Emile Heskey played in the Premier League for well over a decade with clubs like Leicester City, Liverpool FC, and Aston Villa and earned 62 caps with the England national team. But despite this lengthy career as one of Britain’s elite center forwards, he only logged a little over a hundred goals despite playing almost entirely as a line-leading center forward. Nonetheless the 6’2” son of a nightclub bouncer, capable of unflinching hold-up play and explosive dribbles into the final third, was often cited as Michael Owen’s favorite strike partner and persistently called on by a series of England managers well into his 30s, showing even at the highest levels the value of forwards who don’t always find the back of the net.
Fábio is a striker who hasn’t scored yet - so why is he so popular?
