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{{Football player infobox| playername= Michael Owen
| image =
Image:Michael_Owen.jpg 225px© http://soccer-europe.com
| fullname = Michael James Owen
| nickname = The "Boy Wonder", Saint Michael
| dateofbirth =
14 December,
1979
| cityofbirth =
Chester
| countryofbirth =
England
| height = 5'9'' (175cm)
| currentclub =
Newcastle United F.C. Newcastle United
| position = Forward
| youthyears = ? –
1996 96
| youthclubs =
Liverpool F.C. Liverpool
| years =
1996–
20042004-
20052005–
| clubs =
Liverpool F.C. LiverpoolReal MadridNewcastle United
| caps(goals) = 216 (118)36 (13)10 (7)
| nationalyears =
1998–
| nationalteam =
England national football team England
| nationalcaps(goals) = 75 (35)
| pcupdate = 28 Feb 06
| ntupdate = 28 Feb 06
}}
{{Otherpeople|Michael Owen}}
'''Michael James Owen''' (born
December 14,
1979 in
Chester,
Cheshire) is an
England English football (soccer) football player, currently playing for
Newcastle United F.C. Newcastle United. He has also famously played for
Liverpool F.C. Liverpool and
Real Madrid. He plays as a
striker, and is noted particularly for his
speed,
acceleration and clinical finishing. He has enjoyed a hugely successful and high-profile career at both club and international level and was the
European Footballer of the Year in 2001.
Club career
He first played for his
primary school team in
Hawarden,
Wales, breaking all local scoring records in his first season. From the age of 14 he attended the FA's
School of Excellence in
Staffordshire but also continued to study at the local
Hawarden High School and picked up ten
GCSEs.
Liverpool F.C. Liverpool signed Owen as an apprentice while in his teens, although as a boy he had been a supporter of their local arch-rivals
Everton F.C. Everton. With Owen's help, Liverpool's youth team won the
FA Youth Cup in
1996. He signed professional forms for the senior team just after his seventeenth birthday in December 1996, making a sensational debut for the team against
Wimbledon F.C. Wimbledon in May
1997, coming on as a substitute and scoring a goal. With an injury to
Robbie Fowler, he was thrust immediately into action as a first team regular alongside the likes of newcomer
Paul Ince and playmaker
Steve McManaman in the following
1997-
1998 98 season. Owen ended that season as joint top scorer in the
FA Premier League Premier League, scoring eighteen goals (equal with
Chris Sutton and
Dion Dublin), as well as being voted the
PFA Young Player of the Year by his fellow professionals.
He continued to be a consistent goalscorer for Liverpool, and in
2001 helped the club to their most successful season for several years. The team won the
League Cup,
FA Cup and
UEFA Cup, with Owen scoring two goals in the last few minutes against
Arsenal F.C. Arsenal in the FA Cup final to turn what appeared to be a 1-0 defeat into a 2-1 victory. Surprisingly, however, he failed to score in the team's incredible 5-4 victory against
Deportivo Alavés in the UEFA Cup, and was substituted in that game. At the end of the year, he became the first British player for twenty years to win the
European Footballer of the Year award.
Due to Liverpool's continued failure to win the Premier League or the
UEFA Champions League Champions League, Owen was often linked with moves to other clubs, although he initially remained loyal to his first employers. However, due to stalled contractual talks in the
summer of
2004, and with only one year remaining on his contract before he could leave the club on a
Bosman ruling free transfer like
Steve McManaman did, Liverpool sold Owen to the same destination,
Real Madrid, in
Spain, but unlike the McManaman situation, pocketed a fee of
euro €12 million on
13 August 2004, with midfielder
Antonio Nunez moving in the other direction. This move turned out to be somewhat ironic, as in the following season Liverpool won the Champions League, while Real won nothing for the second successive season.
Owen had a slow start to his Madrid career and drew some criticism from fans and the Spanish press for his lack of form, often being confined to the substitutes bench during matches. However, a successful return to action with the England team in October 2004 seemed to revive his morale, and on his first match back with Madrid following this he scored his first goal for the team, the winner in a 1-0
UEFA Champions League group game victory over
FC Dynamo Kyiv Dynamo Kiev. He quickly followed this up just a few days later with his first Spanish league goal for the team in a 1-0 victory over
Valencia CF Valencia, and also hit the target in the three of the next four games to make it 5 goals in 7 successive matches. He ended the season with a highly respectable 13 goals in
La Liga (the season's highest ratio of goals scored to number of minutes played), as Real finished runners-up in the Spanish championship. In August 2005 speculation arose that Owen would soon part company with Real Madrid in order to join one of the English Premier League's more dominant teams and also to secure his position as England's first choice striker, following Real's signing of two more forwards.
On
August 24 2005,
Newcastle United F.C. Newcastle United announced that they had agreed a club record fee of £17 million with Madrid for Owen, although they still had to negotiate with the player's advisers. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/4179194.stm]. However, Owen claimed that he would only be willing to spend a year on
loan to them. This came just a day after
Everton F.C. Everton, traditional rivals of Owen's beloved Liverpool, had a bid for the player turned down by the Spanish club [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/e/everton/4176576.stm].
On
August 31 2005 Owen finally signed a four-year contract to play for Newcastle United, despite initial press speculation that he would rather have returned to Liverpool. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/4196760.stm] Roughly 20,000 fans were present at Newcastle's home ground of
St James' Park for Owen's official unveiling as a Newcastle player. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/4200808.stm] He scored his first goal for the club on his second appearance, the middle goal in a 3-0 away win at
Blackburn Rovers F.C. Blackburn Rovers on
September 18 – Newcastle's first win of the season. Owen scored his first
hat-trick for Newcastle in the [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/4516346.stm 4-2]away win over
West Ham United on
December 17. It was also a 'perfect hat trick', (meaning he scored with his left foot, right foot, and head).
On
December 31,
2005, Owen broke a
metatarsal bone in his foot in a match against
Tottenham Hotspur. He underwent a successful
surgery to place a pin in the bone, to help speed the healing process. On
March 24 he underwent a second, minor, operation, and is now expected to return to playing some time in late April, he has confirmed that he will be back before the FIFA World Cup 2006, and has set him self a target of playing two more games before the end of the season.
Clubs
*
Liverpool F.C. Liverpool (1996-2004)
*
Real Madrid (2004-2005)
*
Newcastle United F.C. Newcastle United (2005-present)
Honours
* 2000/01
League Cup
* 2000/01
FA Cup
* 2000/01
UEFA Cup
* 2001/02
European Super Cup
* 2001/02
FA Community Shield Charity Shield
* 2002/03
League Cup
Individual Honours
* 1998
PFA Young Player of the Year
* 1998
Premier League Joint Topscorer, 18 Goals
* 1999
Premier League Joint Topscorer, 18 Goals
* 2001
European Footballer of the Year
International career
Owen had a highly successful record at Youth and Under-21 international level, although he was only briefly a member of the
England national under-21 football team England Under-21 team before he made his debut for the
England national football team senior team in a friendly match against
Chile national football team Chile in February
1998. Playing in this game made Owen the youngest player to represent England in the whole of the
20th century.
Owen's youthful enthusiasm, pace and talent made him a popular player across the country, and many fans were keen for him to be made a regular player for the team ahead of that year's
Football World Cup 1998 World Cup. His first goal for England, against
Morocco national football team Morocco in another friendly game just prior to this tournament, only increased these calls. The goal also made him the youngest ever player to have scored for England, until his record was surpassed by
Wayne Rooney in
2003.
Although he was selected for the World Cup squad by manager
Glenn Hoddle, he was kept on the bench as a substitute in the first two games. However, his substitute appearance in the second game against
Romania national football team Romania saw him score a goal and hit the post with another shot, almost salvaging the defeat. After that, Hoddle had little choice but to play him from the start, and in England's second round match against
Argentina national football team Argentina he scored a sensational individual goal, voted by many as the goal of the tournament and really bringing him to the attention of the world football scene.
England lost that match and went out of the tournament, but Owen had sealed his place as an automatic England choice and his popularity in the country was huge. At the end of the year he won a public vote to be elected winner of the prestigious
BBC Sports Personality of the Year title, the award's youngest ever recipient.
He has since played for England in
2000 European Football Championship Euro 2000 and
2004 European Football Championship Euro 2004, and the
Football World Cup 2002 2002 World Cup, scoring goals in all three tournaments. This makes him the only player to ever have scored in four major tournaments for England. He even scored a
hat-trick against
German national football team Germany in the
2001 qualifying campaign for the
Football World Cup 2002 2002 World Cup, the first English player to score a hat-trick against Germany since
Geoff Hurst, who scored his hat trick in the
1966 World Cup Final. He subsequently scored a second hat-trick against
Colombia national football team Colombia in
Giants Stadium New Jersey in May
2005.
In April
2002, he was named as England's captain for a friendly match against
Paraguay national football team Paraguay in place of the injured regular captain
David Beckham. Owen was the youngest England skipper since
Bobby Moore in
1963, and since then has regularly captained England during any absence for Beckham.
As of November
2005, Owen has been capped seventy-five times for England and scored thirty-five goals: he is fourth in the list of all-time top scorers for the England team, behind
Bobby Charlton (49 goals),
Gary Lineker (48) and
Jimmy Greaves (44). He and Lineker jointly hold the record of twenty-two goals for England in competitive matches, i.e. World Cup and European Championship games and the qualifiers for those tournaments.
In November
2005, Owen was the hero in a thrilling friendly against
Argentina National Football Team Argentina in which
England were trailing 2-1, until Owen scored two late goals in the 89th minute and late on in injury time to give
England a 3-2 win over the
Argentinians.
Private life
Owen married his girlfriend Louise Bonsall in June 2005, two years after the birth of their daughter Gemma Rose (born 1 May 2003). Their son, James Michael Owen, was born on
6 February 2006. Michael and Louise had been engaged since Valentine's Day 2004, and had known each other since starting primary school in 1984.
The couple had initially planned to get married at their home, Lower Soughton Hall (near
Northop and
Soughton), but changed plans when they were informed that if a licence was granted for a marriage ceremony the venue must be made available for other weddings for three years. In early 2006 Owen was reported to be training for a helicopter pilot's licence, to enable him to fly his own aircraft.
Statistics
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|+ '''
Club Performance'''
|-
!rowspan="2"|Club
!rowspan="2"|Season
!colspan="2"|
The Football League League
!colspan="2"|
FA Cup
!colspan="2"|
League Cup
!colspan="2"|
Europe
!colspan="2"|Others
!colspan="2"|Total
|-
!App
!Goals
!App
!Goals
!App
!Goals
!App
!Goals
!App
!Goals
!App
!Goals
|-
|rowspan="1" valign=top|
Newcastle United
|2005/06
|10||7||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||10||7
|-
|rowspan="2" valign=top|
Real Madrid
|2005/06
|0||0||0||0||-||-||0||0||0||0||0||0
|-
|2004/05
|36||13||4||2||-||-||5||1||0||0||45||16
|-
|rowspan="9" valign=top|
Liverpool FC
|2004/05
|0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
|-
|2003/04
|29||16||3||1||0||0||6||2||0||0||38||19
|-
|2002/03
|35||19||2||0||4||2||12||7||1||0||54||28
|-
|2001/02
|29||19||2||2||0||0||11||6||1||1||43||28
|-
|2000/01
|28||16||5||3||2||1||11||4||0||0||46||24
|-
|1999/00
|27||11||1||0||2||1||0||0||0||0||30||12
|-
|1998/99
|30||18||2||2||2||1||6||2||0||0||40||23
|-
|1997/98
|36||18||0||0||4||4||4||1||0||0||44||23
|-
|1996/97
|2||1||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||2||1
|-
! align=left style="background:beige"|Total
! align=left style="background:beige" colspan="1" |
! align=left style="background:beige"| 262
! align=left style="background:beige"| 138
! align=left style="background:beige"| 19
! align=left style="background:beige"| 10
! align=left style="background:beige"| 14
! align=left style="background:beige"| 9
! align=left style="background:beige"| 55
! align=left style="background:beige"| 23
! align=left style="background:beige"| 2
! align=left style="background:beige"| 1
! align=left style="background:beige"| 352
! align=left style="background:beige"| 181
|-
|}
External links
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The brand new official website for Michael Owen
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The official Picture website for Michael Owen
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TheFA.com profile
{{start box}}
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{{succession box|title=
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{{succession box|title=
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