1. Jermain Colin Defoe was born on 7 October 1982 and is an English football coach and former professional player.
65 Facts About Jermain Defoe
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Jermain Defoe was most recently the under-18s coach at Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur.
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Jermain Defoe spent one season at Fratton Park before returning to Tottenham in the January 2009 transfer window.
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Jermain Defoe left for Toronto FC of Major League Soccer in 2014, before returning to England in January 2015 to sign for Sunderland where he stayed until the club was relegated from the Premier League in 2017.
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Jermain Defoe holds the Premier League record for the most goals scored as a substitute, with 24.
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On 19 November 2016, Jermain Defoe scored his 150th Premier League goal, becoming the joint tenth-highest goal scorer in Premier League history.
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Jermain Defoe debuted for the England national team in 2004 after representing England at youth level, earning 57 senior caps and scoring 20 goals, including three appearances and a goal at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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Jermain Defoe was born to a Dominican father and his mother is of Saint Lucian descent.
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Jermain Defoe attended St Joachim Primary School in Custom House, London and St Bonaventure's in Forest Gate, London.
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Jermain Defoe grew up in Canning Town and when his family moved to Beckton, played five-a-side football at Newham Leisure Centre.
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Jermain Defoe joined the Sunday league team Senrab, well known in London for producing players such as Lee Bowyer, John Terry, Ashley Cole and Ledley King, and then joined the FA National School of Excellence at Lilleshall, Shropshire, as a 14-year-old in 1997.
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Jermain Defoe was spotted playing football by Charlton Athletic who enrolled him at the FA National School of Excellence at Lilleshall Hall in 1997.
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Jermain Defoe scored 18 goals in 29 league appearances for Bournemouth.
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Jermain Defoe received the club's Player of the Year award for the 2004 calendar year, as voted by season ticket holders and Spurs members.
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Jermain Defoe started 23 times and came on as substitute 13 times, scoring nine goals.
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Jermain Defoe was presented at White Hart Lane with a carnival atmosphere before the start of Spurs' League Cup clash against Burnley after his return to White Hart Lane.
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Jermain Defoe made his return debut on 11 January 2009 in a Premier League match against Wigan Athletic.
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Jermain Defoe scored a goal and was sent off during the match against his former club, Portsmouth.
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In doing so, Jermain Defoe became only the third player to score five goals in one Premier League match, after Alan Shearer and Andy Cole.
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On 26 December 2010, Jermain Defoe received a straight red card, his first of the season and first since 17 October 2009, in a match at Aston Villa; his team leading at the time went on to secure the win despite playing over an hour with ten men.
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Jermain Defoe ended the season with 17 goals in 38 matches across all competitions; in the Premier League, he scored 11 in 25 appearances, of which only 11 were starts.
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On 30 August 2012, Jermain Defoe signed a new three-year contract with Tottenham.
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Jermain Defoe said Chivers had been at the match and had encouraged him to beat his record.
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On 10 January 2014, Tottenham announced that Jermain Defoe was leaving to join Major League Soccer club Toronto FC, effective 28 February 2014.
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Jermain Defoe was immediately loaned back to Tottenham until the end of February 2014, with whom he made two more appearances as a substitute.
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On 16 January 2015, Jermain Defoe joined Premier League club Sunderland after agreeing to a three-and-a-half-year deal, as part of a player exchange deal sending Jozy Altidore to Toronto FC, after completing only 11 months of his four-year deal with Toronto.
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Jermain Defoe made his Sunderland debut the following day against former club Tottenham.
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Jermain Defoe started the match but was goalless when he was substituted after 75 minutes, ending his record of scoring on his first appearance for every club he has played for.
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On 7 May 2016, Jermain Defoe scored the winning goal against Chelsea, moving Sunderland out of the bottom three, and taking his Premier League tally to 15 for the season.
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Jermain Defoe ended the season as Sunderland's top scorer with 15 league goals, and was named the club's player of the season.
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On 9 June, Jermain Defoe signed a new contract with Sunderland, committing his future to the club until 2019.
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On 5 November 2016, Jermain Defoe scored the winning goal from the penalty spot as 10-man Sunderland came from behind to win at Bournemouth, their first league win of the season.
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On 2 January 2017, Jermain Defoe scored twice from the penalty spot as Sunderland came from behind to draw at home to Liverpool.
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In January 2017, with Sunderland lying in the relegation zone, Jermain Defoe was linked with a return to former club West Ham United.
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Jermain Defoe was linked with a possible transfer to Newcastle United, and potential returns to former clubs Bournemouth and West Ham United.
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On 25 January 2020, it was announced that Jermain Defoe had signed a pre-contract agreement with Rangers, and would join the club permanently on a one-year deal, at the expiry of his Bournemouth contract in June 2020.
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Jermain Defoe scored his 300th career club goal, against Livingston on 25 October 2020.
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On 8 June 2021, Jermain Defoe signed a new one-year deal with Rangers to keep him at the club.
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On 15 November 2021, following the departure of manager, Steven Gerrard from Rangers to Aston Villa, Jermain Defoe was named as part of a four-man caretaker team responsible for leading the club during the pursuit of a new permanent head coach.
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Jermain Defoe was capped by England at two youth levels, earning eight caps for the under-16s and seven caps for the under-18s.
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Jermain Defoe went on to gain 23 caps for England at under-21 level, scoring seven goals.
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Jermain Defoe showed that he can do very well even in international football and that he is technically very good.
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Jermain Defoe scored one goal and created other chances as well.
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Jermain Defoe is a great player who will always score goals.
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Jermain Defoe continued to be selected and to appear for England in UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying matches and friendly matches.
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Jermain Defoe was initially omitted from Fabio Capello's first squad with the new manager insisting he would only select players who were playing regular club football.
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One day after scoring on his Portsmouth debut, Jermain Defoe was recalled to the England squad to replace the injured Gabriel Agbonlahor.
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Jermain Defoe took his international goals tally up to five in the Caribbean on 1 June 2008 when he scored twice against Trinidad and Tobago and in the process staking a claim for a more regular place in the international team.
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Jermain Defoe scored two goals in three minutes against Andorra in a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier.
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Jermain Defoe opened up the scoring for England's UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying campaign against Bulgaria, volleying home from the six-yard box after a cross from Ashley Cole, whose initial effort was saved by the Bulgarian goalkeeper Nikolay Mihaylov.
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Jermain Defoe went on to score his first international hat-trick, which was the first ever at the new Wembley.
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Jermain Defoe was called up to the England squad to face Wales on 26 March 2011, though he served as an unused substitute.
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Jermain Defoe was named as a member of the England squad for UEFA Euro 2012.
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Jermain Defoe did not play for the full 90 minutes in any of his England appearances until 11 September 2012 where he played the entire match against Ukraine.
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Jermain Defoe was not included in the 23-man squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
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Jermain Defoe was not named in manager Roy Hodgson's 26-man preliminary squad, and expressed his disappointment at his omission.
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Ahead of captain, Joe Hart, Jermain Defoe led the team onto the pitch with terminally ill child, Bradley Lowery, a Sunderland supporter who suffered from neuroblastoma.
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Jermain Defoe explained that his own favourite celebration is outstretching both arms straight, before stating when scoring a goal "you just want to go mad".
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On 12 August 2022, Jermain Defoe returned to Tottenham Hotspur as club ambassador and an academy coach.
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Jermain Defoe left the role in July 2024 to concentrate on a managerial career.
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On 24 April 2009, his 26-year-old half-brother, Jade Jermain Defoe, died of head injuries following an assault in Leytonstone, London.
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On 7 June 2012, his father, Jimmy Jermain Defoe, died after a long battle with throat cancer.
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Jermain Defoe was with the England squad ahead of UEFA Euro 2012 at the time, and returned home from Poland upon receiving the news, but rejoined the squad on 9 June, two days before the opening match and played against France as a 77th-minute substitute.
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Whilst playing for Sunderland, Jermain Defoe befriended Bradley Lowery, a terminally-ill six-year-old fan with neuroblastoma, describing their relationship as the "highlight of his season".
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Lowery was named 'Child of Courage' at the Pride of North East Awards in May 2017; Jermain Defoe attended the award ceremony, saying, "As a person he has changed me because of what he's going through at such a young age".