Peter Crouch: interesting facts about the life and career footballer

There is an old joke about football is that someone has mentioned - the better playing. English footballer Peter Crouch - one of the best examples of this "theorem". With the growth of more than two meters and it is enough respectable, especially for a striker, aged with enviable stability continues to amaze gate of contenders for the Premier League. Largely thanks to the unique anthropometry he still manages to stay on top, both in the literal and figurative sense of the word. To date, the tall striker - record for the number of goals scored by a head. English striker belongs to another record - in 2015 he became the oldest player to break the mark of 100 goals scored.

Peter Crouch: interesting facts about the life and career footballer

Pete

Peter Crouch was born in England, Cheshire, however, being still an infant, a boy with his parents went to live in Singapore, where his father was a contract for the work. Life in Asia lasted three years, and although Crouch family are satisfied, they eventually chose to return home.

By the time the young Peter was fond of football, and even considered himself a fan of the club, "Queens Park Rangers". It's possible that the guy is not cunning, because in order to play for the youth team, "CRC" Crouch rejected suggestions of "Chelsea" and "Millwall".

Statistics performances

In adult football the way Peter Crouch began at the London club, "Tottenham Hotspur". However, to get out on the green lawn in a vest, "the Spurs' young striker and failed, so three years later, he returned to where it all began, in the" Queens Park Rangers ". His new-old club he has managed in the symbolic 60 thousand pounds. Already in the first season of "Hoops" Peter was marked by nine goals, but the team still could not escape from relegation from the top division. The club was forced to reduce payroll and sell their leaders, among whom there was also Peter Crouch. Photo tall striker will still be "welcome" visitors to the club museum, "CRC", but the player himself at this time will have to defend the colors of another team.

Peter Crouch: interesting facts about the life and career footballer

The next club "Giant" was "Portsmouth". It is composed of Peter Crouch has spent 37 matches in which opponents chop 18 goals. Over five million pounds in 2002, the striker bought "Aston Villa", but to gain a foothold in the first team failed in the "purple" footballer. In the same way as he did not succeed after two years to become a player in the starting lineup and "Southampton", but a few months later Crouch managed to convince the coach, "saints" Harry Redknapp that he is worthy of a place at the base.

English striker went on to score in the "Liverpool", and in 2007 Peter, along with teammates won the Champions League Cup.

After another successful stage career, Peter Crouch has never been afraid to take a new challenge and without a shadow of doubt to sign the agreement with a new club. To thirty years a football player could again return to the "Portsmouth" and play two seasons for "Tottenham Hotspur". As part of the "Spurs' player had 73 matches.

Peter Crouch: interesting facts about the life and career footballer

"Stoke City"

By 2011, he played in almost half of the Premier League clubs. Gradually a bizarre giant began to forget, but in the summer season the striker has signed a thirty-year ambitious "Stoke City", and even for a record for a provincial club 10 million euros. Ambiguous transfer caused conflicting opinions among football experts. Some predicted Crouch shop for spare and career-ending, others - increased attack "potters" and hit teams in the European Cups. Then no one could think that Peter, never to become attached to one place, to hold for a "stock" is more than a match for any other club in his long career. The paradox, but Peter Crouch age for several years progressed in red and white t-shirt. He scored some decisive goals in the Premier League, including the leaders of the championship, hit the gate, "Besiktas" and "Maccabi" in the European League. On his account for nearly four dozen balls for "potters" and it looks like that to stop the striker has not yet been collected.

Peter Crouch: interesting facts about the life and career footballer

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Nicknames

For obvious reasons, the main feature, through which most of his nicknames was Peter Crouch - forward growth. 202 cm - this is the first record in the Premier League. "Sausage", "whimsical assists machine" - as has been called fans Crouch, but whatever the club was playing Peter, he was definitely a favorite.