This hub is the six in a series of small tributes to some of the world's greatest ever soccer players, these will be appearing in no particular order and the series has no fixed amount of players to feature! The inspiration behind this series is my hubs 'The Best 5 Footballers of the Nineties' and 'Best Goalkeepers of The Nineties', this profile of Peter Schmeichel is almost identical to the one on the goalkeeper feature. Look out for more to come in the series, which I will eventually interlink at the bottom of each hub!

Peter Schmeichel, or 'The Great Dane', is one of football's most successful ever goalkeepers and was twice voted 'The World's Best Goalkeeper' in 1992 and 1993. He played his best club football throughout the nineties at Manchester United, where he played from 1991-1999. The 6 ft 4 in tall keeper had a very intimidating physique and wore XXXL football shirts; these shirts had to be made specially.

Schmeichel's spell at Man United saw him win the English Premier League title some 5 times, the English FA Cup 3 times, the English League Cup, the FA Charity Shield 4 times, the UEFA Super Cup and - in his final season - the UEFA Champions League. Prior to his move to Manchester United he had been part of a Brondby team that won the Danish Superliga 4 times in 5 seasons, and in 1992 he was part of the Denmark team that caused a huge upset when they won the 1992 UEFA European Championship. He rounded off the decade by winning the Portuguese Superliga with Sporting CP.

Interestingly, Schmeichel even scored 11 goals in his career including one in a competitive international game for Denmark. Schmeichel also still holds a number of records within the game, despite retiring six years ago, these include most capped Denmark player with 129 caps and the record for the best clean sheets-to-games ratio. An astonishing 42% of games that he played in the English premier league ended without his team conceding a goal.

Schmeichels personal honours even manage to match his team honours, winning the UEFA Goalkeeper of the Year in 1992, 1993 and 1998, winning the IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper in 1992 and 1993, Danish footballer of the year in 1990, 1993 and 1999, and the Danish Goalkeeper of the Year in 1987, 1988, 1990 and 1992.