Peter Crouch

Peter Crouch - English footballer of the club "Stoke City". Born in England, in Macclesfield, January 30, 1981.

Once asked about whoever he was, if not the player started his career.

To which Peter replied, "virgin!" Professional football career began in the same "Tottenham" in 2000, but Peter was not able to express themselves in this club. He was twice a year to lease: first in English "Dalich Hemlet", where he scored one goal in six games, and then in the Swedish "Hesselholm" where football player scored three goals in eight games.



In July of the same year Crouch goes into English "Queens Park Rangers." The amount of his transfer was sixty pounds. The new team Peter everything went as well as possible: for his first and only season in which he took part in forty-two matches and scored ten goals. However, despite the success of Crouch, "Queens Park Rangers" took off from Football League Championship and was forced to sell Peter in "Portsmouth».

In the "Portsmouth" Crouch well integrated into the team and together with Robert Prosinecki was a wonderful attacking tandem. For the season, held at the club, he spent thirty-seven matches and scored eighteen goals.

In 2002, the striker was bought by the club "Aston Villa" for 9, 8 million euros. Peter Crouch has manifested itself in the first match, hitting the gate "Newcastle". However, most of the team was unable to gain a foothold Peter, and in September 2003 he was loaned out to "Norwich City", the second division club. For the three months spent in this club, football was marked by four goals in fifteen matches. On his return from the rental game "Aston Villa" Peter did not go well: he went mainly to replace, so in 2004 at the end of the season, he enters into a contract with the "Southampton».

For the season, held in this club, Crouch made twenty seven matches and scored twelve goals. "Southampton" could not resist in the Premier League, and football player goes into "Liverpool».

Crouch made his debut for a new team in the match of the second qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League with "Kaunas". Total for Liverpool Peter spent eighty-five matches and scored 22 goals. However, in the 2007/2008 season with the arrival of the team Fernando Torres Crouch became less and less exposed to the foundation, so in July 2008, he was back in the "Portsmouth". For the year playing in this team Peter entered the field of forty-one times and scored sixteen goals.

In July 2009, over nine million pounds Crouch buys "Tottenham Hotspur". In May footballer scored the winning goal against "Manchester City" by which "Tottenham" breaks in the UEFA Champions League, and in August of the same year, scored a hat-trick, Crouch brings his club in the Champions League group stage.

In August 2011, a football player has signed a contract with the club "Stoke City" for a period of four years.

Since 2005, Crouch is a player for England.

Peter Crouch has won the English League Cup (1998/1999), the winner of the Football League Championship (2003/2004), European Super Cup (2005), FA Cup (2005/2006), Super Cup in England (2006).

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