Stefan Postma

Stefan Postma ( born June 10, 1976 in Utrecht) is a Dutch football goalkeeper. The two-meter measured homegrown FC Utrecht collected between 2002 and 2006 at Aston Villa and Wolverhampton Wanderers experience in English football and currently plays in the Dutch second division AGOVV Apeldoorn.

Sports career

Postma began the goalkeeper career in his homeland at FC Utrecht before he moved to De Graafschap Doetinchem on. For £ 1.5 million on 14 May 2002, he moved to the English first division club Aston Villa, where, due to the departure of Peter Schmeichel at Manchester City squad a place on the goalkeeper position was vacated. He made ​​his debut at the "Villans " on 14 October 2002, after the new goalkeeper Peter Enckelman against Southampton FC of the field had been expelled and Postma had this to represent directly. On the final breakthrough, however, he waited in vain; in the 2002/03 season he played only five more games in the Premier League. Also in the following years he did not get beyond the role of the substitute goalkeeper. The departure of Enckelman brought nor the hoped for transport, as with the Dane Thomas Sørensen quick replacement was found, which in turn is now the "number 1" in Birmingham.

After a series of speculations about a possible successor club Postma moved to the start of the 2005/06 season on loan to second division club Wolverhampton Wanderers and signed there in January 2006, a short-term contract until the end of the current season. Since the " Wolves " However in the medium term planning with the meantime injured goalkeeper own talents, Postma left already in May 2006, the club again and joined in the domestic Eredivisie club ADO Den Haag at the.

Sporty was the time in The Hague changeable. In his first year he dismounted from the top Dutch league; which was followed by the direct re-emergence of the qualifying matches, although the club had finished in the regular championship round only in sixth place and 19 points behind runner- RKC Waalwijk, the one but then defeated in the play-off final. He returned in August 2008 for half a year to De Graafschap back, then tried to come in vain at Sheffield United and helped then briefly at the Cypriot club Ermis Aradippou from.

Since July 2009, Postma plays for Dutch second division AGOVV Apeldoorn.