Sebastian Svärd

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Personal information
Sebastian Svärd
Full name	Sebastian Steve Qvacoe Cann-Svärd
Date of birth	January 15, 1983 (1983-01-15) (age 25)
Place of birth	Hvidovre, Denmark
Height	1.85 m
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Number	8
Youth clubs
?-1998 1998-2000	Boldklubben 1908 Kjøbenhavns Boldklub
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2000-2005 2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-present	Arsenal FC F.C. Copenhagen (loan) Stoke City (loan) Brøndby IF (loan) Vitoria Guimaraes M'gladbach	0 (0) 10 (0) 9 (1) 22 (0) 28 (1) 9 (0)
National team²
1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001 2003-2004 2002-2004	Denmark u-16 Denmark u-17 Denmark u-19 Denmark u-20 Denmark u-21	5 (0) 23 (0) 13 (0) 7 (0) 9 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 July 2006. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 16 November 2004. * Appearances (Goals)

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. He has played more than 50 matches for various Danish youth national teams.

1 Biography
2 Honours
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Born in Copenhagen to a Swedish mother and Ghanaian 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, when we was, and still a beloved player, he moved to Borussia Mönchengladbach on June 21, 2006, again for an undisclosed fee.

On February 25, 2007 he played his first Bundesliga match for Mönchengladbach against SV Werder Bremen ^[1]