Sebastian Svärd

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Personal information
Sebastian Svärd
Full name	Sebastian Steve Qvacoe Cann-Svärd
Date of birth	January 15, 1983
Place of birth	Copenhagen, Denmark
Height	185 cm
Position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Number	32
Youth clubs
19??-2000	Kjøbenhavns Boldklub
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
2000-2003 2003 2003-2004 2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-	Arsenal FC F.C. Copenhagen (loan) Stoke City (loan) Arsenal FC Brøndby IF (loan) Vitoria Guimaraes Borussia M'gladbach	0 (0) 10 (0) 9 (1) 0 (0) 22 (0)
National team
2002-2004	Denmark u-21	9 (0)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Sebastian Steve Qvacoe Cann-Svärd (born January 15, 1983), known as Sebastian Svärd for short, is a Danish professional football player of Swedish and Ghanaian descent, who currently plays for Borussia Mönchengladbach in Germany.

[edit] Biography

Born in Copenhagen to a Swedish mother and Ghanian father, he started out at Kjøbenhavns Boldklub, the reserve team of F.C. Copenhagen. Here he was seen as somewhat of a prodigy, impressing the coaches of the Denmark under-16, under-17 and under-19 national teams, and he was bought by English club Arsenal F.C. for an undisclosed fee in November 2000.

He won the FA Youth Cup with the youth team of the club in his first season. His first-team Arsenal debut came in a League Cup fourth round match on November 27, 2001, as a substitute in a 2-0 win over Grimsby Town. Over the next two years, he made two more appearances for Arsenal, one more in the League Cup against Sunderland and one in the FA Cup against Oxford United. He debuted for the under-21 national team in November 2002, 19 years old.

He returned on loan to his old club F.C. Copenhagen in August 2003, in need of first-team play; after just four months he returned to England to play for Stoke City, for whom he played nine league matches and scored one goal before returning to Arsenal. In August 2004, he came on as a substitute in Arsenal's 3-1 Community Shield victory over Manchester United, but soon after he was loaned to Danish club Brøndby IF for the whole season. At Brøndby, he played both as a defensive midfielder and right back, in a season which ended with both the Danish Superliga championship and triumph in the Danish Cup tournament.

In July 2005, he left Arsenal to join Portuguese club Vitória SC for an undisclosed fee, having played four times in total for the London club. After a single season with Vitória, he moved to Borussia Mönchengladbach on June 21, 2006, again for an undisclosed fee.

[edit] Honours

FA Community Shield : 2004
Danish Superliga : 2004-05
Danish Cup : 2004-05

[edit] External links

Borussia Mönchengladbach - Current Squad
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