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===Borussia Dortmund===
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He returned to Germany to play for [[Borussia Dortmund]], winning the [[Bundesliga (football)|Bundesliga]] in [[Fußball-Bundesliga 2001/02|2001–2002]]. A fiery personality with a poor disciplinary record, he holds the Bundesliga record for the number of sendings-off for a goalkeeper (five).
He returned to Germany to play for [[Borussia Dortmund]], winning the [[Bundesliga (football)|Bundesliga]] in [[Fußball-Bundesliga 2001/02|2001–2002]]. A fiery personality with a poor disciplinary record, he holds the Bundesliga record for the number of sendings-off for a goalkeeper (five).{fact}


===Arsenal===
===Arsenal===

Revision as of 16:00, 5 June 2008

Jens Lehmann
Personal information
Full name Jens Lehmann
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 VfB Stuttgart
Number 1
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of May 31 2008
For other people named Jens Lehmann, see Jens Lehmann (disambiguation).

Jens Lehmann (German; IPA: [jɛns ˈleːman]; born November 10, 1969 in Essen) is an award-winning German football goalkeeper who currently plays for VfB Stuttgart and for the German national team. He was voted UEFA Club Goalkeeper of the Year for 2005-06, and he has been selected for three World Cup squads.

Club career

Schalke 04

Lehmann started his career in 1988 with Schalke 04, playing for them for nearly a decade. His first years were rocky, notably a game against Bayer Leverkusen in 1993 in which he conceded three goals and was substituted after 45 minutes,[1] causing him to flee the stadium alone by tram rather than taking the team bus,[2] but Lehmann gradually established himself as a strong keeper lauded for his ability to intercept crosses.

He scored his first league goal on March 12, 1995 in a 6–2 victory over TSV 1860 München in the 84th minute, scoring Schalke's sixth goal from the penalty spot.[3] His second goal was a last-minute equaliser scored against Borussia Dortmund on December 19, 1997.[4]

Lehmann became Schalke's team hero in their 1997 UEFA Cup final victory over Internazionale, after playing a strong season and saving an Ivan Zamorano penalty in a penalty shootout.

A.C. Milan

He left Schalke for A.C. Milan in 1998, but did not play well and was dropped after just five matches. Believing he wouldn't get another chance at Milan he left during the winter.

Borussia Dortmund

He returned to Germany to play for Borussia Dortmund, winning the Bundesliga in 2001–2002. A fiery personality with a poor disciplinary record, he holds the Bundesliga record for the number of sendings-off for a goalkeeper (five).{fact}

Arsenal

2003-04 Season

Lehmann joined Arsenal on July 25, 2003 as a replacement for David Seaman, and played every match as Arsenal went unbeaten for the entire 2003–04 FA Premier League campaign, becoming the first English club to accomplish this feat since the 1880s. However, Lehmann's style of play, often coming out of his goal to intercept passes occasionally led to mistakes, such as in the title-winning match at local rivals Tottenham Hotspur when Lehmann pushed Tottenham striker Robbie Keane as the pair waited for a Tottenham corner,[5] and made mistakes that led to both goals in Arsenal's Champions League defeat at home to Chelsea the same season.[6] He helped Arsenal to keep its national record of longest unbeaten league run (49 league matches unbeaten) when he stopped a penalty kick against Everton in the last minutes of the match on January 7, 2004. The match ended 1–1 and Arsenal continued unbeaten until October 24, 2004.

2004-05 Season

By the middle of the 2004–05 season, Lehmann was no longer automatic first-choice, with Spaniard Manuel Almunia starting in several matches instead. However, Almunia made a series of mistakes himself, thus allowing Lehmann to regain his position. At the end of that season, as speculation again began to mount that he would be replaced over the summer, Lehmann cemented his position in the Arsenal goal with a man-of-the-match performance against Manchester United in the 2005 FA Cup final. He made several important saves and demonstrated great positional sense to keep the score 0–0 after extra time, and then crucially saved Paul Scholes' shot in the penalty shootout, which Arsenal won 5–4.

2005-06 Season

Lehmann had an outstanding 2005–06 season with Arsenal, making his 100th Premier League appearance for the club in their game against West Bromwich Albion on April 15, 2006. He was a key factor in his side's first-ever accession to the Champions League final; during their run Arsenal broke the record for the most consecutive clean sheets in the Champions League with ten, breaking the record of seven that Milan had set just one year before. That run formed the bulk of an 853-minute spell without conceding a goal, overtaking the CL record for an individual goalkeeper set by Edwin van der Sar.

Bayern Munich's Hasan Salihamidžić had been the last to net against Lehmann, in the 64th minute of a quarter-final first leg match on March 22, 2005; Lehmann kept a clean sheet in the second leg, and then a further seven during Arsenal's run in 2005–06 (Almunia played in the other three matches); the final clean sheet was earned in the semi-finals against Villarreal, after Lehmann saved an 89th-minute Juan Román Riquelme penalty. Lehmann maintained his shutout run despite an ignominious end to his 2006 UEFA Champions League Final against FC Barcelona; with the score still at 0–0 he was sent off in the 18th minute for a professional foul after bringing down Samuel Eto'o, making him the first player and goalkeeper to ever be sent off in a Champions League final, but it did not stop him from being named the Champions League Goalkeeper of the Year for the 2005–06 season after going more than 850 minutes without conceding a goal.

Lehmann diving to save a shot during a warm-up.

2006-07 Season

His remarkable run was finally ended on September 13, 2006 by Hamburger SV's Boubacar Sanogo, who scored a consolation goal in the 89th minute of Arsenal's first group stage match of the 2006–07 Champions League season.

Lehmann's contract at Arsenal was due to expire in summer 2007 and during the 2006–07 season there was much speculation he would leave the club on a Bosman transfer. However, it was reported on April 26, 2007 that he had signed a year's extension on his contract, tying him to the club until 2008.[7]

2007-08 Season

In the first league game of the 2007–08 season, Lehmann made a serious error after just 52 seconds, allowing David Healy to score for Fulham. However, Lehmann's blushes were spared late in the game as Arsenal won 2–1; in his second league match against Blackburn Rovers he fumbled a David Dunn shot to allow Blackburn to equalise, in a game that finished 1–1. On August 24, the BBC reported that he returned to Germany to treat an Achilles tendon injury which he picked up during international duty against England, meaning Manuel Almunia took his place for Arsenal's third match.

Lehmann subsequently had to wait nearly four months to make another competitive appearance for Arsenal, in their final Champions League group match against Steaua Bucharest. Nearly one month later, he played only his fifth competitive game of the season for Arsenal, against Burnley in the third round of the FA Cup; third-choice goalkeeper Łukasz Fabiański has covered during League Cup games. Lehmann has expressed frustration at being number two to Manuel Almunia[8] as this could cost him the number one slot in the German national team for the European Championship 2008, leading to doubts over his future at the club. However, Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger has described Lehmann's attitude during this time as “super-professional”.[9]

On January 26, 2008, Lehmann appeared in Arsenal's second FA Cup game of the season, keeping his second successive clean sheet as the Gunners beat Newcastle United 3–0. Manager Arsène Wenger later promised Lehmann that, if he stays at Arsenal, he will play every game in the FA Cup.[10] On January 29, 2008, Lehmann suggested that he will stick with Arsenal until his contract expires at the end of the season. Lehmann gave his reasons as his relationship with the fans, players, family situations and his chance to still be able to win things at the club; believing he "wouldn’t have had this chance somewhere else."[11] On February 2, 2008, following an injury to Almunia, Lehmann returned in goal for Arsenal in the Premiership for an away fixture against Manchester City, more than five months after his last league appearance; Arsenal won the match 3–1. Due to Almunia catching flu straight after the injury, Lehmann kept his place in goal for the following three matches in February, including the first leg of the UEFA Champions League round of 16 against AC Milan, but also the 4-0 loss to arch rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup.

After another injury to Almunia in early April 2008, Lehmann was back in goal for the away game against Manchester United on April 13, 2008. Arsenal lost that game 2-1, virtually ending their Premier League title hopes for the season, which is their third consecutive season without a major trophy. There was speculation that would be his last game for the Gunners, but on April 18, 2008, Arsène Wenger confirmed Almunia was still out and Lehmann would play in the following day's home game against Reading, which Arsenal won 2-0. The following week, Łukasz Fabiański was given his Premier League debut against Derby County and Almunia returned to the bench for the game. However, Lehmann made another appearance as was brought on as a substitute for Fabiański in the last 20 minutes of the game against Everton on May 4, 2008, Arsenal's final home game of the season. He was given a standing ovation at the final whistle as he bowed and clapped to the fans. Later that day, Wenger confirmed that it was Lehmann's farewell appearance.[12]

VfB Stuttgart

Lehmann will join VfB Stuttgart in July 2008.[13]

International career

Lehmann made his debut for the national team against Oman in February 1998 and has since earned 51 (as of November 22, 2007) caps for his country, most of which were friendlies. He has a well-publicised rivalry with Bayern Munich goalkeeper Oliver Kahn, whose presence has long prevented Lehmann from becoming the number one goalkeeper of the German national team. On April 72006, however, German national coach Jürgen Klinsmann announced that Lehmann would be Germany's first-choice goalkeeper for the upcoming World Cup.

Lehmann conceded two goals in Germany's opening match, both scored by Costa Rica's Paulo Wanchope although Germany won the match 4–2. Lehmann played strongly in the next three games, conceding no goals and allowing Germany to sweep their group undefeated and beat Sweden convincingly in the Round of 16. Lehmann's streak of clean sheets was broken by Argentina in the quarterfinals, but his team found an equaliser late in the game and Lehmann stopped two shots in the penalty shootout.

Germany's opponent in the semifinals was Italy. The Italians had the better chances to score but Lehmann made several spectacular saves, including one in extra time where he dove out of goal to intercept an Italian player who had broken loose from the defence, punching the ball clear with his fist and temporarily knocking out the Italian in the process. He allowed two goals within a minute of each other with only a few seconds remaining in overtime. However, neither of these goals could be blamed on Lehmann, but were caused by Germany's defence playing high up the pitch. These goals put Italy into the World Cup final. The retiring Oliver Kahn was given the honour of starting in the third place match, with which Lehmann was content.

The highlight of Lehmann's international career came in the 2006 World Cup quarterfinal match (June 30, 2006, Olympiastadion, Berlin) against Argentina. The game remained tied 1–1 after 90 minutes and extra time. The game came down to penalty kicks and Lehmann carried his team through. He made two critical saves of Argentinian penalty kicks, one from Roberto Ayala and another from Esteban Cambiasso, and came close to saving a third. Meanwhile, the Germans made all of the necessary goals to win the penalty kicks 4–2. Lehmann's prowess in the shootout was aided by notes given to him before the kicks — an idea from Germany's chief scout, Swiss-born Urs Siegenthaler — with Lehmann keeping the paper in his right sock. Before the last shot from Cambiasso, Lehmann looked at the paper for a long time even though Cambiasso's name was not even on it. The story around the paper features in the film “Deutschland. Ein Sommermärchen”. Lehmann was considered a hero by the German public after these saves, and he received praise even from long-time rival Oliver Kahn.[14]

In August 2006 Lehmann revealed that during the World Cup he was suffering with a foot injury that he claims was a result of wearing different boots. The German Football Association ordered their players to wear only those manufactured by principal sponsor Adidas as opposed to Lehmann's sponsor Nike. This has now been overturned thanks to Lehmann and several other players protesting about the decision and the players are now free to wear boots made by other companies.

In August 2006, Lehmann suggested that he may retire from league and international football after playing for Germany in Euro 2008.[15] However, he subsequently stated in January 2007 that he has not made any decision on retirement.[16]

Lehmann set a national team record of not conceding a goal for 621 minutes in a friendly against Switzerland on March 26, 2008.

Honours

With Schalke

With Milan

With Borussia Dortmund

With Arsenal

International

Individual

Career statistics (1998–present)

Club Performance[17][18][19]
Club Season Premiership FA Cup League Cup Europe Others Total
App Goals Assists App Goals App Goals App Goals App Goals App Goals
Arsenal 2007–08 7 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 13 0
2006–07 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 44 0
2005–06 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 1 0 47 0
2004–05 28 0 0 5 0 0 0 7 0 1 0 41 0
2003–04 38 0 0 5 0 0 0 10 0 1 0 54 0
Subtotal 147 0 0 13 0 0 0 36 0 3 0 199 0
Club Season Bundesliga DFB-Pokal Ligapokal Europe Others Total
App Goals Assists App Goals App Goals App Goals App Goals App Goals
Borussia Dortmund 2002–03 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 — — 36 0
2001–02 30 0 1 0 0 2 0 11 0 — — 44 0
2000–01 31 0 0 — — — — 0 0 — — 31? 0
1999–00 31 0 0 — — 2 0 — — — — 33? 0
1998–99 13 0 0 — — — — 0 0 — — 13? 0
Subtotal 129 0 1 0? 0 4? 0 23? 0 — — 157? 0
Club Season Serie A — — — — Total
App Goals Assists App Goals App Goals App Goals App Goals App Goals
AC Milan 1998–99 5 0 0 — — — — — — — — 5 0
Subtotal 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
Grand total 281 0 1 13 0 4? 0 57? 0 3 0 361? 0

References

  1. ^ "Bayer Leverkusen - FC Schalke 04" (in German). fussballdaten.de. Retrieved 2007-11-30.
  2. ^ Peter Heß (2006-06-08). "Vom Libero zum Titan?" (in German). FAZ.NET. Retrieved 2007-11-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ "FC Schalke 04 - TSV 1860 München" (in German). fussballdaten.de. Retrieved 2007-11-30.
  4. ^ "Borussia Dortmund - FC Schalke 04" (in German). fussballdaten.de. Retrieved 2007-11-30.
  5. ^ "Arsenal clinch title". BBC. 2004-04-25. Retrieved 2007-11-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ "Hot-headed German Goalie Faces London Bench". Deutsche Welle. 2004-04-09. Retrieved 2007-11-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ "Lehmann pens new Arsenal contract". BBC. 2007-04-27. Retrieved 2007-11-30. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ "Jens Lehmann angry with secondary role". Times Online. 2007-12-20. Retrieved 2008-01-05. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ "Jens Lehmann calls the shots on Arsenal future". Telegraph. 2007-12-28. Retrieved 2008-01-05. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ "Wenger - I've promised Lehmann FA Cup ties". Arsenal.com. 2008-01-28. Retrieved 2008-01-28. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. ^ "Lehmann - I think I have a chance to win things". Arsenal.com. 2008-01-29. Retrieved 2008-01-29. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ "Wenger: 'You could see it was an end of season game'". Arsenal.com. 2008-05-04. Retrieved 2008-05-05. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. ^ "Jens Lehmann signs for VfB". vfb.de. 2008-06-03. Retrieved 2008-06-03. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  14. ^ "Lehmann had penalty taker notes". BBC news report. 2006-07-01. Retrieved 2006-07-01. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  15. ^ "Lehmann plans to retire after Euro 2008". The Hindu News Update Service. 2006-08-14. Retrieved 2006-08-14. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  16. ^ "Lehmann Refutes Retirement Claims". goal.com. 2006-12-29. Retrieved 2007-01-05. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  17. ^ "Fussballdaten profile" (in German). Retrieved 2007-12-01.
  18. ^ "FootballDatabase.com profile". Retrieved 2007-12-01.
  19. ^ "Soccerbase profile". Retrieved 2007-12-01.
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