Frank Lampard- Bio And Facts

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English professional football player and Chelsea football club midfielder- Frank Lampard is one of the best players of the modern generation in football. Frank Lampard statistics alone put him in the top five English football player positions. Below are some of the highlights in his professional and personal life.
• Lampard joined West Ham United’s youth academy in 1994 when his father was working as the assistant coach for the club.
• His uncle- Harry Redknapp was the manager of the club. But after his father and uncle were fired, Lampard left West Ham United and joined Chelsea for eleven million pounds.
• During his time with the West Ham United, he has appeared in one hundred and sixty three matches and scored thirty five goals.
• His full name is Frank James Lampard Jr. He is sometimes fondly referred to as the ‘Frankie’ AND ‘LAMPS’
• He was born on 20th of June 1978.
• His girlfriend’s name is Christine Bleakly. She is a TV presenter at the new ITV breakfast show ‘Daybreak’.
• He is considered one among the top five contemporary English football players; ...
... right beside players such as Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard, Peter Crouch, and Jermain Defoe.
• With Chelsea he has set an unprecedented record of over one hundred and sixty four consecutive Premier League appearances.
• Frank Lampard’s most impressive time with the Blues was during the 2009-2010 season, during which he scored twenty two league goals and seventeen league assists.
• The following season he was called up to lead the Chelsea team as their captain for their first UEFA Champions League title.
• The time he spent with Chelsea has been the most prolific in Frank Lampard profile. He was adjudged Chelsea’s ‘Player of the Year’ a record three times.
• He is to date the club’s highest goal scorer with a tally of nearly two hundred from all the matches.
• He received the FWA Footballer of the Year award in 2005.
• He took home the FWA Tribute Award five years later in 2010.
• His stellar performances with the England’s national team earned him the England Player of the Year for two years in a row- 2004 and 2005.
• He has previously dated a Spanish model Elen Rivas and has two daughters named Luna and Isla with her.
• He is quite smart for a jock. During a neurobiological research, he showed an unusually high IQ.
• He has signed a deal with Little Brown publishers to write his own set of Children’s books aptly titled “Frankie's Magic Football".