after the official move to Manchester United, Lindegaard is planning to be a substitute for Van Der Sar,this is bioadata Anders Lindegaard
Anders Lindegaard
| Personal information |
| Full name | Anders Rosenkrantz Lindegaard |
| Date of birth | 13 April 1984 (age 27) |
| Place of birth | Dyrup, Denmark |
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)[1] |
| Playing position | Goalkeeper |
| Club information |
| Current club | Manchester United |
| Number | 34 |
| Youth career |
| 2001–2003 | OB |
| Senior career* |
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2003–2009 | OB | 6 | (0) |
| 2008 | → Kolding (loan) | 10 | (0) |
| 2009 | → Aalesund (loan) | 18 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | Aalesund | 38 | (0) |
| 2011– | Manchester United | 0 | (0) |
| National team‡ |
| 2002 | Denmark U19 | 2 | (0) |
| 2003 | Denmark U20 | 4 | (0) |
| 2010– | Denmark | 4 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14:03, 25 April 2011 (UTC).
† Appearances (Goals).
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 09:06, 8 December 2010 (UTC) | | |
Anders Rosenkrantz Lindegaard (born 13 April 1984) is a
Danish footballer who plays as a
goalkeeper for
Manchester United, having joined the club in November 2010. He initially came through the ranks of hometown club
Odense Boldklub, but left due to a lack of first team opportunities. He got his senior breakthrough winning the 2009
Norwegian Football Cup with
Aalesund. He was named 2010 Goalkeeper of the Year in both Denmark and Norway.
He represented Denmark at U19 and U20 level, before making his senior debut on 7 September 2010 against
Iceland.
Odense
Born in the Dyrup suburb of
Odense,
Lindegaard started his career at local
Danish Superliga team
Odense Boldklub (OB). He made his
Danish Superliga debut in a 3-1 victory against
Silkeborg IF on 19 November 2006.
He made his UEFA competition debut on 30 July 2009, in a 4–3 win over
Rabotnicki.
During most of his time in Odense, he was kept out of the team by
Arek Onyszko, and he had two loan spells at
Kolding FC, where he remained undefeated in the ten league games he got for the team, after it had lost the first four games of the season,
and
Aalesunds FK, who he would later join permanently. When Onyszko was sacked by Odense in June 2009 due to him being convicted for assaulting his ex-wife, Lindegaard was seen as his replacement.
However, the arrival of
Roy Carroll at Odense two months later forced him to move on.
Aalesund
In 2009 he joined Norwegian club
Aalesunds FK on loan and later permanently. In 2009 he won the
Norwegian Football Cup with Aalesunds. In 2010, Lindegaard was awarded Goalkeeper of the Year in both Norway and Denmark.
Manchester United
Since early November 2010, he was reported to have become a target of English club
Manchester United. However, former United goalkeeper
Peter Schmeichel opined that Lindegaard was not yet ready for regular
Premier League action.
On 23 November 2010, it was reported that Manchester United manager
Sir Alex Ferguson expected to complete the signing of the player in the "next two or three weeks."
On 27 November 2010, Lindegaard joined Manchester United on a three-and-a-half year contract for an undisclosed fee.
He trained with the first team throughout December, but he was unable to play for his new club until the
transfer window re-opened on 1 January 2011. Lindegaard was officially registered with the Premier League on 6 January 2011, and assigned the number 34 jersey.
On 29 January 2011, Lindegaard made his Manchester United debut in a 2–1 victory against
Southampton in the
FA Cup Fourth Round.
He made his Old Trafford debut on 19 February 2011 in another FA Cup match, this time against the
Conference National side
Crawley Town, in which United won 1–0.
In March he underwent a knee surgery which would keep him out of action for five weeks.
International career
Lindegaard has represented Denmark at under-19, under-20, and senior level. He made his debut for the Denmark under-19 national football team in September 2002, and played a
2003 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship qualification 1–0 win over Switzerland on 13 October 2002.
[4] He played a total six youth international games until September 2003.
He made his senior international debut in a
Euro 2012 qualifier against
Iceland on 7 September 2010. Denmark won 1–0.
[14][15] On the 8 October 2010, Denmark faced
Portugal in another Euro 2012 qualifier. Early on in the game, with Denmark trailing 0-2, an injury sustained by starting goalkeeper
Thomas Sørensen, brought Lindegaard into action. He made many saves to keep his team in the game, but conceded a goal in the 85th minute to
Cristiano Ronaldo for the 1-3 result. Lindegaard started the following Euro 2012 qualifier against
Cyprus, in which Lindegaard kept a
clean sheet as Denmark won 2-0.
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| Honours Club- Aalesunds
Individual- Norwegian Goalkeeper Of The Year (1): 2010
- Danish Goalkeeper Of The Year (1): 2010
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