Gurpreet Singh Sandhu
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Gurpreet Singh Sandhu | ||
| Date of birth | 3 February 1992 | ||
| Place of birth | Chamkaur Sahib,Punjab, India | ||
| Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Stabæk | ||
| Number | 22 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2000–2009 | St. Stephen's FA | ||
| 2009–2010 | East Bengal | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2009–2014 | East Bengal | 27 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | → Pailan Arrows (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 2014– | Stabæk | 21 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2010 | India U19 | 10 | (0) |
| 2010–2012 | India U23 | 9 | (0) |
| 2011– | India | 15 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17:10, 7 June 2016 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17:14, 28 March 2017 (UTC) |
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Gurpreet Singh Sandhu (born 3 February 1992 in Punjab, India) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Norwegian Tippeligaen club Stabæk and is the current captain of the India national team. He is the first ever Indian to play a competitive match for the first team of a top-division European club and the fifth Indian to play professionally in Europe after Mohammed Salim, Baichung Bhutia, Sunil Chhetri and Subrata Pal. He is also the first Indian to play in the UEFA Europa League.
Gurpreet was born on 3 February 1992 in Mohali, Punjab, India, part of the Chandigarh tri-city. Gurpreet took up the game of football at the age of 8 and joined the St. Stephen's Academy in 2000. After good performances at the St. Stephen's Academy, Gurpreet was selected for his state youth team, the Punjab U16s. He made his youth state level debut in 2006 in Haldwani. He stayed at St. Stephen's Academy till 2009 when he joined I-League side East Bengal as a youth player and spend the rest of 2009 playing for the Kolkata-based teams' youth team.
In 2010, Gurpreet officially signed a professional contract with East Bengal and made five appearances for East Bengal before the end of the 2009–10 season. For the 2010–11 season, Gurpreet was loaned out to Pailan Arrows, seeking regular game time but ended the season with no caps for Indian Arrows, as they were called then. He started the 2011–12 season as the second choice goalkeeper for East Bengal during the 2011 Federation Cup, but after the Federation Cup, Gurpreet took over as the first choice 'keeper for East Bengal's I-League campaign. He started in first game of the 2011–12 I-League campaign in their 0–1 loss to Churchill Brothers. He debuted in continental competitions in Asia on 6 March 2012 in the 2012 AFC Cup against Al-Oruba as East Bengal lost the match 0–1.
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