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\"Gazza\" redirects here. For other uses, see Gazza (disambiguation).

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Paul Gascoigne
Personal information
\n Gascoigne in 2021
Full name	\nPaul John Gascoigne^[1]
Date of birth	\n (1967-05-27) 27 May 1967 (age 57)^[1]
Place of birth	\nGateshead, England
Height	\n5 ft 10 in (1.77 m)^[1]
Position(s)	\nAttacking midfielder
Youth career
1980\u20131985	\nNewcastle United
Senior career\"
Years	\nTeam	\nApps	\n(Gls)
1985\u20131988	\nNewcastle United	\n92	\n(21)
1988\u20131992	\nTottenham Hotspur	\n92	\n(19)
1992\u20131995	\nLazio	\n43	\n(6)
1995\u20131998	\nRangers	\n74	\n(30)
1998\u20132000	\nMiddlesbrough	\n41	\n(4)
2000\u20132002	\nEverton	\n32	\n(1)
2002	\nBurnley	\n6	\n(0)
2003	\nGansu Tianma	\n4	\n(2)
2004	\nBoston United	\n4	\n(0)
Total	\n	\n388	\n(83)
International career
1987\u20131988	\nEngland U21	\n12	\n(5)
1989	\nEngland B	\n4	\n(1)
1988\u20131998	\nEngland	\n57	\n(10)
Managerial career
2005	\nKettering Town
\n\"Club domestic league appearances and goals

Paul John Gascoigne (/\u02c8\u0261\u00e6sk\u0254\u026an/, born 27 May 1967), nicknamed Gazza, is an English former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.^[2] Regarded as one of the best playmakers of his generation^[3] and one of the best English footballers of all time,^[4]^[5] Gascoigne is described by the National Football Museum as \"widely recognised as the most naturally talented English footballer of his generation\".^[6] Gascoigne was immensely popular during his playing career, with television broadcaster Terry Wogan calling him \"probably the most popular man in Britain today\" in September 1990, and public interest in and adoration for him came to be known as \"Gazzamania\".^[7]^[8]\n

Born and raised in Gateshead, Gascoigne signed schoolboy terms with Newcastle United before turning professional with the club in 1984. Three years later, he was sold to Tottenham Hotspur for \u00a32.2 million. He won the FA Cup with Spurs in 1991 before being sold to Italian club Lazio for \u00a35.5 million. In 1995, he was transferred to Rangers for \u00a34.3 million and helped the club to two league titles, a Scottish Cup and a Scottish League Cup. He returned to England in a \u00a33.4 million move to Middlesbrough in 1998. He debuted in the Premier League in the 1998\u201399 season, having already featured in the 1998 Football League Cup final. He switched to Everton in 2000 and later had spells with Burnley, Gansu Tianma and Boston United.\n

Gascoigne represented the England national team from 1988 to 1998, in which he was capped 57 times and scored ten goals. He was part of the England team that reached fourth place in the 1990 FIFA World Cup, where he famously cried after receiving a yellow card in the semi-final with West Germany, which meant he would have been suspended for the final had England won the game. He also helped the team to the semi-finals of Euro 96, which included scoring a goal against Scotland, described in 2013 as \"one of the most iconic goals in the game's recent history\".^[9] He has been involved in a number of high-profile goal celebrations at both club and international level, including the \"dentist's chair\" celebration from Euro 96, and mimicking playing the flute with Rangers in 1998, a reference to the Protestant Orange Order.^[10]^[11]\n

In the later part of his career, and especially following retirement, Gascoigne's life became dominated by severe mental and emotional problems, particularly alcoholism. He has been jailed or sectioned on numerous occasions, and his struggles receive regular coverage in the British press. He has frequently attempted to live without alcohol, though rehabilitation programmes have provided only temporary relief. His issues ended his coaching career, and he has not worked in football since being dismissed as the manager of Kettering Town in 2005.\n

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Club\n	Season\n	League\n	National Cup\n	League Cup\n	Continental\n	Total\n
Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals\n
Newcastle United	1984\u201385	First Division	2	0	\u2013	\u2013	\u2013	2	0\n
1985\u201386	First Division	31	9	1	0	3	0	\u2013	35	9\n
1986\u201387	First Division	24	5	\u2013	2	0	\u2013	26	5\n
1987\u201388	First Division	35	7	3	3	3	1	\u2013	41	11\n
Total\n	92	21	4	3	8	1	\u2013	104	25\n
Tottenham Hotspur	1988\u201389	First Division	32	6	\u2013	5	1	\u2013	37	7\n
1989\u201390	First Division	34	6	\u2013	4	1	\u2013	38	7\n
1990\u201391	First Division	26	7	6	6	5	6	\u2013	37	19\n
1991\u201392\n	First Division\n	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0\n
Total\n	92	19	6	6	14	8	0	0	112	33\n
Lazio	1992\u201393	Serie A	22	4	4	0	\u2013	\u2013	26	4\n
1993\u201394	Serie A	17	2	0\n	0	\u2013	0	0	17	2\n
1994\u201395	Serie A	4	0	0\n	0	\u2013	0	0	4	0\n
Total\n	43	6	4	0	\u2013	0	0	47	6\n
Rangers	1995\u201396	Scottish Premier Division	28	14	4	3	3	1	7	1	42	19\n
1996\u201397	Scottish Premier Division	26	13	1	0	4	3	3	1	34	17\n
1997\u201398	Scottish Premier Division	20	3	3	0	\u2013	5	0	28	3\n
Total\n	74	30	8	3	7	4	15	2	104	39\n
Middlesbrough	1997\u201398	First Division	7	0	\u2013	1	0	\u2013	8	0\n
1998\u201399	Premier League	26	3	1	0	2	0	\u2013	29	3\n
1999\u20132000	Premier League	8	1	1	0	2	0	\u2013	11	1\n
Total\n	41	4	2	0	5	0	\u2013	48	4\n
Everton	2000\u201301	Premier League	14	0	\u2013	1	0	\u2013	15	0\n
2001\u201302	Premier League	18	1	4	0	1	0	\u2013	23	1\n
Total\n	32	1	4	0	2	0	\u2013	38	1\n
Burnley	2001\u201302	First Division	6	0	\u2013	\u2013	\u2013	6	0\n
Gansu Tianma	2003	China League One	4	2	\u2013	\u2013	\u2013	4	2\n
Boston United	2004\u201305	League Two	4	0	\u2013	1	0	\u2013	5	0\n
Career total\n	388	83	28	12	37	13	15	2	468	110\n

National team	Year	Apps	Goals\n
England\n	1988	2	0\n
1989	4	1\n
1990	13	1\n
1991	1	0\n
1992	2	2\n
1993	6	2\n
1994	1	0\n
1995	6	0\n
1996	11	3\n
1997	8	1\n
1998	3	0\n
Total	57	10\n

No.\n	Date\n	Venue\n	Opponent\n	Score\n	Result\n	Competition\n
1	26 April 1989	Wembley Stadium, London, England	$\"\"$ Albania	5\u20130	5\u20130	1990 FIFA World Cup qualifier\n
2	25 April 1990	Wembley Stadium, London, England	$\"\"$ Czechoslovakia	4-2	4\u20132	Friendly\n
3	18 November 1992	Wembley Stadium, London, England	$\"\"$ Turkey	1\u20130	4\u20130	1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier\n
4	4\u20130\n
5	31 March 1993	\u0130zmir Atat\u00fcrk Stadium, \u0130zmir, Turkey	$\"\"$ Turkey	2\u20130	2\u20130	1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier\n
6	8 September 1993	Wembley Stadium, London, England	$\"\"$ Poland	2\u20130	3\u20130	1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier\n
7	23 May 1996	Workers' Stadium, Beijing, China	$\"\"$ China	3\u20130	3\u20130	Friendly\n
8	15 June 1996	Wembley Stadium, London, England	$\"\"$ Scotland	2\u20130	2\u20130	UEFA Euro 1996\n
9	1 September 1996	Republican Stadium, Chi\u0219in\u0103u, Moldova	$\"\"$ Moldova	2\u20130	3\u20130	1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier\n
10	10 September 1997	Wembley Stadium, London, England	$\"\"$ Moldova	3\u20130	4\u20130	1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier\n

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Early life

Club career

Newcastle United

1984\u20131985: Youth career

1985\u20131987: Constant success

1987\u20131988: Maintained performances and transfer rumours

Tottenham Hotspur

1988\u20131990: Impressive achievements

1990\u20131992: Maintained success, injuries and transfer rumours

Lazio

1992\u20131993: Success in Italy

1993\u20131995: Weight issues and fair performances

Rangers

1995\u20131996: Great influence and success

1996\u20131997: Continued triumphs and decline in form

Middlesbrough

Everton

Later career

International career

Managerial and coaching career

Other projects

Style of play

Personal life

Mental illness, alcoholism and legal troubles

Phone hacking by Mirror Group Newspapers

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Bibliography

References

External links

Paul Gascoigne

Talks

30 December, 1995