Scott Matthew Parker is an English professional football manager and former player. He played as a midfielder for Chelsea, Newcastle United, West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur. He won four England caps while playing for four different clubs. Parker is the manager of Premier League club Fulham.
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Scott Matthew Parker is an English professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. Parker began his career at Charlton Athletic, and was loaned to Norwich City, before joining Chelsea for a £10 million fee in January 2004. He did not play regularly at Chelsea, and moved to Newcastle United the following year, where he was made captain. Parker joined West Ham United in 2007, then Tottenham Hotspur and Fulham in 2013, before retiring at the end of the 2016–17 season. He has represented England at every level from under-16 to senior, making his full debut in 2003. Uniquely, he won his first four England caps while playing for four different clubs. He was a member of the England team which reached the quarter-finals at UEFA Euro 2012. Parker is the manager of Premier League club Fulham. He is the proud owner of a Premier League winner’s medal as the club won the English title for the first time in 50 years in 2014. He also won the FWA Footballer of the Year for the 2010–11 season despite the club being relegated. Parker was born in Lambeth, Greater London, and attended Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham College in New Cross. As a 13-year-old, he appeared in a well-known English advert for McDonald’s, in which he played keepie uppie, during the 1994 FIFA World Cup campaign. His first goal came against his former club Charlton in a 3–1 defeat on March 25, 2006.
Later that month he was diagnosed with glandular fever, putting an end to his first team career. He became a regular in the first team and was one of the few players at the club to show any consistency during the difficult start to the season in which Graeme Souness was in charge. He would play 119 league matches for Fulham, in both the Premier League and the Championship, before retirement in the summer of 2016. His last game for the club was a 2–0 win against Portsmouth at Fratton Park on 11 February. He scored his only goal for Chelsea in a 2-0 victory against Portsmouth in the FA Cup fourth round on February 14, 2007. He played in three consecutive victories against West Ham, Newcastle and Fulam in the League Cup final against Manchester United. At Norwich City he scored once against Sheffield Wednesday, and played in the Capital One Cup semi-final against Manchester City on February 17, 2008. Parker has been named as the PFA Young Player of the year for the 2003–04 season and the 2004–05 season, as well as the 2005–06 and 2006–07 Premier League seasons, and the 2007–08 Championship seasons. In January 2004, Parker signed for Chelsea on a four-and-a-half-year contract for a £10 m fee. The following summer, Parker was sold to Newcastle for a 5 6million fee for a 4 million pound fee.
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