Profile Owen Hargreaves

Personal information :

Full name : Owen Lee Hargreaves
Date of birth : 20 January 1981
Place of birth : Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Height : 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Playing position : Midfielder
Current club : Manchester United
Number : 4
Youth career :
1994–1997 Calgary Foothills
1997–2000 Bayern Munich
Senior career :
2000–2001 Bayern Munich II
2000–2007 Bayern Munich
2007– Manchester United
National team :
2000–2001 England U-21
2006 England B
2001– England

Club career

Bayern Munich

Hargreaves shifted at the age of sixteen from Calgary Foothills to Bayern Munich on 1 July 1997. He played in the Under-19 team for pair and a half years ago consuming six months with the Amateur team. While with the Under-19s the team arrived the final of the German Championship in 1998. They no where in the final to Borussia Dortmund, but merely afterwards a punishment shoot-out in Dortmund's Stadion Rote Erde. On 12 August 2000, Hargreaves played in his first Bundesliga suit, earning an arrival as a substitute for Carsten Jancker in the 83rd minute. His first begin came against SpVgg Unterhaching on 16 September 2000. That season the club were Bundesliga heroes and also asserted the UEFA Champions League crown. Hargreaves is one of merely pair English players to have won a Champions League medal with a non-English club, the other being two-time winner Steve McManaman (who won the Champions League with Real Madrid). In the 2001–02 season Hargreaves deployed himself as a first team regular. He prepared 46 arrivals in all, with the club finalising 3rd in the Bundesliga, earning the quarter finals of the Champions League and being defeated in the DFB Cup via Schalke. The club regained their Bundesliga name in 2002–03, along with the DFB Cup. On 26 January 2003, Hargreaves scored his first Bundesliga target in the game against Borussia Mönchengladbach. Altogether he prepared 25 Bundesliga arrivals, four in Cup sport and three in the Champions League.

2002–03 saw Hargreaves out injured on three separate occasions. In September he tore a thigh muscle, thereafter in October a calf muscle. Towards the end of the season adductor troubles meant he missed a further three weeks. The 2003–04 season was Hargreaves' first with Bayern without winning any silverware. After clinching the double the year ago, the Munich side done second in the Bundesliga, and were knocked out of the Champions League via Real Madrid. Hargreaves prepared a total of 38 arrivals for the club in this season. In 2004–05 he picked upward another German championship and DFB Cup. He had 27 arrivals in the Bundesliga (one goal), played in three Cup sport (two goals) and eight Champions League games. In the 2005–06 season, he additional another Bundesliga and Cup title. Hargreaves scored the first target at the fresh Allianz Arena in a competitive suit on 5 August 2005, against Borussia Mönchengladbach. In all, he had 15 (one goal) league, four (two goals) cup and three Champions League appearances. In October 2005, he prolonged his contract at Bayern for another four years. In the 2006–07 season, Hargreaves snapped his leg, which retained him out of majority of Bayern Munich's league campaign that season. He recovered in time to take fraction in Bayern's victory across Real Madrid in the Champions League, underway afterwards an compound score of 4–4 thank you to their pair away targets in the 3–2 defeat in the first leg at Madrid's Bernabéu.

Manchester United

On 31 May 2007, it was broadcast that Hargreaves would attend Manchester United on 1 July 2007, afterwards nearly a year of negotiations between Bayern Munich and United for a payment of circle £17 million. Hargreaves was eventually unveiled as a Manchester United actor on 1 July, having gestured a four-year contract with the club. He was thereafter disclosed to the press on 9 July, along with fellow newcomer Nani. Hargreaves was given the figure 4 shirt at Old Trafford. Hargreaves prepared his Manchester United debut in a friendly against Peterborough United on 4 August, emanating on as a second half substitute in United's 3–1 victory. He prepared his first Premier League arrival in Manchester United's third game of the season, in the derby suit away to Manchester City in a 1–0 defeat. Hargreaves scored his first league target for Manchester United against Fulham on 1 March, a adrift kick from just outdoors the punishment box. He scored his second league target for the club on 13 April, a adrift kick winner against Arsenal. In his first season with Manchester United they won the Premier League and Champions League titles. The begin of Hargreaves' second season at United was hampered via injuries, explicitly a repeated patellar tendinitis burden that limited him to sporadic arrivals in 2008–09. After outings to specialists in both London and Sweden yielded no results, Hargreaves rode to Colorado, United States, in November 2008 to visit known knee surgeon, Richard Steadman. Hargreaves underwent medicine on his right knee on ten November 2008 and received a indistinguishable mission on his retired knee in January 2009. However, this meant that Hargreaves would miss the the rest of the 2008–09 season, ultimately meaning he would miss out on a second Premier League name and a League Cup winner's medal. Hargreaves underwent his rehabilitation programme in the United States, and was due to return to training with Manchester United at the Audi Cup in Munich. However, upon calculation, it was decided that he must extend with his rehabilitation in the United States. Hargreaves returned to Manchester United on 23 September 2009, stringed via his physiotherapist for a week to assist the transition process and for the club to interpret his rehabilitation programme.

In January 2010, it was speculated that Hargreaves was originally slated to return in time for Manchester United's Champions League first knockout around tie against Milan, regardless not being fully match-fit. However, on 4 February 2010, Hargreaves suffered a main setback to his World Cup hopes as Sir Alex Ferguson excluded him from the squad for the knockout degree in prefer of Belgian defender Ritchie De Laet. It was expected that Hargreaves would produce his return from injury in a park team suit against Manchester City on 11 March,[13] but on the day of the suit, Hargreaves dragged out of the game to extend with his training regime. He finally prepared his comeback a week subsequent, playing for 45 minutes of Manchester United's park team suit against Burnley on 18 March. On 24 April, Hargreaves was dubbed as an unused substitute for the first-team suit against Tottenham Hotspur.

On two May 2010, Hargreaves prepared his Premier League return in the 93rd tiny of United's penultimate game of the season against Sunderland. It was his first Premier League movement since a 1–1 draw with Chelsea in September 2008, in which time he had missed 113 suits in twenty months. Despite this, Hargreaves missed the conception of the 2010–11 season, having suffered another injury, for which he rode to the United States to perceive a specialist. On September 24, administrator Sir Alex Ferguson broadcast that Hargreaves had returned to training. On six November 2010, he prepared his first begin since September 2008 against Wolverhampton Wanderers, however it was short-lived afterwards a hamstring injury coerced his withdrawal for Bébé just five minutes into the suit, which United went on to win 2–1.

International career

Hargreaves was eligible to play global football for any one of England, Wales or Canada. As a youngster he was a regular in the youth setups of Wales, and was set to produce his début for the Wales U21 team against the Belarus U21 team in September 2000 but dragged out of the squad afterwards he was approached via England. On 31 August 2000, the thereafter England U21 administrator, Howard Wilkinson, paged the 19-year-old into his squad for the suit against Georgia. The game, played at the Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough, ended in a 6–1 win for the home team. Further arrivals for the U21s chased in friendlies against Italy and Spain. Hargreaves played his first full global game on 15 August 2001 against the Netherlands at White Hart Lane, paying him the difference of being the merely actor to emerge for England regardless having never existed in England. He was also the second actor (after Joe Baker) to have emerged for England without having played in English league football and the first to emerge for England without having played in Britain. In merely his second cap he came on as a substitute as England famously defeat Germany 5–1 in the Olympiastadion. Hargreaves was the merely actor playing outdoors the Premier League to be chosen for England's 2002 FIFA World Cup squad. Hargreaves was injured afterwards just fifteen minutes of England's second Group game against Argentina and had to be substituted. Although he had not generally been fraction of the first-team, he was chosen for the England squads at Euro 2004 in Portugal and the 2006 World Cup in Germany regardless criticism from chapters of the press and public. The usually negative awareness of him via English fans had not been facilitated via his appearing to have an spirit of "German-ness", exacerbated via his Canadian accent and fluency in German. However, in a tournament in which England were usually deemed as having underachieved, he was, via the end of England's participation, widely assessed one of the minority successes of the English squad. He was dubbed Man of the suit in the quarter final against Portugal, the game in which England were eliminated afterwards a punishment shootout, Hargreaves having been the merely successful English punishment taker. In 2006, he won both England Player of the Year, and England Player of the World Cup in official FA polls, the first to win both in the same year. Hargreaves picked upward the Man of the suit award in England's 4–0 win across Greece on 16 August 2006, where he first took across the figure seven shirt of prior captain David Beckham. On thirty January 2007 he was voted England Player of the Year 2006, as voted for via guests to the Official FA site.