PROFIL : DANIEL STURIDGE

STURRIDGE: HEADS UP - 20.02.2012

There was frustration that Chelsea were taken to a replay by a lower division club at the weekend but goalscorer Daniel Sturridge saw signs the team is beginning to move in the right direction...

CHELSEA TV EXCLUSIVE: STURRIDGE - TEAM MOVES - 19.02.2012

Daniel Sturridge, scorer of Chelsea's goal against Birmingham on Saturday afternoon, spoke to Chelsea TV after the game about his equaliser...

STURRIDGE: SHOW OF STRENGTH - 03.02.2012

With Manchester United the visitors to Stamford Bridge on Sunday, Daniel Sturridge marks the game out as an opportunity to lay down a marker for the rest of the season...

STURRIDGE: CAHILL TO CLIMB - 20.01.2012

Daniel Sturridge has played both with and against Gary Cahill in the previous 12 months, and believes the defender will quickly settle into life at Stamford Bridge.

CHELSEA TV EXCLUSIVE: IMPACT DAN - 14.01.2012

Daniel Sturridge is back in the squad after two games out and has good memories of a previous return to the side against Sunderland...

CHELSEA 2012: DANIEL STURRIDGE - 11.01.2012

Ahead of what promises to be a memorable sporting summer, Daniel Sturridge gives us his thoughts on London 2012...

STURRIDGE'S CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE - 24.12.2011

Despite scoring his 10th goal of the season on Thursday, Daniel Sturridge promises there is improvement to come from him...

STURRIDGE: TIME TO BE STRONG - 19.12.2011

Despite a weekend when Chelsea dropped two points, Daniel Sturridge reckons it unwise to rule us out of the championship race this early...

STURRIDGE: EXPERIENCED HEADS COULD BE CRUCIAL - 06.12.2011

Daniel Sturridge insists our performances in the previous two Barclays Premier League matches have ensured the squad is going into tonight's make-or-break Champions League clash in confident mood...

DANNY, THE CHAMPION OF THE WIDE - 03.12.2011

Part of Andre Villas-Boas's strategy this season has been to blood more youth, and one of those players, Daniel Sturridge, has drawn individual praise from the manager.

STURRIDGE: SEVEN UP - 28.11.2011

Daniel Sturridge again showed he is one of Chelsea's most important players this season by scoring and contributing to a good team performance against Wolves...

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Name:	Daniel Sturridge
Nationality:	English
Date of Birth:	01/09/1989
Height:	6' 2" (188cm)
Weight:	12st 0lbs (76.27kg)
Previous
Clubs:	Bolton (loan), Manchester City
Position:	Striker

Chelsea careerAfter his contract at Manchester City expired in the summer of 2009, the then 19-year-old forward chose Chelsea and the Champions League as the place to develop his talents further.
We already knew what he could do having seen him score against us in the FA Youth Cup Final a season earlier, and it was in the senior version of the FA Cup that he really began to make his mark at Stamford Bridge, netting four times in three games against Watford, Preston North End and Cardiff City in the 2010 run.
Signed as one for the future, Daniel 's ambition shone through immediately and he scored in a friendly against Seattle Sounders, turning sharply and slotting home. He was rewarded with a call-up to England Under 21s in August 2009, making his debut against Holland.
When the real business of the league campaign got going he had to be patient, waiting until October for a first Chelsea start, and then missing two big chances to get off the mark against Bolton in the Carling Cup.
Confidence remained high though, and his introduction against Fulham just after Christmas instigated a vital comeback. Then in the absence of Didier Drogba who was at the Africa Cup of Nations, January 2010 saw him begin to find the net as Carlo Ancelotti predicted he would, with the three Championship sides despatched on the way to the last eight of the FA Cup.