Heurelho da Silva Gomes is a goalkeeper who plays for English side Tottenham and the Brazilian national team. He signed for Tottenham ahead of the 2008-09 season. The season started in a bad way for him. He made som crucial mistakes in several matches. Not only thanks to him, but poor defending in general, the team soon found themselves struggling at the bottom of the Premiership. This resulted in manager Juande Ramos being sacked in October, while goalkeeping coach Hans Leitert was sacked in November. In came Harry Redknapp as new manager and Tony Parks as new goalkeeping coach. (Parks had been the goalkeeping hero when Spurs beat Anderlecht on penalties in the 1984 UEFA Cup final.) Parks and Redknapp worked with Gomes to make things work. Soon Gomes started putting on one brilliant display after the other. In the 2009-10 season he was one of the best goalkeepers in Premier League, when Tottenham secured a 4th place finishing and qualifyed for Champions League.
The reason Redknapp decided to stick it out with Gomes was simply because of the reputation he had from Dutch club PSV Eindhoven. When Gomes left PSV for Spurs he had been instrumental for them in winning four consecutive Eredivisie titles. He has the record for highest percentage of cleen sheets in the Eredivisie, a stunning 60%. Before Gomes came to PSV he had won the double in his home country Brazil, in 2003 with Cruzeiro. He also made his debut for the national team in 2003. His appearences for Brazil has been somewhat sporadic, as he mostly has been second or third in line as choice of goalkeeper. He was however part of the Brazilian squad in the 2010 FIFA World Championship.