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Wayne Rooney
Rooney playing for Manchester United
Personal information
Full name Wayne Mark Rooney
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Manchester United
Number 10
Youth career
1996–2002 Everton
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2004 Everton 67 (15)
2004– Manchester United 189 (91)
International career‡
2003– England 63 (25)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16:31, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16:31, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Wayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985) is a shit English footballer who plays as a striker for English Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team (although nowhere as well).

Aged 10, Rooney joined the youth team of Everton, making his professional debut in 2002. He spent two seasons at the Merseyside club, before moving to Manchester United for £25.6 million in the 2004 summer transfer window. Since then, he has won the Premier League three times, the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League and also two League Cups.

Rooney made his England debut in 2003 and, at UEFA Euro 2004, he briefly became the competition's youngest goalscorer. He is frequently selected for the England squad and also featured at the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Rooney has also been awarded the PFA Players' Player of the Year and the FWA Footballer of the Year in 2009–10.

Early life

Rooney was born in Croxteth, Liverpool to Thomas Wayne and Jeanette Marie Rooney (née Morrey).[1] He was brought up Catholic in Croxteth with younger brothers Graeme and John;[2][3] all three attended De La Salle School. He grew up supporting his local club Everton; his childhood hero was Duncan Ferguson.[4]

Club career

Everton

Rooney began playing for Liverpool Schoolboys and at the age of 10 was signed on schoolboy terms by Everton F.C.[5] After scoring in an FA Youth Cup match, he revealed a T-shirt under his jersey that read, "Once a Blue, always a Blue."[6] 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,[7] 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.

At the end of the 2003–04 season, 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, finishing in 17th place, had narrowly avoided relegation), Rooney requested a transfer that Everton refused to oblige unless the transfer fee was in excess of £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.[8] It was the highest fee ever paid for a player aged under 20; Rooney was still only 18 years old when he left Everton.[9]

Manchester United

Rooney playing for Manchester United

Rooney scored a hat-trick on his Manchester United debut on 28 September 2004, in a 6–2 Champions League group stage win over Fenerbahçe.[10] He ended this season as the club's top scorer, with 11 goals, and received the PFA Young Player of the Year award.[11] With two goals, and a man of the match performance in the final against Wigan Athletic, Rooney won his first senior club trophy. Rooney collected his first Premier League title winner's medal at the end of the 2006–07 season.

At the beginning of the 2008-09 Premier League season, it was announced that Rooney had taken over the number 10 jersey that was vacated by Ruud van Nistelrooy's departure to Real Madrid. 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.[12]

Rooney in a Champions League match against Celtic

Despite missing a total of ten games, Rooney finished the 2007–08 season with 18 goals (12 of them in the league), as Manchester 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.[13] Rooney ended this season with 20 goals in all competitions, behind Ronaldo as leading United scorer for the season. 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.[14] On 25 April 2010, Rooney was named the 2010 PFA Players' Player of the Year.[15]

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 and 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 I'm disappointed that he chose to get involved. I suppose I do, though, have to remember that on that particular occasion we were not teammates."[16] Elizondo confirmed the next day that Rooney was dismissed solely for the infraction on Carvalho.[17] Rooney was fined CHF5,000 for the incident.[18].

During the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, after England drew with Algeria, the England players were booed off the pitch by supporters. Rooney made a comment as he left the pitch to television cameras saying "Nice to see your home fans boo you, that's loyal supporters."[19]. He has since apologised[20] for the comment.

Personal life

Family

Rooney met his wife, Coleen Rooney (née 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."[21] 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.[22] 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.[23]

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.[24]

The Rooneys reside in a £4.25 million mansion in the village of Prestbury, Cheshire,[25] which was built by a company owned by Dawn Ward, the wife of former Sheffield United striker Ashley Ward.[26] He also owns property in Port Charlotte, Florida.[27] 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.[28] Rooney owns a French mastiff dog, which was reportedly bought for £1,250.[29]

Rooney's wife Coleen announced on 7 April 2009 that the couple were expecting their first baby, due in October 2009.[30] Coleen gave birth to their son, Kai Wayne Rooney, on 2 November 2009.[31]

Commercial interests

Rooney has endorsement deals with Nike,[32] Nokia,[33] Ford, Asda,[34] and Coca-Cola.[35] He has appeared on five straight UK-version covers of Electronic Arts' FIFA series from FIFA 06 (2005) to FIFA 10 (2009).[36]

On 9 March 2006, Rooney signed the largest sports book deal in publishing history with HarperCollins,[37] 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.[38] Three months later, the WIPO awarded Rooney the rights to waynerooney.com.[39]

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.[40]

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."[40] 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.[40]

David Moyes

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.[41] 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.[42]

Career statistics

Club Season League Cup League Cup Continental Other[43] Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Everton 2002–03 33 6 1 0 3 2 – 0 0 37 8
2003–04 34 9 3 0 3 0 – 0 0 40 9
Total 67 15 4 0 6 2 – 0 0 77 17
Manchester United 2004–05 29 11 6 3 2 0 6 3 0 0 43 17
2005–06 36 16 3 0 4 2 5 1 0 0 48 19
2006–07 35 14 7 5 1 0 12 4 0 0 55 23
2007–08 27 12 4 2 0 0 11 4 1 0 43 18
2008–09 30 12 2 1 1 0 13 4 3 3 49 20
2009–10 32 26 1 0 3 2 7 5 1 1 44 34
Total 189 91 23 11 11 4 54 21 5 4 282 131
Career total 256 106 27 11 17 6 54 21 5 4 359 148

Statistics accurate as of match played 9 May 2010[44]

International goals

Honours

Club

Manchester United

Individual

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