Kasper in the Sky Blue Yellow!
CCFPA wishes a very 'Happy Birthday' today to one of the Association's newer recruits who was signed up to the Association by CCFPA's Sarah Morris in April 2018 at his previous club Leicester City's King Power stadium (below left). Kasper Schmeichel is the son of another illustrious goalkeeper, Peter Schmeichel and has become, like him, an experienced Denmark international. Kasper was born in Copenhagen on 5th November 1986. He has therefore reached his 37th birthday today. On 3rd August 2022, Kasper signed for French Ligue 1 club Nice.
Kasper started out his career in 2002 at Manchester City from schoolboy to professional though did not make his first team debut until 2007. The 'other' Sky Blue team's policy was to loan him out to lower level clubs to gain experience and spells at Darlington, Bury, Falkirk and Cardiff City followed.
Sarah presents Kasper with his CCFPA tie
The Sky Blues were also happy to take Kasper on loan on 13th March 2008 until the end of the season and he played the last nine games of the season for the struggling Sky Blues, displacing now fellow CCFPA member Andy Marshall. Starting out with an encouraging pair of clean sheets Kasper went on to concede just eight goals in the Sky Blues next six games. However, the team's performance in the last game of the season was dire with Kasper having a poor game, losing 4-1 at Charlton Athletic. A Leicester City goal elsewhere would have sent us down instead of them so Chris Coleman's Championship team was very fortunate to escape relegation on the last day in 2007-08!
in August 2009 Kasper linked up again with former manager Sven-Goran Eriksson in a somewhat unsuccessful season in Nottingham with Notts. County and then he joined Leeds United in May 2010 for another season.
Sven, then in charge of the Foxes, signed Kasper in June 2011 and Kasper became a fixture at our erstwhile M69 rivals and made well over 450 appearances for the East Midlands Club winning the Championship in 2013-14 and the Premier League in 2015-16 and latterly captaining the side. For the last two seasons, after 414 games for the Foxes, Kasper has played on the continent with French Ligue One club Nice (2022-23) and since September 2023 with top Belgian outfit Anderlecht.
Since 2004 Kasper has represented his country from U19 to Senior squad and since 2013 has 97 full caps for Denmark to date!
All at CCFPA, we are sure speaking for the Sky Blue family wishes Kasper has a great birthday today.
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