Philippe Senderos

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Philippe Senderos
Personal information
Full name Philippe Sylvain Senderos
Date of birth February 14, 1985 (age 21)
Place of birth Geneva, Switzerland
Height 1.90m (6'3")
Nickname Big Phil, "Swiss Tony"
Position Centre-back
Club information
Current club Arsenal
Number 6
Professional clubs*
Years Club Apps (goals)
2001–03
2003–		 Servette
Arsenal		 26 (3)
33 (2)
National team**


2004–		 Switzerland U17
Switzerland U21
Switzerland

15 (3)

* Professional club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of April 12, 2006.
** National team caps and goals correct
as of July 13, 2006.

Philippe Sylvain Senderos (born February 14, 1985 in Geneva) is a Swiss football player of Serbian and Spanish descent who currently plays for Arsenal of the English Premier League as a defender.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Youth development

A member of the youth team set up at Swiss club Servette, his international options were expansive due to having a Spanish father and a Serbian mother (Zorica Novaković).

However, Senderos has played at all levels of football from the Under 15s upward for Switzerland, first coming to the general football world's attention when he captained Switzerland to a European U-17 Championship in 2002.

As a result, he received inquiries from such clubs as Manchester United, Liverpool, Juventus, and both Inter and A.C. Milan.

[edit] Arsenal career

He signed for Arsenal in December 2002, though he remained at Servette until the following summer.[1] The transfer fee was reportedly £2.5m. His first season at Arsenal was plagued by injury, however, and he did not make his first-team debut until Arsenal's 2–1 away victory against Manchester City in the League Cup on October 27, 2004. He made 13 league appearances in all during 2004-2005 season, including a UEFA Champions League début against Bayern Munich.

Senderos had an extended run in the first team when Sol Campbell was unavailable due to injury in 2005, and after Campbell's return from injury, retained his place on the return of Campbell. Senderos started the 2005 FA Cup final against Manchester United; Arsenal eventually won the game on penalties.

A further series of injuries to Sol Campbell meant Senderos was able to forge a defensive partnership with Kolo Touré in the 2005-06 season. Senderos had an unimpressive start to the season, which included a nervous and error-strewn performance against London rivals and eventual league champions Chelsea, especially in one-on-one situations against Chelsea's Ivorian forward Didier Drogba. However, Senderos recovered to become a major force in the Arsenal's Champions League run which included a recored breaking run of ten clean sheets. He was injured however, for the final in Paris, which Arsenal lost 2-1 to FC Barcelona.

In summer 2006, Senderos was handed the number 6 jersey, formerly worn by then Arsenal captain Tony Adams. However, Senderos was unable to start the 2006-07 season after the shoulder injury he incurred in the World Cup that summer.

[edit] International career

He made his full international debut on 26 March 2005 in Switzerland's 0-0 draw against France in Paris. After playing a big part in Switzerland's successful qualifying campaign he was named in their FIFA World Cup 2006 squad. He started alongside Patrick Müller in all three of Switzerland's group matches, managing to score a goal in the third match against South Korea. He broke his nose in that match, but more significantly, he suffered shoulder ligament damage that ruled him out of the remainder of Switzerland's World Cup campaign.

[edit] Personal

In an interview[2] with The Guardian, he said, amongst other things, that he speaks six languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese) and that, if his football career were to end tomorrow, he would go into a career in communications: "I'd learn another language, something that not many people speak, like Russian or Greek"; when Cesc Fàbregas first moved to the Arsenal, he helped the Spaniard learn English.

[edit] Arsenal career statistics

(correct as of July 13, 2006)

Club Season League Cup[3] Europe Total
Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Arsenal 2004-05 13 0 0 9 0 1 0 23 0
2005-06 20 2 0 8 0 7 0 35 2
Career totals 58 2

[edit] Honours

With Arsenal:

FA Cup: 2005

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.4thegame.com/club/arsenal-fc/player-profile/3993/philippesenderos.html
  2. ^ http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,1563,1461634,00.html
  3. ^ Includes FA Cup, League Cup and FA Community Shield

[edit] External links


Switzerland Switzerland squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup Switzerland

1 Zuberbühler | 2 Djourou | 3 Magnin | 4 Senderos | 5 Margairaz | 6 Vogel | 7 Cabanas | 8 Wicky | 9 Frei | 10 Gygax | 11 Streller | 12 Benaglio | 13 Grichting | 14 D. Degen | 15 Džemaili | 16 Barnetta | 17 Spycher | 18 Lustrinelli | 19 Behrami | 20 Müller | 21 Coltorti | 22 Yakin | 23 P. Degen | Coach: Kuhn
Arsenal F.C. - Current Squad

1 Lehmann | 2 Diaby | 4 Fàbregas | 5 Touré | 6 Senderos | 7 Rosický | 8 Ljungberg | 9 Baptista | 10 Gallas | 11 van Persie | 12 Lauren | 13 Hleb | 14 Henry | 15 Denílson | 16 Flamini | 17 Song | 19 Gilberto | 20 Djourou | 21 Poom | 22 Clichy | 24 Almunia | 25 Adebayor | 27 Eboué | 30 Aliadière | 31 Hoyte | 32 Walcott | 33 Connolly | 41 O'Cearuill | 43 Randall | 44 Simpson | 45 Traore | Manager: Wenger
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