Gary Lineker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Gary Lineker

English association football player

Date of Birth: 30-Nov-1960

Place of Birth: Leicester, England, United Kingdom

Profession: association football player, sports commentator

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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About Gary Lineker

  • Gary Winston Lineker (; born 30 November 1960) is an English former professional footballer and current sports broadcaster.
  • He holds England's record for goals in the FIFA World Cup finals, with 10 scored.
  • Lineker's media career began with the BBC, where he has presented the flagship football programme Match of the Day since the late 1990s.
  • He has also worked for Al Jazeera Sports, Eredivisie Live, NBC Sports Network and currently hosts BT Sport's coverage of the UEFA Champions League. Lineker began his football career at Leicester City in 1978, and finished as the First Division's joint top goalscorer in 1984–85.
  • He then moved to League Champions Everton where he developed as a clinical finisher, scoring 30 goals in 41 games.
  • His first team honours came at Barcelona, where he won the Copa del Rey in 1988 and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1989.
  • He returned to England in 1989, joining Tottenham Hotspur, and over three seasons he scored 67 goals in 105 games and won the FA Cup.
  • Lineker's final club was Nagoya Grampus Eight and he retired in 1994 after two seasons at the Japanese side. Lineker made his England debut in 1984, earning 80 caps and scoring 48 goals over an eight-year international career, and is England's third highest scorer, behind Bobby Charlton and Wayne Rooney.
  • His international goals-to-games ratio remains one of the best for the country and he is regarded as one of the all-time best English strikers.
  • He was top scorer in the 1986 World Cup and received the Golden Boot, the only time an Englishman had done so until Harry Kane in the 2018 World Cup.
  • He is also the only player to have been the top scorer in England with three clubs (Leicester City, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur). Even though he enjoyed a long career, Lineker never received a yellow or red card.
  • As a result, he was honoured in 1990 with the FIFA Fair Play Award.
  • In a senior career which spanned 16 years and 567 competitive games, Lineker scored a total of 330 goals, including 282 goals at club level.
  • After his retirement from football he was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame.
  • A keen supporter of Leicester City, he led a consortium that invested in his old club, saving it from bankruptcy, and was appointed honorary vice-president.

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