Profile Wayne Rooney

Personal information

Full name : Wayne Mark Rooney
Date of birth : 24 October 1985
Place of birth : Croxteth, Liverpool, England
Height : 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Playing position : Forward / striker
Current club : Manchester United
Number : 10
Youth career :
1996–2002 Everton
Senior career :
2002–2004 Everton
2004– Manchester United
National team :
2002 England U19
2003– England


Club career

Everton

Rooney commenced playing for Liverpool Schoolboys and at the age of 10 was noted on schoolboy time spans by Everton F.C. After counting in an FA Youth Cup correspond, he uncovered a T-shirt under his jersey that read, "Once a Blue, perpetually a Blue. Since he was under 17 at the time and consequently ineligible for a certified bond, he was playing for £80 a week and residing with his family on one of the country's most deprived local government estates.

On 19 October 2002, five days before his 17th day of birth, Rooney counted a match-winning objective in resistance to reigning governing body champions Arsenal; in augmentation to final outlook Arsenal's 30-match unbeaten run,[10] it made Rooney the least old goalscorer in Premier League past files, a record that has since been surpassed twice; first by James Milner and then by James Vaughan. He was labelled BBC Sports' 2002 Young Personality of the Year.

At the end of the 2003–04 time of the year, citing Everton's incapacity to contest for European struggle (they had closed seventh the earlier time of the year and only just missed out on a UEFA Cup position, but in 2003–04, closing in 17th position, had narrowly averted relegation), Rooney appealed a convey that Everton turned down to oblige if not the convey payment was in overload of £50 million. A three-year, £12,000-a-week bond offer from the group was snubbed by Rooney's branch in August 2004, moving out Manchester United and Newcastle United to vie for his signature. The Times stated that Newcastle were close to noting Rooney for £18.5 million, as substantiated by Rooney's branch, but Manchester United eventually won the offering combat and Rooney noted at the end of the month after a £25.6 million deal with Everton was reached.[11] It was the utmost payment paid for a competitor mature under 20; Rooney was still only 18 years aged when he left Everton.

Manchester United

Debut season

Rooney playing for Manchester United
Rooney made his United debut on 28 September 2004 in a 6–2 Champions League gathering stage win over Fenerbahçe, counting a hat-trick and laying on an assist. However, his first time of the year at Old Trafford finished without victorious a trophy as United could only supervise a third position close in the governing body (having been champions or runners-up on all but two earlier functions since 1992) and failed to improvement to the last eight of the UEFA Champions League. United had more triumph in the cup contests, but were adjoined out of the League Cup in the semi finals by a Chelsea boundary who in addition won the Premier League label that time of the year, and a goalless draw with Arsenal in the FA Cup terminal was chased by a retribution shoot-out defeat. However, Rooney was United's apex governing body scorer that time of the year with 11 goals, and was credited with the PFA Young Player of the Year award.

2005–07

In September 2005, Rooney was conveyed off in a UEFA Champions League disagree with Villarreal of Spain (which finished in a goalless draw) for sarcastically clapping the referee who had reserved him for an unintentional rank on an opponent. His first trophy with United came in the 2006 League Cup, and he was in addition labelled man of the correspond after counting double in United's 4–0 win over Wigan Athletic in the final. In the Premier League, even so, an erratic start to the time of the year left label glory looking dubious for United and their label trusts were finished in late April when they lost 3–0 at household to champions Chelsea and had to reconcile for second place. Rooney's goalscoring farther enhanced in the 2005–06 time of the year, as he supervised 16 goals in 36 Premier League games.

Rooney was conveyed off in an Amsterdam Tournament correspond in resistance to Porto on 4 August 2006 after banging Porto guard Pepe with an elbow. He was reprimanded with a three-match outlaw by the FA, subsequent their acceptance of a 23-page report from referee Ruud Bossen that described his decision. Rooney drafted a message of dissent to the FA, citing the deficiency of chastisement given down to other players who were conveyed off in friendlies. He in addition vulnerable to extract the FA's go-ahead to use his photograph privileges if they did not revoke the outlaw, but the FA had no power to make such a decision.

During the first half of the 2006–07 time of the year, Rooney finished a ten-game scoreless speckle with a hat-trick in resistance to Bolton Wanderers, and he noted a two-year bond widening the next month that fastened him to United until 2012. By the end of April, a aggregation of two goals in an 8–3 aggregate quarter-final win over Roma and two more in a 3–2 semi-final first leg win over AC Milan fetched Rooney's total objective allotment to 23 in all contests and fastened him with colleague Cristiano Ronaldo for the assembly goalscoring lead. By the end of that time of the year, he had counted 14 governing body goals.

Rooney accumulated his first Premier League label winner's medal at the end of the 2006–07 time of the year, but has yet to select up an FA Cup winner's medal; he had to reconcile for a runners-up medal in the 2007 FA Cup Final.

2007–09

On 12 August 2007, Rooney fractured his left metatarsal in United's opening-day goalless draw in resistance to Reading; he had tolerated the matching damage to his right leg in 2004. After being rendered trivial for six weeks, he returned for United's 1–0 Champions League gathering stage win over Roma on 2 October, counting the match's only goal. However, hardly a month into his revisit, Rooney wounded his lower limb as long as a coaching assembly on 9 November, and missed an supplemental two weeks. His first correspond back was in resistance to Fulham on 3 December, in which he acted 70 minutes.[dead link] Rooney missed a total of 10 recreational activities and closed the 2007–08 time of the year with 18 goals (12 of them in the league), as United clinched both the Premier League and the Champions League, in which they overcame governing body foes Chelsea in the competition's first-ever all-English final.

On 4 October 2008 in an away win over Blackburn Rovers, Rooney became the least old competitor in governing body past files to make 200 appearances. On 14 January after counting what turned out to be the only objective 54 seconds into the 1–0 win over Wigan Athletic, Rooney shuffled off with a hamstring illness in the eighth minute. His replacement, Carlos Tévez, was wounded himself before long after moving into the game, but dwelled on. Rooney was out for three weeks, missing one correspond apiece in the League Cup and FA Cup, along with four Premier League matches. On 25 April 2009, Rooney counted his terminal governing body goals of the time of the year in resistance to Tottenham. United counted 5 goals in an emphatic second half show clearly to draw close from 2–0 down victorious the game 5–2. Rooney snatched two goals, set up two and gave the give support that commanded to the retribution for United's first goal. Rooney finished the time of the year with 20 goals in all contests, behind Ronaldo as primary United scorer for the season. Once over, he supervised 12 goals in the league.

2009–10

Rooney's start to the new operation got off to many counting means, snatching a objective in the 90th minute of the 2009 Community Shield, though United lost the game to Chelsea on penalties. He then counted the only objective of the unclasping game of the 2009–10 time of the year in resistance to Birmingham City, taking his complete United tally to 99. He failed to count in the next game, a historic 1–0 overcome to the hands of newly-promoted Burnley at Turf Moor. On 22 August, he became the 20th Manchester United competitor to have counted over 100 goals for the group after finding the mesh double in a 5–0 away win at Wigan Athletic, a game which in addition observed Michael Owen notch his first objective for United.

Rooney in a November 2009 correspond in resistance to Everton.

On 29 August, United acted Arsenal at Old Trafford. Rooney counted the equaliser from the retribution site after Andrei Arshavin had put the Gunners ahead. The game closed 2–1 to Manchester United after Abou Diaby counted an own goal.Five days afterwards Rooney commented on his retribution in resistance to Arsenal: "Everyone who watches me play recognises I am an honourable competitor, I play the game as candidly as I can. If the referee renders a retribution there is none you can do." On 28 November 2009, Rooney counted his first hat-trick for three years in a 4–1 away win in resistance to Portsmouth, with two of them being penalties. On 27 December 2009, he was rewarded Man of the Match in resistance to Hull. He was included in all the goals counted in the game, banging the opener and then devoting the ball for Hull's equalizing penalty. He then impelled Andy Dawson into agreeing an own objective and then set up Dimitar Berbatov for United's third objective which granted them a 3–1 victory. On 30 December 2009, three days on from their win over Hull, he snatched another objective in United's 5–0 thrashing of Wigan in their terminal game of the decade. On 23 January 2010, Rooney counted all four goals in Manchester United's 4–0 win over Hull City; three of the goals came in the last 10 minutes of the match. This was the first time in his line of work that he placed in a bag four in one match. On 27 January 2010, he carried on his many counting run by heading the champion in the second minute of blockade time in resistance to derby foes Manchester City. This granted United a 4–3 aggregate win, taking them into the terminal, it was his first League Cup objective since netting two in the 2006 final. On 31 January 2010, Rooney counted his 100th Premier League objective in a 3–1 win over Arsenal for the first time in the governing body at the Emirates, particularly his first Premier League objective in addition came in resistance to Arsenal. On 16 February 2010, Rooney bang his first European goals of the time of the year, counting two headers in the 3–2 away win in resistance to A.C. Milan in their first ever win in resistance to them at the San Siro.[39] On 28 February 2010, he counted another header in resistance to Aston Villa (his fifth following overseen objective in a row) which effected in Manchester United victorious the Carling Cup terminal 2–1. In the second leg of United's European fasten in resistance to AC Milan, Rooney counted a brace in a resounding 4–0 household win, taking his tally of goals this time of the year to 30. He then adjoined two more to his tally five days afterwards at Old Trafford, in a 3–0 governing body win over Fulham.

On 30 March 2010, as long as United's Champions League quarter-final first leg overcome in resistance to Bayern Munich (at Munich's Allianz Arena), Rooney crumpled when he turned his lower limb in the last minute. There were worries that he had accepted sombre ligament severe impairment or even a broken lower limb, but it was advertised that the damage was only small ligament severe impairment, and that he would be out for 2 to 3 weeks, missing United's crunch correspond with Chelsea and the revisit leg in resistance to Munich the subsequent week. The assembly table for second leg of the Champions League Quarter-final yielded a gigantic astonish when Rooney was bestowed a commencing position in the United lineup. Despite a 3–0 lead by the 41st minute, Munich snatched a objective back and United were afterwards impelled down to 10 men after Rafael da Silva was sent-off. Munich won the correspond after netting a second away-goal and Rooney was switched after re-damaging his ankle. On 25 April, Rooney was labelled the 2010 PFA Players' Player of the Year.

2010–11

On 19 October 2010, director Alex Ferguson said at a press group debate that Rooney has substantiated the "terribly disappointing" journal that he has advised United that he will not indication a new bond and "wishes to move out the club". This came after a interval of quarrel as to the bounds of Rooney's lower limb damage, where Rooney had refuted Ferguson's allegation that the damage was the justification Rooney had been declined to the bench. The next day, Rooney and his representatives liberated a assertion viewing his determination to move out the club. He cited the club's blatant deficiency of aim to win trophies by not noting the world's best players as his justification for desiring to move out the club. Despite this, after chats with Ferguson and the group holders, Rooney noted a new 5-year deal on 22 October, retaining him at Manchester United until 2015.

Rooney made his revisit to the first assembly as a replacement in resistance to Wigan on 20 November before revisiting to the commencing lineup on 24 November in the Champions League in resistance to Glasgow Rangers. He counted the victorious objective from the retribution site, giving United a 1–0 victory.

International career

Rooney playing for England
Rooney became the least old competitor to play for England when he rake in his first covering in a congenial in resistance to Australia on 12 February 2003 at seventeen, the matching age in which he in addition became the least old competitor to count an England goal. Arsenal kid Theo Walcott busted Rooney's facade record by 36 days in June 2006.

His first tournament achievement was at Euro 2004, in which he became the least old scorer in struggle past files on 17 June 2004, when he counted double in resistance to Switzerland; even so, this record was covered by Swiss midfielder Johan Vonlanthen four days later. Rooney tolerated an damage in the quarterfinal correspond in resistance to Portugal and England were abolished on penalties.

Following a leg damage in an April 2006 Premier League correspond, Rooney faced a run to fitness for the 2006 World Cup. England endeavoured to hasten his recovery with the use of an oxygen collapsible shelter, which sanctioned Rooney to move into a gathering correspond in resistance to Trinidad and Tobago and start the next correspond in resistance to Sweden. However, he not ever got back into game profile and went scoreless as England bowed out in the quarterfinals, over on retribution kicks.

Rooney was red-carded in the 62nd minute of the quarterfinal for labelling on Portugal guard Ricardo Carvalho as both endeavoured to gain tenure of the ball, an episode that happened right in front of referee Horacio Elizondo. Rooney's United colleague Cristiano Ronaldo blatantly dissented his achievements, and was in turn pushed by Rooney. Elizondo conveyed Rooney off, after which Ronaldo was observed winking at the Portugal bench. Rooney rejected intentionally directing at Carvalho in a assertion on 3 July, augmenting, "I withstand no unwell feeling to Cristiano but I'm betrayed that he chose to get involved. I assume I perform, though, have to consider that on that actual function we were not teammates." Elizondo substantiated the next day that Rooney was discredited solely for the infraction on Carvalho.Rooney was charged CHF5,000 for the incident.

During the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, after England drew with Algeria, the England players were booed off the lob by supporters. Rooney made a have a declare as he left the lob to TV cameras saying, "Nice to observe your household buff boo you, that's faithful supporters".He has since recognised clear fault for the have a declare, made as long as a lacklustre tournament for England who were abolished in the second round.