![]() That means places for Darron Gibson, Danny Welbeck and, possibly, Gabriel Obertan, while the fit-again Park Ji-sung may also be in line to play. Van der Sar has won several individual awards, including Best European Goalkeeper in 19, and UEFA Club Goalkeeper of the Year in 2009. ![]() With United qualified for the Champions League's knockout phase, Ferguson intends to field the sort of team tomorrow that would be used in the earlier rounds of the Carling Cup. He is also the oldest player to win the Premier League, having done so in 2011 at the age of 40 years and 205 days. He and Tomasz Kuczszak will fight it out, I am sure of that." "He needs big-game experience because he hasn't got that, but Edwin is 39 so there will be an opportunity one day. "I have said that all along and it does not change the boy has terrific ability," he said. Foster had an erratic start to the season while Van der Sar was injured but he has remained in Fabio Capello's England plans and Ferguson is not swayed on his opinion that United have England's best goalkeeper on their payroll. He is a very intelligent man, he understands his body better than anyone and will make the right judgment."įerguson is an admirer of Igor Akinfeev, the CSKA Moscow goalkeeper, but ideally the United manager wants either Kuszczak, or preferably Foster, to show that Van der Sar has a dependable long-term successor. I don't know his plans and when you get to that age and have a young family you wonder whether he does have plans to go back to Holland. Usually, around Christmas time he will outline his plans, how long he can go on, and we will wait for that. Dutch media reported Friday that the 52-year-old Van der Sar was on vacation in Croatia when he became ill. "He has come back from his injury well after missing the start of the season. Van der Sar stepped down as director general of the Amsterdam club at the end of the season. However, Ferguson admitted he had "no indication" whether Van der Sar would continue. Replacing him has not been easy for Holland and Sir Alex Ferguson faces the same dilemma at Old Trafford, with neither of the Dutchman's understudies, Ben Foster and Tomasz Kuszczak, making a substantial case to challenge for his place on a permanent basis.įerguson has adopted a policy of resting Van der Sar in United's more inconsequential games and that means a return for Foster tomorrow, when Besiktas visit Old Trafford in a Champions League tie with little resting on it. However, the lure of being involved in the fourth World Cup of his 20-year career is strong and Van Marwijk is keen to bring in the two-time Champions League winner and two-time European goalkeeper of the year. After the 2008 European Championship, Edwin van der Sar announced his retirement from the national team, but played for it two more matches in the qualifying. He has told associates that he has said no "so far" and is enjoying the benefits from having a free schedule when Holland now meet, spending the last international break on holiday with his family in Dubai. He has turned down the first approach but there is a sense that he is open to more talks and willing, at the very least, to discuss the idea. The then 34-year-old moved to Old Trafford from Fulham and went on to win four PL Trophies as well as the Golden Glove award in 2008/09 after recording 21 clean sheets. He was playing on that occasion only after a special request from the manager, Bert van Marwijk, because Maarten Stekelenburg and Henk Timmer were both injured, and the Dutch football federation is now hoping that he can be persuaded to return for a second time if there is the promise of playing in South Africa next June. On this day in 2005, Edwin van der Sar signed for Manchester United where he became one of the most decorated goalkeepers in Premier League history. He played 130 times for the Netherlands national team, and was the nation's most-capped player until 2017, when he was overtaken by Wesley Sneijder.Van der Sar has not played for Holland since winning his 130th cap, against Norway in a World Cup qualifier 13 months ago. ![]() ![]() He retired as a professional in 2011, but briefly came out of retirement in 2016 to play a match for Dutch amateur team VV Noordwijk, for whom he had previously played as a youth. There he won a second Champions League title in 2008, making him one of just eight players at the time to have won the competition with more than one club. A goalkeeper, he left Ajax for Juventus in 1999, where he spent two years before moving to England, first to Fulham and then to Manchester United in 2005. ![]() Edwin van der Sar (born 29 October 1970) is a Dutch football executive and former professional player who is currently the chief executive of AFC Ajax, with whom he began his senior playing career in the early 1990s he is considered to be a member of the club's golden generation and was part of the Ajax team that won the UEFA Champions League in 1995. ![]()
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