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Manchester United have had some great goalkeepers over the years, with the likes of Peter Schmichael, David De Gea and Edwin van der Sar.
Well now, one of United’s former goalkeepers from the Sir Alex Ferguson era has made a drastic career change.
Towards the end of Ferguson’s reign, David De Gea was the main man between the sticks. However behind him as a back-up was Anders Lindegaard.
Lindegaard joined United in 2010 and stayed at Old Trafford for five years making 29 appearances.
In his first five games Lindegaard kept a clean sheet in each game and made 10 crucial appearances in the 2012/13 campaign to help United lift the Premier League title.
However now the 40-year-old is working in Copenhagen as a business developer for global banking firm UBS.
Anders Lindegaard announces his new job
Taking to his LinkedIn, Anders Lindegaard announced his new job, posting: “New beginnings, new job, new career.”
He continued: “I’ve started a position as a business developer at UBS. My role is to help the bank better understand successful athletes and offer them a meaningful and valuable service from the leading wealth manager. An ambition that holds many interesting components, which I will update on as it develops over the next couple of months.
“I’ll always be an athlete by nature. Helping other athletes navigate through their sports adventure seems both natural and meaningful to me. In that sense, I see myself and my role as being hired by UBS but working for the athletes.
‘For me personally, this is the start of a second career. I always wanted to stay within football, but I didn’t want to work inside the lines of the pitch. I’ve done that my whole life, and it seems timely for me to try something new. Learn new things. Develop new skills.
‘In my new role, I’ll still navigate within the industry, thus utilizing my knowledge and experience from sports. Football is a huge industry in Europe. Yet, it still holds a significant potential for improvement. Football can simply be better. My personal ambition is to take part in driving this improvement.”
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