Steve Claridge, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Steve Claridge

English footballer and manager

Date of Birth: 10-Apr-1966

Place of Birth: Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

Profession: association football manager, association football player, pundit, sports commentator

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Steve Claridge

  • Stephen Edward Claridge (born 10 April 1966) is an English football pundit, coach and former player.
  • He was a pundit for BBC Sport football shows including Football Focus and The Football League Show, until 2015 when he became both manager and a director at newly formed Salisbury.Claridge's career was known for its longevity and diversity.
  • Born in Portsmouth, he has spent a number of periods with teams from Hampshire and Dorset, having begun his career with non-league Fareham Town in 1983.
  • After failing to gain a permanent contract at local league club A.F.C.
  • Bournemouth, Claridge spent three years at Weymouth, in his longest single spell with any club.
  • From 1988 till 1996 Claridge played for a number of Football League teams, before moving to Leicester City with whom he played in the Premier League and won the 1997 Football League Cup.
  • In 1998, he moved to Portsmouth, where he was also player manager from 2000–2001.
  • After a spell with Millwall, he dropped down to the Southern Premier League to work as player-manager for Weymouth.
  • After this ended in 2004, Claridge played for ten different clubs in a variety of leagues, never spending more than a season with one team.
  • He has played at all levels of English football and has also appeared in 1000 professional or semi-professional football matches. After formally retiring from football in 2007, Claridge moved into media work for the BBC.
  • His experience of the Football League has been used to position him as an expert at that level, though he works across a variety of different football programmes on the BBC.
  • After retirement he occasionally played semi-professional football for clubs in south England, most recently in 2017 for Salisbury.

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