Lars Hirschfeld

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Lars Hirschfeld
Hirschfeld with Rosenborg in 2007
Personal information
Full name Lars Justin Hirschfeld[1]
Date of birth (1978-10-17) 17 October 1978 (age 45)
Place of birth Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)[2]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 FC Edmonton (goalkeeping coach)
Youth career
1997 Edmonton Ital-Canadians
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–1998
Edmonton Drillers
(indoor)		 1 (0)
1998–2000 Energie Cottbus II 60 (0)
2000 Calgary Storm 20 (0)
2001 Vancouver Whitecaps 1 (0)
2001–2002 Calgary Storm 32 (0)
2002–2004 Tottenham Hotspur 0 (0)
2003 → Luton Town (loan) 5 (0)
2004 → Gillingham (loan) 2 (0)
2004–2005 Dundee United 2 (0)
2005 Leicester City 1 (0)
2005 Tromsø 11 (0)
2006–2007 Rosenborg 52 (0)
2008–2009 CFR Cluj 5 (0)
2009 Energie Cottbus 0 (0)
2010–2015 Vålerenga 93 (0)
2016 KFUM 30 (0)
Total 314 (0)
International career
1999 Canada U23 4 (0)
2000–2013 Canada 48 (0)
Managerial career
2019– FC Edmonton (goalkeeper coach)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lars Justin Hirschfeld (born 17 October 1978) is a Canadian retired soccer goalkeeper.

Club career

Born in

Calgary Storm, and Vancouver Whitecaps.[3]

England and Scotland

In September 2002, he joined Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, but never featured for the first team. He went on loan to Luton Town[4] and Gillingham before being released[5] and joining Dundee United in August 2004.[6] A move to Leicester City followed in January 2005,[7] but Hirschfeld only made one appearance, keeping a clean sheet in a 0–0 draw against Plymouth Argyle on the last day of the season.[8]

Norway

Galatasaray, both of which Tromsø won. Nordlys, a local newspaper, called Hirschfeld the greatest goalkeeper ever to play for Tromsø IL after only 6 matches at his new club, ranking him ahead of Einar Rossbach, Knut Borch and Bjarte Flem
.

The following season, Hirschfeld won the Norwegian

UEFA Champions League 2007-08 group stage, recording two clean sheets in home-and-away 2-0 wins. He made a number of saves in his side's 1–1 draw away to English club Chelsea, the last match in charge of Chelsea for manager José Mourinho.[9]

CFR Cluj

Hirschfeld played for CFR Cluj in Romania after joining from Rosenborg for €1,300,000[10] on 6 January 2008. With Cluj he immediately won the domestic double but he only played in 5 games in that first (half) season and he did not play at all for them in 2008/2009.

Energie Cottbus

He signed a two-year contract with

Energie Cottbus on 26 June 2009.[11]

Return to Norway

On 15 January 2010, he left his club

Energie Cottbus and signed for Oslo club Vålerenga Fotball in Norway
.

On 21 January 2016 he signed with

OBOS-ligaen
(Norwegian second level) for the first time in 2015.

Coaching career

In January 2019 Hirschfeld joined FC Edmonton as their goalkeeping coach.[13]

International career

He made his debut for

2014 World Cup qualifier against Cuba
for handling the ball outside his penalty area, but Canada prevailed by a score of 1-0 despite the numerical disadvantage.

Honours

Individual

Club

Rosenborg BK

  • 2006

CFR Cluj

References

  1. ^ "Lars Hirschfeld". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Lars Hirschfeld". canadasoccer.com. Canadian Soccer Association. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  3. ^ Die Frage des Tages ... an Wolfgang Neubert, Vizepräsident des FC Energie Cottbus Archived 27 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Transfers - February 2003". BBC. 27 February 2003. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Spurs offload veterans". BBC. 12 May 2004. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  6. ^ "United sign Hirschfeld". BBC. 19 August 2004. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  7. ^ "Transfers - January 2005". BBC. 1 February 2005. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  8. ^ "Plymouth 0-0 Leicester". BBC. 8 May 2005. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  9. ^ "Chelsea 1-1 Rosenborg". BBC. 18 September 2007. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  10. ^ Hirschfeld solgt Archived 8 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ Lars Hirschfeld wechselt zum FC Energie Archived 27 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ "Lars Hirschfeld til Kåffa". Archived from the original on 19 June 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  13. ^ Sandor, Steven (17 January 2019). "FCE unveils goalkeeping contingent".
  14. ^ Record at FIFA Tournaments - FIFA
  15. ^ "Football: Lars Hirschfeld". FootballDatabase.eu. Retrieved 28 May 2012.

External links

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