Edwin van der Sar

Edwin van der Sar

Edwin van der Sar

Edwin van der Sar (born 29 October 1970) is a Dutch footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for English Premier League club Manchester United.
He is the Netherlands national team's most capped player of all-time and one of the few footballers to have won the Champions League with two different teams, having won it with Ajax in 1995 and Manchester United in 2008, the latter where he was named UEFA Man of the match.
Van der Sar was named UEFA Club Goalkeeper of the Year in 1995 and 2009, spanning the fourteen-year period between his first and second Champions league victories.

Personal life
Van der Sar is married to Annemarie van Kesteren. The couple's wedding ceremony took place at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam, on 20 May 2006. The couple have two children: a son, Joe, and a daughter, Lynn. Joe was on the pitch celebrating when his father saved a penalty in the Netherlands' 5–4 shoot-out victory over Sweden in the Euro 2004 quarter-finals.


Honours

Club

Ajax
• Eredivisie: 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1997–98
• KNVB Cup: 1992–93, 1997–98, 1998–99
• Dutch Super Cup: 1993, 1994, 1995
• UEFA Champions League: 1994–95
• UEFA Cup: 1992
• UEFA Super Cup: 1995
• Intercontinental Cup: 1995

Juventus
• UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1999

Fulham
• UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2002
Manchester United
• Premier League: 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09
• League Cup: 2005–06
• FA Community Shield: 2007, 2008
• UEFA Champions League: 2007–08
• FIFA Club World Cup: 2008

Individual
• Best European Goalkeeper: 1995, 2009
• Dutch Football Goalkeeper of the Year: 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
• Dutch Golden Shoe: 1998
• PFA Team of the Year: 2007, 2009
• UEFA Euro 2008 Team of the Tournament
• Barclays Merit Award: 2008–09
• Barclays Golden Glove: 2008–09
• UEFA Club Goalkeeper of the Year: 2009