Football champ Chris Smalling was born to his parents, Theresa Smalling and Lloyd Smalling.
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His father, Lloyd, passed on when he was just five years old.
Smalling grew up with his only brother and mother, Theresa.
Who Is Chris Smalling?
Chris Smalling is a football centre-back for the Serie A club Roma.
Born on November 22, 1989, in England, Smalling began playing for the Millwall academy, Walderslade Boys and Lordswood, as a teenager, before joining the non-League club Maidstone United.
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Afterwards, he played for Middlesbrough and got signed by the Premier League club Fulham in 2008, where he helped the club reach the 2010 UEFA Europa League Finals.
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In the same year, Manchester United signed in Smalling who went on to make “over 300 appearances for the club, and won two Premier League titles, an FA Cup, a League Cup, a UEFA Europa League and two Community Shields.”
Internationally, Smalling has played with the England national team, from the under-18 team to the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and UEFA Euro 2016.
In 2019, Smalling was signed in by the Serie A club Roma for a fee of €3 million, and in 2022, Smalling was awarded Man of the Match at the UEFA Europa Conference League Final.
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