{"id":435292,"date":"2011-06-03T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T09:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/03\/official-tottenham-confirm-signing-of-goalkeeper-brad-friedel-from-aston-villa\/"},"modified":"2011-06-03T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T09:28:00","slug":"official-tottenham-confirm-signing-of-goalkeeper-brad-friedel-from-aston-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/03\/official-tottenham-confirm-signing-of-goalkeeper-brad-friedel-from-aston-villa\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Tottenham confirm signing of goalkeeper Brad Friedel from Aston Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Andrew Kennedy<\/h3>\n<h4>3 Jun 2011 10:28:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"88.9976470588\">\n<div readability=\"14.7582417582\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brad Friedel, Aston Villa, EPL (Getty)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/64300\/64376_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Brad Friedel, Aston Villa, EPL (Getty)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/105\/tottenham\">Tottenham<\/a> have secured the signature of 40-year-old goalkeeper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/united-states\/1286\/brad-friedel\">Brad Friedel<\/a> on a free transfer, becoming the club\u2019s first signing of the summer transfer window.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Goal.com<\/strong> understands the American has signed a two-year deal at White Hart Lane, having rejected a one-year contract extension at Aston Villa, his former club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Friedel had also been offered contracts by West Brom and former side Liverpool, where he would also take up a coaching role, but opted against a return to Anfield due to a lack of first-team chances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The former United States international made 365 appearances for Blackburn Rovers before moving to Villa Park in the summer of 2008, and went on to break the record for number of consecutive games played in the Premier League with 167 in December 2008, since going on to extend his run to 275 matches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With Heurelho Gomes, who has been linked with a move away from White Hart Lane, and Carlo Cudicini also at the club, Redknapp is pleased with his side&#8217;s goalkeeping options.<\/p>\n<p><span>Speaking to the club\u2019s official website, the Spurs boss said: &#8220;Brad is a top goalkeeper of real quality who has great experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt is good to have three such experienced top goalkeepers at the club in Gomes, Carlo and now Brad and it means we have competition for places particularly with the number of games we will hopefully face next year both domestically and in Europe as well.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><em>Our<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93900\/93900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"11\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0provides the best breaking news online and our\u00a0<\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93800\/93899.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"49\" height=\"10\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0football fan community is unmatched worldwide. Never miss a thing again!<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/03\/2515775\/official-tottenham-confirm-signing-of-goalkeeper-brad\" title=\"Official: Tottenham confirm signing of goalkeeper Brad Friedel from Aston Villa\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Official: Tottenham confirm signing of goalkeeper Brad Friedel from Aston Villa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Andrew Kennedy 3 Jun 2011 10:28:00 Brad Friedel, Aston Villa, EPL (Getty) Related Links Teams Players Tottenham have secured the signature of 40-year-old goalkeeper Brad Friedel on a free transfer, becoming the club\u2019s first signing of the summer transfer window. Goal.com understands the American has signed a two-year deal at White Hart Lane, having rejected a one-year contract extension at Aston Villa, his former club. Friedel had also been offered contracts by West Brom and former side Liverpool, where he would also take up a coaching role, but opted against a return to Anfield due to a lack of first-team chances<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":406680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-435292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Official: Tottenham confirm signing of goalkeeper Brad Friedel from Aston Villa - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/03\/official-tottenham-confirm-signing-of-goalkeeper-brad-friedel-from-aston-villa\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Official: Tottenham confirm signing of goalkeeper Brad Friedel from Aston Villa - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Andrew Kennedy 3 Jun 2011 10:28:00 Brad Friedel, Aston Villa, EPL (Getty) Related Links Teams Players Tottenham have secured the signature of 40-year-old goalkeeper Brad Friedel on a free transfer, becoming the club\u2019s first signing of the summer transfer window. 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