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Petr Cech signs new contract
Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech has signed a new four-year contract which will see him at the club until 2016.
Petr said of his new contract: ‘I am really happy to be part of this great club for another four years. 'I hope the next four years will be as successful as the last eight years I have been at the club.'
Petr has currently played more games for Chelsea than any other overseas player, having made 369 appearances since joining the club in 2004. He has won the UEFA Champions League, three Premier League titles, four FA Cups and two Carling Cups, and was voted Chelsea's Player of the Year last season.
Chief executive Ron Gourlay said: ‘Chelsea fully appreciates the highly significant contribution Petr has made to the most successful period in the club’s history.
‘It is clear to anyone who watched the climax to the season just completed that Petr continues to perform as well as any goalkeeper in the world.’
Over the course of his Chelsea career Petr has kept 178 clean sheets, representing 48 per cent of his games played. He won the Premier League Golden Gloves for most league clean sheets in the 2004/05 and 2009/10 seasons.
This summer he will play for Czech Republic at Euro 2012 having recently been voted his nation’s Player of the Season for a record seventh time.
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