Teddy Sheringham - Biography

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Edward Paul Teddy Sheringham (born April 2, 1966 in Walthamstow, London, England) is an English footballer. He plays as a striker, and has had a successful career at both club and international level. He currently plays for West Ham United. Something of a late developer on the international scene, Sheringham didn't win his first England cap until the age of twenty-seven in 1993. However, he scored against Poland that year, and under the reign of manager Terry Venables (1994-96) came to be favoured as the preferred strike partner for Alan Shearer in the England team. The two formed a famous partnership at international level, as they complemented each other's strengths: Shearer the out-and-out goalscorer, big, strong and powerful, Sheringham just 'dropping off' his strike partner, finding spaces, creating play and providing key passes, forming the link between Shearer and the England midfield. The pairing came to be known as 'The SAS' ('Shearer & Sheringham') and their most successful time together came in the 1996 European Championships, held in England. Their most famous contribution was in the 4-1 victory over Holland, a game in the opening group stages in which they both scored twice against one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Though England were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals, many believed that that squad of players such as Sheringham and his contemporaries including Paul Gascoigne, Steve McManaman, Tony Adams and Paul Ince, had done the nation proud. Sheringham continued to be a first choice selection under new England manager Glenn Hoddle (1996-99) until the emergence of new teenage superstar Michael Owen during the course of 1998 saw him overshadowed. Although Sheringham began the 1998 World Cup as a starting player with Owen on the bench, after Owen replaced him and almost turned around a defeat against Romania in England's second game of the tournament, it seemed likely that Sheringham's front line international career had come to an end. He was not selected at all for the 2000 European Championships by then manager Kevin Keegan, but the retirement of Shearer (ironically four years younger than Sheringham) from international football after that tournament and the arrival of new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2001 saw a return to international favour for him. He was often deployed as a tactical substitute late in games by Eriksson, valued for his ability to hold the ball up and create intelligent play, and he scored a vital goal for England in a World Cup qualifying match against Greece in September 2001. He was selected as part of Eriksson's 2002 World Cup squad and played in the famous 1-0 win against Argentina, almost scoring a goal with a shot that was well saved by the Argentine goalkeeper, and made his final England appearance as a substitute in the 2-1 quarter-final defeat to Brazil. At the age of thirty-six, that defeat signalled the final end of Sheringham's international career, during which he had earned fifty-one caps and scored eleven times for England.