John George Terry (born 7 December 1980) is an English professional footballer. Terry plays in a centre back position and is the captain of Chelsea in the Premier League. Terry was also captain of the England national football team from August 2006 until February 2010.
Terry was voted best defender in the UEFA Champions League in both 2005 and 2008, the PFA Players' Player of the Year in 2005, and was included in the FIFPro World XI for four consecutive seasons, from 2005 to 2008.He was also named in the all-star squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the only English player to make the team.He wears the number 26 shirt for Chelsea.
In 2007, he became the first captain to lift the FA Cup at the new Wembley Stadium in Chelsea's 1–0 win over Manchester United, and also the first player to score a full international goal there, scoring a header in England's 1–1 draw with Brazil. However, the 2007–08 season saw Terry and Chelsea miss out on three trophies, losing the League Cup Final to Tottenham Hotspur and Premier League and UEFA Champions League to Manchester United with Terry having slipped resulting in missing a penalty in the Champions League final shootout, sending it to sudden death. Had he scored, the European Cup would have been secured for Chelsea.
Family and personal life
Terry's parents are Ted and Sue. His brother, Paul (born 1979), is a professional footballer currently with Conference National side Darlington F.C..
Despite being a one club man with Chelsea in his professional career, Terry was a Manchester United supporter growing up.
Terry currently lives in Oxshott, Surrey. He and his wife Toni (née Poole) are the parents of twins, Georgie John and Summer Rose, born on 18 May 2006 in Westminster, London.Terry celebrated their birth when scoring for England against Hungary, when he performed a baby-rocking celebration. The couple married at Blenheim Palace on 15 June 2007.
Terry is one of a very small group of footballers to have been paid more than £1 million for their autobiography.[48] His deal with publisher Harper Collins was negotiated in 2004 by Chris Nathaniel of NVA Management.
In 2009, Terry was named "Dad of the Year" after he came top of a poll of UK adults in a Daddies Sauce survey.
In January 2010, a super-injunction was imposed by a High Court judge preventing the media from reporting allegations that Terry had had a four-month affair in late 2009 with Vanessa Perroncel, the former girlfriend of Wayne Bridge, his former Chelsea and England teammate.
The injunction was lifted a week later,and the British media — especially the tabloid press — covered it in great detail in the days following. On 3 October 2010, The News of the World printed an apology to Perroncel for invading her private life, and accepted that the claims against Terry and her were untrue. Capello then dropped Terry from the England captaincy on 5 February 2010, replacing him with Rio Ferdinand
HonoursChelsea
Terry celebrates winning the 2004–05 Premiership with Eiður Guðjohnsen and Frank Lampard.
John Terry with Frank Lampard celbrating their success
UEFA Champions League
* Runner-up: 2008
Premier League
* Champion: 2004–05, 2005–06, 2009–10
* Runner-up: 2003–04, 2006–07, 2007–08
FA Cup
* Winner: 2000, 2007, 2009, 2010
* Runner-up: 2002
Football League Cup
* Winner: 2005, 2007
* Runner-up: 2008
FA Community Shield
* Winner: 2005, 2009
* Runner-up: 2006, 2010
Individual
* PFA Player of the Year: 2004–05
* FIFA World Cup Team of the Tournament: 2006,
* FIFPro World XI: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
* UEFA Club Football Awards Best Defender: 2005, 2008, 2009[60]
* UEFA Team of the Year: 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009
* Chelsea Player of the Year: 2001, 2006
Personal information
Full name: John George Terry
Date of birth: 7 December 1980 (1980-12-07) (age 30)
Place of birth: London, England
Height: 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in)
Playing position: Centre back
Club information
Current club: Chelsea
Number : 26
Youth career
Senrab
1991–1995 West Ham United
1995–1998 Chelsea
Senior career*
1998– Chelsea 326 (21)
2000 → Nottingham Forest (loan) 6 (0)
National team‡
2000–2002 England U21 9 (1)
2003– England 65 (6)