ALAN SHEARER

Played in English clubs Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, in 1996 the club Newcastle United. In the years 1992-2000 had 63 caps for England.

Alan Shearer - one of the most beloved players of modern England. Love him above all for what it is from a young age proved to be a born superbombardirom. When he struck the country, scoring 13 goals in 11 matches for the youth (21 years) England, it immediately became known as a worthy successor to Gary Lineker. And Shearer has consistently meets expectations, continues to justify and now, when he was thirty. What is surprising football career Alan Shearer was held and passes are not the most stellar of English clubs, but he consistently from year to year is among the best strikers in England.

Impressed by the British and restrained Shearer. Many great players have created and create themselves more popular with extravagant acts outside the football field. The British are well remembered George Best, but these days such players is no doubt David Beckham. For Shearer's the main thing - it's football. About his personal life, hobbies British press knows very little. Very accurate description given Alan Shearer is one of England's coaches: "It's a superstar without the character a superstar. "

Shearer was born in Newcastle, but to start a football career, he chose the school youth club Southampton. Here, perhaps, more evident features of his character - the independence and self-belief. At fourteen he was away from home and family and worked hard, because a dream, how to become a great footballer, he was not.

The first game for the main cast of "Southampton" Alan spent 9 April 1988, he was not yet eighteen. The enemy was formidable Arsenal, but that looked impressive debut: in the first match pushy and fast Shearer scored a hat-trick.

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Soon the young footballer is literally stunned everyone with his performance in the youth team. However, in the national team of England first match he played only in February 1992 in a game against the French team. Debut regained the glory - Shearer scored a goal.

And yet no foothold in England, nor to go to Sweden for the European Championship to Alan if failed: interfered inappropriately received a knee injury. However, in the same 1992, the cure, Shearer moved to Blackburn Rovers by signing a far more lucrative contract than he was before the club Southampton. In his first season he scored 22 goals.

In England while Shearer's came at the European Championships in 1996. It took place in England, and a strong home team was considered an absolute favorite. Some of the matches, and in fact the British had brilliantly - in the group stage, for example, defeated the Dutch - 4:1.

But this championship was remembered above all, hard, uncompromising struggle in the quarterfinal and semifinal matches. In the two quarter finals the winner was determined only in a penalty shootout, including the game England against Spain. Were luckier than the British, who have passed and the semi-finals.

In the semifinal match of the same shoot-out decided the fate of the winners in both pairs. At this time the England team played a draw - 1:1 from the German national team, with no luck. Germany squad to the finals, where they beat the other semifinal, "lucky" - Czech team.

Thus, the England team failed to become European champion. However, the bitterness of failure for the whole country brightened the fact that Alan Shearer was top scorer, scoring five goals.

After the European Championships in football fate Shearer had a new twist: the season of 1996-1997, he started a new club, and it was a club Newcastle United in his native city.

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As for the team, then in 1997 he was its captain. However, in July the same year, Shearer suffered a serious ankle injury. Recovery was delayed for six months. To return to the field to the top of the world championship in 1998, Shearer daily for hours worked in the gym.

And yet in France Shearer played may not be in full force. Here he is, though, chalked up two more goals, but England in the quarter finals team lost to Argentina - again on penalties.

On the eve of the European Championship in 2000, Alan Shearer, unexpectedly announced that, following completion of the tournament will leave England. The very same team in England has presented another surprise - a group tournament lost two matches out of three and dropped out of the fight. Shearer kept his word and left the team. "I prefer to decide themselves, - he said - not waiting until a couple of years told me that I had trouble dragging their feet. "

Well, for the courageous decision of the British began to respect Alan Shearer's more, while regretting that he went from the team, by no means exhausted its possibilities. You can guess what a great footballer was also another desire - a little more time to spend with family, with his wife and three children.

But be that as it may, at its Newcastle Shearer has consistently continued to hammer balls in almost every match. Club each season is not enough stars from heaven, and Shearer on the number of goals scored every year one of the first.