www.sporten.dk/fodbold/spanien-primera-division-2008-2009/thomas-s-taet-pa-barcelonaDodgy-ish google translation
Thomas S was near BarcelonaThomas Sorensen reveals that only an accident prevented the dream contract with Barcelona
MALTA: Sometimes football and acting skill and talent - and sometimes on pure luck.
The lesson has national team goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen got a harder way than many others, for he has in several cases just lacking the last little portion of luck that could have brought him all the way to the top of the international football world.
Not that there is something wrong with life as solid goalkeeper in the Premier League and Stoke City is a nice club.
But it just is never Barcelona.
It is Thomas Sorensen well aware, and although he now has enjoyed his job at Stoke, so he may still get chills at the thought of how close he is a few years ago was to write his life dreams contract very super club FC Barcelona.
- We were in a few years ago Aston Villa on a training trip in Dubai, and here I met with Josep Guardiola, the former top player and current boss at the club. This was before he was manager, but he was already a big man in the club and he told me that if the man who he supported in the election for club president, won, they would at once bring me a new Barcelona goalkeeper" Thomas Sorensen to reveal sporten.dk
The agreement was almost in place, but unfortunately lost Guardiolas candidate election, and Thomas Sorensen was at Aston Villa where his career briefly ran entirely on the track after trouble with manager Martin O 'Neill.
Now the Dane is back in action after a year of shame with Aston Villa, but the Champions League clash in absolute world class in Barcelona is switched off with survival battle at the bottom of the Premier League.
- Sometimes it has really been close to a big change for me, and Barcelona was perhaps that which I seemed closest to, although there have been others. Periodically, it is also held in a football career, so that at the right time is the real leap, and I may have lacked the past unsuccessfully to try at really top clubs. The success Thomas Gravesen, for example had, when one huge club as Real Madrid suddenly lacked a midfield man and bought him was a great surprise to everyone. Such is life, "says Thomas Sorensen.
National team "Number 1" emphasizes that he is very satisfied with life in Stoke, with full playing time and play stud status.
- I am not at relegation because hopefully we will be up. What you should happen to my career, I must consider if the situation comes.
If we get up, it's a huge victory for the club and for myself.
Before the season, bookmakers barely give odds on the chances that we survived. I feel fantastic at this club and now have all the football, as I walked and dreamed about last season. And this was precisely my mission: To show that I belong in the Premier League, whatever my Aston Villa manager agreed and said "notes Thomas Sorensen, who had a terrible relationship with manager Martin O 'Neill - and not hide on it.
The contrary, reveal national team goalkeeper like some of the details, generally hush-hush behind the top clubs doors - for example, that the manager told the other clubs that Sorensen was mentally unstable and in fact had been a real bad goalkeeper.
- It had nothing to do with football, but was deeply personal on his part. It was not fun to port of the situation and I will never learn to understand that he was not only fair and let me go to one of the clubs who wanted me when he would not even use me, or that he at least at a minimum could treat me with a little human respect. It was the worst I have experienced in my career, and, among others, I received a fine of 50,000 dollars for some stories that the English press had been incorrectly translated from English newspapers. Martin O 'Neill claimed that I was fine because it was the criticism of him, but because I could not speak without permission from him. But what did I do all the time when I was at home with the national team, just as Martin Laursen and Olaf Mellberg did, but they never received the fine" says an obviously still disappointed Thomas Sorensen.
He would not comment on whether he has a clause in the three-year contract with Stoke, so he can change clubs when the season ends in relegation.
Members might be in that case still be big clubs who can use Thomas Sorensen after a superb season at Stoke, where he has often been the big hero. It will be just barely as big as Barcelona, the kind of chances come only a few times even in a gun-career as Thomas Sorensen's.
- "When I stop, I would certainly like to look back on a career, I can be proud of. The only drawback is some lack of medals and Trophies with my clubs, so it is everyone's dream to play Champions League, but as I said: Sometimes it is also about luck" says Thomas Sorensen Beyond Barcelona also has great clubs twice and Arsenal as a young Manchester United reported their practical interest, and as recently as last year was Juventus away with a direct question on whether he would like to switch to the giant Italian club.
The daring Thomas Sorensen does not say yes to, because with Gianluigi Buffon between bars, it would initially as safe as key in St Peter's help prospects for the job as a reserve.
Tomorrow it is Malta in battle number 78 for the Danish national team, and here he has always been a clear number one
