Van der Sar lost his place in the summer of 2001, after the Bianconeri purchased Italian international goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon from Parma for 100 billion lire (approximately £32.6 million), a world-record fee for a goalkeeper. The following season was less successful, however, as Juventus suffered a first-round exit in both the Coppa Italia and the Champions League, while Van der Sar committed several errors, including a high-profile one in a league fixture at home against eventual Serie A champions Roma, on, when he spilled Hidetoshi Nakata's shot, allowing Vincenzo Montella to tie the game 2–2 Juventus eventually finished two points behind the league champions. On the final day of the 1999–2000 season, however, Juventus lost to Perugia Calcio, after Van der Sar was beaten by Alessandro Calori's volley the result allowed Lazio to overtake Juventus and win the league title by a single point. He performed well in his first season, winning the 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup, and helping the club compete for the Serie A title. He was the first-choice goalkeeper during his first two seasons in Italy, making 66 Serie A appearances as Juventus finished runners-up in the league twice under Carlo Ancelotti, with the best defensive record in the league on each occasion. He became the first non-Italian to keep goal for the Turin club. He made his debut for The Old Lady in the 1–1 draw with Reggina at the Stadio delle Alpi. In 1999, Van der Sar's stature as one of Europe's top goalkeepers drew attention from Manchester United, who sought a replacement for Peter Schmeichel however, Van der Sar moved to Italian club Juventus for a fee believed to be in the region of £5 million. 1 he won the Dutch Football Goalkeeper of the Year, he would then go on to retain the award for the next 3 consecutive years. 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.
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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. * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league onlyĮdwin van der Sar OON ( Dutch pronunciation: ( listen)) (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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