Steven Fletcher

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Steven Fletcher
Steven Fletcher 2015.jpg
Steven Fletcher (2015)
Personnel
Surname Steven Kenneth Fletcher
birthday March 26, 1987
place of birth Shrewsbury ,  England
size 185 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
2000-2004 Hibernian Edinburgh
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2004-2009 Hibernian Edinburgh 156 (43)
2009-2010 Burnley FC 35 0(8)
2010–2012 Wolverhampton Wanderers 61 (22)
2012-2016 Sunderland AFC 94 (23)
2016 →  Olympique Marseille  (loan) 12 0(2)
2016– Sheffield Wednesday 44 (12)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2007 Scotland U-20 5 0(1)
2007-2008 Scotland U-21 6 0(5)
2007 Scotland B 1 0(0)
2008– Scotland 30 0(9)
1 Only league games are given.
As of September 15, 2017

2 As of September 15, 2017

Steven Kenneth Fletcher (born March 26, 1987 in Shrewsbury , England ) is a Scottish football player .

life and career

youth

Fletcher is the son of a British Army soldier from Liverpool . He often spent his childhood on military bases in Germany and England until his father died of cancer when Fletcher was just ten years old. He then moved with his mother to Hamilton in Scotland to be closer to the relatives. At the age of 13, he joined the Hibernian Edinburgh youth team , coached by John Park.

societies

For the 2003/04 season, Fletcher joined the professional Hibernian team at the age of 16. He made his league debut in a 3-0 win over FC Kilmarnock towards the end of the season. He made his breakthrough in the first team the following season, when he played 26 times and scored five goals. He scored ten goals in the 2005/06 season. After the two strikers Derek Riordan and Garry O'Connor had left the club for the 2006/07 season , Fletcher finally established himself in the starting eleven. His personal highlight of the season came in the final of the Scottish League Cup , when he defeated FC Kilmarnock 5-1 with his club and scored twice himself. In the game against FC Gretna on February 13, 2008 he scored his first hat trick . In the same year he was voted best young player of the year.

On June 3, 2010, he moved to Wolverhampton Wanderers , where he signed a four-year contract. In his first game, he scored his first goal against Stoke City . After two seasons, 44 league games in which he had scored 22 goals, he moved to the English first division AFC Sunderland in the summer of 2012 . There he signed a four-year contract.

On February 1, 2016, Fletcher was awarded to the French first division club Olympique Marseille until the end of the season.

National team

Fletcher participated with the U-19 division of Scotland in the U-19 European Championship 2006 in Poland , where he reached the final. On March 17, 2008 he made his debut for the national team against Croatia . He gave the template for Kenny Millers 1: 1, which was the final score. Fletcher was replaced at halftime.

titles and achievements

Web links

Commons : Steven Fletcher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steven Fletcher joins Wolves from Burnley for £ 6.5m , guardian.co.uk
  2. ↑ Wolverhampton Wanderers 2: 1 Stoke City , kicker.de
  3. ↑ Steven Fletcher: Sunderland complete £ 14m deal for Wolves striker (English) .bbc.co.uk. Retrieved August 24, 2012.
  4. ↑ Fletcher makes Marseille move safc.com, accessed on February 2, 2016 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Fletcher, Steven
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fletcher, Steven Kenneth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Shrewsbury