Petr Cech commits to Chelsea for four more years after signing new contract

CHELSEA GOALKEEPER PETR CECH HAS SIGNED A NEW CONTRACT WHICH WILL KEEP HIM AT STAMFORD BRIDGE UNTIL 2016.

TRUE BLUE: Petr Cech makes a crucial save in the Champions League Final. (Photo: EPA)

Cech joined Chelsea in 2004 and has made more appearances for the club than any overseas player.

“I am really happy to be part of this great club for another four years.” Cech told the club’s website.

“I hope the next four years will be as successful as the last eight years I have been at the club.”

Chief executive Ron Gourlay adds: “Chelsea fully appreciates the highly significant contribution Petr has made to the most successful period in the club’s history, and it is very important to our aim of continuing this level of achievement that he has committed himself to the club.”

“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.’

Cech was between the posts throughout our triumphant FA Cup and Champions League campaigns.

His save from Andy Carroll’s header against Liverpool at Wembley is being described as one of the finest FA Cup Final saves ever, and in the semi-final of the Champions League away in Barcelona he finger-tipped a late Lionel Messi shot onto the post.

In Munich he saved three penalties, in extra-time from Arjen Robben and in the shoot-out, when he stopped a penalty from Ivica Olic, before touching Bastian Schweinsteiger’s onto the post.

Over the course of his Chelsea career Cech 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.

He has made 369 appearances for the club and in addition to the Champions League, has won three Premier League titles, four FA Cups and two Carling Cups, and was the club’s Player of the Year for the 2010/11 season.

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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