David Andrew Seaman, MBE is an English former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He won 75 caps for the England national football team, and is the country’s second-most capped goalkeeper, after Peter Shilton. During his time at Arsenal, he won three league championships, four FA Cups, the League Cup in 1993 and the European Cup Winners Cup in 1994. He also played in the Premier League for Manchester City, as well as making appearances in the Football League for Peterborough United, Birmingham City and Queens Park Rangers. He retired in 2004 due to a recurring shoulder injury.
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David Andrew Seaman, MBE is an English former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He won 75 caps for the England national football team, and is the country’s second-most capped goalkeeper, after Peter Shilton. During his time at Arsenal, he won three league championships, four FA Cups, the League Cup in 1993 and the European Cup Winners Cup in 1994. He also played in the Premier League for Manchester City, as well as making appearances in the Football League for Peterborough United, Birmingham City and Queens Park Rangers. He retired in 2004 due to a recurring shoulder injury. In June 2012, he was appointed goalkeeping coach of Combined Counties League club Wembley. Seaman was born in Rotherham, West Riding of Yorkshire. He began his career at Leeds United, but was not wanted by then-manager Eddie Gray, who had been his favourite player. In October 1984, Second Division Birmingham City paid £100,000 for Seaman’s services. He earned his first England cap, which came under Bobby Robson, in a friendly against Saudi Arabia in November 1988. In August 1996, Seaman became the new manager of Arsenal, Arsène Wenger, when he took charge of the club for the first time. The peak of his career was during his period as Arsenal and England goalkeeper in the 1990s and early 2000s. During this time he also played for England in the 1998 and 2002 FIFA World Cups, and Euro 96 and Euro 2000.
In 1990, long before the current transfer window system had come to English football, there was still a transfer deadline a few weeks before the end of the season. Arsenal wanted to sign Seaman but the deal involved Arsenal’s keeper John Lukic heading the opposite way on loan. Lukic did not want to do this, and the deal broke down and remained unresolved when the deadline passed. Seaman moved to QPR for £225,000 in August 1986, but he was not to follow them back to Division Two. The 1990–91 season saw Seaman concede only 18 goals when playing in every match of the 38-game season as Arsenal regained the league title. In 1995, George Graham was sacked from the first club to become the Cup Winners’ Cup holders, with Seaman earning a reputation as a penalty-saving specialist after saving from Siniša Mihajlović, Vladimir Jugović and Attilio Lombović. However, Arsenal lost in the final to Real Zaragoza, when Seaman cracked two ribs while playing in the semi-final against U.S. C Sampdoria, all while playing with two cracked ribs. The following season, he played in every game of Arsenal’s League Cup campaign against Millwall and after two legs the game went to a penalty shootout. He saved three of the four Millwall penalties against Malcolm Allen, Colin Cooper and Colin Cooper to help his side progress to the quarter-final of the FA Cup.
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