{"id":157850,"date":"2025-09-15T06:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T06:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/157850\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T06:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T06:52:18","slug":"sam-surridge-the-englishman-leading-lionel-messi-in-mls-golden-boot-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/157850\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Surridge: The Englishman leading Lionel Messi in MLS Golden Boot race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former England Under-21 striker Surridge, now 27, started his professional career with Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Loans followed at local non-league sides Weymouth and Poole, League Two clubs Yeovil and Oldham and then Championship side Swansea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then moved on to Stoke and Nottingham Forest on permanent deals &#8211; and helped the latter into the Premier League in 2022-23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You got to ask this guy how many different clubs he&#8217;s played for,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/sam-surridge-comes-into-his-own-with-nashville-sc\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his MLS team-mate Alex Muyl said., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We do a thing in preseason where we talk about our journey, and he spent the first five minutes just listing clubs that he&#8217;s been at.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However he was never the most prolific with his eight League Two goals in both 2017-18 (for Yeovil) and 2018-19 (for Oldham) his best league hauls in England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He netted once in the Premier League in 20 matches for Forest before making the move to the US for about \u00a35m in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Surridge scored 12 goals last season in MLS and has netted 21 this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His 43 goals in total for Nashville make him the club&#8217;s second top scorer ever. They were founded in 2016 and joined MLS in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has zero European Golden Shoes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When you play against men in, say, League Two, and it&#8217;s not easiest when you&#8217;re going away and you&#8217;re 19, 20 and you&#8217;ve got to try and grind out a win, and it&#8217;s wet and it&#8217;s rainy,&#8221; Surridge told the MLS website this summer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think that was important for me, where I learned that from a young age, and it hopefully shows now where I&#8217;ve got that experience of trying to grind out wins, and it just comes more natural.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s definitely a different pathway, I&#8217;d say, to what a lot of other players do. But it&#8217;s one that I think has put me in good stead now. I&#8217;ve experienced loads of different types of football.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England Under-21 striker Surridge, now 27, started his professional career with Bournemouth. Loans followed at local non-league&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-157850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}