Name	Darren Fletcher
Height	6 ft
Naionality	Scottish
Date of Birth	1-February-1984
Place of Birth	Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Famous for	Football Player

Darren Fletcher is a Scottish footballer who plays as a central midfielder for English Premier League club Manchester United. He is the current captain of Scottish national team. The industrious footballer has also played as a right winger or as an emergency defender. Fletcher came through the ranks of Manchester United's Youth Academy and has won four Premier Leagues, one FA Cup, two League Cups, the UEFA Champions League and the FIFA Club World Cup. Fletcher was included in the PFA Premier League Team of the Year for 2009–10.

Fletcher made his Scotland debut in 2003 and scored his first international goal on his second appearance. After Barry Ferguson was banned from international football because of a breach of regulations, Fletcher was given the captain's armband in August 2009. Fletcher has won a total of 58 caps and scored five goals for Scotland. Fletcher played youth football at Hutchison vale fc in Edinburgh near his hometown of Mayfield before being scouted by Manchester United. He has been at United for his whole career coming up from the youth team. He joined Manchester United as a youth player at the age of 11, and was set to become the youngest player ever to appear in the Manchester United first-team when he was selected for the club's final fixture of the 1999–2000 FA Premier League season against Aston Villa on 14 May 2000; however, Premier League rules prohibit players on schoolboy contracts from appearing at the senior level, and Fletcher's debut was delayed. He subsequently signed a trainee contract in July 2000, before signing his first professional contract on his 17th birthday on 1 February 2001. Meanwhile, he gradually progressed through the club's youth teams, and was part of the reserve team that won the Manchester Senior Cup in 1999–2000.

He was initially seen as a right midfielder in the David Beckham mould and was tipped by many to break into the first-team with ease and stay there for many years to come, but as he developed came to be viewed more as a central midfielder. Over the next couple of seasons, Fletcher's involvement was limited due to various injuries, including a broken foot; nevertheless, by the 2002–03 season, he had become a regular member of the reserve team, and after several appearances as an unused substitute, he finally made his first-team debut on 12 March 2003–almost three years behind schedule–starting on the right side of midfield against Basel in the second group stage of the UEFA Champions League.