![]() He made a total of 226 appearances for Ajax, and scored a penalty for Ajax to complete an 8–1 victory over De Graafschap in the 1997–98 season. He was in goal for Ajax in the 1996 UEFA Champions League Final, but had to make do with a runner-up medal as they lost the penalty shoot-out against Juventus. He enjoyed a long and successful stint in their senior side, winning the 1991–92 UEFA Cup (albeit only as the reserve, making no appearances in the run) and the 1994–95 UEFA Champions League (by now the starting goalkeeper), as well as the 1995 Best European Goalkeeper award, besides domestic honours. Even though he joined late he went into the reserve team and bided his time before getting his first-team call-up by Louis van Gaal. At a relatively late age, he was brought to the attention of Louis van Gaal, and subsequently signed for Ajax. Van der Sar has won several individual awards, including Best European Goalkeeper in 19, and UEFA Club Goalkeeper of the Year in 2009.īorn in Voorhout, Van der Sar began his career at his hometown club, Foreholte, and then VV Noordwijk. 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. During the 2008–09 season, he set a world record by not conceding a league goal for 1,311 minutes. He is also one of the most successful footballers ever, having won 26 major trophies in his career, mainly at Ajax and Manchester United. Van der Sar is considered by critics and fellow players as one of the best goalkeepers of all time. 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. 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. Unsurprisingly the Dutchman’s funniest and most frightened-looking faces came as the ball was crossing his own goal line, and many of these photos presumably pinpoint the exact moment that Fergie’s fuming face flashed through Edwin’s mind.*Club domestic league appearances and goalsĮdwin van der Sar ( Dutch pronunciation: ( listen) born 29 October 1970) is a Dutch football executive and former professional player who was most recently 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. Nobody seemed to notice at the time, but retired goalkeeper Edwin Van Der Sar’s facial expressions at Manchester United were almost as hilarious as those pulled by Phil Jones. ![]() Visit the ever giving Radio TalkSport website for more Edwin van der Sar face pictures: You might also like to see the Phil Jones face that sparked the interest in Edwin van der Sar’s face, or perhaps the “retarded” Pique pictures. Thanks to the good, kind users of Reddit Soccer and Imgur, we can bring you a slideshow below: ![]() The Manchester United goalkeeper often looks terrified of conceding a goal and his face reflects his personal desperation to prevent that from happening. ![]() See the many faces of Edwin van der Sar that have become an internet hit as eagle-eyed football fans noticed his his continuous selection of odd expressions. Edwin van der Sar’s face (Image: Paul Blank) ![]()
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