Profile Theo Walcott

Personal information

Full name : Theo James Walcott
Date of birth : 16 March 1989
Place of birth : Stanmore, England
Height : 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Playing position : Striker, winger
Current club : Arsenal
Number : 14
Youth career
1999–2000 Newbury
2000– Swindon Town
–2005 Southampton
Senior career :
2005–2006 Southampton
2006– Arsenal
National team :
2004–2005 England U16
2005–2006 England U17
2006 England U19
2006–2010 England U21
2006– England

Club career

Early career

Walcott was born in Stanmore, North London, but grew upward near Newbury, Berkshire, where he played for A.F.C. Newbury and went to The Downs School minor school. Walcott scored more than 100 targets in his one and merely season for Newbury, ago retiring there for Swindon Town. He merely consumed six months there ago retiring for Southampton afterwards he discarded a chance to attend Chelsea. Nike matched to a sponsorship sell with Walcott as shortly as he was fourteen years old. Walcott is a Liverpool fan and cites the Liverpool players Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman as his heroes as shortly as he was growing up.

Southampton

In the 2004–05 season, he starred in the Southampton youth side that arrived the final of the FA Youth Cup against Ipswich Town. In attachment, he became the youngest person to play in the Southampton park team at 15 years and 175 days, as shortly as he came off the bench against Watford in September 2004. However, he did not play in the Premier League, as Southampton were relegated to the Championship at the end of the 2004–05 season.

Before the begin of the 2005–06 season, Walcott linked upward with the first team's tour of Scotland, just pair weeks afterwards retiring school. The striker thereafter went on to become the youngest-ever actor to play for the Southampton first team at 16 years and 143 days, afterwards emanating on as a substitute in Southampton's 0–0 draw at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Football League Championship.
Walcott prepared his full first team debut away to Leeds United on 18 October 2005, scoring his first senior target in the same game. He scored again away at Millwall four days subsequent, and yet again in his full home debut against Stoke City the chasing Saturday. His sudden boom to fame also led him to be dubbed amongst the lid three finalists for the prestigious BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award on 11 December 2005.

Arsenal

Walcott in 2007

Walcott transferred to Arsenal on twenty January 2006, for a payment of £5 million, soaring to £12 million depending on arrivals for club and country.[8][9] The original payment was payable via instalments – £5 million down, £5 million founded on club arrivals and £2 million founded on England arrivals – but was edited to a total of £9.1 million via a compromise settlement matched on 31 March 2008. He gestured an original pre-contract accordance to clue a businessman contract on his 17th birthday on 16 March 2006, and was given the figure 32 shirt in the process.
Following his astonishment and controversial selection in the England squad for the World Cup 2006, he prepared his Premier League debut on 19 August 2006, the first day of the 2006–07 season, emanating on as a substitute against Aston Villa and establishing a target for Gilberto Silva.

A UEFA Champions League debut came in the second leg of Arsenal's third qualifying around suit against Dinamo Zagreb, where Walcott became the youngest ever Arsenal actor to emerge in European competition, a record formerly held via Cesc Fàbregas, and since defeated via Jack Wilshere.Within minutes of emanating on he received his first yellow card in Arsenal colours for taking a shot a figure of seconds afterwards the judge had already blown for offside. During stoppage time his traverse defeat the Dinamo protection and Mathieu Flamini scored, paying Walcott a record of pair contributes in pair substitute appearances. His first begin came in a home league game against Watford on 14 October 2006. Walcott's deeds with Arsenal and with the England team earned him the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award at the end of 2006.


Walcott warming upward with Arsenal

Walcott's first target for Arsenal came in the 2007 League Cup Final against Chelsea at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, on 25 February 2007, but his eleventh tiny attack was overshadowed via occasions subsequent on in the suit as Didier Drogba scored double to give Chelsea a 2–1 victory and three players were sacked chasing a mass brawl.

Walcott's first home targets were scored in a Champions League suit against Slavia Prague, which Arsenal won 7–0, as well as establishing a target for Fàbregas. Walcott scored his first pair Premier league targets in a 2–2 draw against Birmingham City at St. Andrews on 23 February 2008. He done the 2007–08 season with seven targets from all competitions. In the Champions League quarterfinal against Liverpool on eight April, Walcott prepared a run from indoor his possess half down the duration of the tone, defeating the Liverpool rear four to establish Emmanuel Adebayor's final tiny equalizer.

Following comparisons to prior team-mate Thierry Henry, Walcott was allocated Henry's prior figure 14 for the 2008–09 season. During the season, Walcott deployed himself as a first team regular, beginning a lot sport on the right midfield or winger. In September 2008, Arsène Wenger confirmed that Tottenham, Chelsea and Liverpool were all interested in signing Walcott as a 16 year old. On Saturday 18 October 2008, Walcott scored his first Premier League target of the season against Everton, scoring the third and final target in the suit, which Arsenal won 3–1 regardless headed behind to a Leon Osman goal. Three days subsequent, Walcott scored Arsenal's second target in a 5–2 win away to Fenerbahçe, cornering the keeper ago tucking the ball away from a tight angle.

On 18 November 2008, Walcott dislocated his right shoulder whereas training with England for a friendly against Germany. He prepared a full recovery via April 2009, scoring against Wigan to equalise ago beginning the second leg tie against Villarreal, where he scored in the 10th tiny afterwards receiving a exceed from captain Fàbregas and flicking the ball across the goalkeeper. Arsenal won 4–1 on aggregate.

In the following suit, an FA Cup Semi-Final against Chelsea, Walcott placed Arsenal forward in the first half, however they finally no where 2–1. Three days subsequent, Walcott came off to the bench to run half the duration of the field ago squaring for Andrei Arshavin to placed Arsenal 4–3 upward against Liverpool in the 91st tiny, however the suit done 4–4. In May 2009 he gestured a fresh lengthy term contract with Arsenal.

Walcott's 2009–10 season was marred via injuries. He suffered from shoulder, rear, knee and hamstring troubles which limited him to merely 15 begins for Arsenal. He did not accomplish 90 minutes until 9 December 2009. On six March 2010, Walcott scored his second target of the season against Burnley in a 3–1 victory to give Arsenal a definite lead, with a left-footed exertion from the fringe of the box, afterwards sawing indoor from the right flank.

Walcott scored the first of pair targets for Arsenal in the first leg of the Champions League on 31 March 2010 against FC Barcelona, with team-mate Cesc Fabregas scoring the second from the punishment spot. After the suit he said, "if you appearance rear at the game they had a lot of possession and a 2–2 draw was possibly a pale result." Walcott's arrival was the turning point in Arsenal's draw with Barcelona during the first leg of the Champions League. Due to this Arsène Wenger, afterwards much debate, began Walcott for the second leg. His arrival did not prize him with any targets but did however contribute to the establish for Nicklas Bendtner to placed Arsenal up.

Walcott's begin to the 2010-11 season has been especially successful, winning EA SPORTS Player of the Month in August via a landslide.On 21 August 2010, Walcott scored the first hat-trick of his club career afterwards he netted three against newly promoted Blackpool in a 6–0 home win, emanating in just the second game of the fresh season. Walcott has had a remarkably high goalscoring record this season; afterwards playing Newcastle, it was calculated that Walcott had scored an average of 1 target for every 48 minutes of playing time.

International career

Walcott came on as a second half substitute on 25 May 2006 for the England B team against Belarus and was a horrify inclusion in Sven-Göran Eriksson's 30-player draft England squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, broadcast on eight May 2006. When the final 23-man team was broadcast subsequent that month, he prepared the cut and was given the figure 23. Even with first-choice strikers Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen both recovering from injury, Walcott was chosen across deployed Premier League strikers Darren Bent (the highest-scoring English forth in the Premier League in the 2005–06 season), Andrew Johnson (the lid English goalscorer in the Premier League in the 2004–05 season), Dean Ashton (like Bent, already an deployed actor at England Under-21 level) and Jermain Defoe. On thirty May 2006, he became the England's youngest ever senior actor via emerging in a 3-1 friendly win across Hungary at Old Trafford ageing 17 years and 75 days. Eriksson guarded his verdict, asserting that the experience would serve Walcott well for future tournaments. Despite being one of merely pair fully fit strikers in the England squad (the other being Owen), he did not play during the tournament.
After the World Cup, Eriksson quit as England manager. New appointment Steve McClaren placed Walcott into the England Under-21s, asserting he was "toughening up" on his squad selections. On 15 August, Walcott became the youngest actor ever to score for the England national Under-21 football team as shortly as he scored the opener afterwards three minutes in England's 2–2 draw with Moldova at Ipswich Town's ground Portman Road. The game against Moldova was his first cap for the England Under-21s.
Walcott scored pair targets against Germany to seal qualification for England to the Under-21 European Championships, in the playoff second leg in October 2006, with his second drawing comparisons with Thierry Henry.

On six September 2008, Walcott prepared his first competitive begin in a World Cup qualifier against Andorra, and in the chasing suit against Croatia on ten September he unlatched his senior global targets score and became the youngest actor in history to score a hat-trick for England.

Over the summer of 2009, Walcott participated in England Under-21 team's European Cup campaign regardless protestations from his club administrator, Arsene Wenger. Wenger complained that Walcott's participation in the tournament as well as suits with the senior squad would lead to burn out and injury.

Walcott returned to the global fold on three March 2010 in a friendly against Egypt. It was his first global begin for nine months. He faded afterwards a brilliant start and was displaced via Shaun Wright-Phillips afterwards 57 minutes as England recovered from a target down to defeat Egypt 3-1 at Wembley. His performance came beneath heavy criticisms from Chris Waddle whoever said of Walcott, "I've never perceived him develop. He just doesn't interpret the game for me - where to be running, as shortly as to run indoor a full rear, as shortly as to just play a one-two. It's all off the cuff. I just don't think he's obtained a football mentally and he's headed to have problems. Let's be truthful, good defenders would grab him offside every time."


Walcott warming upward against Switzerland in a Euro 2012 Qualifying suit, seven September 2010
Walcott began England's friendly victories against Mexico and Japan in May 2010. However, on 1 June 2010, it was broadcast that Walcott had been retired out of England's 23-man World Cup squad via Fabio Capello. On 4 July, a minority days afterwards England's exit from the World Cup, Lionel Messi said that he was devastated via Walcott's exception as he conceived that Walcott could have prepared the difference against Germany and Algeria.
In the Euro 2012 Qualifying suit against Switzerland on seven September, Walcott was stretchered off afterwards he was clipped in the build-up to Wayne Rooney's opener for England afterwards ten minutes.