| Clubs: 1976-1975 Leicester City (194games, 95 goals)
1985-1986 Everton (41 games, 30 goals)
1986-1989 Barcelona (99 games, 44 goals)
1989-1992 Tottenham Hotspur (105 games, 67 goals)
1992-1994 Nagoya Grampus 8 (Japan)
International debut: 1984 v Scotland
International record: 80 games, 48 goals
Honours: 1980 Second division Championship(Leicester)
1986 English Footballer of the Year
1986 World Cup Top Scorer (6 goals)
1988 Spanish Cup (Barcelona)
1989 European Cup-Winners Cup (Barcelona)
1991 FA Cup (Tottenham Hotspur). Goalscoring hero turned TV presenter, Gary Linker is England's second highestgoalscorer, with 48 goals, just one behind Bobby Charlton. He hada chance to equal the record against Brazil in 1992 but his penalty wassaved.
Lineker is Englands leading World Cup goalscorer, though with 10 in total. 6 of these in came in Mexico and four in Italy.
The first of Linekers five England hat-tricks came in October 1985 in aWorld Cup qualifier against Turkey.
He is the only player to have scored all four England goals in a match,and has done it in two 4-2 away wins. The first was in 1987 againstSpain and the second in 1991 against Malaysia.
At club level Lineker had to wait until he joined Barcelona before winningany major honours.
In his last internaional, against Sweden in 1992, Lineker was substitutedby Graham Taylor in favour of Alan Smith. Engalnd went on to losethe match and went out of the European Chamionships...
Lineker was not booked once throughout his career.
At Grampus 8, Lineker worked with Arsene Wenger, who has gone on to greatsuccess at Arsenal.
Since retiring Gary Lineker has become a regular BBC football presenter,a captain on the quiz show They think its all over and has alsoadvertised Walker's Crisps (he even had a flavour - Salt and Lineker -named after him) !!! |
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