Peter Crouch is one of the tallest players in the history of the English Premier League and the national team of the country. His height is 201 cm. The player, who has become famous in various teams in England, currently plays for Stoke City.
The future legendary striker first saw the light in the English town of Macclesfield on January 30, 1981. He was still a toddler when the family moved to the capital of the country.
Carier start
It was in London that Peter began to master the football field for the first time. He began by entering the Tottenham Children's Academy.
In parallel, the child played tennis for some time. He has made very good progress. However, he still decided that his future is football.
Crouch did not manage to stay in the Spurs. For a beginner footballer in 2000, the Queens Park Rangers offered an amount equal to sixty thousand pounds.
The athlete became a team player. In his debut, the young man managed to excel. He made ten strikes.
However, this failed to help his team stay in the top flight. The club, which had flown out of the elite, made a difficult decision for itself to part with one of the leaders.
For a promising young striker, Portsmouth offered one million and a quarter. The footballer in his team spent the entire season. He managed to take part in thirty-seven matches, scoring eighteen goals.
Successes and failures
Progress was quickly noticed. The next season, Peter began playing for the much more eminent club Aston Villa. For the promising striker, the Birminghamians have paid almost ten million euros.
To everyone's disappointment, after an impressive start, Crouch began to decline. Due to a decrease in performance, the player was loaned to Norwich City.
Upon his return, Crouch did not enter the field for the desired time. Southampton offered a transfer of three million euros at the end of the season.
The athlete signed a four-year contract with the club. He played at the same level again. During the season, Peter desperate defense of opponents sixteen times.
But again the familiar situation repeated itself: the departure in 2005 of elite former players to the minor league. The footballer managed to stay in the elite solely thanks to his transfer to another team. During the offseason, the striker acquired Liverpool. Crouch was estimated at ten and a half million.
New takeoff
Almost all sports experts were skeptical about the transition. The reason was that the striker was able to score his first goal only in the fifteenth round of the national championship.
In the game against Wigan, the player showed a double, proving that he was completely comfortable and ready to provide the team with positive results.
The striker scored three games in a row with inspiration. The criticism about the low performance subsided. But enthusiasm began about the high-quality skill of the ingenious one-touch game and the excellent return of assists.
The 2006-2007 season was even more triumphant. Peter took part in fifty fights in all tournaments. He delighted the fans with almost two dozen effective strikes.
In the Champions League, he scored six goals. Then Liverpool was able to confidently reach the final and only then concede. One of the most enchanting matches for Crouch took place against Arsenal.
During the game, he managed to draw a hat-trick. Crouch started the new season not so effectively. But by this time, the player had already managed to take the lead roles in the national team.
Return
In 2008, for nine million pounds, Peter returned to Potsmouth. The team has recovered in the Premier League. During the season, the footballer managed to play forty-one games, scoring sixteen goals. At the same time, Crouch was distinguished by a considerable number of assists.
The logical result was the purchase of Peter next summer by Tottenham. Londoners earned the right to participate in the qualifying matches of the Champions League solely because of Peter's only goal scored against Manchester City by the end of the season.
After a hat-trick in the play-offs, the team ended up in the group stage of the most prestigious European football tournament. In 2011, the Englishman started playing for Stoke City. He plays for this team at the present time. In the entire history of the "potters" such a signing of the contract became a real record.
Life in the present
At the international level, the footballer made his debut in the country's junior football team. Three years later, Peter was summoned by Sven Goran Eriksson to tour North America.
The footballer played the first match in the "national shirt" in a friendly match with Colombia. For England, the striker took part in more than forty matches, where he stood out with twenty goals scored a little.
In the player's personal life, there are no abrupt ups and downs. He is married. The romance that began earlier with the famous model Abby Clancy, the holder of the title "The most charming body in Britain" and quite scandalous fame, he legalized in the summer of 2011.
The wedding has become a significant event for the entire secular elite of the country. Husband and wife have attracted a lot of attention in the past before they were family. In this way, both perfectly managed to increase each other's popularity several times. The football player's family has two children, girls Liberty and Sofia.
Crouch became famous for the originality of his manner of celebrating each of his goals. He does this most often, imitating a robot dance. The fans are delighted with this approach.
Journalists also like the famous athlete very much. The thing is that Peter has a great sense of humor. He gives very unexpected answers to questions from media figures. As a result, the footballer is recognized as one of the funniest British athletes.
