Daniel Andre Sturridge is an English professional footballer. He most recently played for Turkish Süper Lig club Trabzonspor. Sturridge has also played for Manchester City, Chelsea, Bolton Wanderers, Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion. He is the only player ever to score in the FA Youth Cup, FA Cup and Premier League in the same season. He has represented England at all levels.
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Daniel Andre Sturridge is an English professional footballer. He most recently played for Turkish Süper Lig club Trabzonspor. Sturridge has also played for Manchester City, Chelsea, Bolton Wanderers, Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion. He made his England debut against Sweden on 15 November 2011. He was selected for the 2012 Summer Olympics, the 2014 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2016. He is the only player ever to score in the FA Youth Cup, FA Cup and Premier League in the same season. He has represented England at all levels. He received a four-month worldwide ban for breaching betting rules in March 2020. He also went on to score the opening goal in the 2016 Europa League final, although Liverpool eventually lost the game to Sevilla. He played in the UEFA Champions League-winning squad in 2019, but was left out of the squad by manager Jürgen Klopp. His last appearance in the Champions League came in the quarter-final against Real Madrid. He scored four goals in the final, though they were insufficient to prevent a 3–2 aggregate defeat to Liverpool. He became the youngest player in the history of the competition to score four goals en route to the final. In the 2007–08 season, Sturridge became the first player ever in the Youth FA Cup, Premier League and FA Cup to score more than three goals in a single season. The following year, he was the leading scorer and voted player of the tournament as City won the Nike Cup, the world’s largest under-15 tournament.
He left City in 2009 and signed for Chelsea, where he was loaned out to Bolton for the second half of the 2010–11 season. After a successful spell at Bolton, scoring eight goals in 12 appearances, he returned to Chelsea for the 2011–12 season. In January 2013, he formed an attacking partnership with Luis Suárez dubbed SAS, with Liverpool scoring more than 100 league goals in 2013–14 season with Sturridge scoring 21 – the pair of them having a 1–2 in the goal scoring stats of the league. In March 2020, his contract was terminated in March 2019 shortly before receiving a four year ban for betting rules. The ban was later reduced to two years and one month. He then signed a new contract with TrabZonspor until the end of the 2018/19 season. His first professional contract, which came into effect when he turned 17, was with Manchester City in 2003. He spent four years in the Aston Villa academy before moving to Coventry City. He continued his development at City and played in twoFA Youth Cup finals. In December 2008, he made his first-team debut for City against Blackburn Rovers, scoring in the 88th minute of a 2–0 defeat by Blackburn. He later made a second substitute appearance a month later, but then suffered a hip injury which sidelined him for the remainder of 2007. He joined Chelsea in 2009, and played for the club for the rest of the 2009/10 season.
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