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Steven Kenneth Fletcher (born 26 March 1987) is a Scottish international footballer, who currently plays as a striker for Premier League club Sunderland. Fletcher began his club career with Hibernian, playing in 156 Scottish Premier League games and scoring 43 goals. English club Burnley paid a club record transfer fee of £3million to sign Fletcher in June 2009. He was their top goalscorer in the 2009–10 season with eight league goals, but the club were relegated from the Premier League. Fletcher was transferred soon afterwards to Wolves, who also paid a club record fee, of £6.5 million, for his services. He scored 24 goals in 68 appearances for Wolves, but the club were relegated from the Premier League in 2012. Fletcher was then transferred to Sunderland for £12 million. Fletcher played for the Scotland under-19 team that finished runners up to Spain in the 2006 European Championship. He has since represented Scotland at full international level, and in 2015 became their first player in over 45 years to score an international hat-trick. As of 11th October 2015 he is only the 5th player to score more than one hat-trick for Scotland (the others being RS McColl (3), Robert Hamilton (2), Hugh Gallacher (3), Denis Law (3)). ==Early life== Fletcher, who was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, spent much of his early years living on British Army bases in England and Germany where his Liverpudlian soldier father, Kenny Fletcher was based.〔 His father died from cancer aged 37 when Fletcher was aged only 10, prompting his Scottish mother, Mary to relocate him and his younger sister Bree to Hamilton, South Lanarkshire to be closer to her family.〔 Hibernian youth coach John Park, also from Hamilton, spotted his footballing talent and the youngster joined the Leith club's youth network aged 13. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steven Fletcher (footballer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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