Steven Roy Caulker was born on 29 December 1991 and is a professional footballer who plays as a centre back, for EFL Championship club Wigan Athletic.
56 Facts About Steven Caulker
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Steven Caulker spent three seasons on loan with Yeovil Town, Bristol City and Swansea City.
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Steven Caulker spent the next few seasons largely on loan to Southampton and Liverpool before playing half a season for Dundee in the Scottish Premiership.
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Steven Caulker then joined Turkish Super Lig team Alanyaspor in January 2019.
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Steven Caulker was born in Feltham in the London Borough of Hounslow.
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Steven Caulker is a member of the Caulker family of Sierra Leone.
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Steven Caulker attended Staines Preparatory School as his primary school and Lampton School as his secondary school, and was borough champion at 400m for four years in a row.
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Steven Caulker forced his way into the reserve team that season, making five appearances, and captained the Under-18s towards the start of that season.
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Steven Caulker impressed during his first season as a full-time scholar and signed his first professional contract at Tottenham in July 2009.
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In July 2009, Steven Caulker went on loan to League One club Yeovil Town along with teammate Ryan Mason.
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Steven Caulker returned to Spurs one match early after starting 44 of Yeovil's 45 league matches, having missed only one match due to playing for England U19s, taking four of Yeovil's five end of season awards.
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Just five days after his Tottenham debut, Steven Caulker was loaned out to Championship club Bristol City until the end of the season where he joined Spurs teammate Danny Rose.
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In early June 2011, Steven Caulker was linked to a further season-long loan move to help continue his development through regular football, this time to newly promoted Premier League clubs Swansea City and Norwich City, as well as another stint at Bristol City.
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On 1 July 2011, Steven Caulker officially joined Swansea City on a season-long loan, with Swansea paying an initial fee for his services and an option to review the loan in January.
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Former member of Spurs' backroom staff and Newport County manager Anthony Hudson described Steven Caulker as having the "potential to be one of the best defenders in country".
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Hudson said during his time at Bristol City, Steven Caulker was "the best defender in the Championship" and described him as "one to watch this season because I think he's going to be a real star".
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Steven Caulker became a mainstay for the remainder of Swansea's Premier League campaign and made 26 starts overall, helping the club finish 11th in the Premier League.
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On 5 July 2012, Steven Caulker signed a new four-year contract with Tottenham Hotspur until the summer of 2016.
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Steven Caulker finished the season having made 28 appearances in all competitions for Tottenham, scoring two goals.
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Steven Caulker was ever-present for Cardiff in the Premier League playing every minute of the campaign scoring five goals, but was unable to prevent them from suffering relegation back to the Championship.
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On 22 July 2014, Steven Caulker transferred to Queens Park Rangers for an undisclosed fee, signing a four-year contract.
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On 29 July 2015, Steven Caulker joined Premier League club Southampton on a season-long loan.
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Steven Caulker made his debut for Southampton in the second-leg of their Europa League third qualifying round match against Vitesse Arnhem, on 6 August 2015.
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Six weeks after departing QPR, on 8 February 2018 Steven Caulker signed a one-and-a-half-year deal with Dundee.
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On 15 January 2019, Steven Caulker joined Alanyaspor of the Turkish Super Lig.
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Steven Caulker finished the season fifth in the league immediately above two of Turkey's traditional big three clubs, Galatasaray and Fenerbahce.
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On 30 June 2021, Steven Caulker signed for fellow Turkish Super Lig side Fenerbahce on a two-year deal.
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Steven Caulker would be released by Fener at the end of the season despite having another year left on his contract.
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On 28 August 2022, Steven Caulker joined Fatih Karagumruk on a free transfer, signing a two-year deal.
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On 9 January 2023, Steven Caulker joined EFL Championship side Wigan Athletic on a contract until the end of the season.
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Steven Caulker was named along with fellow Spurs loanee Ryan Mason in the England U19s for three European Championship qualification matches in Slovenia, appearing in matches against Finland and Slovenia.
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Steven Caulker achieved his third and fourth caps for the U19s in friendlies against Turkey and the Netherlands respectively.
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Steven Caulker was again included in the England U19 squad for the Elite Round of qualification in the Ukraine for the European Championships.
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Steven Caulker was again called up for the final 18-man squad for the European Championships, for group matches against Austria, the hosts France and the Netherlands.
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Steven Caulker had started all of England's matches and played all bar a couple of minutes of their games in the tournament.
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Steven Caulker received his first call-up to the England U21 squad for the friendly against Germany on 16 November 2010.
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In February 2011 Steven Caulker was called up to the England U20 squad for their friendly against France but withdrew after an injury.
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Steven Caulker was named in the 31-man U21s squad for two warm-up matches for the 2011 U21 European Championship with friendlies against Denmark and Iceland but had to pull out through injury and missed both matches, and the treatment of this injury caused Steven Caulker to miss out on a call-up to the 40-man provisional squad for the 2011 European Championship.
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Steven Caulker was recalled to the U21s team for the double-header matches against Azerbaijan and Israel in September 2011 and featured in both matches.
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On 23 February 2012, Steven Caulker was called up for England U21's 2013 European Championship qualification match against Belgium.
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On 31 August 2012, Steven Caulker was called up to the England U21 squad for the European U21 Championship qualification matches against Azerbaijan and Norway.
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On 13 December 2012, Steven Caulker was handed a two-match ban by UEFA due to the incident, although in February 2013 this ban was rescinded and instead Steven Caulker was ordered to do a day of community service.
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Steven Caulker was included in the England U21 squad for the 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, and played in the first two of England's group matches as the team lost all three of their matches and failed to progress to the semi-finals.
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On 10 August 2012, as part of a new look national team squad Steven Caulker was called up to the senior England team for the first time, ahead of a friendly match against Italy, although he failed to make it onto the pitch.
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On 8 November 2012, Steven Caulker received his second call up from Roy Hodgson to the England national football team for the friendly against Sweden.
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Steven Caulker was named in Stuart Pearce's squad for the 2012 Summer Olympics Great Britain Olympic football team.
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Steven Caulker played in all of Great Britain's matches in the Olympics, making it out of the group stage before being knocked out in the quarterfinals on penalties to South Korea.
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In March 2018, Steven Caulker declared his desire to play for Scotland.
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In December 2020, Steven Caulker expressed his desire to play international football "whether that be for England or Scotland".
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In October 2021, Steven Caulker announced he was awaiting clearance from FIFA to switch allegiances from England to Sierra Leone.
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Steven Caulker was included in Sierra Leone's Africa Cup of Nations squad, and played in all three of their games, drawing against defending champions Algeria and Ivory Coast, before losing to Equatorial Guinea and finishing third place in the group with two points.
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On 5 November 2011, Steven Caulker was arrested for a public order offence after an incident in Swansea city centre.
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Steven Caulker was issued with a fixed penalty notice and later released.
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Steven Caulker later revealed that his arrest was for swearing in the street and apologised to the club and his manager Brendan Rodgers for getting caught-up in the late night offence.
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In June 2017, Steven Caulker was interviewed by The Guardian and discussed his problems with alcohol, gambling addiction and depression.
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Steven Caulker acknowledged that his problems had damaged his football career and had led him to consider suicide.