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Wayne Rooney

Early life

Born on 24 October 1985 in Croxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, Rooney is the first child of parents of Irish descent Thomas Wayne and Jeanette Marie Rooney (ne Morrey). He was raised in Croxteth with younger brothers Graeme and John, and all three attended De La Salle School. Wayne grew up supporting local club Everton, and his childhood hero was Duncan Ferguson.

Club career

Everton

After excelling for Liverpool Schoolboys, Rooney was signed on schoolboy terms by Everton at the age of ten. He was part of the youth squad, and after scoring in an FA Youth Cup match, he revealed a T-shirt under his jersey that read, "Once a Blue, always a Blue." Since he was under 17 at the time and therefore ineligible for a professional contract, he was playing for 80 a week and living with his family on one of the country's most deprived council estates.

On 19 October 2002, five days before his 17th birthday, Rooney scored a match-winning goal against reigning league champions Arsenal; in addition to ending Arsenal's thirty-match unbeaten run, it made Rooney the youngest goalscorer in Premier League history, a record that has since been surpassed twice; first by James Milner and then by James Vaughan. He was named BBC Sports' 2002 Young Personality of the Year. He played 33 Premier League games that season and scored six goals.

At the end of the 2003-04 season, Rooney, citing Everton's inability to challenge for European competition (they had finished seventh the previous season and only just missed out on a UEFA Cup place, but in 2003-04 had narrowly avoided relegation and finished 17th), requested a transfer that Everton refused to oblige if the transfer fee was less than 50 million. A three-year, 12,000-a-week contract offer from the club was snubbed by Rooney's agent in August 2004, leaving Manchester United and Newcastle United to compete for his signature. The Times reported that Newcastle were close to signing Rooney for 18.5 million, as confirmed by Rooney's agent, but Manchester United ultimately won the bidding war and Rooney signed at the end of the month after a 25.6 million deal with Everton was reached. At the time of his sale Everton were struggling financially with a significant debt and the deal helped turn the clubs finances around.

It was the highest fee ever paid for a player aged under 20. Rooney was still only 18 years old when he left Everton.

In his final season at Everton, he scored eight goals in 34 Premier League games.

On 1 September 2006, Everton manager David Moyes sued Rooney for libel after the tabloid newspaper The Daily Mail published excerpts from Rooney's 2006 autobiography that accused the coach of leaking Rooney's reasons for leaving the club to the press. The case was settled out of court for 500,000 on 3 June 2008, and Rooney apologized to Moyes for "false claims" he had made in the book regarding the matter.

Manchester United

Since 2004

Rooney being treated for his broken foot

Rooney made his United debut on 28 September 2004 in a 6-2 Champions League group stage win over Fenerbahe, scoring a hat-trick along with an assist. However, his first season at Old Trafford ended trophyless as United could only manage a third place finish in the league (having been champions or runners-up on all but two previous occasions since 1992) and failed to progress to the last eight of the UEFA Champions League. United had more success in the cup competitions, but were edged out of the League Cup in the semi finals by a Chelsea side who also won the Premier League title that season, and a goalless draw with Arsenal in the FA Cup final was followed by a penalty shoot-out defeat. However, Rooney was United's top league scorer that season with 11 goals, and was credited with the PFA Young Player of the Year award.

In September 2005, Rooney was sent off in a UEFA Champions League clash with Villarreal of Spain (which ended in a goalless draw) for sarcastically clapping the referee who had booked him for an unintentional foul on an opponent. His first trophy with United came in the 2006 2006 League Cup, and he was also named man of the match after scoring twice in United's 4-0 win over Wigan Athletic in the final. In the Premier League, however, an erratic start to the season left title glory looking unlikely for United and their title hopes were ended in late April when they lost 3-0 at home to champions Chelsea and had to settle for second place. Rooney's goalscoring further improved in the 2005-06 season, as he managed 16 goals in 36 Premier League games.

Rooney was sent off in an Amsterdam Tournament match against Porto on 4 August 2006 after hitting Porto defender Pepe with an elbow. He was punished with a three-match ban by the FA, following their receipt of a 23-page report from referee Ruud Bossen that explained his decision. Rooney wrote a letter of protest to the FA, citing the lack of punishment handed down to other players who were sent off in friendlies. He also threatened to withdraw the FA's permission to use his image rights if they did not revoke the ban, but the FA had no power to make such a decision.

Rooney playing for Manchester United

During the first half of the 200607 season, Rooney ended a ten-game scoreless streak with a hat-trick against Bolton Wanderers, and he signed a two-year contract extension the next month that tied him to United until 2012. By the end of April, a combination of two goals in an 8-3 aggregate quarter-final win over Roma and two more in a 3-2 semi-final first leg victory over AC Milan brought Rooney's total goal amount to 23 in all competitions and tied him with teammate Cristiano Ronaldo for the team goalscoring lead. By the end of that season, he had scored 14 league goals.

Rooney collected his first Premier League title winner's medal at the end of the 2006-07 season, but has yet to pick up an FA Cup winner's medal; he had to settle for a runners-up medal in the 2007 FA Cup Final.

United announced during the post-season that Rooney had taken over the number 10 jersey that was vacated by Ruud van Nistelrooy, who had left for Real Madrid a year earlier. He was presented with the shirt at a press conference on 28 June 2007 by former United striker Denis Law, who had also worn the number during his tenure with the club in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Rooney in a Champions League match against Celtic

On 12 August 2007, Rooney fractured his left metatarsal in United's opening-day goalless draw against Reading; he had suffered the same injury to his right foot in 2004. After being sidelined for six weeks, he returned for United's 1-0 Champions League group stage win over Roma on 2 October, scoring the match's only goal. However, barely a month into his return, Rooney injured his ankle during a training session on 9 November, and missed an additional two weeks. His first match back was against Fulham on 3 December, in which he played 70 minutes.[dead link] Rooney missed a total of ten games and finished the 2007-08 season with 18 goals (12 of them in the league), as United clinched both the Premier League and the Champions League, in which they defeated league rivals Chelsea in the competition's first-ever all-English final.

On 4 October 2008 in an away win over Blackburn Rovers, Rooney became the youngest player in league history to make 200 appearances. On 14 January after scoring what turned out to be the only goal 54 seconds into the 1-0 win over Wigan Athletic, Rooney limped off with a hamstring ailment in the eighth minute. His replacement, Carlos Tvez, was injured himself shortly after entering the game, but stayed on. Rooney was out for three weeks, missing one match apiece in the League Cup and FA Cup, along with four Premier League matches.. On 25 April 2009, Rooney scored his final league goals of the season in one of the games of the season, United scored 5 goals in an emphatic second half display to come from 2-0 down winning the game 5-2. Rooney grabbed two goals, set up two and provided the assist that led to the penalty for United's first goal. Rooney ended the season with 20 goals in all competitions, behind Ronaldo as leading United scorer for the season. Once again, he managed 12 goals in the league.

200910

Rooney's start to the new campaign got off to great scoring ways, grabbing a goal in the 90th minute of the 2009 Community Shield, though United lost the game to Chelsea on penalties. He then scored the only goal of the opening game of the 2009-10 season against Birmingham City, taking his overall United tally to 99. He failed to score in the next game, a historic 1-0 defeat to the hands of newly-promoted Burnley at Turf Moor. On 22 August 2009, he became the 20th Manchester United player to have scored over 100 goals for the club, finding the net twice in a 5-0 away win at Wigan Athletic, a game which also saw Michael Owen notch his first goal for United..

On 29 August 2009, United played Arsenal at Old Trafford. Rooney scored the equaliser from the penalty spot after Andrei Arshavin had put the Gunners ahead. The game finished 2-1 to Manchester United after Abou Diaby scored an own goal. Five days later Rooney commented on his penalty against Arsenal: "Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player, I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do." On 28 November 2009, Rooney scored his first hat-trick for three years in a 4-1 away victory against Portsmouth, with two of them being penalties. On 27 December 2009, he was awarded Man of the Match against Hull. He was involved in all the goals scored in the game, hitting the opener and then giving away the ball for Hull's equalizing penalty. He then forced Andy Dawson into conceding an own goal and then set up Dimitar Berbatov for United's third goal which gave them a 3-1 victory. On 30 January 2009, three days on from their victory over Hull, he grabbed another goal in United's 5-0 thrashing of Wigan in their final game of the century. On 23 January 2010, Rooney scored all four goals in Manchester United's 40 win over Hull City; three of the goals came in the last 10 minutes of the match. This was the first time in his career that he bagged four in one match. On 27 January 2010, he continued his great scoring run by heading the winner in the second minute of stoppage time against derby rivals Manchester City. This gave United a 4-3 aggregate win, taking them into the final, it was his first League Cup goal since netting two in the 2006 final. On 31 January 2010, Rooney scored his 100th Premier League goal in a 3-1 win over Arsenal for the first time in the league at the Emirates, notably his first Premier League goal also came against Arsenal. On 16 February 2010, Rooney hit his first European goals of the season, scoring two headers in the 3-2 away win against A.C. Milan in their first ever win against them at the San Siro.. On 28th February 2010 he scored another header against Aston Villa (his fifth consecutive header goal in a row) which resulted in Manchester United winning the Carling Cup final 2-1.

International career

Rooney playing for England

Rooney became the youngest player to play for England when he earned his first cap in a friendly against Australia on 12 February 2003 at seventeen, the same age in which he also became the youngest player to score an England goal. Arsenal youngster Theo Walcott broke Rooney's appearance record by 36 days in June 2006.

His first tournament action was at Euro 2004, in which he became the youngest scorer in competition history on 17 June 2004, when he scored twice against Switzerland; however, this record was topped by Swiss midfielder Johan Vonlanthen four days later. Rooney suffered an injury in the quarterfinal match against Portugal as England were eliminated on penalties.

Following a foot injury in an April 2006 Premier League match, Rooney faced a race to fitness for the 2006 World Cup. England attempted to hasten his recovery with the use of an oxygen tent, which allowed Rooney to enter a group match against Trinidad and Tobago and start the next match against Sweden. However, he never got back into game shape and went scoreless as England bowed out in the quarterfinals, again on penalty kicks.

Rooney was red-carded in the 62nd minute of the quarterfinal for stamping on Portugal defender Ricardo Carvalho as both attempted to gain possession of the ball, an incident that occurred right in front of referee Horacio Elizondo. Rooney's United teammate Cristiano Ronaldo openly protested his actions, and was in turn shoved by Rooney. Elizondo sent Rooney off, after which Ronaldo was seen winking at the Portugal bench. Rooney denied intentionally targeting Carvalho in a statement on 3 July, adding, "I bear no ill feeling to Cristiano but am disappointed that he chose to get involved. I suppose I do, though, have to remember that on that particular occasion we were not teammates." Elizondo confirmed the next day that Rooney was dismissed solely for the infraction on Carvalho. Rooney was fined CHF5,000 for the incident.

Personal life

Family

Rooney met his wife, Coleen Rooney (ne McLoughlin), while both were in their final year of secondary school. They married on 12 June 2008 after six years of dating, during which Rooney admitted to soliciting prostitution in Liverpool in 2004. '"I was young and stupid. It was at a time when I was very young and immature and before I had settled down with Coleen." He has a tattoo of the words "Just Enough Education To Perform," the title of an album by his favorite band, the Stereophonics; Coleen arranged for the group to play at their wedding reception. The wedding ran into some controversy with the Catholic Church. The couple, held a religious ceremony at La Cervara, a converted monastery near Genoa, despite being warned by the local bishop's office against the plan. The bishop's office told the Rooneys that La Cervara is deconsecrated and not suitable for a wedding. It suggested a different church, five miles away. Nevertheless, the couple ignored the advice and Father Edward Quinn, their local priest from Croxteth, presided over a ceremony in which rings were exchanged.

In April 2006, he was awarded 100,000 in libel damages from tabloids The Sun and News of the World, who had claimed that he had assaulted Coleen in a nightclub. Rooney donated the money to charity.

The Rooneys reside in a 4.25 million mansion in the village of Prestbury, Cheshire,[dead link] which was built by a company owned by Dawn Ward, the wife of former Sheffield United striker Ashley Ward. He also owns property in Port Charlotte, Florida. While Rooney was house hunting in Cheshire after signing with Manchester United, he spotted a pub sign that read "Admiral Rodney," which he misread as "Admiral Rooney." He nonetheless considered it a positive omen for his future home. Rooney owns a French mastiff dog, which was reportedly bought for 1,250.

Rooney's wife Coleen announced on 7 April 2009 that the couple were expecting their first baby, due in October 2009. Coleen gave birth to their son, Kai Wayne Rooney, on 2 November 2009.

Commercial interests

Rooney has endorsement deals with Nike, Nokia, Ford, Asda, and Coca-Cola. He has appeared on five straight UK-version covers of Electronic Arts' FIFA series from FIFA 06 (2005) to FIFA 10 (2009).

On 9 March 2006, Rooney signed the largest sports book deal in publishing history with HarperCollins, who granted him a 5 million advance plus royalties for a minimum of five books to be published over a twelve-year period. The first, My Story So Far, an autobiography ghostwritten by Hunter Davies, was published after the World Cup. The second publication, The Official Wayne Rooney Annual, was aimed at the teenage market and edited by football journalist Chris Hunt.

In July 2006, Rooney's lawyers went to the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organisation to gain ownership of the Internet domain names waynerooney.com and waynerooney.co.uk, both of which Welsh actor Huw Marshall registered in 2002. Three months later, the WIPO awarded Rooney the rights to waynerooney.com.

Paul Stretford controversy

In July 2002, while Rooney was with Everton, agent Paul Stretford encouraged Rooney and his parents to enter the player into an eight-year contract with Proactive Sports Management. However, Rooney was already with another representation firm at the time, while Stretford's transaction went unreported to the FA, and he was thus charged with improper conduct. Stretford alleged in his October 2004 trial that he had secretly recorded boxing promoter John Hyland (an associate of Rooney's first agent) and two other men threatening and attempting to blackmail him for an undisclosed percentage of Rooney's earnings.

Stretford's case collapsed due to evidence that conflicted with his insistence that he had not signed Rooney, and on 9 July 2008, he was found guilty of "making of false and/or misleading witness statements to police, and giving false and/or misleading testimony." In addition, the contract to which Stretford had signed Rooney was two years longer than the limit allowed by the FA. Stretford was fined 300,000 and banned from working as a football agent for eighteen months, a verdict he promptly appealed.

Career statistics

Club

Season

League

Cup

League Cup

Continental

Other

Total

Apps

Goals

Apps

Goals

Apps

Goals

Apps

Goals

Apps

Goals

Apps

Goals

Everton

200203

33

6

1

0

3

2

0

0

37

8

200304

34

9

3

0

3

0

0

0

40

9

Total

67

15

4

0

6

2

0

0

77

17

Manchester United

200405

29

11

6

3

2

0

6

3

0

0

43

17

200506

36

16

3

0

4

2

5

1

0

0

48

19

200607

35

14

7

5

1

0

12

4

0

0

55

23

200708

27

12

4

2

0

0

11

4

1

0

43

18

200809

30

12

2

1

1

0

13

4

3

3

49

20

200910

27

23

1

0

3

2

4

2

1

1

35

28

Total

184

88

23

11

11

4

51

18

5

4

274

125

Career total

251

103

27

11

17

6

51

18

5

4

351

142

Statistics accurate as of match played 28 February 2010

International goals

Wayne Rooney international goals

1

6 September 2003

Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

 Macedonia

21

Win

UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying

2

10 September 2003

Manchester, England

 Liechtenstein

20

Win

UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying

3

16 November 2003

Manchester, England

 Denmark

32

Loss

Friendly

4

5 June 2004

Manchester, England

 Iceland

61

Win

Friendly

5

5 June 2004

Manchester, England

 Iceland

61

Win

Friendly

6

17 June 2004

Coimbra, Portugal

 Switzerland

30

Win

UEFA Euro 2004

7

17 June 2004

Coimbra, Portugal

 Switzerland

30

Win

UEFA Euro 2004

8

21 June 2004

Lisbon, Portugal

 Croatia

42

Win

UEFA Euro 2004

9

21 June 2004

Lisbon, Portugal

 Croatia

42

Win

UEFA Euro 2004

10

17 August 2005

Copenhagen, Denmark

 Denmark

41

Loss

Friendly

11

12 November 2005

Geneva, Switzerland

 Argentina

32

Win

Friendly

12

15 November 2006

Amsterdam, Netherlands

 Netherlands

11

Draw

Friendly

13

13 October 2007

London, England

 Estonia

30

Win

UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying

14

17 October 2007

Moscow, Russia

 Russia

21

Loss

UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying

15

10 September 2008

Zagreb, Croatia

 Croatia

41

Win

2010 World Cup qualifying

16

12 October 2008

London, England

 Kazakhstan

51

Win

2010 World Cup qualifying

17

12 October 2008

London, England

 Kazakhstan

51

Win

2010 World Cup qualifying

18

15 October 2008

Minsk, Belarus

 Belarus

31

Win

2010 World Cup qualifying

19

15 October 2008

Minsk, Belarus

 Belarus

31

Win

2010 World Cup qualifying

20

28 March 2009

London, England

 Slovakia

40

Win

Friendly

21

28 March 2009

London, England

 Slovakia

40

Win

Friendly

22

6 June 2009

Almaty, Kazakhstan

 Kazakhstan

40

Win

2010 World Cup qualifying

23

10 June 2009

London, England

 Andorra

60

Win

2010 World Cup qualifying

24

10 June 2009

London, England

 Andorra

60

Win

2010 World Cup qualifying

25

9 September 2009

London, England

 Croatia

51

Win

2010 World Cup qualifying

Honours

Club

Manchester United

Premier League: 200607, 200708, 200809

Community Shield: 2007

League Cup: 200506, 200910

UEFA Champions League: 200708

FIFA Club World Cup: 2008

Individual

BBC Sports Young Personality of the Year: 2002

Bravo Award : 2003

UEFA Euro 2004 Team of the Tournament

FIFPro World Young Player of the Year: 200405

Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year: 200506

PFA Young Player of the Year: 200405, 200506

PFA Fans' Player of the Year: 200506

PFA Team of the Year: 200506

FA Premier League Player of the Month: February 2005, December 2005, March 2006, November 2007, January 2010

FIFA Club World Cup Golden Ball: 2008

England Player of the Year: 2008, 2009

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^ Wayne Rooney agent banned and fined - Manchester United Blog, 9 July 2008

^ a b c Wayne Rooney's agent, Paul Stretford, banned - The Telegraph, 22 July 2008

^ Includes other competitive competitions, including the FA Community Shield, UEFA Super Cup, Intercontinental Cup, FIFA Club World Cup

^ Endlar, Andrew. "Wayne Rooney". StretfordEnd.co.uk. http://www.stretfordend.co.uk/playermenu/rooney.html. Retrieved 22 August 2009. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Wayne Rooney

Official site

Wayne Rooney profile at ManUtd.com

Wayne Rooney career stats at Soccerbase

Wayne Rooney FIFA competition record

 

England squads

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England squad UEFA Euro 2004

1 James  2 G. Neville  3 A. Cole  4 Gerrard  5 Terry  6 Campbell  7 Beckham  8 Scholes  9 Rooney  10 Owen  11 Lampard  12 Bridge  13 Robinson  14 P. Neville  15 King  16 Carragher  17 Butt  18 Hargreaves  19 J. Cole  20 Dyer  21 Heskey  22 Walker  23 Vassell  Coach: Eriksson

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England squad 2006 FIFA World Cup

1 Robinson  2 Neville  3 A. Cole  4 Gerrard  5 Ferdinand  6 Terry  7 Beckham  8 Lampard  9 Rooney  10 Owen  11 J. Cole  12 Campbell  13 James  14 Bridge  15 Carragher  16 Hargreaves  17 Jenas  18 Carrick  19 Lennon  20 Downing  21 Crouch  22 Carson  23 Walcott  Coach: Eriksson

 

Awards

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PFA Young Player of the Year

1974: Beattie  | 1975: Day  | 1976: Barnes  | 1977: Gray  | 1978: Woodcock  | 1979: Regis  | 1980: Hoddle  | 1981: Shaw  | 1982: Moran  | 1983: Rush  | 1984: Walsh  | 1985: Hughes  | 1986: Cottee  | 1987: Adams  | 1988: Gascoigne  | 1989: Merson  | 1990: Le Tissier  | 1991: Sharpe  | 1992: Giggs  | 1993: Giggs  | 1994: Cole  | 1995: Fowler  | 1996: Fowler  | 1997: Beckham  | 1998: Owen  | 1999: Anelka  | 2000: Kewell  | 2001: Gerrard  | 2002: Bellamy  | 2003: Jenas  | 2004: Parker  | 2005: Rooney  | 2006: Rooney  | 2007: C. Ronaldo  | 2008: Fbregas  | 2009: Young

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PFA Fans' Player of the Year

2001: Gerrard | 2002: van Nistelrooy | 2003: Henry | 2004: Henry | 2005: Lampard | 2006: Rooney | 2007: C. Ronaldo | 2008: C. Ronaldo | 2009: Gerrard

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Bravo Award

1978: Case | 1979: Birtles | 1980: Mller | 1981: Wark | 1982: Shaw | 1983: Bonini | 1984: Righetti | 1985: Butragueo | 1986: Butragueo | 1987: van Basten | 1988: Ohana | 1989: Maldini | 1990: Baggio | 1991: Prosineki | 1992: Guardiola | 1993: Giggs | 1994: Panucci | 1995: Kluivert | 1996: Del Piero | 1997: Ronaldo | 1998: Ronaldo | 1999: Buffon | 2000: Casillas | 2001: Hargreaves | 2002: Metzelder | 2003: Rooney | 2004: C.Ronaldo | 2005: Robben | 2006: Fbregas | 2007: Messi | 2008: Benzema | 2009: Agero

Awards and achievements

Preceded by

None

FIFPro Young Player of the Year

2005

Succeeded by

Lionel Messi

Preceded by

Steven Gerrard

England Player of the Year

2008

Succeeded by

TBA

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Manchester United F.C. current squad

1 Van der Sar  2 Neville (c)  3 Evra  4 Hargreaves  5 Ferdinand  6 Brown  7 Owen  8 Anderson  9 Berbatov  10 Rooney  11 Giggs  12 Foster  13 Park  15 Vidi  16 Carrick  17 Nani  18 Scholes  20 Fbio  21 Rafael  22 O'Shea  23 J. Evans  24 Fletcher  25 Valencia  26 Obertan  27 Macheda  28 Gibson  29 Kuszczak  30 De Laet  31 C. Evans  32 Diouf  33 Hewson  36 Gray  37 Cathcart  38 Zieler  39 Chester  40 Amos  41 King  42 Eikrem  44 Dudgeon  45 Gill  46 Stewart  47 Norwood  Manager: Ferguson

Persondata

NAME

Rooney, Wayne

ALTERNATIVE NAMES

SHORT DESCRIPTION

Footballer

DATE OF BIRTH

24 October 1985

PLACE OF BIRTH

Liverpool, England

DATE OF DEATH

PLACE OF DEATH

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