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CHELSEA FC: Hedman handed 22

/noticias.info/ José Mourinho has presented his newest signing, Magnus Hedman, with his Chelsea shirt. The new goalkeeper will wear squad number 22, the one previously carried by Eidur Gudjohnsen.

The 33 year-old ex-Swedish international has come out of 18 months of retirement to redress the shortfall in keeper numbers caused by the injury to Petr Cech.

‘I am very happy that we have brought him back to football,’ said Mourinho after the shirt was handed over.

‘Magnus is too young and too good to be out of football so soon.

‘To face the next few months with only two goalkeepers would be dangerous. In spite of losing Petr Cech for a few months, I can say at this moment with Magnus, Hilario and Carlo, the team is comfortable again.

‘His contract is until the end of the season but nobody knows the future,’ continued Mourinho.

‘By that I am saying nobody can say he will not have an extension to his contract and stay at Chelsea; nobody knows if his future is in another club; and nobody knows if his decision is to stop after this spell.

‘But from the evolution I see every day, this is the second stage of his career and not the last six or seven months of his career.’

The player himself agreed that could be the case.

‘I am here to do a professional job,’ Hedman added. ‘Where it leads, I don’t know what the future holds.

‘I will do everything to put in a good challenge. If it ends up with no games, I can still go out with my head held high, knowing I have done a good job.

‘I was in the car and my agent phoned and asked what I was doing,’ he recalls of the moment he learnt of Chelsea’s interest.

‘He told me I might want to stop and said Chelsea are wondering if I might want to come over and train for a couple of days. My eleven year-old child said you are lying Dad when told my family.

He has been pleased with his first fortnight at Chelsea.

‘I am so surprised because it is one of biggest clubs there is yet it is one big family. The players have been looking after me and it is not like anyone is a big-time charlie.

‘I am very impressed by the whole set-up. You can feel they are genuinely interested in you and looking after you.

‘It is not about just buying players like everybody talks about. It is getting a group working together and there are big stars in the dressing room. I think Chelsea have a lot of good years ahead of them.’

by Paul Mason notas_de_prensa_archivo