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Henri Lansbury
Personal information
Full name Henri George Lansbury
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Watford
(on loan from Arsenal)
Number 5
Youth career
1999 Norwich City[2]
1999–2007 Arsenal
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007– Arsenal 0 (0)
2009 → Scunthorpe (loan) 16 (4)
2009– → Watford (loan) 33 (4)
International career‡
2006–2007 England U17 15 (6)
2007–2009 England U19 12 (7)
2009– England U21 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:18, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:15, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Henri George Lansbury (born 12 October 1990) is an English footballer who plays for Watford as a midfielder, on loan from Arsenal.

Club career

Born in Enfield, London, Lansbury has been at Arsenal since 1999, joining the club as a schoolboy from Norwich City. He has featured regularly for both the club's under-18 and reserve sides. To date he has only featured in the League Cup for Arsenal's first team; he was named in the squad for their match against Liverpool on 9 January 2007, but did not feature. He was on the substitute's bench for a second time on 25 September 2007, this time against Newcastle United, and again did not play.[3] He finally made his first team debut on 31 October 2007, in Arsenal's 3–0 League Cup win over Sheffield United, when he was brought on to replace Theo Walcott in the 83rd minute.[4]

He was described by Alan Smith, a former Arsenal striker, as having "huge potential".[5] On 1 July 2008 he signed his first professional contract with Arsenal.[6] He missed the second half on the 2007–08 season due to glandular fever but returned to fitness in time to participate in pre-season training and the 2008 pre-season friendly games. He has played on the right side of the field in all of these games (four times as a right winger and once as a right back) instead of in his favoured central midfield position. Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger also confirmed that Lansbury would be playing in the League Cup competition in the 2008–09 season, and indeed he came on as a substitute in Arsenal's 6-0 win over Sheffield United in the third round of that competition, as well as their 3-0 win over Wigan and the quarter final away at Burnley.[7][8][9]

On 31 January 2009, Lansbury went on loan to Scunthorpe United in League One for a month.[10][11] He scored on his full debut against Swindon Town in the league,[12] plus further adding three goals during his loan campaign. Lansbury featured in the FA Youth Cup Final for Arsenal, helping them win the trophy over Liverpool, assisting Gilles Sunu on the first goal and Jay Emmanuel-Thomas on the fourth goal in the first leg 4-1 victory.[13]

On 21 August 2009, Lansbury joined Watford on loan until 31 December 2009. He scored his first goals for them with a brace against Sheffield Wednesday on 23 October 2009.[14][15]

On 31 December 2009, Lansbury signed a new long-term contract with Arsenal.[16]

International career

Henri has featured for England at several youth levels. He was part of the team which lost in the final of the 2009 UEFA U-19 European Championship against Ukraine, scoring 3 goals in the tournament. Lansbury has also captained England at U-19 level. He was called up to the U21 team for the first time for their qualifying match against Portugal in November 2009.

Statistics

(Correct as of 3 April 2010)[17][18][19]
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Europe Total
Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists
Arsenal 2007–08 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Arsenal 2008–09 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0
Scunthorpe United (loan) 2008–09 16 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 4 3
Watford (loan) 2009–10 33 4 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 35 4 3

Honours

Arsenal

Winner

Scunthorpe United

Runner-up

International

Runner-up

References

  1. ^ Henri Lansbury, BBC Sport
  2. ^ "Henri Lansbury". Flown From the Nest.
  3. ^ "Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle". BBC Sport. 25 September 2007. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
  4. ^ "Sheff Utd 0-3 Arsenal". BBC Sport. 31 October 2007. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
  5. ^ Smith, Alan. "Arsenal now young, gifted and English". The Daily Telegraph. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  6. ^ "Six youngsters sign pro contract". Arsenal F.C.
  7. ^ - Arsenal 6-0 Sheff Utd, BBC Sport, accessed 20 November 2008.
  8. ^ - Arsenal 3-0 Wigan , BBC Sport, accessed 20 November 2008.
  9. ^ - Burnley 0-2 Arsenal , BBC Sport, accessed 12 December 2008.
  10. ^ "Lansbury joins Scunthorpe Utd on loan". Arsenal.com. 2009-01-30. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
  11. ^ Profile details, scunthorpe-united.co.uk, accessed 13 May 2009.
  12. ^ Swindon Town 4-2 Scunthorpe, thisisswindontownfc, accessed 20 July 2009.
  13. ^ Arsenal 4-1 Liverpool, arsenal.com, accessed 20 July 2009.
  14. ^ [1], arsenal.com, accessed 21st August 2009.
  15. ^ Watford 4-1 Sheff Wed
  16. ^ Lansbury signs new long-term contract, arsenal.com, accessed 31 December 2009.
  17. ^ Scunthorpe 2-1 Stockport, scunthorpe-united.co.uk, accessed 26 August 2009.
  18. ^ Scunthorpe 2-0 Brighton, scunthorpe-united.co.uk, accessed 26 August 2009.
  19. ^ Scunthorpe 3-0 Cheltenham, scunthorpe-united.co.uk, accessed 26 August 2009.
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