimmering mirages from the dust as Sgt. Elias is mowed
down from behind by an entire squadron of Vietcong guerillas.
Manchester United goalkeeper Tomasz Kuszczak has expressed his astonishment at being overlooked
as the replacement for Edwin van der Sar, suggesting that spending £18 million on David De Gea
last summer was not necessarily the right decision.
Kuszczak, who recently went on loan to Watford to revive his career after starting only 30
Premier League games in over five years at United, hailed the exceptional qualities of van der Sar
and revealed hopes of replacing the Dutchman following his retirement at the end of last
season.
The pressure is on Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas in the UEFA Champions League, not only for
him to try and salvage his own job security, but also to keep England's hopes at crowning a
European winner alive.
It appears that he'll be a bit shorthanded in the first stage of his quest to get the Blues to
the UCL quarterfinals, though.
While the likes of Andres Villas Boas, Arsene Wenger and Harry Redknapp are all linked with moves
away from their clubs or being threatened by losing their jobs, Manchester United haven't had the
thought of parting with Sir Alex Ferguson in the last 25 years, and it seems that they still wont
have to think about replacing the Scotsman for at least another two years.
Italia es el rey, cuando menos en el arco, donde Gianluigi Buffon ha sido clasificado como el
mejor guardavallas del siglo XXI por la Federación Internacional de Historia y EstadÃstica
del Futbol. Buffon se impuso sólo por dos unidades al español Iker Casillas (197), siendo el
rubro decisivo el lugar que ocuparon en el "top 20″ de las votaciones en el 2012.
Following Paul Scholes' return from retirement and Manchester United's issues settling in a new
number one goalkeeper, Edwin Van der Sar has revealed people have been asking whether he has any
plans on doing the same.
"I got a few text messages from friends saying, 'What about you?'," Van der Sar
said.
They say that the Premier League is no country for old men, that its dash and intensity are too
much for the over-30s.
The year is still in its infancy, but already 2012 has proved the nay-sayers wrong. With the
broad shouldered Phil Jones losing impulsive cult followers with every passing game, English
football is turning to tried and tested players.
They say that the Premier League is no country for old men, that its dash and intensity are too
much for the over-30s.
The year is still in its infancy, but already 2012 has proved the nay-sayers wrong. With the
broad shouldered Phil Jones losing impulsive cult followers with every passing game, English
football is turning to tried and tested players.
They say that the Premier League is no country for old men, that its dash and intensity are too
much for the over-30s.
The year is still in its infancy, but already 2012 has proved the nay-sayers wrong. With the
broad shouldered Phil Jones losing impulsive cult followers with every passing game, English
football is turning to tried and tested players.
Goalkeeper David De Gea has not exactly lived up to expectations in his first season with
Manchester United, and there is pretty legitimate reasoning to explain what has gone wrong.
He might need be able to see clearly.
De Gea reportedly requires laser surgery to repair a case of farsightedness.
The Manchester United goalkeeper seems set to undergo eye surgery in the summer, just after the
end of the English Premiership campaign and just before Spain's Olympic football participation
begins.
The goalkeeper is unlikely to be called up by Spain for the 2012 UEFA European
Championships.
Former Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar has praised the philosophy of perennial Premier League underachievers Arsenal, insisting that Arsene Wenger's side develop youngsters in a way that is reminiscent of Ajax's Dutch football academy.
Few people know the Ajax system in and out as well as van der Sar, who began his professional career with the storied club.
