Showing posts with label Striker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Striker. Show all posts

Jermain Defoe

Popular striker reached a personal and club landmark in 2010-11, but admitted it was a 'frustrating' campaign.
Jermain became only the 16th player in the club's history to score 100 goals for Spurs when he hit a screamer against West Brom at the Lane in April, 2011.
But he scored only four goals in the Premier League in a total of nine from 30 appearances in all competitions having been sidelined for three months after sustaining an ankle injury on England duty in September, 2010.
Our top-scorer in 2009-10, Jermain made history during that season before joining an elite Spurs club by scoring for England at the World Cup Finals in June.
Jermain became only the third player in Premier League history to score five goals in a match when he achieved the feat in the 9-1 mauling of Wigan in November.
Indeed, he was only the second Spurs to bag five in a top-flight match after Alfie Stokes all the way back in 1957.
That was the highlight of a season where he scored 24 goals in all competitions, helping fire us to fourth place in the Premier League.
That form took him to the World Cup and his winner against Slovenia marked only the sixth time a Spurs player has achieved the feat on World Cup duty for England - following in the footsteps of Jimmy Greaves, Martin Peters, Alan Mullery, Gary Lineker and Darren Anderton.
JD scored three hat-tricks in the season and was on fire from the start, bagging a trio at Hull in August. Those were his first three goal of the season and his last helped us beat Chelsea in April.
The popular striker rejoined the Club in January 2009 following a successful year at Portsmouth.
The England international had made 177 appearances in our colours in all competitions during his first spell at the Club between January 2004 and January 2008, during which time he scored 64 goals following his switch from West Ham United.
After his spell on the South Coast reaped nine goals in 24 games, JD settled straight back in to life at The Lane with three goals in his first five games.
But a foot injury picked up in late January wrecked the rest of his 2008-09 season and forced him out until mid-April.
Jermain did, however, feature another five times before the season was out, scoring one more goal.
The former Charlton trainee began his professional career at West Ham before embarking on a season-long loan spell at Bournemouth, where he scored 19 goals in 31 appearances before returning to London and clocking up 105 games and 41 goals for West Ham.
Jermain is playing under manager Harry Redknapp for the third time in his career, having also played under his guidance at West Ham and Portsmouth.
He earned his first senior England call-up for a friendly against Sweden in March 2004 and has since gone on to establish himself as a regular international.

Giovani Dos Santos

Chances were again limited for Giovani in 2010-11.
The Mexican international made five appearances, three as substitiute in the Premier League and starts in the League Cup and Champions League.
He joined La Liga side Racing Santander on loan in January for the remainder of the 2010-11 season.
There was a positive end to the campaign for Gio as he scored a wonderful goal in the CONCACAF Gold Cup Final as Mexico defeat USA 4-2 in California.
Signed from Barcelona in June, 2008, 'Gio' made an impressive start to his Spurs career during pre-season before an ankle injury early on in the campaign proper halted his progress.
He returned to make a further three First Team appearances - scoring his first goal for the Club in a UEFA Cup tie with Shakhtar Donetsk in February 2009 - before being loaned out to Ipswich Town for the remainder of the 2008-09 campaign.
At Portman Road, Giovani was a hit with Tractor Boys fans as he scored four goals in eight appearances, including a winner against East Anglia rivals Norwich City.
He followed this up by playing a key role in Mexico's success at the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup in USA, a tournament in which he was named MVP (Most Valuable Player).
Gio returned to the Club ready for the 2009-10 season, but an ankle injury picked up in a Carling Cup game at Preston early on in the campaign restricted him to just three Spurs appearances before he agreed to join Turkish club Galatasaray in January 2010, where he spent the remainder of the season before playing every game for Mexico in the World Cup.
Giovani first shot to prominence as the star of the 2005 FIFA U17 World Championships for Mexico, as well as the 2007 FIFA U20 World Championships.
The son of a former professional footballer, he progressed through the ranks at Barcelona and made 28 senior appearances for the Spanish giants in 2007-08, scoring three goals, before moving to England.

Emmanuel Adebayor

The prolific Togo international striker is with us on loan from Manchester City for the 2011/2012 season.
Emmanuel moved to the Premier League in January, 2006 from Monaco and has scored 81 goals in 186 appearances in all competitions during spells with Arsenal and Manchester City.
Adebayor spent the second half of last season on loan at Real Madrid registering eight goals in 22 appearances.

Roman Pavlyuchenko

Russian striker ended 2010-11 in style with a double against Birmingham City to secure fifth place in the Premier League and a Europa League play-off spot.
'Pav' scored 14 goals in the season including arguably one of the most important when he lashed home our second goal in the away leg of our Champions League play-off against Young Boys. That made it 3-2 on the night and we eventually cruised home at the Lane.
He featured 39 times in all competitions, starting 25 and scored four goals in the Champions League.
Roman arrived at the Lane in August, 2008 from Spartak Moscow.
It took him just three games to open his goalscoring account in English football with the opener in our Carling Cup third round win over Newcastle in September 2008.
He scored the first goal of Harry Redknapp's reign as manager against Bolton in October 2008, and a week later he scored a last minute winner as we became the first team to defeat Liverpool in 2008-09.
Overall, Roman scored 14 goals in 36 appearances during his first season in English football.
This included a run of scoring in every single round of our run to the 2009 Carling Cup Final, where we were defeated by Manchester United at Wembley on a penalty shoot-out.
He enjoyed a purple patch of eight goals in eight games in February and March of the 2009-10 season.
That spell was the highlight for the striker as a combination of injuries and the form of our other strikers restricted Pav to 26 appearances and only 12 starts in all competitions, scoring 10 goals.
A regular Russian international, Roman hit the headlines in October 2007 when he scored both goals for his country as they beat England 2-1 in European Championship qualifying.
He followed that up with three goals in five games at the 2008 European Championship Finals - including goals against Holland and eventual winners Spain - as Russia reached the semi-finals.
Born in Mostovskoy, Roman started with local club FC Dinamo Stavropol before moving to FC Rotor Volgograd in the top flight in 2000. He switched to Spartak Moscow in 2003 and topped the goalscoring charts in Russia's Premier League in 2006 and 2007.
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