PAUL SCHOLES PROFILE

PAUL SCHOLES

DOB
16 November 1974-->
CLUB
MANCHESTER UNITED

HEIGHT
1.68m
POSITION
MIDFIELDER

WEIGHT
70kg
SQUAD NUMBER
18

PROFILE

An outstanding former England playmaker renowned for crucial, often spectacular goals. He broke into the first team as a striker but has matured into an all-round midfielder with crunching tackles allied to superb vision. Scholes combines an excellent range of passing and a superb strike rate and is widely regarded as one of the best midfielders in the Premier League. Enjoyed his best goalscoring return of 14 during the 2002/03 season, including scoring in six successive matches and bagging a memorable hat-trick at Newcastle United. He followed that up with nine goals in each of the two following seasons, but missed much of the 2005/06 campaign with an eye problem. Voted into the Premier League Team of the Decade in the 10 Seasons Awards poll.