Freddie Sears is a professional football player who was born on November 27, 1989 in Hornchurch, which is located in Havering, England. He completed his primary education at Hacton Primary school following which Freddie Sears attended Sanders Draper School to pursue his higher education.
Freddie Sears represents England internationally at the Under-19 level and was selected to play for the England Under-19 team in 2008. As of 2008, he has played one game for this team and this striker impressed by scoring two goals in his debut appearance. This match was played against Belarus on September 11, 2007 and his team won the match 4-0.
Freddie Sears got acquainted with football right from the time when he was in his primary school, where he showed a keen eye for scoring a goal while playing in the football team of the senior students. Impressed by his abilities as an amateur striker, West Ham United Academy signed Freddie Sears when he was eleven years old. He further developed his football skills while attending his secondary school and was a part of the West Ham United Under-18 team when he was about sixteen years old.
Known as “Searsy” to his teammates, Freddie Sears began the 2006-2007 campaign for the club’s U18 team by featuring regularly as a substitute and soon he was a regular face in the team’s starting line-up. The following season he had a brilliant campaign for the U18s and scored a hat-trick against Millwall in October 2007. It was during this season that he made the transition from the youth team to the reserve squad by scoring 20 goals from fifteen games for the youth side. By the end of this season, Freddie Sears, also known as “Freddie”, had made 24 appearances and had netted 25 goals.
Freddie Sears went on to sign a new deal with West Ham United to play in the first team and was given the jersey number 33. On March 15, 2008, at the age of eighteen, he made his first appearance for this team in a Premier League match against Blackburn Rovers. Freddie Sears entered the field as a substitute for Nolberto Solano in the seventy fifth minute and scored the first goal for the club in the eighty first minute and steered his side to victory. In the following week, he was introduced to the field in the second half of the match against Everton and came very close to scoring a goal, but unfortunately the goal hit the goal-post. The club’s manager Alan Curbishley said that the introduction of Freddie Sears gave his side an extra lift. As of 2008, he has played as a striker for the club’s first team in nine games and has one goal to his credit.
