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Michel Armand Vorm (born 20 October 1983) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a
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and was a goalkeeping coach at
Tottenham Hotspur Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as Tottenham () or Spurs, is a professional association football, football club based in Tottenham, London, England. It competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English footba ...
. Vorm began his professional career at
FC Utrecht Football Club Utrecht () is a Dutch professional football club based in Utrecht. The club competes in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football, and plays its home matches at the Stadion Galgenwaard. The club was formed in 1970 as a merge ...
in 2005, spending his first season on loan at
FC Den Bosch FC Den Bosch () is a football club from 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. They were founded 18 August 1965, as FC Den Bosch/BVV. They are the successor of BVV (1906) and Wilhelmina (1890). Their stadium is called 'De Vliert', an 8,500 all-seater. R ...
. He transferred to
Swansea City Swansea City Association Football Club (; cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Cymdeithas Dinas Abertawe) is a professional football club based in Swansea, Wales that plays in the Championship, the second tier of English football. Swansea have played their ho ...
in 2011, playing three
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seasons and winning the League Cup in 2013. Vorm joined Tottenham Hotspur for £3.5 million in 2014, and announced his retirement in 2020. A full international for the
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from 2008 to 2014, Vorm was included in their squads for two World Cups and
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, as back-up in all three tournaments.


Club career


FC Utrecht

Born in
IJsselstein IJsselstein () is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. IJsselstein received city rights in 1331. IJsselstein owes its name to the river Hollandse IJssel which flows through the city. It is a major commuting s ...
to a Dutch mother and a
Suriname Suriname (; srn, Sranankondre or ), officially the Republic of Suriname ( nl, Republiek Suriname , srn, Ripolik fu Sranan), is a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north ...
se father, Vorm began his career at
FC Utrecht Football Club Utrecht () is a Dutch professional football club based in Utrecht. The club competes in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football, and plays its home matches at the Stadion Galgenwaard. The club was formed in 1970 as a merge ...
. In order to gain more experience, he spent the 2005–06 season on loan to
FC Den Bosch FC Den Bosch () is a football club from 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. They were founded 18 August 1965, as FC Den Bosch/BVV. They are the successor of BVV (1906) and Wilhelmina (1890). Their stadium is called 'De Vliert', an 8,500 all-seater. R ...
. He made his debut on 12 August 2005 against
FC Emmen FC Emmen is a Dutch football club based in Emmen, Drenthe. They play in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football, after winning the 2021–22 Eerste Divisie title. Founded in 1925, the club entered the professional Eerste Divisie in 1985. I ...
, the first of 35 appearances that season. In August 2006, Vorm made his debut for Utrecht against Willem II. Although he joined FC Utrecht as the third-choice goalkeeper, behind Franck Grandel and Joost Terol, his pre-season performances impressed manager
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, and saw him promoted to first choice keeper at the start of the league season. During this first season Vorm played 33 out of 34 matches, and his position as number one at the club remained unchallenged thereafter. Vorm missed a handful matches during the 2007–08 season due to knee and shoulder injuries. He left Utrecht at the start of the 2011–12 season, having played 136 matches in the
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.


Swansea City

In August 2011, Vorm joined
Swansea City Swansea City Association Football Club (; cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Cymdeithas Dinas Abertawe) is a professional football club based in Swansea, Wales that plays in the Championship, the second tier of English football. Swansea have played their ho ...
for a fee of around £1.5 million. He took the vacant number 1 shirt and made his debut for the club against
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on 15 August 2011 in a 4–0 defeat. Although he conceded four goals, he also made eleven saves – more than any other Premier League goalkeeper, in a single match, in the whole of the 2011–12 season. In his second match for Swansea against
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, on 20 August, Vorm saved a 72nd-minute penalty from Ben Watson, to give Swansea their first ever point in the Premier League. On 6 November 2011, Vorm arguably saved Swansea from defeat against
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and earned them the draw at
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by pulling off two outstanding saves to earn the
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. On 10 December, he was instrumental in Swansea's 2–0 win over
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as he saved
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's 87th-minute penalty, with Swansea 1–0 up. During his first season with Swansea he helped keep 13 clean sheets in 37 league appearances. His performances were so impressive that he won three awards at the club's end-of-season dinner – Supporters' Player of the Year, Players' Player and the Away Player awards. On 27 September 2012, Vorm signed a new four-year contract with Swansea. On 28 October 2012, he was ruled out for up to eight weeks due to a groin injury picked up in a match against
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. On 3 November 2013, in the
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against Cardiff City, Vorm was shown a straight red card by referee Mike Dean for a stoppage-time foul on
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. The match ended 1–0 to Cardiff City.


Tottenham Hotspur

On 23 July 2014, Vorm announced via Dutch radio that he would sign for
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to compete with
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. He signed on a four-year deal costing Spurs £3.5 million after three years at Swansea, joining on the same day as Swansea's Ben Davies made the same move and Gylfi Sigurðsson was exchanged as part of the deal. The transfer was disputed by Utrecht, who complained to FIFA that they were contractually due 30% of the fee received by Swansea. FIFA rejected Utrecht's claim, and the case was heard in the
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in January 2016. He made his debut for Tottenham on 24 September, in the third round of the
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at home against
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. Despite conceding first to Jorge Grant, Tottenham won 3–1. Vorm featured again in the next round on 29 October, keeping his first clean sheet for the club as Tottenham defeated
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2–0. Eight days later he played his first
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match for Tottenham, a 2–1 win away to
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. Vorm's first league appearance for Tottenham came on 21 March 2015, after Lloris went off injured in the fourth minute of a home match against
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. Tottenham won 4–3. On 5 April he made his first league start, a goalless draw against
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at
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. On 13 August 2016, Vorm made his first appearance of the 2016–17 season for Tottenham Hotspur in a 1–1 draw with Everton at Goodison Park, in which he replaced the injured Lloris after 35 minutes. Vorm's contract was extended in 2018, however, in the 2018–19 season, he was replaced as the number two goalkeeper for Tottenham by
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, having started in fewer games when
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was not available. After the 2018–19 season Vorm was released by Tottenham following the end of his contract with the club. Three months into the 2019–20 season, Vorm re-signed on a contract until the end of the season as cover for Gazzaniga who had stepped into the starting eleven to replace the injured Lloris. Vorm made his first appearance of the season in the FA Cup match against
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on 5 March 2020, which ended in a loss after a penalty shoot-out. On 27 July 2020, Tottenham confirmed that Vorm would be leaving the club following the end of the season. On 26 October 2020, Vorm announced his retirement from professional football at the age of 37.


International career

In 2006, he was a member of the
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squad that won the
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in Portugal. Vorm played his first match for the senior national team on 14 November 2008, replacing
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at half time in a 3–1 home friendly win, conceding to
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within four minutes of coming on. He made his first start on 5 September 2009 in a friendly home match against
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(3–0 win), followed up four days later by an impressive performance at
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during the World Cup qualifier
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 – Netherlands, a match won 1–0 by the Netherlands. At Hampden Park, this was Vorm's first competitive match ever outside the Netherlands.


2010 World Cup

Vorm was included in the preliminary squad for the
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in South Africa. On 27 May 2010, Netherlands manager
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announced that the player would be part of the final squad of 23 participating in the FIFA World Cup. Before the start of the competition he was allowed to fly back to the Netherlands. During the World Cup, Vorm's girlfriend Daisy delivered a son, Jaivy Waylon. The Dutch goalkeeper returned home for two days following his son's birth.


Euro 2012

Vorm was included in the
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squad for
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.
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was
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's first choice in goal, playing all three games as the nation exited in the group stage.


2014 World Cup

For the
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, coach
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included Vorm in the
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squad, alongside young Ajax goalkeeper
Jasper Cillessen Jacobus Antonius Peter Johannes "Jasper" Cillessen (born 22 April 1989) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Eredivisie club NEC and the Netherlands national team. Cillessen joined NEC's youth team in 2001, making hi ...
who was first choice in goal and Tim Krul. Despite having a reputation for his penalty-saving abilities while at Swansea, Van Gaal opted to replace Cillessen with Krul in the
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during the quarter-final match against
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. Vorm came on for Cillessen in injury time of the 3–0 third place play-off win against
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in
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, thus ensuring that all 23 Dutch squad members played at the tournament.


Coaching career

On 20 April 2021, following the sacking of
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and the appointment of
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on an interim basis, Vorm was appointed interim goalkeeping coach at
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. He left this position at the end of the season.


Career statistics


Club


International

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Honours

Swansea City *
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Tottenham Hotspur *Football League Cup runner-up: 2014–15 *
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runner-up: 2018–19 Netherlands *
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runner-up:
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; third place:
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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vorm, Michel 1983 births Living people People from Nieuwegein People from IJsselstein Dutch sportspeople of Surinamese descent Dutch footballers Association football goalkeepers FC Den Bosch players FC Utrecht players Swansea City A.F.C. players Tottenham Hotspur F.C. players Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players Premier League players Netherlands under-21 international footballers Netherlands international footballers 2010 FIFA World Cup players UEFA Euro 2012 players 2014 FIFA World Cup players Dutch expatriate footballers Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Wales Dutch expatriate sportspeople in England Expatriate footballers in Wales Expatriate footballers in England Association football goalkeeping coaches Tottenham Hotspur F.C. non-playing staff Footballers from Utrecht (province)