Dutch stopper van der Gouw accomplished a switch from Vitesse Arnham in 1996 when he was aged 32 and enjoying commonly within the Eredivisie. At that stage in his profession, turning into a back-up goalkeeper was a serious gear change.
Schmeichel was in fact the world’s biggest goalkeeper in the course of the Nineteen Nineties and Raimond knew his enjoying alternatives can be restricted as Peter’s understudy, however the lure of Alex Ferguson’s United and the prospect to develop satisfied him to signal on the dotted line – though it wasn’t at all times straightforward for him.
Talking in our new episode of UTD Podcast, van der Gouw offers an sincere account of his determination to assist one of many biggest and most single-minded goalkeepers in historical past.
Requested if he was involved about enjoying time when he joined, Raimond says: “Sure, in fact, it was a priority. I had at all times been the no.1 however I used to be ready.
“I stated, ‘okay I’m the understudy for Peter however in soccer you by no means know’. My dream was enjoying for a high membership. I used to be considering, ‘I’m at a high membership, perhaps I’m the no.2, however you by no means know in soccer’.