Barcelona were being managed by former Queens Park Rangers manager Terry Venables, who had also brought in Manchester United and Wales striker Mark Hughes.

The new manager was former Liverpool, Cardiff City and Wales striker John Toshack.

Dean Nicholas Saunders ( born 21 June 1964 ) is a former Wales international footballer who played as a striker in a professional career which lasted from 1982 until 2001.

The summarisers are former Wales captain Kevin Ratcliffe, former Wales and Norwich striker Iwan Roberts, ex Wales and Crystal Palace striker Ian Walsh, Malcolm Allen, the ex Wales and Newcastle centre forward, and Jason Perry, a former Cardiff City defender.

In November 2004, when former Liverpool striker John Toshack was appointed as the new manager of Wales, Evans accepted an offer to be his assistant.

* Born: Robert Earnshaw, Wales national football team striker, 2002 – present ; in Mufulira, Zambia

* Alfonso Pérez Muñoz, Spanish football ( soccer ) striker.

In 2009 FourFourTwo named Dalglish as the greatest striker in post-war British football, and in 2006 he topped a Liverpool fans ' poll of " 100 Players Who Shook the Kop ".

* 2009 – Vladimir Fedotov, Soviet football striker and manager ( b. 1943 )

* Diego Madrigal ( born 1989 ), Costa Rican football striker

* Keith Gumbs is an International football player who currently plays as a striker for the Liga Indonesia side Sriwijaya FC.

* October 24 – Torstein Andersen Aase, Norwegian football striker

In 2006, a special production run of 2. 5 million bottles celebrated the career of Newcastle United striker Alan Shearer, who had recently broken the club's scoring record and was about to retire from football.

* David Trezeguet ( born 1977 ), football striker

* Jimmy Murray ( English footballer ) ( 1935 – 2008 ), English football striker with Wolves, Manchester City and Walsall in the 1950s and 1960s

He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and for the England national team.

* Olivier Kapo, a French football ( soccer ) striker who plays for Celtic

* Richard Roelofsen ( 1969 ), Dutch football ( soccer ) striker

It is also the birthplace of Denmark football internationals, goalkeeper Thomas Sørensen and striker John Eriksen.

* Gianluca Vialli, Italian football striker and manager

* Grzegorz Lato ( born 1950 ), former striker for the Poland national football team

* Marat Bikmoev, football striker ( soccer forward )

* Marta Vieira da Silva-Women's football striker

Mahmoud Karimi ( Mahmud Karimi Sibaki ), an Iranian football striker who plays for Sepahan F. C.

* Michaël Goossens, football striker

* Kristaps Blanks, football striker, Skonto FC and Latvian national football team player

The 1990s was also the era of player exports in Norwegian football, and Viking made substantial earnings from the sales of striker Egil Østenstad to Southampton for £ 900, 000 in 1996 and goalkeeper Thomas Myhre to Everton for £ 800, 000 in 1997, among others.

Clyde Cyril Best MBE ( born 24 February 1951 in Somerset ) is a Bermudian former football player who most notably played as a striker for West Ham United, and was one of the first black players in British football.

* Gerald Sibon ( b. 1974 ), football striker

Other players in Shankly's Huddersfield team were Ken Taylor, who was also an England Test cricketer ; striker Les Massie and captain Bill McGarry.

In his illustrious international career, the striker led Ukraine as captain to the quarter-finals in their first ever FIFA World Cup appearance in 2006.

Ronaldo gained highest percentage of overall risk of 6. 2 % followed by Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimović with 5 %, and England captain Steven Gerrard with 4. 5 %.

In his fifth season, Futre provided countless assists for striker Manolo who scored 27 goals for the Pichichi Trophy, with him netting in the season's domestic cup, a 2 – 0 win over neighbours Real Madrid ; during most of his spell with the Colchoneros, he was also team captain.

Zlatan Ibrahimović (, ; born 3 October 1981 ) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the Swedish national team for which he is captain.

A year later, the team finished second and its captain – striker Vitaliy Starukhin – was named the best player and the best forward in the USSR Championship ( 26 goals scored ).

With two games to play, prolific striker and team captain Marek Mintal scored a cracking winner in an eagerly anticipated away clash against their only contender in a title race Slovan Bratislava.

The return to the club of Euro 1992 veterans John " Faxe " Jensen and captain Lars Olsen combined with the emergence of goalkeeper Mogens Krogh and striker Ebbe Sand got the club back on its feet.

Former Spanish captain and current FC Barcelona manager Josep Guardiola, the Romanian Gheorghe Hagi, striker Luca Toni, and Juventus star Andrea Pirlo — born in Brescia — have also spent time in Brescia.

Hagadeau captain was responsible for lifting the title, thanks to the excellent performance of striker Theo Klein was hailed as the man of the match and was awarded player of the year in Suriname this year.

For his last season at Schalke he was chosen as team captain, even though stiff competition by fellow Dane Søren Larsen and German striker Kevin Kurányi relegated Sand's role to substitute player.

When striker Fernando Gomes broke his leg before the 1986 – 87 European Cup final against FC Bayern Munich, he was picked as the captain, and reportedly only released the cup on Portuguese soil, after the 2 – 1 win in Vienna.

On 25 April 2011, he again continued to captain the side in the absence of star striker Carlos Tevez against Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park, playing the full 90 minutes alongside Joleon Lescott in an important 1 – 0 victory courtesy of a late 75th minute strike from Edin Dzeko.

He played as a deep lying striker or inside forward for Steaua Bucureşti most of his career, being the team's captain between 1994 and 1999.

Not that he dispensed with home-grown talent, but his penchant for attacking play is demonstrated by the fact that as well as Schiavio, Pozzo was successful in converting Giuseppe Meazza, who was captain in 1938, from a striker into an inside forward ; indeed Pozzo ’ s reign is linked closely to the success of his strikers.

Barry Davies was joined by Trevor Brooking on the commentary, and the game featured England football team captain and striker Alan Shearer not only on the cover, but also providing interviews about the game in the press.

In his period at Bologna, Di Vaio regained reputation as a key prolific striker, rapidly becoming a fan favourite, as well as team captain and one of the reference players during the two club takeovers in the 2010 – 11 season, ensuring himself a contract extension until June 2013 ; following the announcement, Di Vaio also state his desire to spend the rest of his footballing career as a Bologna player.

After losing striker and captain Robbie Blake and young midfielder Richard Chaplow they finished 13th in the Championship.

The club was completely rebuilt with a new organizational structure but featuring players with first league and international experience such as striker Atanas Kurdov, midfielder Todor Timonov and captain Nikolay Manchev or goalkeeper Armen Ambartsumyan.

He was also soccer team captain for 1998 and 1999, and was a striker and four-year starter.

Plagued with financial problems, the next season saw the club experiencing an exodus of its top players such as striker Ioannis Okkas and ex-Newcastle United forward Giorgos Georgiadis, Salpingidis, at the age of 21, then became first-choice striker and captain of the team.