Talking about the stars in the Premier League, one will think of the league legends such as Henry, Ronaldo, Rooney, Lampard and Gerrard, who are still remembered by countless fans, and now it is Salah, Mane, Aguero and De Bruyne who play on the field. In the first few seasons of the Premier League, this league that originally advocated high-flying and long-passing still has the shadow of the rough and wild of the past.
On 20 February 1992, the Premier League was proclaimed. Just as everyone was adapting and groping for the new top flight, a legendary English top scorer was born, Alain Shearer, who became a benchmark figure that would make it difficult for all Future Premier League strikers to surpass.
England's first striker in the 1990s, three consecutive Seasons of premier League Golden Boot, new record for the highest transfer fee in British football, the world's first in the past, former Captain of the England national team, still holding the record for the most goals in Premier League history of 260 goals, and the iconic burst of goal has made countless opponents feel frightened...
In the 1970s and 1980s, legendary English football striker Kevin Keegan swept england to become a British star who could still achieve great success outside of his home country, and winning two consecutive Ballon d'Or awards made him one of the best goalscorers in the world at that time. The English footballer of the year played for Liverpool at the height of the year and Hamburg, a former Bundesliga giant, and returned to England in 1980 to play for two established teams, Southampton and Newcastle United.
On 1 July 1985, the last striker of the League One era officially announced his retirement, and an epoch-making local footballer ended his career, which made countless British fans feel sorry for him. Perhaps this was fate, and in 1986, the then 16-year-old future England legend striker Alain Shearer officially signed a contract with "Saints" Southampton to enter the football club, which was already famous for its youth training.
At that time, Shearer was still a little naïve, but his goalscoring talent had already flourished on the pitch, and in fact, his football talent had already attracted the attention of those around him when he was a child. In 1988, Southampton officially offered Alain Shearer the first professional contract of his career, and the England-based striker began his admirable and legendary journey. On 9 April of the same year, 17 years and 240 days old, Shearer made his top league debut in the 87/88 season of League One, scoring three consecutive goals and successfully performing a hat-trick to surprise the audience, and finally helped Southampton to a 4-2 victory over Arsenal. Shearer set a new record in his professional debut, becoming the youngest player in english top league history to play a hat-trick.
After more than four seasons at Southampton, Alain Shearer's abilities have become more comprehensive, becoming a top-flight scorer. At that time, Southampton's England legend Le Titisier was on the rise, and his comprehensive technical ability undoubtedly impressed the young Alain Shearer at the time, and Shearer's good free-kick ability may have been learned from the saint's famous man.
It was in Southampton that Alain Shearer was able to enter the England squad and start his international career. On 19 February 1992, Shearer, who was a member of the national team, was given the opportunity to start against France and scored a goal before the end of the first half 45 minutes, and finally England won 2-0, which directly ended France's 20 unbeaten record at that time, and Shearer became famous for a while.
On 24 June 1992, a day in premier league history, the under-22-year-old Alain Shearer moved from Southampton to Blackburn with a value of £3.6 million, a high-value transfer that directly created the highest transfer fee record in British football at the time, and the eyes of the crowd were on the young player for a while. Prior to that, on February 20 of the same year, the English football top league was restructured and the English Premier League was announced, and Shearer's transfer was an epoch-making blockbuster player deal in the history of the Premier League.
On August 15 of the same year, the ambitious Alain Shearer lived up to expectations and won two dollars in the first game of the team, helping the team to a 2-2 draw with Crystal Palace, which was the third debut goal of his personal career. However, just four months later, in Blackburn's 3-1 league match over Z united on 26 December, Shearer scored twice but suffered a season-based strain of a cruciate ligament in his right leg. In the 93-94 season, which was the season when Alain Shearer was among the league's top scorers, the natural goalscorer scored 31 goals in 40 premier league games for Blackburn, regrettably only finishing second in the league, and he was successfully elected the English Football Journalists Association Of the Year in 1994.
Speaking of the Premier League's original "SAS" combination, many new fans today have not heard that in the 94-95 season, it was the golden strike pair of Alain Shearer and Chris Sutton that swept the league, helping Blackburn finally win the Premier League title and break United's two consecutive championship momentum. The team's front-court double stars contributed more than 60% of the team's goals in a single season, the excellent center Sutton played 15 goals and 17 assists, and Shearer was extremely terrifying 34 goals and 16 assists.
The only league championship season of his career was the culmination of Alain Shearer, the England striker who brought Blackburn the first Premier League title in the club's history with the strongest firepower of the season. At the age of 25, Shearer was once again named the premier league's top scorer, and even more importantly, he won both the 1995 Premier League Official Player of the Year and the English Professional Footballers Association's Mr. Footballers, becoming one of England's strongest stars at the time. In the 95-96 season, Alain Shearer set several personal milestones, his first Champions League goal, his 100th goal in the Premier League, and of course, his success in winning the Premier League's top scorer again.
In July 1996, Newcastle United completed a blockbuster transfer and successfully signed Alain Shearer for 15 million pounds, directly breaking the world transfer fee record at that time, and Shearer, who returned to his hometown team, became the most expensive player in world football at that time. However, after returning to his hometown, Shearer did not have the style of a superstar in football, and although he was an important figure in the team, he was always very low-key.
The Magpies were just seven points behind Manchester United in 96-97, and Alain Shearer did not win the team honor for another year, but he personally won the Premier League top scorer for the third consecutive season, again won the English Professional Footballers Association Footballers' Footballer, and won the 1996 European Championship Golden Boot. It is worth mentioning that Shearer's perfect personal performance this season has allowed him to win third place in both the European Ballon d'Or and the World Footballer of the Year, and the strength of the English striker has long been recognized by people in European football.
However, Alain Shearer took a major turning point in his career in July 1993, suffering a knee injury in a warm-up match against Everton on New carolina and missing out for five months, since then his speed and explosiveness have declined, and he has suffered two more serious injuries. However, three serious injuries did not prevent Shearer from continuing to contribute to his hometown team, and Alain Shearer left countless good memories for The Newcastle fans.
Alain Shearer's heavy artillery long-range blast is the most iconic, with a perfect combination of accuracy and power on almost every shot. Once upon a time, the ability to kick a wonderful kick has become a criterion for many fans to evaluate England's attacking players.
At the same time, Alain Shearer's free-kick and penalty level is also top-notch, and he can often play direct free-kicks with both strength and arc. He scored 45 of the 50 penalties in his career, with a success rate of 90%.
On 14 November 2004, the then 34-year-old Alain Shearer staged a perfect counter-attack to get rid of the powerful Manchester United, carrying the ball to the box and scoring easily, not at all a veteran striker who had experienced serious injuries and was facing retirement.
Shearer scored 206 goals in 405 appearances for his hometown team in the past decade, becoming the first scorer in Newcastle's history and the king of the Magpies. On April 21, 2006, the 35-year-old Alain Shearer officially announced his retirement, and the local superstar's name is so important to Magpies fans that a statue of him was erected outside st. James's Park. The legendary striker once said: "I think very few people will believe me, but it's true. My childhood dream was to score for Newcastle in the number 9 shirt, and I was lucky to do it. ”
Alain Shearer has created countless classic moments for fans in the league, with the homegrown goalscorer scoring 260 goals in 441 Premier League appearances and an admirable efficiency of 0.5 goals per game, and the legendary goalscorer is now the most goal-scoring player in Premier League history. Manchester United legend Wayne Looney, who is second on the Premier League's all-time goal list, scored 208 goals, a 52-point difference from Shearer's goal count.
The legendary goalscorer, as a Premier League perfect striker with both The style of a British striker and a modern striker, successfully connected traditional English football with modern football at the time of the restructuring of the league. For all the strikers in the world's most high-profile football league, Alain Shearer, the premier league's all-time top scorer, is like the ceiling of a building.
Some people say that Alan Shearer is not a world-class star because he has little honor in the big game, but he has always occupied a very important position in the hearts of British fans, just like the "alien" Ronaldo in the hearts of Brazilian fans, batistuta, the "god of war" batistuta in the hearts of Argentine fans, and the "wolf king" Totti in the hearts of Italian fans. Alain Shearer is one of the greatest strikers in the Premier League since its inception, and he is a symbol of English football's entry into the modern world of football.
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