Edwin van der Sar
August 2005
Edwin van der Sar walks past a small table at the edge of the field. He is extremely indignant, although outwardly he is almost calm. September 1, 2001, when Ireland knocked the Netherlands out of the World Cup in Dublin, was perhaps the worst day of the Dutch goalkeeper's career.
It seems that the table is about to get it - the goalkeeper raises his leg to shoot death blow. But, having changed his mind, he only knocks over a plastic cup. This act is all van der Sar. The ability to hit instantly, without acceleration, turns him into best football player among goalkeepers. He also knows how to control emotions. It’s not for nothing that he bears the nickname Ice Rabbit. Both qualities will help him new job, probably the most intense in football - the goalkeeper of Manchester United, which he began today, in the game against Everton.
Van der Sar is thirty-four years old. He grew up in a village located among Dutch onion fields. And he looks exactly like a country boy. Height - 197, average for this region. A long, pale, sullen face, like that of a typical Calvinist pastor of the 1872 model, is also characteristic of these parts.
As a child, he liked to play football. True, do not stand at the goal, but actively move around the field. However, he never dreamed of becoming a professional until he was spotted by Ajax Amsterdam. The club was distinguished by its original ideas regarding goalkeepers. Ajax's greatest player and "house philosopher" Johan Cruyff said it was absurd to limit them to just catching the ball. This approach wastes the energy of one of the eleven players. The goalkeeper must start the attack and pass like a field player. Van der Sar, who was present good shot, was created to bring Cruyff's ideas to life. Johan later called the Ice Bunny "Ajax's best attacking player." It is in this club that the future famous player realized: his task is not just to catch balls. Rather, he must organize the defense so that he does not have to do this. If the ball was flying into the goal, it means that something was done wrong in advance.
But if van der Sar needs to take the ball, he does it. Ask other goalkeepers about him, and they will definitely confirm that he rarely makes mistakes. As Cruyff puts it, he is “completely versatile”: he is equally successful at taking lobbed shots from the flanks, “reading” the game or catching ricocheting balls. But above all, like a true Ice Rabbit, Edwin never gets nervous. When concentrating before a match, he follows his own definition of reliability: “Take every ball you can.” He has only one drawback - he rarely takes “impossible” balls.
“Goalkeepers are crazy,” goes the football cliche. But van der Sar is not like that. He says: “Sometimes I see nice, calm guys going crazy on the pitch. I may seem insensitive to some, but I doubt they are playing at 100%.”
The Dutchman never seems to lose control, which is not typical for other players. Even after great victory, fighting off his comrades who hug him too violently, he fences himself off with cold irony, which does not seem funny.
When Juventus bought van der Sar from Ajax in 1999, he was considered by many to be the best goalkeeper in the world. Two years later he was not. At Juve, for the only time in his career, the goalkeeper lost confidence and made a mistake. The Italians began to tease him as “van der Gol”, and Juventus, having previously asked for an eye test, sold him. “Van der Goal” joined the ranks of Fulham, who assured that they would achieve glory together. Then the team ran out of money and their ambitions were tempered. As a result, the former " best goalkeeper World" spent four years in a mediocre club.
In a television program aired last December, the last great goalkeeper Manchester United Peter Schmeichel recommended the Dutchman to United and Arsenal. Van der Sar and his wife, watching the broadcast at home, were flattered. But none of the clubs called. They seem to have enough of mediocre goalies. In Holland, the goalkeeper is expected to demonstrate the talent of a field player, in Italy - the ability to hit balls perfectly. In England they don’t expect anything from him, it seems.
It was especially disappointing for van der Sar to play at the small Craven Cottage - he knew that he was at the peak of his form. to his best match the player considers the meeting between Arsenal and Fulham in 2003. Playing for the Dutch national team along with the young men who had been lifting balls a few years earlier, he played his 100th match for his home team and finally became a truly brilliant goalkeeper.
Like many goalkeepers, he peaked at age thirty-five. Jup Hiel, his former coach, explains why: “Being a goalkeeper means seeing and understanding the situation, finding a solution. And the more often, the easier it is to play. Therefore, an experienced goalkeeper knows the attack structure well and manages to organize the defense. A young player cannot do this, he only has talent. When he makes mistakes, he begins to doubt himself.” When this happened to Tim Howard, United's young goalkeeper, the club finally turned to van der Sar.
The team's coach, Alex Ferguson, spent six years recruiting questionable goalkeepers. And he was not alone in this. Such a “blind spot” is on the conscience of Arsene Wenger at Arsenal. Few coaches understand the job of a goalkeeper. It's a shame because it was only goalkeeping errors that prevented United from reaching the Champions League. The team still lacks Schmeichel's ability to organize the game. Although he, like most British goalkeepers, did not know how to play football at all, he could launch a counter-attack by throwing the ball 35 meters right at the feet of a teammate. Van der Sar does the same with his passes. Moreover, he does not hide under the spotlights of the largest club in the world, where any mistake by someone on goal becomes a national tragedy. In addition, he complements United's honor roll, which currently consists of Roy Keane.
In any case, United is just an interlude for van der Sar. He would eventually return to his amateur club in the Dutch Dunes, where he would leave his goalkeeper position to play in attack. “Scoring goals is much more enjoyable,” he says.
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↓Edwin van der Sar is a Dutch football player who played as a goalkeeper. Completed his career in 2011 year. For more than thirteen years, Van der Sar was the main goalkeeper and captain of the Dutch national team, for which he played 130 matches, which is a national team record.
Van der Sar began his career at Ajax, where he spent nine years. He then played for Juventus and Fulham, and in 2005 moved to Manchester United. Van der Sar is one of the few footballers to have won the UEFA Champions League with two different clubs: with Ajax in 1995 and with Manchester United in 2008 year. IN 1995 And 2009 years van der Sar was recognized as the best European goalkeeper.
Edwin van der Sar began his career in the clubs of his hometown, where he was spotted by Louis van Gaal. As a result, van der Sar moved to Ajax, becoming one of the key players in the club's second "golden generation". With Ajax, he won four championships, three Dutch Cups, and the UEFA Cup. 1992 of the year and the Champions League 1995 year. IN 1995 year he was recognized as the best goalkeeper in Europe. Van der Sar also played in the Champions League final 1996 year, however, in that match, Ajax lost to Juventus in a penalty shootout. In total, van der Sar played 226 matches for Ajax and scored one goal from the penalty spot (in a match against De Graafschap in the season 1997/98 ).
IN 1999 In the same year, van der Sar moved to the Italian club Juventus, for which he played 66 matches in Serie A, after which he lost his place in goal. He became the first non-Italian goalkeeper in Juventus history.
Disagreeing with his role as a reserve goalkeeper at Juventus, van der Sar moved to Premier League club Fulham in 2001 year for an amount of about £7.1 million. In total, he played 154 matches for the Summer Residents.
Van der Sar joined Manchester United on June 10 2005
year, the transfer amount was not disclosed (according to some sources, it was £2 million). United manager Sir Alex called van der Sar the team's best goalkeeper since Peter Schmeichel.
May 5 2007 1999, van der Sar took a penalty in the match against Manchester City, thereby ensuring United's victory with a minimal score of 1:0 in the Manchester derby. The following day, Chelsea failed to beat Arsenal at the Emirates, guaranteeing United's ninth Premier League win and van der Sar's first English championship medal. Edwin was included in the “team of the year” according to the PFA at the end of the season 2006/07 . Three months later, van der Sar became the hero of the FA Super Cup match, saving three Chelsea penalties from the penalty spot, after which United became the winner of the Super Cup.
Season 2007/08 Van der Sar became very successful: he helped the club win the Premier League title as well as the Champions League. In the Champions League final, it was van der Sar's save from Nicolas Anelka's penalty shootout that ensured Manchester United's victory over Chelsea.
December 12 2008 2009/10 .
January 27 2009
year, after defeating West Brom with a score of 5:0, van der Sar helped Manchester United set a new club and Premier League record with 11 clean sheets ( 1032
minutes) in a row. Previous record set by Peter 
in season 2004/05
, was 10 matches ( 1025
minutes). The clean sheet didn't end there, and four days later van der Sar broke the English championship record held by Reading's Steve Deth ( 1103
minutes) and set by him in 1979
year. On February 8, van der Sar kept another clean sheet against West Ham, and his streak lasted until 1212
minutes, breaking the British record set by Aberdeen goalkeeper Bobby Clarke ( 1155
minutes) in 1971
year.
February 18 2009 Van der Sar's "dry streak" lasted until 1302 minutes, surpassing the world single-season record set by José Maria Bulhubasic ( 1289 minutes) in the Chilean championship in 2005 year. The record run was interrupted in the match against Newcastle on March 4, when van der Sar missed a goal in the 9th minute of the match. In total, van der Sar spent 1311 minutes without conceding a goal in the championship. This clean sheet was a key factor in Manchester United winning their 11th Premier League title. Van der Sar won the Golden Glove award this season with 21 clean sheets in the Premier League.
Van der Sar injured a finger in a pre-season Audi Cup match, forcing him to miss 12 of United's senior matches this season. 2009/10 . October 6 2009 Van der Sar played for the first time since injury in United's reserve team match against Everton. On October 17, he returned to the main team, playing in the match against Bolton, which ended in a 2-1 victory for United. On November 21, van der Sar was injured again and was out for 12 matches, including due to family reasons (his wife suffered a cerebral hemorrhage before Christmas). January 16 2010 The same year he returned to the team when United beat Burnley 3-0.
February 26 2010 Van der Sar extended his contract with United for one year until the end of the season. 2010/11 . At the end of January 2011 Edwin announced his decision to retire at the end of the season 2010/11 .
The last match of Van der Sar's career was the Champions League final 2010/11 against Barcelona, in which the Catalan club won with a score of 3:1.
Although his debut in the national team was, to put it mildly, not very successful. After a series of excellent performances for Ajax in the Champions League, then-Orange manager Guus Hiddink brought Van der Sar into the squad in June 1995. qualifying match European Championship with Belarus. However, there was a huge embarrassment. The Dutch lost in Minsk, and Sergei Gerasimets scored the only goal after a mistake by Van der Sar. Five years later, all this - the Dutch loss to the Belarusians and Van der Sar's mistake - seems even more unreal.
Unlike most Ajax players of the mid-90s, Van der Cap is not a product of the famous football school club. He started playing amateur team Noordwijk, and came to Amsterdam in 1989 thanks to the friendship of Noordwijk coach Ruud Bring with Louis van Gaal. Four years later, after several blunders by Stanley Menzo in the UEFA Cup quarter-finals against Auxerre, Van der Sar was given the chance to win a place in the first team, which he used brilliantly. Largely thanks to Van der Sar, Ajax won the Champions League, Super Cup and Intercontinental Cup in the mid-90s, and also had no equal in the Dutch championship for three years in a row. However, following the decisions of the European Court in the Bosman case great team fell apart. Van der Cap, by the way, stayed in Amsterdam the longest. It was only a year ago that he finally decided to change his surroundings.
Many leading players claimed the Dutch goalkeeper European clubs, including Manchester United, who were looking for a replacement for Peter Schmeichel. Van der Cap chose Juventus. "I decided to go to Italy because I really like to study other cultures, and there is not much difference between Holland and England. But this does not mean that I do not like the Premier League. Maybe I will still have time to play in England... More importantly "All I wanted was to be at a great club... Juventus is without a doubt one of the greatest clubs in Europe."
In Turin, Van der Cap settled in very quickly. Juventus have conceded just 20 goals in 34 matches in the league, far fewer than any other team, and it is not the goalkeeper's fault that the Turin side missed out on the Scudetto. However, Van der Cap admits that his first season in Italy was not as easy as it might seem at first glance. "The tasks of goalkeepers in Italy and Holland are significantly different. In Holland, entertainment is as important as the result, and therefore creative functions are assigned to everyone, including goalkeepers. In Italy, the result is the only criterion, and for goalkeepers the most important thing is reliability".
Naturally, Van der Sar had to rebuild. However, the Dutchman so impressed Juventus coach Carlo Ancelotti with his ability to make accurate passes to teammates with his feet that the goalkeeper was allowed “liberties” when putting the ball into play, and one could even say that over the past season, Juventus’ style of action when moving from defense to the attack has undergone significant changes. “At first they required me to immediately kick the ball away from the goal in a critical situation. But now they know that I can launch a sharp attack, and they use this quality of mine.”
The problem for Van der Sar so far is that he doesn't know the habits of Serie A strikers very well. "In Holland I knew everything - the favorite maneuvers of the forwards, their style of hitting the goal. In Italy I have to learn it all over again."
According to Gazzetta dello Sport, in order to achieve perfection, Van der Sar still needs to improve his game at the exits, especially with high serves. The Dutchman is also not a penalty saver. With Ajax in the 1996 Champions League final against his current club, and with the national team in the 1996 European Championship quarter-finals against France, and in the 1998 World Cup semi-finals against Brazil, he failed to save a single shot in the post-match series. However, Van der Cap believes that there is no pattern here.
“As the European Championship approaches, the pressure increases,” says Edwin. “But I take it calmly. I only have problems sleeping when I miss a ball that, in my opinion, could have been saved.”
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“In general, I think the grandiose expectations of our fans cannot affect the team’s performance for the worse. After all, we have long been accustomed to this, and then almost all of us play for big clubs. The main thing is to approach the European Championship in optimal physical condition.”
By the way, the fact that the Dutch goal is defended by a Juventus player is a good sign. In the post-war years, the Italians won two major tournaments, the 1968 European Championship and the 1982 World Cup, and both times the team's goalkeeper was a representative of the Old Lady. namely Dino Zoff.
Edwin Van der Sar is one of the key links in Ajax's second golden generation. As part of the capital's team in the 90s, this goalkeeper won five championships and three national Cups. Louis van Gaal's men were also indomitable on the European stage - in 1992 they won the UEFA Cup, and three seasons later they won the Champions League. Then, in the final in Vienna, Ajax defeated Milan with a score of 1:0. Later Edwin won the European Super Cup.
In 1999, after Angelo Peruzzi left Turin for Inter Milan, Van der Sar became the first foreigner to play for Juventus, and for two seasons he was the main goalkeeper of the Old Lady. In 2001, Juve acquired Gianluigi Buffon from Parma, and Edwin's chances of appearing in the first team became limited.
The Dutchman was acquired by English Fulham for 11.5 million euros, with whom he signed a four-year contract. During his time with the Summer Residents, he played 154 matches.
Van der Sar has incredible reflexes for a man of his size and height (197 cm). Plays in a modern style, often coming out of goal and essentially serving as the last defender.
Edwin is the main goalkeeper of the Dutch national team. In the summer of 2004, it was largely Van der Sar’s excellent play at the European Championship that helped the Orange reach the semi-finals of the tournament.
On 1 July 2005, Edwin van der Sar joined United on a two-year deal.
The Dutchman was United's first signing since Malcolm Glazer bought the club and joined during the team's tour of the Far East in July. He was the latest in a long line of goalkeepers Fergie tried in the No. 1 job after Peter Schmeichel left in 1999. Mark Bosnich, Massimo Taibi, Raymond van der Gouw, Fabien Barthez, Ricardo and Roy Carroll failed to become Big Dan's heirs and left the club.
The 197cm tall goalkeeper had proven his skill at all levels and, with his vast playing experience, he was believed to stabilize the club's game in the final stretch after inconsistent performances in goal for Tim Howard's team. At the start of the 2005-06 season, Sir Alex Ferguson made Edwin the number one and commentators soon stopped talking about the "goalkeeping problem" at Old Trafford.
Van der Sar became a model of stability, and it is difficult to remember serious mistakes in his game in this first season for him in a new team, on the contrary, he had a great season, helping the team out at crucial moments. He achieved a rare achievement for a player - he reached starting lineup United played in all 38 league games, becoming only the fourth player to do so since Gary Pallister, who also played every league game in 1994-95.
Given his age, he is certainly not a long-term player for the team, and it was assumed that Tim Howard would take on the role of backup and gain experience to replace him when the time came to take over the No. 1 job. However, the recent transfer of Tim Howard Everton retain him as backup to Tomas Kuszczak and Ben Foster. Van der Sar is still the main goalkeeper of the Dutch national team, played at the World Cup in Germany and will play for his national team at least until Euro 2008.
In the 2006-07 season, Edwin played in 32 Premier League matches, 12 Champions League games and 3 FA Cup games. He missed several matches in the national championship after breaking his nose in an away match with Tottenham in a collision with Robbie Keane, otherwise he would have spent almost the entire championship in the United goal.
The Dutchman's excellent form became one of the decisive factors on Manchester United's path to the championship title. Suffice it to remember how he prevented Peter Crouch from scoring on last minute game at Anfield, which ultimately ended in a 1-0 victory for Manchester United, saved Mark Viduka's shot at home to Boro, saving his team a 1-1 draw. In May 2007, he saved Darius Vassell's penalty in the derby against City, which allowed the Mancunians to win by a minimal score of 1-0.
The next day, after Chelsea's draw with Bolton, it became clear that these three points brought the Red Devils the championship title. And although Van der Sar became the Dutch champion four times as part of Ajax, this is his first success in one of the leading European championships - English.
In the 2007-2008 season, Edwin secured his place in Manchester United history by saving Nicolas Anelka in the penalty shootout in the Champions League final at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium. It’s interesting that Van der Sar’s season began in August, also with a penalty shootout, also in a game against Chelsea, when he saved three shots in a row and helped his partners win the FA Super Cup.
At 37 years old, Edwin still remains a model of stability and managed to keep a clean sheet in 23 matches of the season, while in the English Championship, United set a club record, conceding only 22 goals during the championship. IN European matches he missed only 3 goals, and rightfully won the second gold medal in the Champions League in his illustrious goalkeeping career.
The 2008-09 season once again proved that the acquisition of van der Sar was one of Ferguson's most successful moves in the transfer market. The evergreen Dutchman managed not only to successfully carry out another football year your career, to add to your impressive collection of medals highest quality, but also to break several goalkeeper records.
The Dutch goalkeeper did not miss 14 matches in a row in the Premier League from November 8, 2008 to March 4, 2009, which amounted to 1311 minutes, and became not only a Premier League record, but also surpassed several other English records for goalkeepers, and raised Edwin to 6 1st place in the world rating of “impenetrability” of goalkeepers.
21 times during the English championship, Edwin kept a clean sheet and rightfully became the winner of the Premier League Golden Gloves prize, which is awarded to a goalkeeper precisely for this achievement and was included in the English championship team at the end of the year.
After breaking a finger and injuring his wrist in a pre-season match against Bayern, van der Sar missed the start of the 2009-10 season and did not make his first appearance until October 17 in a match with Bolton, which ended in a 2-1 victory for the hosts. But it was only one of his five starts until mid-January, as an injured knee and his wife's illness again prevented him from helping his teammates.
Finally returning to the number one job on 16 January in a match against Burnley, which United win 3-0, Edwin becomes Manchester United's oldest player in the post-war era, appearing at 39 years and 79 days, and proves that he is more important than ever for the team. His calmness, composure, experience and amazing reactions are a huge plus for the Red Devils. The back five once again looks impregnable, and the central figure in this fortress is, of course, van der Sar. Having played 29 matches for United this season, the Dutchman kept a clean sheet in 14 of them, becoming the best among Premier League goalkeepers in terms of percentage of shots saved on his own goal (81%).
Despite rumors throughout the season that Edwin is close to ending his brilliant career, he signed a new one-year contract with the team, and for at least one more season, the Dutchman's fans and teammates don't have to worry about the final milestone.
Although his debut in the national team was, to put it mildly, not very successful. After a series of excellent performances for Ajax in the Champions League, then-Orange coach Guus Hiddink included Van der Sar in the squad for a European Championship qualifier against Belarus in June 1995. However, there was a huge embarrassment. The Dutch lost in Minsk, and Sergei Gerasimets scored the only goal after a mistake by Van der Sar. Five years later, all this - the Dutch loss to the Belarusians and Van der Sar's mistake - seems even more unreal.
Unlike most Ajax players of the mid-90s, Van der Cap is not a product of the club's famous football school. He started playing in the amateur team Noordwijk, and came to Amsterdam in 1989 thanks to the friendship of Noordwijk coach Ruud Bring with Louis van Gaal. Four years later, after several blunders by Stanley Menzo in the UEFA Cup quarter-finals against Auxerre, Van der Sar was given the chance to win a place in the first team, which he used brilliantly. Largely thanks to Van der Sar, Ajax won the Champions League, Super Cup and Intercontinental Cup in the mid-90s, and also had no equal in the Dutch championship for three years in a row. However, after the decisions of the European court in the Bosman case, the great team fell apart. Van der Cap, by the way, stayed in Amsterdam the longest. It was only a year ago that he finally decided to change his surroundings.
The Dutch goalkeeper was claimed by many leading European clubs, including Manchester United, who were looking for a replacement for Peter Schmeichel. Van der Cap chose Juventus. "I decided to go to Italy because I really like to study other cultures, and there is not much difference between Holland and England. But this does not mean that I do not like the Premier League. Maybe I will still have time to play in England... More importantly "All I wanted was to be at a great club... Juventus is without a doubt one of the greatest clubs in Europe."
In Turin, Van der Cap settled in very quickly. Juventus have conceded just 20 goals in 34 matches in the league, far fewer than any other team, and it is not the goalkeeper's fault that the Turin side missed out on the Scudetto. However, Van der Cap admits that his first season in Italy was not as easy as it might seem at first glance. "The tasks of goalkeepers in Italy and Holland are significantly different. In Holland, entertainment is as important as the result, and therefore creative functions are assigned to everyone, including goalkeepers. In Italy, the result is the only criterion, and for goalkeepers the most important thing is reliability"...
General information
Nickname: Van der Save
Was born: October 29, 1970 (age 37) Voorhout, Netherlands
Citizenship:Netherlands
Height: 197 cm
Weight: 83 kg
Position: Goalkeeper
Club information
Club: Manchester United
Number: 1
Career
Club career
1990-1999
Ajax Amsterdam 226 (1)
1999-2001
Juventus 66 (0)
2001-2005
Fulham 127 (0)
2005-
Manchester United 105 (0)
National team
1995- Netherlands 128 (0)
Source: ru.wikipedia.org
Van der Sar returns to the national team
Famous goalkeeper Edwin Van der Sar, who retired from the Dutch national team after EURO 2008, returns to the national team, reports uefa.com. However, the goalkeeper immediately warned that he took this step only because in the upcoming matches with Iceland and Norway, the Dutch simply had no one to stand.
Van der Sar played his last, 128th, match on the international stage in the quarterfinals of EURO 2008 against the Russian national team (1:3). Before the home matches with the Icelanders and Norway, the main goalkeeper of the Dutch, Maarten Stekelenburg, was injured, and another goalkeeper of the national team, Henk Timmer, has not yet recovered from a groin injury. So the Manchester United goalkeeper had to come to the rescue, since for Michel Vorm this was his first call to the national team.
"I was surprised by the call. I didn't expect to be able to return, but at the same time I didn't want to leave the national team. However, this does not mean that next time I will accept the invitation again. Bert van Marwijk said that it was just a matter of one occasion. I I’ll only play in two matches, and after the match with the Norwegians I’ll definitely leave,” said van der Sar.
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Van der Sar: "I didn't expect to have to come back"
Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar has said that he does not intend to return to the national team on a permanent basis.
"It was difficult to give up. I have been part of this team for a long time and always felt a sense of responsibility. I thought not only about personal interest, but always cared about the goals of the team. To be honest, I was surprised. I did not expect that I would have to return. However, this is not means that I intend to repeat this. Bert said that this is only for two matches, and that’s it. After the game with Norway, I will finish playing in the national team,” said van der Sar.
Edwin van der Sar: “The match with Norway will be the last in the national team”
Manchester United and Dutch national team goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, who qualifying matches World Cup 2010 against Iceland and Norway will replace the injured Maarten Stekelenburg, said that he does not intend to return to the national team on a permanent basis.
“It was difficult to refuse. I have been part of this team for a long time and have always felt a sense of responsibility. I thought not only about personal interest, but always cared about the team's goals.
To be honest, I was surprised. I didn't expect to have to return. However, this does not mean that I intend to repeat this. Bert said it was just for once. Two matches and that's it. After the game with Norway I will finish playing in the national team." – Van der Sar is quoted as saying by the official UEFA website.
Edwin van der Sar: “Russia has excellent chances in the semi-finals”
Dutch national team goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, after the defeat in the match with Russia in the quarterfinals of Euro 2008 (1:3), told a Sports.ru correspondent in Switzerland about the reasons for the team’s unsuccessful performance.
“We were not able to demonstrate the same level of play as at group stage. The Euro is such a short-lived tournament where you can score nine points in the group and then be eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Russia has excellent chances in the semi-finals, no matter who its opponent is. You have a very fast, technical team that shows beautiful combination football. There are several great players, but their surnames are very difficult, I can’t pronounce them,” said the Manchester United goalkeeper.
Van der Sar: it was difficult to say no
Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar commented on his return to the Dutch national team.
“It was difficult to say no,” says the goalkeeper. “I have been part of this team for a long time, I have a responsibility to my partners and fans. I don’t think only about myself, I am interested in the fate of the team.”
"Actually, I was surprised. I did not expect an invitation after I announced my retirement. But this does not mean that next time I will say yes. Bert (van Marwijk - head coach Dutch national team) says that this is just for once. Two matches and that's it. After Norway I’ll definitely finish.”
Let us remind you that van der Sar finished playing for the national team after Holland was eliminated from the European Championship, losing to Russia (1:3).
Edwin van der Sar: "It would be better to play on artificial turf"
The Manchester United goalkeeper, who saved the decisive 11-meter kick from Nicolas Anelka, in a conversation with an SE correspondent, expressed dissatisfaction with the quality of the lawn in Luzhniki, but blamed UEFA for this not the Russian side.
The stadium in Moscow is good,” the Dutchman admitted. - The atmosphere in Luzhniki was excellent, which, unfortunately, I cannot say about the field. I slipped before scoring against us, and the other players couldn’t keep their balance either. I don't think it was a good idea for UEFA to try to replace the artificial pitch and install a natural surface at the last minute. I know: Russian people They did a lot to ensure that the new lawn was of high quality. In general, they organized everything regarding the match very well. But next time, I think UEFA should choose arenas where the need to change the field cannot arise at all.
- What are the first feelings of a goalkeeper who wins a penalty shootout in the Champions League final?
- The whole team won the series, and I only provided them with all possible help. Much depended on the strength and accuracy with which the partners hit. And my experience may have helped me repel the last blow. Some instinct told me that Anelka would shoot into this corner...
May 23, 2008
At each World Cup, the best teams try to answer one question: who is stronger in the modern world of football, Europe or Latin America. This time you have to remember the three best Latin American teams: the ball wizards from Brazil, the temperamental Argentines and the explosive Uruguayans, and the three best European teams: the unyielding Italians, the technical Germans and the purposeful English.
Championship Titles:
Brazil - 1958,1962,1970,1994
Argentina - 1978, 1986
Uruguay - 1930,1950
Italy - 1934, 1938, 1982
Germany - 1954,1974,1990
England - 1966
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