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Jens

Lehmann

10 November 1969

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Essen, West Germany

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He is a German football goalkeeper who currently plays for VfB Stuttgart and recently retired from 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. 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 (from a corner kick that was given incorrectly to Schalke 04, while the goal was scored from an offside position[citation needed]) 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. 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. [edit] Borussia Dortmund He returned to Germany to play for Borussia Dortmund, winning the Bundesliga in 2001–2002. This was the period in which Jens Lehmann rose to fame as a German football icon, winning the German League in the most impressive fashion, beating opponent Bayer 04 Leverkusen which led the league by five points with only three matches left in the season. Beating 1. FC Köln, Hamburger SV and Werder Bremen consecutively, Jens Lehmann and the BVB secured the national title in 2002. [edit] Arsenal [edit] 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 Preston North End F.C. in the 1888-89 season. 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] Arsenal continued unbeaten until October 24, 2004. At the end of his first season at Arsenal, he had already played 54 times for the gunners, earning himself a Premier League winners medal at the end of the season. [edit] 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. [edit] 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

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Jens Lehmann (German pronunciation: born 10 November 1969 in Essen) is a German football goalkeeper who plays for Arsenal. He was voted UEFA Club Goalkeeper of the Year for the 1996–97 and 2005–06 seasons, and he has been selected for three World Cup squads.

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