Jermain Defoe, at 32, looks destined for Sunderland as his short venture in Canada with Toronto FC in the MLS, comes to an end. He may have been feeling the cold?
Defoe has scored on his debut for every club he has joined, including England, where his career was intermittent. For somebody as goal scoringly prolific as he, it is surprising that he did not get more starts. He scored 19 goals in 55 games.
A member of the well known London Sunday youth side Senrab, that produced Lee Bowyer, John Terry, Ashley Cole and Ledley King, Defoe has been around the block beginning at 14 years old with Charlton. He attended the National School of Excellence at Lilleshall, when it existed in 1997. He then was at West Ham, then he went on loan to Bournemouth, where he equalled an all time record of scoring 10 goals in 10 consecutive games. He joined Spurs, went to Portsmouth with Harry Rednapp and then back to Spurs in 2009.
A Christian, he has had tragedy in his life, losing his brother to an assault and then his father soon afterwards. He always seems chipper though and hopefully he will bring a bit of cheer to the Black Cats and Gus Poyet, who needs a goalscorer.
Defoe has scored 29 goals in 93 appearances for WHU, 18 in 29 for Bournemouth, 91 in 276 at Spurs, 15 in 31 at Pompey and 11 in 19 at Toronto. Delightful.
He may need to wrap up warm in the north-east.
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