An English footballer who plays as a striker. He began his professional career at Millwall in 1982, at the age of just 16. In 1985, he was loaned to Aldershot, and then to the Swedish club Djurgårdens IF Fotboll in Stockholm. After nine years with the team, he transferred to Nottingham Forest in July 1991 for £2 million. In 1993, he moved to Tottenham, where he played for four years. In the 1992-1993 season, he became the top scorer with 22 goals. In 1997, he was bought by Manchester United for £3.5 million. It was in Manchester that he achieved his greatest club success. On 26 May 1999, in the final against Bayern Munich (2-1), he helped win the Champions League. He scored the goal that levelled the score at 1-1 in extra time. Ole Gunnar Solskjær scored the winning goal. It was with Solskjær that he formed a duo of super substitutes that Sir Alex Ferguson could always count on. With Manchester, he also won the Intercontinental Cup, defeating Brazilian club Palmeiras 1–0. In the summer of 2001, he moved from Manchester to Tottenham Hotspur and then to Portsmouth. In 2004, he moved to West Ham United, where he still plays today. Teddy Sheringham ranks 5th in the all-time table with 142 goals in the Premier League.
Coaching career
He began his representative career relatively late, in 1993, at the age of 27. His greatest success with the national team was reaching the semi-finals of the 1996 European Championship, when England was eliminated by Germany on penalties. Sheringham took a penalty and scored a goal. He also played in the 1998 World Cup in France and Euro 2000 in Belgium and the Netherlands. He played 21 matches and scored 7 goals for the England national team.
Club career
Having been a fan of Tottenham Hotspur since infancy, Sheringham started playing football in his hometown of London and even made an unsuccessful attempt to get into the academy.
He signed his first professional deal in the summer of 1982, joining the third division team Millwall. Teddy didn’t make his team debut until a year later. During his first full season, he played ten games and scored twice. Sheringham resumed his career in the Swedish club Djurgården after being sent to Aldershot, a fourth division team, in early 1985, where he was unable to establish himself. With 13 goals, the striker was able to show off his scoring prowess for the first time. Sheringham was re-added to the Lions’ roster in early 1986 due to a lack of forwards. He didn’t contribute much to the team’s play at first, but over time, his impact on the field grew. Teddy scored 24 goals as Millwall won the Second Division in 1988.
The striker joined Nottingham Forest in 1991, where he spent a season under Brian Clough and scored 22 goals in all competitions. The squad advanced to the League Cup final thanks to his goals, but they were defeated by Manchester United.
Sheringham began the next season with the Reds as well, but after just three games, he accepted a deal with Tottenham Hotspur, realizing his childhood ambition. Teddy finished his first season with Spurs with 21 goals, earning him the Premier League’s top scorer title. Jürgen Klinsmann, a German, was Sheringham’s attacking partner in 1994. Together, they scored 52 goals in a single season, forming a fearsome strike tandem. The striker routinely found the back of the net during his five seasons with Tottenham, although he did not win any awards.
Teddy eventually joined Manchester United in 1997, taking Eric Cantona’s place after the latter abruptly ended his career.
A career abroad
At the age of 27, Teddy Sheringham https://znaki.fm/persons/teddy-sheringham/ made his England debut in 1993 and continued to play for the national team for nearly ten years. He was happy to fill in, though, and was primarily utilized as a substitute. Despite this, he participated in the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, as well as Euro 1996, where he scored twice against the Netherlands and converted a penalty in the shootout against Germany.