Profile Michael Owen

Personal information

Full name : Michael James Owen
Date of birth : 14 December 1979
Place of birth : Chester, England
Height : 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Playing position : Striker
Current club : Manchester United
Number : 7
Youth career :
1991–1996 Liverpool
Senior career :
1996–2004 Liverpool
2004–2005 Real Madrid
2005–2009 Newcastle United
2009– Manchester United
National team :
1997 England U20
1997 England U21
2006–2007 England B
1998–2008 England


Club career


Liverpool

At age 13, when Owen begun assisting high school, he became suitable to signal a schoolboy agreement with a club. He held converses with Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal, before he finally marked for Liverpool (despite increasing up as a follower of their competitors Everton), the association that convinced him to join the FA's School of Excellence at Lilleshall in Shropshire at age 14. Throughout this time, he proceeded his investigations at Hawarden High School and accomplished 10 GCSEs. Liverpool marked Owen after he graduated from Lilleshall at 16, and connected the association on the Youth Training Scheme. The celebrity of Liverpool's 1996 FA Youth Cup triumph, tallying in the last contrary to a West Ham United group that encompassed Frank Lampard and Rio Ferdinand, Owen tallied prolifically as he increased quickly through the Anfield ranks. After four months, he marked expert types for the older group just after his seventeenth anniversary on 18 December 1996. He made his debut for Liverpool contrary to Wimbledon in May 1997, approaching on as a alternate and tallying a goal.[9] With an wound to Robbie Fowler, he was push directly into activity as a first group normal beside the likes of newcomer Paul Ince and playmaker Steve McManaman in the next 1997–98 season. He tallied his first European aim for the association contrary to Celtic in the UEFA Cup and noted his first expert hat-trick contrary to Grimsby Town in the League Cup. His first Premier League hat-trick came subsequent that time of the year at Hillsborough contrary to Sheffield Wednesday, a week after he had tallied two consolation goals in Liverpool's shock 3-2 dwelling beat by Southampton. Owen completed that time of the year as a junction peak scorer in the Premier League with Blackburn Rovers' Chris Sutton and Coventry City's Dion Dublin, tallying eighteen goals, and was cast a vote the PFA Young Player of the Year by young individual professionals. The 1998–99 time of the year verified to be another good time of the year for Owen as he tallied 23 Goals in 40 sport for Liverpool. Despite his pattern, Liverpool were incapable to climb on any thing like a name dispute and their seventh location complete was not sufficient to attain even a UEFA Cup place. Owen hurt his hamstring in a association game contrary to Leeds United on 12 April, which verified to be a recurring wound and prematurely conveyed his time of the year to an end.


The next time of the year was a annoying one for Owen as he was out hurt for long time span, consequences of the wound endured the preceding time of the year but regardless organised to tally 12 goals and assisted Liverpool to specify for the UEFA Cup. In the run-up to Euro 2000, Owen was still pain hamstring difficulties and obtained remedy from the Bayern Munich medical practitioner, Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt. In the 2000–01 time of the year, he assisted the association to their most thriving time of the year in some years. The group won the League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Cup, with Owen tallying two goals in the last couple of minutes contrary to Arsenal in the FA Cup last to turn what had emerged to be a 1–0 beat into a 2–1 triumph, the game has since been christened "The Michael Owen Cup Final".

Winning the FA Cup and the UEFA Cup permitted Liverpool to play in the Charity Shield and the UEFA Super Cup at the starting of the 2001–02 season. Liverpool won both agrees with Owen tallying the second aim of the 2–1 win over Manchester United in the Charity Shield and the third aim in the 2001 UEFA Super Cup win over European champions Bayern Munich. Liverpool therefore became the first English group to win five trophies in one calendar year.


Just a week subsequent, Owen would afresh trounce Bayern goalkeeper Oliver Kahn, as the English worldwide strike a hat-trick in England's 5–1 win over Germany in Munich. At the end of the year, Owen became the first English contestant in 20 years and the only Liverpool contestant ever to win the European Footballer of the Year award. He was furthermore cast a vote World Soccer contestant of the year in 2001; he is the only English contestant to win the accolade and was the first Premier League contestant to manage so. He tallied his 100th aim for Liverpool on 21 December 2001 contrary to West Ham United. Liverpool completed second in the association in the 2001–2002 time of the year and Owen performed a key part in the achievement, tallying 28 goals.

The 2002–03 time of the year glimpsed Owen on peak pattern afresh as he strike 28 goals. Liverpool were on peak of the table and looked like authentic name competitors for the first time in some years, but a run of awful outcomes glimpsed them finally completing fifth in the table. Owen furthermore tallied at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff when Liverpool trounce Manchester United 2–0 to win the League Cup and tallied his 100th Premier League aim contrary to West Bromwich Albion.

In an injury-hit 2003–04 time of the year he still organised to tally 19 goals, getting his 150th aim for the association on 15 February 2004 contrary to Portsmouth, but else it was a bleak time of the year for both him and Liverpool.


Following Gérard Houllier's dismissing as Liverpool supervisor, conjecture about Owen's exodus from the association began. During the first couple of Champions League sport at the start of the 2004–2005 time of the year, Owen sat on the bench to bypass being cup-tied for the Champions League, certain thing that would have intended no one of the peak associations in Europe would desire to signal him. Since 1998 Owen had been Liverpool's peak scorer every time of the year until he left the association . Real Madrid marked him for a charge of £8 million on 13 August 2004, with midfielder Antonio Núñez going in the other main heading as a make-weight.


Real Madrid


Following their thriving tender, Owen was offered with the number 11 top by Real Madrid. Owen had a slow start to his Madrid career. He was often confined to the bench and drew condemnation from followers and the Spanish press for his need of form. A thriving come back to activity with the England squad in October 2004 appeared to revive his morale, although, and in the first next agree, he tallied his first aim for the association, the victor in a 1–0 Champions League triumph over Dynamo Kiev. A couple of days subsequent, he tallied his first Spanish association aim in a 1–0 triumph over Valencia. The tallying spree proceeded, as he discovered the back of the snare in three of the next four agrees to make it five goals in seven successive matches. He completed the time of the year with thirteen goals in La Liga, with the season's largest ratio of goals tallied to number of minutes played. Following Real's marking of two high-profile Brazilian ahead, Robinho and Júlio Baptista in the summer of 2005, the conjecture originated that Owen would come back to the Premier League. During his time at Real Madrid, Owen tallied 18 goals from 41 sport, 15 of which were starts.


Newcastle United


On 24 August 2005, Newcastle United broadcast that they had acquiesced a association record charge of £16 million to get Owen, whereas they still had to discuss with the player's advisers. Liverpool and localized competitors Everton went into the wear, but were reluctant to agree Madrid's inquiring price. As the 2006 World Cup was less than a year away, Owen liked to get more playing time to protected his place as the first-choice striker in the England squad and connected Newcastle amidst gossip that he had injected an get away clause treasured at £12 million. On 31 August 2005 Owen eventually marked a four-year agreement to play for Newcastle United, regardless of primary press conjecture that he would rather have returned to Liverpool.[20] Roughly 20,000 followers were present at Newcastle's dwelling ground of St James' Park for Owen's authorized revealing as a Newcastle player. Several days after marking he endured a thigh-injury in pre-season, which directed him out for the start of the 2005–06 season. He tallied his first aim for the association on his second look, the second aim in a 3–0 away win at Blackburn Rovers on 18 September – Newcastle's first win of the season. Owen tallied his first hat-trick for Newcastle in the 4–2 away win over West Ham on 17 December. It was furthermore a "perfect head covering trick", with one aim tallied with each of his left base, right base, and head.


On 31 December 2005, Owen smashed a metatarsal skeletal part in his base in a agree contrary to Tottenham Hotspur. He underwent surgery to location a pin in the skeletal part, to assist pace the healing process. He was anticipated to be out of activity until late March, but the healing method did not proceed as wanted and on 24 March he underwent a second, secondary, operation. Owen then asserted that he should be fit for the last couple of weeks of the time of the year with Newcastle. His come back to activity eventually came contrary to Birmingham City on 29 April when he came off the substitutes' bench in the 62nd minute. After the agree Owen asserted that he was "not 100% happy" with his foot.[26] He underwent a farther x-ray and made himself unavailable for Newcastle's last game of the season.


A impaired anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, maintained in the first minute of the assembly agree contrary to Sweden at the 2006 World Cup, kept Owen out of normal football for almost a year, until April 2007. The gravity of Owen's wound at the World Cup increased the so called 'club-versus-country' strip in England, centering on the liability of the world ruling body FIFA and the English nationwide association The FA for the cost of wounds to players acquired while on worldwide duty. Newcastle were aggrieved at the extent of time Owen would now be out of activity in forthcoming Premier League and Cup affrays as a outcome of the World Cup wound, especially as he had been out for the half-season former to the World Cup. Under the living protection arrangements between association and homeland, Fifa and the FA had been giving £50,000 of Owen's £110,000 every week salaries since he endured the wound, totalling about £2m for the time he was out of action. By September 2006, Newcastle were intimidating to litigate the FA for farther reimbursement, for a described number of £20m. The Owen case was a high profile pursue up to an currently ongoing lawful assertion for reimbursement from Fifa over an wound acquired by Abdelmajid Oulmers on worldwide duty. The reimbursement assertion by Newcastle encompassed the £10m cost of buying Owen's replacement, Obafemi Martins, £6.2m in the direction of Owen's wages charges while hurt, the likelihood of long-run impairment to Owen's fitness and proficiency, the decrease of association place and cup affray advancement, depreciation of Owen's four-year agreement, and the cost of health remedy for Owen. In February 2007 Fifa made Newcastle a "final offer" of £1m. By April 2007, Newcastle were intimidating to take out an injunction to halt the FA picking Owen for England games. The association eventually come to a compromise town number with Fifa and the FA. Fifa demonstrated that the town was between £6m and £7m. The association, asserting that Owen's salaries had "now been paid in full", asserted the general reimbursement accomplished totalled £10m. Resulting from the Owen reimbursement assertion, the FA increase two-fold their future protection treatment of England players to £100,000, and FIFA presented a reimbursement finance for wounds maintained at World Cups.


Owen started lightweight teaching on 12 February 2007, when images on the club's authorized website emphasised Owen running and bearing out secondary exercises. He made his comeback from wound on 10 April 2007 in a 4–1 behind-closed-doors amicable contrary to Gretna, tallying after 10 minutes and then setting up young individual striker Shola Ameobi before approaching off an hour later. Owen then begun his first game for Newcastle United in over a year, contrary to Reading on the 30 April 2007 in a game that Newcastle United lost 1–0. He performed the full 90 minutes, having a aim disallowed for offside. Owen was stretchered off an hour into Newcastle's game with Watford on 13 May 2007, pain concussion after colliding with team-mate Matty Pattison. On 9 May 2007, Newcastle head individual Freddy Shepherd answered annoyingly to accounts that Owen could proceed on to another association at the end of the 2006–07 time of the year, due to a issue clause in his contract. A report in The Times bulletin proposed Owen could be accessible for less than £10million and could be a goal for the likes of Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal. Despite these accounts, Shepherd alerted Owen "to display some loyalty" and alerted him that "none of the large-scale four associations desire him." However, in a video dispatched on YouTube, a assembly of Liverpool followers inquired Shepherd if they could re-sign Owen, he answered by saying that he would "carry Owen back to Liverpool" himself. Shepherd furthermore asserted his disapprove of Owen's agency but applauded Owen as a "good lad". This directed numerous to accept as factual that Owen would workout his right to depart if the £9 million valuation was matched. On 10 June 2007, Owen's new supervisor at Newcastle, Sam Allardyce, verified the reality of the issue clause in Owen's agreement and accepted he dreaded that the association would be powerless to avert Owen from leaving.However on 12 July 2007 Owen pledged his direct future to Newcastle United, stating: "I accept as factual that these can be good times to be at Newcastle, which is why I am more than joyous to be here."


On 17 July 2007, he tallied for Newcastle in a pre-season amicable contrary to Hartlepool United. Several days subsequent, Owen selected up a thigh wound in training. Newcastle supervisor Sam Allardyce accepted that Owen was probable to overlook the start of the forthcoming Premier League time of the year due to the wound which "doesn't gaze as boosting as we first thought." Owen made his comeback from wound in a association amicable on 13 August 2007 and announced himself accessible for Newcastle's next agree, contrary to Aston Villa, as well as England's forthcoming worldwide matches. On 29 August 2007, Owen tallied his first comparable aim for Newcastle since December 2005 when he tallied in the Carling Cup contrary to Barnsley. Three days subsequent he tallied in the association, with a late victor contrary to Wigan Athletic.


In late September 2007, after an boosting start to the time of the year playing for both Newcastle United and for England, it was described that he would immediately need an procedure for a twice hernia and would probable be out of activity for not less than a month. In his first agree back from the hernia procedure, he tallied a late aim approaching off the alternates bench to clinch triumph for Newcastle over Everton. In November 2007, Owen endured a thigh damage while on worldwide obligation, ruling him out for six weeks. This reignited the 'club or country' strip, with then Newcastle supervisor Sam Allardyce speaking his frustration that Owen was endangered in a low-key amicable game contrary to Austria. After over three months without a aim, Owen tallied the first aim of the second Kevin Keegan era in a 4–1 FA Cup third around replay win over Stoke City on 16 January 2008, whereas Keegan was only a spectator in the stands for this game. Owen was bestowed the captaincy by Keegan on 19 January 2008. He tallied his first association aim of 2008 on 3 February. Owen's aim in the 2–0 beat of Fulham on 22 March 2008, which assessed Newcastle's first win under Kevin Keegan's second magic charm as supervisor, furthermore assessed the first time in his Newcastle vocation that Owen had tallied more goals for Newcastle than contrary to them. By 5 April 2008, after his and the groups early time of the year poor pattern, Owen had tallied six goals in the preceding six agrees, with Newcastle listing four wins and two sketches, raising Newcastle into mid-table after previous relegation fears. In the last game of the time of the year, Owen tallied in a 3–1 decrease at Everton, completing with 11 goals in total, putting him in identical 13th place for Premier League goals for the 2007–2008 season.


Owen missed all of the pre-season agrees and teaching of the 2008–09 time of the year due to a bout of mumps, which furthermore kept him out of the worldwide friendlies with the USA and Trinidad & Tobago in May 2008. He furthermore endured a calf damage throughout the summer months which kept him out of the unfastening game of the time of the year contrary to Manchester United at Old Trafford, a game which Newcastle drew 1–1. He made his come back in the second game of the time of the year contrary to Bolton Wanderers on 23 August 2008, approaching on in the 53rd minute for the hurt Obafemi Martins. He tallied the triumphant header in the 71st minute with the game completing 1–0. Three days subsequent he was entitled on the bench in a Carling Cup agree away to Coventry City, he came on as a alternate and tallied the victor in additional time in a 2–3 victory. In the 2008–2009 time of the year he boasted more consistently than in former times of the year, tallying four goals in twelve association appearances.

Under the move directions, with the 2008–09 time of the year being the last year of his agreement with Newcastle, Owen would have been permitted to signal a pre-contract affirmation with other associations throughout in January. On 22 December 2008, Owen turned down a new agreement offer from Newcastle, but asserted that he would not be searching a proceed in the January move window and rather than proposed to postpone converses over his agreement position until the end of the season. With conjecture over his future extending in the second half of the time of the year, Owen obtained "substantial damages" in June in the High Court in London and a public apology, next a article on 15 May in the Daily Express alleging that due to a need of concern from Premier League associations, Owen's vocation was competently completed and he proposed to retire. After a catastrophic time of the year in general for the association, which culminated in Owen's previous Newcastle and England group friend Alan Shearer being conveyed in as a provisional supervisor for the last 8 sport of the time of the year, on the last day of the time of the year on 24 May, Newcastle were relegated from the Premier League for the first time in 15 years. On 14 June it was described that Owen's administration business Wasserman Media Group had dispatched out a 34-page brochure advocating Owen to some promise clubs. On 22 June Owen verified he would not be re-signing for Newcastle, in fondness for a proceed to a Premier League association, or other peak air journey foreign club. It was described that Owen would not start discussions with any other association until after 30 June when, on expiry of his agreement, he would become suitable for a free transfer.


Manchester United


On 3 July 2009, it was broadcast that Owen had marked a two-year deal with Premier League champions, Manchester United. Owen had furthermore been connected with Hull City, Stoke City, Everton, and Aston Villa, before marking for United, and he said that the set about from supervisor Alex Ferguson came from "out of the blue" Owen was presented the number 7 top vacated by the exodus of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid.

Owen tallied his first aim for United on his debut, tallying an 84th-minute victor after approaching on as a alternate in a pre-season amicable contrary to a Malaysian XI; he pursued this up by tallying three more goals in United's pre-season games. He made his association debut for the association when he came on as a alternate contrary to Birmingham City on 16 August, and tallied his first comparable aim in a Manchester United top contrary to Wigan Athletic on 22 August, tallying the fourth in a 5–0 away win. He tallied his second aim for United, his first at Old Trafford, contrary to their localized competitors Manchester City after approaching on as a alternate for Dimitar Berbatov and netting the victor in the sixth minute of strike time. This provided United a 4–3 derby win and furthermore intended that Owen has now tallied in his fourth derby, after netting in the Merseyside derby, El Clásico, the Tyne–Wear derby and now the Manchester derby. Owen laboured to recall the instants directly after the aim, and said that it graded as one of his most important. On 27 October, Owen notched a aim in the 2–0 away win contrary to Barnsley to specify United past the fourth around of the association cup. On 3 November, Owen tallied his first Champions League aim for Manchester United, as he caught United's first in the 3–3 draw contrary to CSKA Moscow. Owen's apparently slight possibilities of making a location in Fabio Capello's England squad for the 2010 World Cup Finals in 2010 obtained a increase when on 8 December 2009, Owen tallied his first hat-trick for Manchester United in a 3–1 away win contrary to Wolfsburg in the Champions League, his first hat-trick since 2005.[66] On 28 February 2010, Owen tallied United's first aim in their 2–1 triumph over Aston Villa in the 2010 Football League Cup Final, but had to be exchanged after dragging up on 42 minutes. Originally considered to be a secondary wound, on 5 March it was broadcast Owen needed surgery on his hamstring, ruling him out for remainder of the season.


Owen netted his first aim for United since he maintained this wound, tallying United's second in a 7–1 pre-season triumph contrary to a League of Ireland XI on 4 August 2010 at the freshly constructed Aviva Stadium. On 22 September 2010, Owen netted his first goals of the time of the year as he netted two times throughout a 5–2 away win over Scunthorpe United in the 3rd around of the League Cup.[69] Four days subsequent Owen tallied his first association aim of the time of the year as he netted United's second equaliser with his first feel in a 2–2 away draw contrary to Bolton Wanderers. In October 2010, Owen disclosed that he may address leaving from football should Manchester United not offer to improve his agreement at the end of the 2011 season.


International career


Owen had a highly thriving record at Youth grade, playing for the England under-20 group at the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship and tallying three goals in four games. He was only succinctly a constituent of the England under-21 group (netting on his only look in a win over Greece under-21 at Carrow Road) before he made his début for the older group in a 2–0 amicable decrease to Chile on 11 February 1998. Playing in this game made Owen the least old contestant to comprise England in the 20th 100 years at 18 years and 59 days of age. Owen's youthful eagerness, stride and gifts made him a well liked contestant over the country,[73] and numerous followers were enthusiastic for him to be made a normal contestant for the group before that year's World Cup. His first aim for England, contrary to Morocco in another amicable game former to the tournament, farther increased his reputation. The aim furthermore made him the least old ever contestant to have tallied for England, until his record was surpassed by Wayne Rooney in 2003. Although he was chosen for the World Cup squad by supervisor Glenn Hoddle, he was left on the bench as a alternate in the first two games. However, his alternate look in the second game, a 2–1 beat to Romania, glimpsed him tally a aim and strike the mail with another shot, nearly salvaging a issue from the game. After that, Hoddle performed him from the start, and in England's second around agree contrary to Argentina he tallied a sensational one-by-one aim after drubbing protectors Roberto Ayala and José Chamot before hitting the ball just out-of-doors the punishment box.


England drew that agree and went out of the tournament on punishments, but Owen had closed his location as an England alternative and his attractiveness in the homeland had expanded greatly. At the end of the year, he won a public ballot to be voted into agency victor of the prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the Year title.

He has since performed for England in Euro 2000, the 2002 World Cup and Euro 2004, tallying goals in all three tournaments. This makes him the only contestant to ever have tallied in four foremost tournaments for England. He furthermore became one of only a fistful of England players to emerge in three World Cup tournaments when he performed at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, whereas he did not tally and was hurt in the last assembly game. In April 2002, he was entitled as England's head individual for a amicable agree contrary to Paraguay in location of the hurt normal head individual David Beckham. Owen was the least old England skipper since Bobby Moore in 1963, and in the next couple of times of the year frequently captained England throughout any nonattendance of the normal captain. Owen made his debut for the England nationwide B-team in a amicable contrary to Belarus on 25 May 2006, as part of his come back to agree fitness before the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He captained England B in this game, playing for 61 minutes before being substituted.


Owen begun England's first two sport of the 2006 World Cup, contrary to Paraguay and Trinidad and Tobago, but did not organise to score. After playing only 51 seconds of his third look of the tournament, and 80th hat, in the 2006 World Cup contrary to Sweden, Owen awfully rotated his left knee and was compelled to depart the agree on a stretcher. A scan of the wound on 21 June verified that Owen had tattered the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee, and was dispatched dwelling, no longer adept to play in the tournament.

Owen underwent thriving reconstruction surgery, conveyed out by Dr. Richard Steadman, on 6 September 2006. The wound marginalised him until April 2007, significance he missed England's first six agrees in qualifying for Euro 2008. He returned for the England B game contrary to Albania, and was entitled in the full squad for the sport contrary to Brazil and Estonia, with Owen asserting "I seem pointed and, if granted the possibility, I seem assured when in front of goal." He performed in both agrees and tallied contrary to Estonia, shattering Gary Lineker's record for most goals in comparable internationals for England. Owen's newest worldwide efforts encompass a brace for England in a 3–0 win over Russia on 12 September 2007.

With his two goals contrary to Russia, he became the first contestant to tally worldwide goals at both the vintage and new Wembley Stadiums. As of 26 August 2008, Owen has been capped 89 times for England and tallied 40 goals: he is fourth in the register of all-time peak scorers for the England group, behind Bobby Charlton (49 goals), Gary Lineker and Jimmy Greaves . He has furthermore tallied a record 26 goals for England in comparable agrees (World Cup and European Championship sport and the qualifiers for those tournaments) and has been head individual for England in 7 matches.

As of December 2007, Owen has not ever gone more than four worldwide sport in a strip without tallying a goal. Owen's future as first alternative striker for England is unsure although, due to affray from Manchester United's Wayne Rooney and fast-developing Theo Walcott amidst others. Owen's need of activity in Fabio Capello's first two England friendlies and Capello's assortment of a lone striker 4-5-1 formation furthermore support the outlook that Owen's worldwide possibilities may in future be limited.

2008 was a strong year for Owen as he was omitted from World Cup qualifiers contrary to Andorra, Croatia, Kazakhstan and Belarus regardless of at times being in good goalscoring pattern and having a good workrate in a poor Newcastle side. Many followers and pundits have called for Owen to be reinstated in the nationwide group but if Capello will choose him still continues to be seen.

He was one time afresh left out of the squad for the amicable contrary to Germany in November 2008, regardless of ahead Emile Heskey and Wayne Rooney being unavailable for the match. However, Capello asserted in November 2008 that Owen could still be reinstated to the edge at some issue in the future.


In March 2009, Owen accepted that all wounds he was maintaining were pertaining back to his wound in the World Cup 2006 tournament, and that he should not have came to the competition.

Owen's possibilities of an worldwide recall worsened when Capello broadcast he would only be selected if he was playing regularly. In February 2010, having been utilised mostly as a alternate by United, he recounted his possibilities of a recall as "probably a long shot in rushing terms". On 28 February, he endured a hamstring wound in the Football League Cup last was directed out for remainder of the time of the year and, as a outcome, he did not make the squad for the World Cup in South Africa that summer.