Peter Crouch
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"Peter James Crouch" is an English Association football/footballer who plays for Premier League club Stoke City F.C./Stoke City as a Forward (association football)/striker. He was capped 42 times by the England national football team/England national team from 2005 to 2010, scoring 22 goals for his country in that time, and appearing at two World Cups.

Crouch started his career as a trainee with Tottenham Hotspur F.C./Tottenham Hotspur. He failed to make an appearance for Spurs and after loan spells at Dulwich Hamlet F.C./Dulwich Hamlet and Swedish club IFK Hässleholm he joined Queens Park Rangers F.C./Queens Park Rangers. QPR were relegated at the end of the 2000–01 season and Portsmouth F.C./Portsmouth stepped in and paid £1.5 million for Crouch. He had a good season at Fratton Park and after scoring 19 goals he joined Aston Villa F.C./Aston Villa in March 2002 for £5 million. He had a relatively poor spell at Villa and was loaned out to Norwich City F.C./Norwich City in 2003 before making a move to Southampton F.C./Southampton where he re-gained his form and was signed by Liverpool F.C./Liverpool in July 2005.

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I'm obviously pleased to score today, it was bugging me a bit.

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I feel comfortable now, although I am new to the Champions League. There is a lot to learn from the manager and from the players here and I am confident I can do that. I am definitely picking things up and I think I will become a better player.

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The first one took a big slice of luck, obviously, but I'm really pleased.

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I'm really looking forward to the derby and can't wait and we go there with a lot of confidence.

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This is a big lift for me because I was devastated on Friday. It is not every day you get a chance to make your England debut and to miss out against America was a big blow.

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I am thrilled to be joining a club as prestigious and successful as Liverpool.

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I had doubts about whether I would make it or not but I've come through training fine.

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Once I heard of their interest in me it was hard not to think about what it would be like to pull on the famous red shirt and play in front of the Kop, but I was also very aware of my responsibilities towards Southampton.

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I've got my own targets, ... To establish myself in the team and once you are a regular for Liverpool then England [recognition] comes from that and hopefully this will prove the case.

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