Gary Lineker is a much-loved staple of British soccer both as a player and a sports broadcaster.

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  • Gary Lineker is a former professional footballer and current host of BBC's Match of the Day. Lineker has also been the face of Walkers crisps for more than 25 years.
    During his 16-year career, he famously never received a booking as a player.
    A boyhood Leicester City fan, Lineker began his career with the Foxes and is still involved with the club. After helping Leicester out of bankruptcy, he was honoured by being named vice-president.
    Lineker is one of the most prolific strikers in English soccer history, having made his debut for the national team against Scotland in 1984.
    In the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, Lineker scored six times, becoming the first Englishman to win the Golden Boot at a World Cup finals. He scored the second quickest hat-trick at a World Cup against Poland and was the first English player to score a hat-trick since Geoff Hurst in the 1966 World Cup final.
    He scored twice against Paraguay and once in the infamous quarter-final match against Argentina - the game with Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" and "Goal of the Century".
    In the 1990 World Cup, Lineker scored four goals as England reached the semi-finals, their best performance at a World Cup since 1966. Lineker was unwell during the tournament and infamously defecated on the pitch during the opening group game against the Republic of Ireland.
    In the semi-final against West Germany, Lineker scored but the game went to a penalty shootout that the Germans won. After the game, Lineker famously said: "Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and, at the end, the Germans win."
    He retired from international football after Euro '92 after tallying 80 caps and 48 goals, one fewer than Sir Bobby Charlton. In the current list of England top goalscorers, he sits third behind Wayne Rooney and Charlton.
    After his retirement from professional football, he joined BBC Radio 5 Live as a football pundit before replacing Des Lynam as the BBC's main anchorman and host of Match of the Day. He also worked as a host for the BBC's golf coverage and Grandstand.
    As well as his television career, Lineker also wrote columns for The Sunday Telegraph and The Mail on Sunday.
    After leaving both of these positions, Lineker got more jobs as a host and began to fine tune his presenting skills. In 2010, he began working as an anchor for the English language football coverage on Al Jazeera Sport, which is broadcast throughout the Middle East. He left the Qatar-based network in 2012.
    In 2013, he began working for NBCSN as part of their Premier League coverage.
    In June 2015, Lineker was unveiled as the lead presenter of BT Sport's Champions League coverage, a post he left after the 2021 Champions League final, stating that he wants to go and watch Leicester play around Europe with his sons.
    After Leicester City famously won the 2015/16 Premier League title, Lineker presented the first episode of the subsequent season's Match of the Day wearing just his boxer shorts. Believing that Leicester City wouldn't win the Premier League, in December 2015 he promised in a tweet that he would "present Match of the Day in just my undies" and he was true to his word.
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