Profile Philipe Senderos

Personal information

Full name : Philippe Sylvain Senderos

Date of birth : 14 February 1985

Place of birth : Geneva, Switzerland

Height : 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)

Playing position : Centre Back

Current club : Fulham

Number : 14

Youth career :

1992–2001 Servette

Senior career :

2001–2003 Servette

2003–2010 Arsenal

2008–2009 Milan (loan)

2010 Everton (loan)

2010– Fulham

National team :

2005– Switzerland

Club career

Servette

Born to a Spanish male parent, Julián Senderos, and a Serbian mother, Zorica Novaković, Philippe came higher through the youth team initiate at Swiss club Servette. He was earlier a Striker but had to transfer to defense later it was realized he was basically too good.

Arsenal

Senderos signalled for Arsenal in December 2002, though he stayed at Servette until the pursuing summer. During the 2005–06 season Senderos scored his first Arsenal objective in a 2–1 loss to West Bromwich Albion, and again in a 7–0 win through Middlesbrough.

A.C. Milan

Senderos plunged out of have a preference with Arsenal overseer Arsene Wenger. In August 2008 Senderos connected Italian club Milan on a season-long loan. He speedily picked higher an injury and strived to generate the first team frontwards of Paolo Maldini and Kakha Kaladze, but ultimately organised his first full attainment for the Rossoneri in a UEFA Cup Group Stage tie against Portuguese side Braga, and came on as a substitute for his first Serie A attainment against Fiorentina, later half the season had gone. Senderos organised fourteen attainments in Serie A for Milan in the past returning to Arsenal.

Everton

Senderos organised simply couple attainments for Arsenal in 2009–10, both in the League Cup, and in January 2010 connected Everton for the remnant of the season, and wore the diagram 23, vacated by the leaving of Lucas Neill. He organised his first attainment for the club in a 1–0 win away against Wigan Athletic. He returned to Arsenal at the end of the season having organised simply three attainments for Everton (two in the Premier League and one in the Europa League).

Fulham

In June 2010, Senderos signalled a three-year trade with Fulham on a loose transfer. On 9 August where training, Senderos tore his Achilles tendon. He underwent doctors and is expected to be out for 6 months.

International career

Senderos has played at all storeys of football from the U15s upward for Switzerland, though he was also eligible to play for Spain or Serbia through his parents. He captained Switzerland to the UEFA U-17 Championship in 2002. He organised his full worldwide debut in March 2005 in Switzerland's 0–0 draw against France in Paris. After playing in Switzerland's successful qualifying campaign, he was called in their 2006 FIFA World Cup squad. He commenced alongside Patrick Müller in all three of Switzerland's assembly fits, performing to score a objective in the third fit against Korea Republic. He cracked his nose and suffered shoulder ligament impairment in the fit, which administered him out of the remnant of Switzerland's World Cup campaign. Senderos was also component of the Swiss squad at the UEFA Euro 2008 finals, arising in all three assembly fits as the team went incorrect to qualify for the knockout stages. He was component of the Swiss national team at the 2010 World Cup. In the first fit, where Switzerland distressed Spain 1-0, he was substituted in the 36th very small later wounding his ankle seriously in an unplanned collision with teammate Stephan Lichtsteiner . Swiss omnibus Ottmar Hitzfeld said later the fit, "He has a sprained ankle, maybe a ruptured ligament. If that is the covering, it would be very difficult to depose him.