Frank Lampard
Frank Lampard
Frank James Lampard OBEis an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for New York City FC in Major League Soccer. He is the all-time leading goalscorer for Chelsea, where he played for 13 years, and is considered by a number of journalists and football experts to be one of the greatest midfielders of his generation, in addition to being widely regarded as Chelsea's greatest ever player by some Chelsea players, such as previous record goal-scorer Bobby Tambling and...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth20 June 1978
CityRomford, England
People can talk about my age for as long as they like. There is nothing better in football than proving people wrong, and I'll try to do that for as long as I can.
A big deal was made about one game. There's a lot of football on TV but we still get a lot of full houses. We get great support and a lot of teams up and down the country get it as well.
Hopefully, we will win tonight and so reach the Champions League final. If that happens and I have the foot done straight afterwards, that would rule me out of the England tour,
Being faster would probably make me better at football.
I come from a football family which has really helped.
In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.
There's so many kids out there and it's such a cut-throat world. I've seen a lot of my mates, you know, who are better players than me at a certain age, and they're not in football now.
I have a lot of good football talk with cabbies, but when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, it can be distracting. I always know they're going to want to talk football if 'Talksport' is on the radio.
I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.
I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.
You get to the stage where every little bit of criticism that comes to you, you use to make you stronger, ... We get it from a lot of angles now and we hope to answer it by success.
We played very well at the weekend and when we do it is hard for teams to beat us because we have a lot of quality in the side,
Liverpool's strength in the Champions League last season was not conceding goals away from home. Maybe in the league they'll come out a bit more. Winning is more of a necessity for them.
I won't be thinking about the last game, so it won't affect them. They'll reflect on the good results.