Mart Poom

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Mart Poom
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Mart Poom 2019
Personnel
birthday 3rd February 1972
place of birth Tallinn ,  Estonian SSR , Soviet Union
size 195 cm
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
1979–198? Tallinna Lõvid
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1986-1987 Noorus Lõvid Tallinn
1987-1988 Flora Tallinn
1988 Tallinna Lõvid 20 (0)
1989-1990 Sport Tallinn 59 (0)
1991 Flora Tallinn 8 (0)
1991-1992 Kuopion PS 9 (0)
1992-1993 Flora Tallinn 22 (0)
1993-1994 FC Wil 13 (0)
1994-1997 Portsmouth FC 4 (0)
1995-1996 →  Flora Tallinn  (loan) 7 (0)
1996-1997 →  Flora Tallinn  (loan) 12 (0)
1997-2003 Derby County 146 (0)
2002-2003 →  Sunderland FC  (loan) 0 (0)
2003-2006 Sunderland FC 58 (1)
2005-2006 →  Arsenal FC  (loan) 0 (0)
2006-2007 Arsenal FC 1 (0)
2007-2009 Watford FC 19 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1992-2009 Estonia 120 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Mart Poom (born February 3, 1972 in Tallinn ) is a former Estonian football goalkeeper .

Club career

Poom began his career with Tallinna Lõvid and Flora Tallinn in Estonia, what was then the Soviet Union . After a year at FC Wil in Switzerland, he moved to English club Portsmouth FC in 1994 , but only played seven games and was loaned back to Flora Tallinn. In 1997 he moved to Derby County and made his Premier League debut at Old Trafford for Manchester United .

After relegation to the First Division in the summer of 2002, Poom moved to Sunderland in November of the same year . On September 20, 2003, he met in the 90th minute with a header for Sunderland's equalizer against his ex-club Derby. This hit was recognized by BBC Radio Five Live as “The best headed equalizer by a goalkeeper against his former club in the last minute. Ever! ”(In German, for example:“ The best header equalizer for a goalkeeper in the last minute against his former club, the best of all time! ”).

Poom's career has been set back by various injuries, and so he spent the 2003/04 season mostly recovering from them. He was loaned out by Arsenal London in 2005 for the role of third goalkeeper behind Jens Lehmann and Manuel Almunia before being finally signed in January 2006. He remained a substitute goalkeeper and did not play a single game in the 2005/06 season, but became the first Estonian to be awarded a Champions League medal after Arsenal lost the CL final to FC Barcelona .

He finally made his debut for Arsenal on November 8, 2006 in a League Cup match against FC Everton , which was won 1-0 by a goal from Adebayor . After the game, he stated in an interview that he would play for Arsenal for 'another 3 to 4 years'.

For the 2007/08 season, however, he moved to Watford, as Arsenal signed the Polish goalkeeper Łukasz Fabiański . After 19 games, he ended his career at the end of the 2008/09 season.

International career

Poom has been in goal in 120 international matches for Estonia . He made his debut in 1992 in a friendly against Slovenia . In 2003, Poom was named the best Estonian football player in the last 50 years as part of UEFA 's 50th anniversary .

successes

  • 5 × Estonia Football Player of the Year (1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2000)
  • "Golden Player" of Estonia

Private

He is married to Lissel (* 1975) and has two sons, Markus (* 1998) and Andreas (* 2003).

See also

Web links

Commons : Mart Poom  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Poom, Mart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian football goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Tallinn