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Henri Lansbury
Personal information
Full name	Henri George Lansbury
Date of birth	12 October 1990 (age 19)
Place of birth	Enfield, London, England
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Watford; (on loan from Arsenal)
Number	5
Youth career
1999	Norwich City
1999–2007	Arsenal
Senior career*
National team‡
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:23, 7 February 2010 (UTC).; † Appearances (Goals).; ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 23:15, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Henri George Lansbury (born 12 October 1990) is an English footballer who plays for Watford as a midfielder, on loan from Arsenal.

[edit] Club career

Born in Enfield, London, Lansbury has been at Arsenal since 1999, and has featured regularly for both the club's under-18 and reserve sides. To date he has only featured in the League Cup for Arsenal's first team; he was named in the squad for their match against Liverpool on 9 January 2007, but did not feature. He was on the substitute's bench for a second time on 25 September 2007, this time against Newcastle United, and again did not play.^[3] He finally made his first team debut on 31 October 2007, in Arsenal's 3–0 League Cup win over Sheffield United, when he was brought on to replace Theo Walcott in the 83rd minute.^[4]

He was described by Alan Smith, a former Arsenal striker, as having "huge potential".^[5] On 1 July 2008 he signed his first professional contract with Arsenal.^[6] He missed the second half on the 2007–08 season due to glandular fever but returned to fitness in time to participate in pre-season training and the 2008 pre-season friendly games. He has played on the right side of the field in all of these games (four times as a right winger and once as a right back) instead of in his favoured central midfield position. Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger also confirmed that Lansbury would be playing in the League Cup competition in the 2008–09 season, and indeed he came on as a substitute in Arsenal's 6-0 win over Sheffield United in the third round of that competition, as well as their 3-0 win over Wigan and the quarter final away at Burnley.^[7]^[8]^[9]

On 31 January 2009, Lansbury went on loan to Scunthorpe United in League One for a month.^[10]^[11] He scored on his full debut against Swindon Town in the league,^[12] plus further adding three goals during his loan campaign. Lansbury featured in the FA Youth Cup Final for Arsenal, helping them win the trophy over Liverpool, assisting Gilles Sunu on the first goal and Jay Emmanuel-Thomas on the fourth goal in the first leg 4-1 victory.^[13]

On 21 August 2009, Lansbury joined Watford on loan until 31 December 2009. He scored his first goals for them with a brace against Sheffield Wednesday on 23 October 2009.^[14]^[15]

On 31 December 2009, Lansbury signed a new long-term contract with Arsenal.^[16]

[edit] International career

Henri has featured for England at several youth levels. He was part of the team which lost in the final of the 2009 UEFA U-19 European Championship against Ukraine, scoring 3 goals in the tournament. Lansbury has also captained England at U-19 level. He was called up to the U21 team for the first time for their qualifying match against Portugal in November 2009.

[edit] Statistics

(Correct as of 6 February 2010)^[17]^[18]^[19]

Club	Season	League			FA Cup			League Cup			Europe			Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Assists	Apps	Goals	Assists	Apps	Goals	Assists	Apps	Goals	Assists	Apps	Goals	Assists
Arsenal	2007–08	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Arsenal	2008–09	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
Scunthorpe United (loan)	2008–09	16	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	16	4	3
Watford (loan)	2009–10	23	3	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	25	3	3

[edit] Honours

[edit] Arsenal

Winner

[edit] Scunthorpe United

Runner-up

2009 Football League Trophy

[edit] International