Wayne Rooney, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Wayne Rooney

English association football player

Date of Birth: 24-Oct-1985

Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Profession: association football player, autobiographer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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About Wayne Rooney

  • Wayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985) is an English professional footballer who last played for Major League Soccer club D.C.
  • United and will join Derby County in January 2020.
  • He has played much of his career as a forward, and he has also been used in various midfield roles.
  • He is the record goalscorer for the England national team and for Manchester United.
  • At club level, he has won every top-level trophy available to English teams, with the exception of the UEFA Super Cup.
  • Rooney and Michael Carrick are the only English players to win the Premier League, FA Cup, UEFA Champions League, League Cup, UEFA Europa League, and FIFA Club World Cup.Rooney joined the Everton youth team at the age of 9 and made his professional debut for the club in 2002 at the age of 16.
  • He spent two seasons at the Merseyside club, before moving to Manchester United for £25.6 million in the 2004 summer transfer window.
  • He won 16 trophies with the club, including five Premier League titles, the FA Cup and the Champions League in 2008.
  • He scored 253 goals for United in all competitions to make him their top goalscorer of all time, with 183 Premier League goals being the most scored by a player for any single club.
  • Rooney's 208 Premier League goals make him the Premier League's second top scorer of all time behind only Alan Shearer.
  • He also has the third-highest number of assists in the Premier League, with 103.Rooney made his senior international debut for England in February 2003 aged 17, becoming the youngest player to represent England (a record since broken by Theo Walcott), and he is England's youngest ever goalscorer.
  • He played at UEFA Euro 2004 and scored four goals, briefly becoming the youngest goalscorer in the history of the European Championship.
  • Rooney has since featured at the 2006, 2010, and 2014 World Cups and was widely regarded as his country's best player.
  • He has won the England Player of the Year award four times, in 2008, 2009, 2014, and 2015.
  • With 53 goals in 120 international caps, Rooney is England's all-time record goalscorer and second most-capped player, behind Peter Shilton. In 2009–10, Rooney was awarded the PFA Players' Player of the Year and the FWA Footballer of the Year awards, and he won the Premier League Player of the Month award five times, a record only bettered by Steven Gerrard and Harry Kane.
  • Rooney's displays at the start of the decade saw him come fifth in the vote for the 2011 FIFA Ballon d'Or, and he was named in the FIFA World XI for 2011.
  • Rooney has won the Goal of the Season award by the BBC's Match of the Day poll on three occasions, with his bicycle kick against city rivals Manchester City winning the Premier League Goal of the 20 Seasons award.

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