FRANK LAMPARD

Frank James Lampard



Personal information

Full name Frank James Lampard
Date of birth 20 June 1978 (1978-06-20)
(age 31)
Place of birth Romford, England
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[2]
Playing position Midfielder

Club information

Current club Chelsea
Number 8

Youth career
1994–1995 West Ham United

Senior career*

Years Club Apps (Gls)

1995–2001 West Ham United 148 (24)
1995–1996 ? Swansea City (loan) 9 (1)
2001– Chelsea 292 (84)

National team
1997–2000 England U21 16 (8)
1998 England B 1 (0)
1999– England 74 (20)

Frank James Lampard (born 20 June 1978) is an English footballer who plays for Premier League club Chelsea and the England national team. He plays most often as a box-to-box midfielder and has also enjoyed spells in a more advanced attacking midfield role. Lampard is Chelsea's top active goalscorer with 130 goals, the most in club history for a midfielder, and is the second midfielder in Premier League history to score 100 goals, after Matthew Le Tissier. Lampard established himself as one of the best midfielders in the world by coming second in both FIFA World Player of the Year and the Ballon d'Or in 2005. Lampard began his career at West Ham United, his father's former club. Joining the youth team in 1994, he had secured a place in the first team by the 1997–1998 season. He helped the team to their highest ever finishing position Premier League in the 1998–99 season. The following season Lampard scored 14 goals in all competitions from midfield. With progress stagnating at West Ham, he moved to rival London club Chelsea in 2001 for £11 million.

From his debut onwards he was ever-present in the Chelsea first team, setting a record 164 consecutive Premier League appearances. He established himself as a prolific scorer at the West London club and won his first major honours in 2005, winning the Premier League and League Cup. Lampard won more club honours under coach Jose Mourinho; the 2005–06 Premier League title and a domestic cup double in 2007.

He signed a new contract in 2008, becoming the highest paid Premier League footballer at that time, and scored in his first Champions League Final that same year. He won the FA cup for the second time in the 2009 final in which he scored the winning goal. With over 190 goals in his career for club and country to date, Lampard is the highest scoring midfielder in Europe.Internationally, Lampard gained his first senior England cap in 1999 team and has played in Euro 2004 (scoring three goals in four games), the 2006 World Cup and the Euro 2008 qualifiers. He has two children, Luna and Isla, with Elen Rives.

Biography

Born in Romford, London, Frank Lampard is the son of Frank Lampard, Sr., a former England fullback and two-time FA Cup winner with West Ham United. His mother, Pat, died of pneumonia on 24 April 2008,and since her death his goal celebration has consisted of pointing to the sky and looking upwards as a tribute.
His uncle is Tottenham Hotspur coach Harry Redknapp, and his cousin, Jamie Redknapp, spent twelve seasons with Liverpool and earned 17 caps for England before retiring in 2005.Lampard was educated at Brentwood School, an independent school in Essex, where he was a classmate of television personality Jodie Marsh.[citation needed] He gained an A in his Latin GCSE,[9] one of the 12 GSCEs he took. He reportedly has an IQ higher than 150, putting him in the most intelligent 0.1 per cent of the population.


Honours

West Ham

* UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1999

Chelsea

Winner

* Premier League: 2004–05, 2005–06
* FA Cup: 2006-07, 2008-09
* Football League Cup: 2004-05,

2006-07
* FA Community Shield: 2005, 2009

Runner-up

* Premier League: 2003-04, 2006-07,

2007-08
* FA Cup: 2001-02
* Football League Cup: 2007-08
* FA Community Shield: 2006, 2007
* UEFA Champions League: 2007-08

International

* 2004 FA Summer Tournament: 2004

Individual

* PFA Premier League Team of the

Year: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
* UEFA Euro 2004 Team of the

tournament
* 2004-05 Barclays Merit Award(for

164 consecutive appearances)
* Chelsea Player of the Year: 2004,

2005, 2009
* FWA Player of the Year: 2005
* PFA Fans' Player of the Year: 2005
* England Player of the Year: 2004,

2005
* Barclay Player Of The Season:

2004-2005, 2005-2006
* FIFPro World XI: 2005
* FIFA World Player of the Year:

Silver Award 2005
* Ballon d'Or (European Footballer of

the Year): Silver Award 2005
* UEFA Club Midfielder of the Year:

2007–08
* Premier League Player of the Month:

September 2003, January 2004, October

2005, April 2007, October 2008