Jermain Defoe – Football Scout

Rangers’ Defoe uninjured after car crash

Former Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe revealed he couldn’t understand how he didn’t win silverware at the club with the quality they had and insists it is something that the club still can’t shake.

Jermain Defoe revealed how tough it was to leave West Ham for Tottenham and how his first spell ended with manager Juande Ramos telling him to leave in training against chairman Daniel Levy’s will.
Jermain Defoe was involved in a car crash after Scottish side Rangers’ win against Aberdeen at Ibrox on Saturday but was not seriously injured in the collision, the club confirmed.
“#RangersFC can confirm there was a collision earlier this evening involving striker @IAmJermainDefoe and we are happy and relieved to say that no one was seriously injured,” the club said in a tweet.
Defoe, who made just short of 496 appearances in the Premier League for the likes of West Ham, Tottenham and Sunderland,…

Jermain Defoe joins Steven Gerrard’s Rangers from Bournemouth on loan

Jermain Defoe has moved to Scottish side Rangers on loan.
Bournemouth striker Jermain Defoe has completed an 18-month loan switch to Scottish club Rangers in a move that reunites him with former England teammate Steven Gerrard.
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Defoe, who has struggled for playing time this season after making four substitute appearances in the league, will remain at Rangers until 2020 but Bournemouth have the option of recalling the 36-year-old in July.
“I’m delighted to be able to welcome Jermain to Rangers,” Gerrard told the Rangers website. “He is an exceptionally…

Defoe gets Bradley Lowery tattoo

Bournemouth striker Jermain Defoe has a new tattoo in memory of 6 year old Bradley Lowery, who died last year after a long term illness. Video Courtesy of AFC Bournemouth.

Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford ‘special’ like Harry Kane – Jermain Defoe

Jermain Defoe believes Harry Kane could have done better at the World Cup despite winning the golden boot and that it is only a matter of time before Marcus Rashford scores 20 goals a season.
Jermain Defoe has told ESPN FC that Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford is a “special” talent that can become as important to England as Harry Kane.
Rashford, 20, is expected to feature against Croatia in Rijeka on Friday as Gareth Southgate’s team face their World Cup semifinal opponents for the first time since losing 2-1 in extra-time in July.
He has scored in his last two appearances for England, against Switzerland and Spain, to take his overall goal haul to five in 27 appearances, but…

Jermaine Defoe talks about scoring more goals than Thierry Henry and going vegan

BOURNEMOUTH, England — At 36 and with almost two decades of professional football behind him, there is something refreshingly childlike about Jermain Defoe. Elite sport is a tough business and Defoe, slightly built and standing at just 5-foot-6, has endured almost two decades of being on the wrong end of bruising challenges by imposing, physical defenders. Yet it hasn’t done anything to quell his enthusiasm for the game. Indeed, you’d expect the exact opposite:
A cynical and hard-bitten veteran…

Jermain Defoe talks about scoring more goals than Thierry Henry and going vegan

Bournemouth forward Jermain Defoe won’t rule out MLS return: ‘I enjoyed it’

Former Toronto striker Jermain Defoe refused to rule out a return to MLS and compared DC United’s Wayne Rooney’s passing ability to that of Dennis Bergkamp’s for Arsenal.

AFC Bournemouth’s Jermain Defoe insists he’d have scored more Premier League goals than Thierry Henry if he hadn’t moved to the MLS and praises Paul Scholes as the best he has played against.

Jermain Defoe admitted he has been talking to the staff at Bournemouth about starting his coaching badges.

Jermain Defoe discussed how he has tried vegan and pescatarian diets to try help maximize his performances and try to extend playing career in the Premier League with AFC Bournemouth.
Jermain Defoe has told ESPN FC he would not rule out a return to the MLS and said his move to Toronto in 2014 had come too early in his career.
Bournemouth forward Defoe, 36, scored 12 goals in 21 appearances for Toronto after leaving Tottenham but returned to the Premier League with Sunderland a year later after being told by Toronto president Tim Leiweke to “get the hell out of our way if you don’t want to be here.”
Defoe’s year in the MLS left a strong impression on the former West Ham striker,…

Jermain Defoe: OBE honour comes with ‘mixed emotions’ after death of friend

Jermain Defoe is counting his blessings after being chosen to receive a royal honour on Friday, but says the award is also bitter-sweet due to the death of his young friend last year.
Defoe, 35, has been appointed an OBE for the charitable work of his foundation.
But the Bournemouth star said the moment was filled with “mixed emotions” almost a year after the death of Bradley Lowery, a six-year-old battling neuroblastoma who Defoe had befriended.
“It’s obviously mixed emotions because obviously…

Jermain Defoe: OBE comes with ‘mixed emotions’ after death of friend

Jermain Defoe is counting his blessings after being chosen to receive a royal honour on Friday, but says the award is also bitter-sweet due to the death of his young friend last year.
Defoe, 35, has been appointed an OBE for the charitable work of his foundation.
But the Bournemouth star said the moment was filled with “mixed emotions” almost a year after the death of Bradley Lowery, a six-year-old battling neuroblastoma who Defoe befriended.
“It’s obviously mixed emotions because obviously…

I won’t give up on England, and Alli, Kane critics need to wise up – Defoe

Martin Ainstein’s train pulls up at World Cup host city Rostov-on-Don, home of the historic Museum of Railways.
LONDON — Jermain Defoe is not about to abandon hope. The last player to send England to the knockout stages at the World Cup still believes he can do it again in Russia, despite “a stop-start, frustrating season” at Bournemouth.
“I got a letter. All the players that are in contention get a letter to tell you the schedule for the summer,” Defoe told ESPN FC. “I don’t feel like I have anything to prove. I’m quite relaxed about it to be honest. The manager knows what I’m about and, if I’m called on,…

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