Peter Shilton

Peter Shilton

Peter Shilton

Peter Shilton (born Leicester, 18 September 1949) is a former English international football goalkeeper who holds the record for playing more games than any other player. Shilton was  13 years old when he started training at schoolboy level with his local club Leicester City in 1963. He caught the eye of first-team goalkeeper Gordon Banks, who commented to the coach about how promising he was. In May 1966, a 16 year old Shilton made his debut for Leicester against Everton and his potential was quickly spotted to the extent that the Leicester City management sided with their teenage prodigy and sold World Cup winner Banks to Stoke City.  Shilton would follow Banks to Stoke City in the summer of 1974 before signing for  Nottingham Forest in 1977. Forest had just been promoted to the First Division and were riding high under the management of Brian Clough. During his time at Nottingham Forest he won two European Cups, a European Super Cup, the First Division championship, the League Cup and many other honours. Shilton left Forest for Southampton in 1982,  and later played for Derby County (1987-92), Plymouth Argyle (1992-95) and Bolton Wanderers (1995) and Coventry City (1995-1996) before retiring at the age of 47.  His international career earned him 125 caps, making him England's most capped player at that time. He has the rare distinction of having played over 100 league games for 5 different clubs. Shilton did not make his World Cup finals debut until the age of 32 but he played in 17 finals matches and shares the record 10 clean sheets for most World Cup finals  with French keeper Fabien Barthez.  

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