Scott Paul Carson was born on 3 September 1985 and is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Manchester City.
24 Facts About Scott Carson
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Scott Carson made nine appearances for Liverpool, including the UEFA Champions League quarter-final victory over Juventus in April 2005, before going on loan to Sheffield Wednesday, Charlton Athletic and Aston Villa in successive seasons to gain experience.
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Scott Carson joined reigning Premier League champions Manchester City on loan in August 2019 to provide cover for Ederson and Claudio Bravo.
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Scott Carson made his first appearance for the England under-21 team in February 2004 and later set a record of 29 caps for the under-21 team.
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Scott Carson quickly rose through the youth teams at local team Cleator Moor Celtic to play for the men's team when he was 15.
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Scott Carson joined the Leeds United football academy in July 2002 after impressing former Leeds defender Peter Hampton while playing for non-league Workington in the FA Youth Cup.
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Scott Carson spent less than a year in the academy and half a season with the reserves before making his first-team debut in January 2004, coming on as a late substitute after Paul Robinson was sent off against Middlesbrough.
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Scott Carson joined Liverpool on a four-and-a-half-year contract and was to provide competition for Jerzy Dudek for a first-team place.
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Scott Carson made his first team debut for Liverpool in March 2005 in a defeat to Newcastle United, and made three consecutive appearances in April, including the home leg of the UEFA Champions League quarter-final victory over Juventus.
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Scott Carson was an unused substitute when Liverpool were victorious in the 2005 UEFA Champions League Final and 2005 UEFA Super Cup.
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Wednesday sought his services to help solve their goalkeeping crisis, while Scott Carson was looking to gain more first team experience and to challenge for a place in the England 2006 FIFA World Cup squad.
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Scott Carson kept five clean sheets in nine appearances for Wednesday, whose assistant manager Kevin Summerfield hailed his contribution as a key factor in helping the club escape relegation.
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Scott Carson returned to Liverpool at the end of the season and in July 2006, extended his contract with Liverpool until 2011.
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West Bromwich Albion won promotion back to the Premier League, finishing second, 12 points clear of third place Nottingham Forest with Scott Carson keeping 15 clean sheets out of 43 matches.
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On 9 March 2022, in the second leg of the round of 16 of the UEFA Champions League, against Portuguese side Sporting CP, Scott Carson came off the bench with twenty minutes to go to play his first European match in seventeen years.
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Scott Carson would extend his stay with City for a fourth season on 14 June 2022, by signing a new one-year contract.
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Scott Carson was first called up to the England under-21 squad in October 2003, a month after his 18th birthday, for the 2004 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier against Turkey.
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Scott Carson was selected in the squad for the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, and in the third match against Serbia, he earned his 28th under-21 cap, eclipsing the record held by Gareth Barry and Jamie Carragher.
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Scott Carson has since been overtaken by James Milner as the England Under-21 team's most-capped player.
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In May 2005, while still a member of the under-21 team, Scott Carson was called up to the England senior team squad for the team's tour of the United States later that month.
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The injury to Green, who had been named in the England squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, led to Scott Carson, who was on standby, being promoted to the England squad for the tournament, although he did not make any appearances.
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Scott Carson was held particularly culpable for the first goal, when Niko Kranjcar cut inside and his dipping speculative shot from 30 yards dipped and bounced in front of him, with Scott Carson only succeeding in parrying the ball into the net as it squirmed through him.
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Scott Carson won his third England cap in November 2008, in a friendly against Germany in Berlin when he came on for the second half.
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Scott Carson won his fourth cap as a second-half substitute against Sweden on 15 November 2011, becoming the first-ever Bursaspor player to play for England in the club's history.