English professional football
(soccer) player who rose to international football stardom as a
teenager while playing with the English Premier League powerhouse
Manchester United.
Rooney
made his professional debut with his local club Everton at age 16,
becoming the youngest goal scorer in Premier League history in his
first season (the record has since been surpassed). After two years
playing for Everton, he transferred to Manchester United in 2004. With
Manchester the precocious young striker quickly became one of the most
popular football stars in the United Kingdom, as well as fodder for the
country's notorious tabloid industry along with his girlfriend (later
his wife) Coleen McLoughlin. The couple's late-night exploits and home
life were widely disseminated by the press, and McLoughlin (Coleen
Rooney from 2008) was able to parlay her exposure into a media career.
- Wayne Rooney jumping to control the ball during a Premier League football match between Manchester …
Rooney
was named England's Young Player of the Year in each of his first two
seasons in Manchester. In 2006–07 he helped lead United to a Premier
League championship and a victory in the Carling Cup. He was a key
contributor to United's Premier League and Champions League titles in
the 2007–08 season, which were followed by the team's first FIFA Club
World Cup championship, with Rooney scoring the only goal in United's
1–0 win in the tournament final. Rooney and Manchester United won a
third consecutive league title the following season. In 2010 he was
named both the Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year
and the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year as the
best player in English football for the 2009–10 season.Rooney
was named a member of the English national team in 2003 and that year
became—for a time—both the youngest player and the youngest goal scorer
in England's history. He starred on an England squad that advanced to
the quarterfinals of the 2004 European Championship (Euro 2004), but a slow recovery from a foot injury limited his effectiveness in the 2006 World Cup
finals, where he went scoreless. England failed to qualify for Euro
2008, but Rooney led his country in scoring in qualifying matches for
the 2010 World Cup.
In 2006 Rooney's autobiography,
Wayne Rooney: My Story So Far (ghostwritten by journalist Hunter Davies), was published.
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