Paul Gascoigne
English maverick footballer
Date of Birth: 27 May 1967
Birth Place: Gateshead
Height: 177 cm
Weight: 75 kg
Career Position: Midfielder
Clubs: Newcastle (1984-88), Tottenham Hotspur (1988-92), Lazio (Ita/1992-95), Glasgow Rangers (Scotland/1995-mars 98), Middlesborough (March 1998-2000), Everton (2000 - Jan. 2002), Burnley (D2/March-June 2002), Gansu Tianma (Chn-D2/Jan. - June 2003)
Player manager International appearances: 57 (1988-98)
International goals: 10
International debut: 14/09/1988, England-Denmark (1-0) First international goal:26/04/1989, England-Albania (5-0) Last international goal:10/09/1997, England-Moldova (4-0) World Cup
Appearances: 1 (1990), 6 matches Fourth place (1990) European Cup Semi-finalist (1996) Scottish Championship Winner (1996, 1997) Scottish Cup Winner (1996) Scottish League Cup Winner (1997)
Other Honours Scottish Player of the Year 1996.
The pinnacle of his career came at the 1990 World Cup, where the young genius' vision and audacity were breathtaking. there, the popularity he enjoyed in England hit new heights after the semi-final against Germany. A yellow card during the highly charged match meant he would miss the final, and tears welled up in the youngster’s eyes. England went on to lose on penalties provoking yet more tears, but on his return to Britain he was greeted as a national hero and 'Gazzamania' was born.
The agonizing aspect of Gascoigne's brilliance was his recklessness, no better illustrated than in the opening seconds of the 1991 English FA Cup final. Playing for Tottenham, Gascoigne jumped into a crazy tackle on Nottingham Forest's Gary Childs, a collision Childs walked away from but which ruptured Gazza's knee ligaments. At the time he was on the verge of a move to Italian club Lazio, who put the deal on ice for the year it took him to heal. Then, when he finally arrived in Rome, he promptly broke his leg in a freak training incident. Perhaps his last flicker of greatness came during England's relatively successful European Championships in 1996, when he scored a sensational winner against Scotland. He lit up Scottish football briefly in the late nineties with a stint at Glasgow Rangers where he was voted the nation's footballer of the year in 1996 after leading the team to a League and Cup double.
But even then his manager Walter Smith admitted that with Gazza you had to take the good with the bad. The brilliant promise he showed as a youngster at Newcastle United had gone by the time he returned to England for spells at Middlesborough, Everton and even second division Burnley. A six-month stint in the Chinese second division in June 2003, a failed comeback to the Premiership with Wolverhampton that year.
2004 Gazza joined Boston Utd as player manager but left after 2 months wishing to take football coaching qualifications. His recent book became a best seller in 2004.
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