Lars Hirschfeld

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Lars Hirschfeld

Full name	Lars Justin Hirschfeld
Date of birth	October 17, 1978 (1978-10-17) (age 29)
Place of birth	Edmonton, Canada
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	CFR Cluj
Number	13
Youth clubs
1997	Edmonton Ital-Canadians
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1997-1998 1998-2000 2000 2001 2001-2002 2003-2004 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2004-2005 2005 2006-2007 2008-	Edmonton Drillers Energie Cottbus Calgary Storm Vancouver Whitecaps Calgary Storm Tottenham Hotspur F.C. → Luton Town (loan) → Gillingham F.C. (loan) → Dundee United (loan) Leicester City Tromsø I.L. Rosenborg B.K. CFR Cluj	- (-) 0 (0) - (-) 1 (0) 32 (0) 0 (0) 5 (0) 2 (0) 2 (0) 1 (0) 11 (0) 52 (0) 5 (0)
National team²
2000-	Canada	21 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 6 January 2008. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 6 January 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Lars Hirschfeld (born on October 17, 1978 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian football goalkeeper.

Hirschfeld currently plays for CFR Cluj in Romania after joining from Rosenborg B.K. for €1,300,000^[1]. He started his career with the Edmonton Drillers, playing indoor soccer. Hirschfeld also played with Energie Cottbus in Germany, Calgary Storm, and Vancouver Whitecaps before his big break with Canada in the 2002 Gold Cup, where he was named the best goalkeeper of the tournament, after allowing only four goals in five matches. This caused top European club Tottenham Hotspur F.C. to be interested in him, and he signed with them in early 2002. Hirschfeld never got much playing time in Tottenham, however, and went on loan to Luton Town and Gillingham F.C., before joining Dundee United in August 2004. A move to Leicester City followed in January 2005, but he only made one start during the remainder of the 04/05 season. Hirschfeld was then picked up by Tromsø I.L. as a replacement goalkeeper for the remainder of the Norwegian 2005-season. Hirschfeld made some crucial saves during Tromsø I.L.'s campaign to avoid relegation, and was a key figure in the UEFA Cup matches against Esbjerg fB and Galatasaray, both of which were won by Tromsø I.L. During his brief period at Tromsø I.L., he established a name for himself in Norway. The next year, he won the Norwegian Premier League with Rosenborg B.K., having beaten Espen Johnsen for first-string goalie at Rosenborg B.K.

Hirschfeld also holds German citizenship.

1 Honours
2 Trivia
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Honours

Norwegian Premier League champion 2006
Romanian Liga I Champion 2007/2008

[edit] Trivia

Nordlys, a local newspaper in Tromsø, called Hirschfeld the greatest goalkeeper ever to play for Tromsø I.L., after only 6 matches at his new club. Nordlys ranked him ahead of such goal keepers as Einar Rossbach, Knut Borch, and Bjarte Flem.