About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 203. Chapters: Peter Crouch, Lomana LuaLua, Jermain Defoe, Sol Campbell, Teddy Sheringham, Linvoy Primus, Neil Barrett, David James (footballer), Andrew Cole, Kevin-Prince Boateng, C. B. Fry, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Milan Baro, Jermaine Pennant, Sulley Muntari, Paul Musselwhite, Robert Prosine ki, John Atyeo, Glen Johnson (English footballer), Ashley Westwood, Michael Brown (footballer born 1977), Luke Rodgers, Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, Lassana Diarra, Asmir Begovi, Steve Finnan, Paul Mariner, Dean Kiely, Tommy Smith (footballer born 1980), Mark Viduka, Nigel Quashie, Danny Webber, Ricardo Fuller, Nwankwo Kanu, Mark Stimson, Luke Varney, Jason Roberts (footballer), Patrik Berger, Andy O'Brien (footballer), George Graham (footballer), Tal Ben Haim, Richard Duffy, Hayden Mullins, John Aloisi, Christian Dailly, Niko Kranj ar, Benjani Mwaruwari, Vincent Pericard, Ben Sahar, Diomansy Kamara, Theofanis Gekas, Martin Allen, Eyal Berkovic, Paul Merson, Hermann Hreioarsson, Courtney Pitt, Armand Traore, Shaka Hislop, Rob Wolleaston, Amdy Faye, Liam Lawrence, Wayne Routledge, Dave Kitson, Pedro Miguel da Silva Mendes, Svetoslav Todorov, Manuel Fernandes (footballer born 1986), Salif Diao, Marc Wilson (Irish footballer), Papa Bouba Diop, Frederic Piquionne. Excerpt: Peter James Crouch (born 30 January 1981) is an English footballer who plays for Premier League club Stoke City as a striker. He was capped 42 times by England national team from 2005 to 2010. Crouch started his career as a trainee with Tottenham Hotspur. He failed to make an appearance for Spurs and after loan spells at Dulwich Hamlet and Swedish club IFK Hassleholm he joined Queens Park Rangers. QPR were relegated at the end of the 2000-01 season and Portsmouth stepped in and paid 1.5 million for Crouch. He had a good season at Fratton Park and after scoring 19 goals he joined Aston Villa in March 2002 for 5 million. He did not have a good spell at Villa and was loaned out to Norwich City in 2003 before making a move to Southampton where he re-gained his form and was signed by Liverpool in July 2005. At Liverpool, Crouch enjoyed considerable success winning the FA Community Shield and FA Cup in 2006 and also gained a runner-up medal in the 2007 UEFA Champions League Final. After scoring 42 goals in three season at Anfield Portsmouth re-signed him for 11 million and he forged a decent partnership with Jermain Defoe. He spent just one season at Portsmouth and left for Tottenham Hotspur where he again linked up with Defoe and Harry Redknapp. He scored a vital goal for Tottenham against Manchester City which earned the club a place in the UEFA Champions League. He scored seven goals in ten European matches for Spurs in 2010-11 but his league form was not replicated and on 31 August 2011 he joined Stoke City for a club record fee of 10 million. In his first season with Stoke he scored 14 goals and won the club's player of the year award. Crouch was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, but his family moved to Singapore when he was one year old, where they stayed for three years before returning to Great Britain and settling in Ealing, London In his time in Ealing he attended Drayton Manor High School. A keen footballer from an early age, he became a ball boy at the age o
