Sebastian Svärd

Football player infobox
playername= Sebastian Svärd
fullname = Sebastian Steve Qvacoe Cann-Svärd
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1983|1|15
cityofbirth = Hvidovre
countryofbirth = Denmark
height = height|m=1.85
currentclub = Borussia Mönchengladbach
clubnumber = 8
position = Midfielder
youthyears = ?–1998
1998–2000
youthclubs = Boldklubben 1908
Kjøbenhavns Boldklub
years = 2000–2005
2003
2003–2004
2004–2005
2005–2006
2006–
clubs = Arsenal FC
→ F.C. Copenhagen (loan)
→ Stoke City (loan)
→ Brøndby IF (loan)
Vitoria Guimaraes
Borussia M'gladbach
caps(goals) = 00 (0)
10 (0)
09 (1)
22 (0)
28 (1)
09 (0)
nationalyears = 1998–1999
1999–2000
2000–2001
2003–2004
2002–2004
nationalteam = Denmark u-16
Denmark u-17
Denmark u-19
Denmark u-20
Denmark u-21
nationalcaps(goals) = 05 (0)
23 (0)
13 (0)
07 (0)
09 (0)
pcupdate = 1 July 2006
ntupdate = 16 November 2004

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.

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 [ cite web|title=Tactical Formation|work=Football-Lineups.com
url=http://www.football-lineups.com/wiki/_match4240.php | accessdate=March 2 | accessyear=2007]

Honours

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

References

External links

* [http://www.dbu.dk/lbase/playerInfo.aspx?playerid=4540 Danish national team profile]
*da icon [http://www.brondby.com/player.asp?sid=119&id= Brøndby IF profile]
*de icon [http://www.fussballdaten.de/spieler/svardsebastian/ FussballDaten career statistics]