Wayne Rooney All about Briefly

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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