Michael James Owen (born 14
December 1979 in Chester
) is an
English
professional footballer who plays as a striker for Manchester United.
The son of former footballer
Terry Owen,
Owen began his senior career at
Liverpool in 1996. he progressed through the
Liverpool youth team and scored on his debut in May 1997. In his
first full season in the
Premier
League he finished as joint top scorer. He repeated the feat
the following year and was Liverpool's top goal scorer from
1997–2004, in spite of a recurring
hamstring injury. His first major club honours
came in 2001 when Liverpool won a cup treble of the
UEFA Cup,
FA Cup and
Football League Cup, and Owen was the
recipient of the
Ballon d'Or that
year. He went on to score 118 goals in 216 appearances in the
English Premier League for
Liverpool.
Owen moved to
Real Madrid for
£8 million in mid-2004 but was frequently used as a
substitute. In spite of this, he
scored 13 goals in
La Liga and had the
season's highest ratio of goals scored to number of minutes played.
He returned to England the following season, joining
Newcastle United for £16 million.
He had a promising start to the 2005–06 season but injuries largely
ruled him out over the next 18 months. After his return he became
team captain and was the team's top scorer for the 2007–08 season.
After the final season of his four year contract, Newcastle were
relegated, and Owen moved to Manchester United as a
free agent.
Internationally, Owen first played for the senior England team in
1998, becoming England's youngest player and youngest goalscorer at
the time. His performance at the
1998
World Cup brought him to national and international prominence
and he went on to appear, and score, in
Euro
2000, the
2002 World Cup and
Euro 2004. He is the only player to ever
have scored in four major tournaments for England. He played at the
2006 World Cup but suffered an injury
which took him a year to recover from. Occasionally playing as
captain, he is England's seventh most-capped player and has scored
a national record of 26 competitive goals, with 40 in total from 89
appearances.
Owen's
long injury absence after the 2006 World Cup resulted in a dispute
between FIFA
and The FA and Newcastle United, and eventually resulted
in an unprecedented £10m compensation award to Newcastle, and
brought changes to the compensation arrangements between club and
country regarding injuries sustained by contracted club players
while on international duty.
Early life
Born 14
December 1979 in Chester, Cheshire
, Michael
James Owen was the fourth child of Janette and Terry Owen. His father is a former
professional footballer and Owen grew up playing the game with him
and his two older brothers.
An Everton fan,
Owen played for his primary school
team in Hawarden
, Wales,
breaking all local scoring records in his first season.
He joined
the youth team of Mold Alexandra
, playing with an older age-group, and later
attended Hawarden High
School
, where he also played for the school
team.
Club career
Liverpool
At age 13, when Owen started attending high school, he became
eligible to sign a schoolboy contract with a club.
He held talks with
Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal, before he eventually signed for
Liverpool, the club that persuaded
him to attend the FA's School of Excellence at Lilleshall
in Shropshire
at age 14. Throughout this time, he studied at
Idsall
School
, Shifnal
, Shropshire,
and achieved ten GCSE.
Liverpool signed Owen after he graduated from Lilleshall at 16, and
joined the club on the
Youth
Training Scheme. The star of Liverpool's 1996
FA Youth Cup triumph, scoring in the final
against a
West Ham United team
that included Frank Lampard and Rio Ferdinand, Owen scored
prolifically as he rose rapidly through the Anfield ranks. After
four months, he signed professional forms for the senior team just
after his seventeenth birthday on 18 December 1996.
He made his debut for Liverpool against
Wimbledon in May 1997, coming on as a
substitute and scoring a goal. With an injury to
Robbie Fowler, he was thrust immediately into
action as a first team regular alongside the likes of newcomer
Paul Ince and playmaker
Steve McManaman in the following
1997–98 season. He
scored his first European goal for the club against
Celtic in the
UEFA Cup
and recorded his first professional hat-trick against
Grimsby Town in the
League Cup. His first
Premier League hat-trick came later that
season at
Hillsborough against
Sheffield Wednesday.
Owen ended that season
as a joint top scorer in the Premier
League with Blackburn Rovers
' Chris Sutton and
Coventry City's Dion Dublin, scoring eighteen goals, and was
voted the PFA Young Player
of the Year by fellow professionals.
The
1998–99
season proved to be another good season for Owen as he scored
23 Goals in 40 games for Liverpool. Despite his form, Liverpool
were unable to mount anything like a title challenge and their
seventh place finish was not enough to attain even a UEFA Cup
place. Owen injured his hamstring in a league game against
Leeds United on 12 April, which proved to
be a recurring injury and prematurely bought his season to an
end.
The next season was a frustrating one for Owen as he was out
injured for lengthy periods, effects of the injury suffered the
previous season but nevertheless managed to score 12 goals and
helped Liverpool to qualify for the UEFA Cup.
In the run-up to
Euro 2000, Owen was
still suffering hamstring problems and received treatment from the
Bayern Munich doctor,
Hans-Wilhelm
Müller-Wohlfahrt.
In the 2000–01 season, he helped the club to their most successful
season in several years. The team won the League Cup,
FA Cup and UEFA Cup, with Owen scoring two goals in
the last few minutes against
Arsenal in
the FA Cup final to turn what had appeared to be a 1–0 defeat into
a 2–1 victory, the game has since been christened "The Michael Owen
Cup Final".
Winning the FA Cup and the UEFA Cup allowed Liverpool to play in
the
Charity Shield and the
UEFA Super Cup at the beginning of the
2001–02 season.
Liverpool won both matches with Owen scoring the second goal of the
2–1 win over Manchester United in the Charity Shield and the third
goal in the
2001 UEFA Super Cup
win over European champions Bayern Munich. Liverpool thus became
the first English team to win five trophies in one calendar year.
Just a week later, Owen would again beat Bayern goalkeeper
Oliver Kahn, as the English international hit a
hat-trick in England's 5–1 win over Germany in Munich. At the end
of the year, Owen became the first English player in twenty years
and the only Liverpool player ever to win the
European Footballer of the Year award. He was
also voted World Soccer player of the year in 2001; he is the only
English player to win the award and was the first Premier League
player to do so. He scored his 100th goal for Liverpool on 21
December 2001 against
West Ham
United. Liverpool finished second in the league in the
2001–2002 season and Owen played a key part in the success, scoring
28 goals.
The
2002–03
season saw Owen on top form again as he hit 28 goals. Liverpool
were on top of the table and looked like genuine title contenders
for the first time in several years, but a run of bad results saw
them eventually finishing fifth in the table.
Owen also scored at
the Millennium
Stadium
in Cardiff when Liverpool beat Manchester United
2-0 to win the League Cup and scored his 100th Premier League goal
against West Bromwich
Albion.
In an injury-hit
2003–04 season he still
managed to score 19 goals, getting his 150th goal for the club on
15 February 2004 against
Portsmouth,
but otherwise it was a bleak season for both him and
Liverpool.
Following
Gérard Houllier's
sacking as Liverpool manager, speculation about Owen's departure
from the club began. During the first few Champions League games at
the start of the
2004–2005 season, Owen
sat on the bench to avoid being
cup-tied
for the Champions League, something that would have meant none of
the top clubs in Europe would want to sign him. Since 1998 Owen had
been Liverpool's top scorer every season until he left the club.
Real Madrid signed him for a fee of
£8 million on 13 August 2004, with midfielder
Antonio Núñez moving in the other
direction as a make-weight.
Real Madrid
Owen at a training camp with Real
Madrid
Following their successful bid, Owen was presented with the number
11 shirt by
Real Madrid. Owen had a
slow start to his Madrid career. He was often confined to the bench
and drew criticism from fans and the Spanish press for his lack of
form. A successful return to action with the England squad in
October 2004 seemed to revive his morale, however, and in the first
following match, he scored his first goal for the club, the winner
in a 1–0 Champions League victory over
Dynamo Kiev. A few days later, he scored his
first Spanish league goal in a 1–0 victory over
Valencia. The scoring spree continued, as he
found the back of the net in three of the next four matches to make
it five goals in seven successive matches. He ended the season with
thirteen goals in
La Liga, with the season's
highest ratio of goals scored to number of minutes played.
Following Real's signing of two high-profile Brazilian forwards,
Robinho and
Júlio Baptista in the summer of 2005,
the speculation arose that Owen would return to the Premier League.
During his time at Real Madrid, Owen scored 18 goals from 41 games,
15 of which were starts.
Newcastle United
On 24 August 2005,
Newcastle
United announced that they had agreed a club record fee of £16
million to obtain Owen, although they still had to negotiate with
the player's advisers. Liverpool and local rivals
Everton entered the fray, but were unwilling to
match Madrid's asking price. As the
2006 World Cup was less than a year
away, Owen wanted to get more playing time to secure his position
as the first-choice striker in the
England squad and joined
Newcastle amidst rumours that he had inserted an escape clause
valued at £12 million.On 31 August 2005 Owen finally signed a
four-year contract to play for Newcastle United, despite initial
press speculation that he would rather have returned to Liverpool.
Roughly
20,000 fans were present at Newcastle's home ground of St James'
Park
for Owen's official unveiling as a Newcastle
player. Several days after signing he suffered a
thigh-injury in pre-season, which ruled him out for the start of
the
2005–06
season.
He scored his first goal for the club on his
second appearance, the second goal in a 3–0 away win at Blackburn
Rovers on 18 September – Newcastle's first win of the
season. Owen scored his first
hat-trick for Newcastle in
the 4–2 away win over West Ham on 17 December. It was also a
"perfect hat trick", with one goal scored with each of his left
foot, right foot, and head.
On 31 December 2005, Owen broke a
metatarsal bone in his foot in a match against
Tottenham Hotspur. He
underwent surgery to place a pin in the bone, to help speed the
healing process. He was expected to be out of action until late
March, but the healing process did not go as hoped and on 24 March
he underwent a second, minor, operation. Owen then stated that he
should be fit for the final few weeks of the season with Newcastle.
His return to action finally came against
Birmingham City on 29 April when he
came off the substitutes' bench in the 62nd minute. After the match
Owen stated that he was "not 100% happy" with his foot. He
underwent a further x-ray and made himself unavailable for
Newcastle's final game of the season.
A damaged
anterior cruciate
ligament in his right knee, sustained in the first minute of
the group match against Sweden at the 2006 World Cup, kept Owen out
of regular football for nearly a year, until April 2007.
The
seriousness of Owen's injury at the World Cup inflamed the so
called 'club-versus-country' row in England, centering on the
liability of the world governing body FIFA and the
English national association The FA for the
cost of injuries to players incurred while on international
duty. Newcastle were aggrieved at the length of time Owen
would now be out of action in forthcoming Premier League and Cup
competitions as a result of the World Cup injury, particularly as
he had been out for the half-season prior to the World Cup. Under
the existing insurance arrangements between club and country, Fifa
and the FA had been paying £50,000 of Owen's £110,000 weekly wages
since he suffered the injury, totalling about £2m for the time he
was out of action. By September 2006, Newcastle were threatening to
sue the FA for further compensation, for a reported figure of £20m.
The Owen case was a high profile follow up to an already ongoing
legal claim for compensation from Fifa over an injury incurred by
Abdelmajid Oulmers on
international duty. The compensation claim by Newcastle included
the £10m cost of buying Owen's replacement,
Obafemi Martins, £6.2m towards Owen's salary
costs while injured, the possibility of long-term damage to Owen's
fitness and ability, the loss of league position and cup
competition progress,
depreciation of
Owen's four-year contract, and the cost of medical treatment for
Owen. In February 2007 Fifa made Newcastle a "final offer" of £1m.
By April 2007, Newcastle were threatening to take out an injunction
to stop the FA picking Owen for England games. The club finally
reached a compromise settlement figure with Fifa and the FA. Fifa
indicated that the settlement was between £6m and £7m. The club,
stating that Owen's wages had "now been paid in full", stated the
overall compensation achieved totalled £10m. Resulting from the
Owen compensation claim, the FA doubled their future insurance
coverage of England players to £100,000, and FIFA introduced a
compensation fund for injuries sustained at World Cups.
Owen training with Newcastle in
2007
Owen began light training on 12 February 2007, when pictures on the
club's official website highlighted Owen running and carrying out
minor exercises. He made his comeback from injury on 10 April 2007
in a 4–1 behind-closed-doors friendly against
Gretna, scoring after ten minutes and then
setting up fellow striker
Shola Ameobi
before coming off an hour later. Owen then started his first game
for Newcastle United in over a year, against
Reading on the 30 April 2007 in a game that
Newcastle United lost 1–0. He played the full 90 minutes, having a
goal disallowed for
offside.Owen
was stretchered off an hour into Newcastle's game with
Watford on 13 May 2007, suffering concussion
after colliding with team-mate
Matty
Pattison.
On 9 May 2007, Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd reacted angrily
to reports that Owen could move on to another club at the end of
the
2006–07
season, due to a release clause in his contract. A report in
The Times newspaper suggested
Owen could be available for less than £10million and could be a
target for the likes of Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool and
Arsenal. Despite these reports, Shepherd warned Owen "to show some
loyalty" and warned him that "none of the big four clubs want him."
However, in a video posted on
YouTube, a
group of Liverpool fans asked Shepherd if they could re-sign Owen,
he responded by saying that he would "carry Owen back to Liverpool"
himself. Shepherd also stated his dislike of Owen's agent but
praised Owen as a "good lad". This led many to believe that Owen
would exercise his right to leave if the £9 million valuation
was matched. On 10 June 2007, Owen's new manager at Newcastle,
Sam Allardyce, confirmed the existence
of the release clause in Owen's contract and admitted he feared
that the club would be powerless to prevent Owen from leaving.
However on 12 July 2007 Owen committed his immediate future to
Newcastle United, stating: "I believe that these can be good times
to be at Newcastle, which is why I am more than happy to be
here."
On 17 July 2007, he scored for Newcastle in a pre-season friendly
against
Hartlepool United.
Several days later, Owen picked up a thigh injury in training.
Newcastle manager
Sam Allardyce
admitted that Owen was likely to miss the start of the forthcoming
Premier League season due to the
injury which "doesn't look as encouraging as we first thought."
Owen made his comeback from injury in a club friendly on 13 August
2007 and declared himself available for Newcastle's next match,
against
Aston Villa, as well as
England's forthcoming international matches. On 29 August 2007,
Owen scored his first competitive goal for Newcastle since December
2005 when he scored in the
Carling Cup against
Barnsley. Three days later he scored in the
league, with a late winner against
Wigan Athletic.
In late September 2007, after an encouraging start to the season
playing for both Newcastle United and for England, it was reported
that he would urgently require an operation for a double
hernia and would likely be out of action for at least
a month. In his first match back from the hernia operation, he
scored a late goal coming off the substitutes bench to clinch
victory for Newcastle over Everton.
In November 2007, Owen suffered a thigh strain whilst on
international duty, ruling him out for six weeks. This reignited
the 'club or country' row, with then Newcastle manager Sam
Allardyce voicing his disappointment that Owen was risked in a
low-key friendly game against Austria.
After over three months without a goal, Owen scored the first goal
of the second
Kevin Keegan era in a 4–1
FA Cup third
round replay win over
Stoke City
on 16 January 2008, although Keegan was only a spectator in the
stands for this game. Owen was awarded the captaincy by Keegan on
19 January 2008. He scored his first league goal of 2008 on 3
February. Owen's goal in the 2–0 defeat of
Fulham on 22 March 2008, which marked
Newcastle's first win under Kevin Keegan's second spell as manager,
also marked the first time in his Newcastle career that Owen had
scored more goals for Newcastle than against them. By 5 April 2008,
after his and the teams early season poor form, Owen had scored six
goals in the previous six matches, with Newcastle registering four
wins and two draws, lifting Newcastle into mid-table after earlier
relegation fears. In the final game of the season, Owen scored in a
3–1 loss at
Everton, finishing with 11
goals in total, putting him in equal 13th position for Premier
League goals for the 2007-2008 season.
Owen missed all of the pre-season matches and training of the
2008-09 season due to a
bout of
mumps, which also kept him out of the
international friendlies with the
USA and
Trinidad &
Tobago in May 2008.
He also suffered a calf strain during the
summer months which kept him out of the opening game of the season
against Manchester United at Old Trafford
, a game which Newcastle drew 1–1. He made
his return in the second game of the season against
Bolton Wanderers on 23 August 2008,
coming on in the 53rd minute for the injured
Obafemi Martins. He scored the winning
header in the 71st minute with the game finishing 1–0. Three days
later he was named on the bench in a
Carling Cup match away to
Coventry City, he came on as a
substitute and scored the winner in extra time in a 2–3 victory. In
the 2008–2009 season he featured more consistently than in prior
seasons, scoring four goals in twelve league appearances.
Under the transfer rules, with the 2008–09 season being the final
year of his contract with Newcastle, Owen would have been allowed
to sign a pre-contract agreement with other clubs during in
January. On 22 December 2008, Owen rejected a new contract offer
from Newcastle, but stated that he would not be seeking a move in
the January transfer window and instead intended to postpone talks
over his contract situation until the end of the season. With
speculation over his future continuing in the second half of the
season, Owen received "substantial damages" in June in the High
Court in London and a public apology, following a story on 15 May
in the
Daily Express alleging
that due to a lack of interest from Premier League clubs, Owen's
career was effectively finished and he intended to retire. After a
disastrous season in general for the club, which culminated in
Owen's former Newcastle and England team mate
Alan Shearer being brought in as a temporary
manager for the final 8 games of the season, on the final day of
the season on 24 May, Newcastle were relegated from the Premier
League for the first time in 15 years. On 14 June it was reported
that Owen's management company Wasserman Media Group had sent out a
34-page brochure advertising Owen to several potential clubs.On 22
June Owen confirmed he would not be re-signing for Newcastle, in
preference for a move to a Premier League club, or other top flight
foreign club. It was reported that Owen would not begin
negotiations with any other club until after 30 June when, on
expiry of his contract, he would become eligible for a
free transfer.
Manchester United
Owen at Old Trafford for Manchester
United vs Birmingham City
On 3 July 2009, it was announced that Owen had signed a two-year
deal with
Premier League champions,
Manchester United. Owen had
also been linked with
Hull City,
Stoke City,
Everton, and
Aston
Villa, before signing for United, and he said that the approach
from manager
Alex Ferguson came from
"out of the blue". Owen was handed the number 7 shirt vacated by
the departure of
Cristiano Ronaldo
to
Real Madrid. Owen scored his
first goal for United on his debut, scoring an 84th-minute winner
after coming on as a substitute in a pre-season friendly against a
Malaysian XI; he followed this up by scoring three more goals in
United's pre-season games. He made his league debut for the club
when he came on as a substitute against
Birmingham City on 16 August, and
scored his first competitive goal in a Manchester United shirt
against
Wigan Athletic on 22
August, scoring the fourth in a 5–0 away win.
He scored his second
goal for United, his first at Old Trafford, against their local rivals Manchester City after coming on as a
substitute for Dimitar Berbatov and
netting the winner in the sixth minute of stoppage time.
This gave United a 4–3 derby win and also meant that Owen has now
scored in his fourth derby, after netting in the
Merseyside derby,
El Clásico, the
Tyne–Wear derby and now the
Manchester derby. Owen struggled to recall
the moments immediately after the goal, and said that it ranked as
one of his most important. On 3 November, Owen scored his first
Champions League goal for
Manchester United, scoring United's first in the 3–3 draw against
CSKA Moscow.
International career
Owen had a highly successful record at Youth level, playing for the
England
under-20 team at the
1997 FIFA World Youth
Championship and scoring three goals in four games.
He was
only briefly a member of the England under-21
team (netting on his only appearance in a win over Greece under-21 at
Carrow
Road
) before he made his début for the senior team in a 2–0 friendly
loss to Chile on 11
February 1998. Playing in this game made Owen the youngest
player to represent England in the whole of the 20th century at 18
years and 59 days of age.
Owen's youthful enthusiasm, pace and talent made him a popular
player across the country, and many fans were keen for him to be
made a regular player for the team ahead of that year's
World Cup. His first goal for
England, against
Morocco in another friendly
game prior to the tournament, further enhanced his reputation. The
goal also made him the youngest ever player to have scored for
England, until his record was surpassed by
Wayne Rooney in 2003.
Although he was selected for the World Cup squad by manager
Glenn Hoddle, he was left on the bench
as a substitute in the first two games. However, his substitute
appearance in the second game, a 2–1 defeat to
Romania, saw him score a goal
and hit the post with another shot, almost salvaging a point from
the game. After that, Hoddle played him from the start, and in
England's second round match against
Argentina he scored a
sensational individual goal after beating defenders
Roberto Ayala and
José Chamot before striking the ball just
outside the penalty box.
England drew that match and went out of the tournament on
penalties, but Owen had sealed his place as an England choice and
his popularity in the country had increased greatly. At the end of
the year, he won a public vote to be elected winner of the
prestigious
BBC
Sports Personality of the Year title.
He has since played for England in
Euro 2000, the
2002 World Cup and
Euro 2004, scoring goals
in all three tournaments. This makes him the only player to ever
have scored in four major tournaments for England. He also became
one of only a handful of England players to appear in three World
Cup tournaments when he played at the
2006 FIFA World Cup, although he did not
score and was injured in the final group game.
In April 2002, he was named as England's
captain for a friendly match against
Paraguay in place of
the injured regular captain
David
Beckham. Owen was the youngest England skipper since
Bobby Moore in 1963, and in the following few
seasons regularly captained England during any absence of the
regular captain.
Owen made his debut for the
England national B-team
in a friendly against
Belarus on 25 May 2006, as
part of his return to match fitness ahead of the
2006 FIFA World Cup. He captained
England B in this game, playing for 61 minutes before being
substituted.
Owen started England's first two games of the 2006 World Cup,
against Paraguay and
Trinidad and
Tobago, but did not manage to score. After playing only 51
seconds of his third appearance of the tournament, and 80th cap, in
the 2006 World Cup against
Sweden, Owen badly twisted his
left knee and was forced to leave the match on a stretcher. A scan
of the injury on 21 June confirmed that Owen had torn the
anterior cruciate ligament in his
knee, and was sent home, no longer able to play in the
tournament.
Owen underwent successful reconstruction surgery, carried out by
Dr. Richard Steadman, on 6
September 2006. The injury sidelined him until April 2007, meaning
he missed England's first six matches in
qualifying
for
Euro 2008. He returned for the England
B game against
Albania, and was named in the
full squad for the games against
Brazil and
Estonia, with Owen stating "I
feel sharp and, if given the chance, I feel confident when in front
of goal." He played in both matches and scored against Estonia,
breaking
Gary Lineker's record for most
goals in competitive internationals for England. Owen's latest
international efforts include a brace for England in a 3–0 win over
Russia on 12 September
2007.
With his two goals against Russia, he became the first player to
score international goals at both the old and new Wembley
Stadiums.
As of 26 August 2008, Owen has been capped 89 times for England and
scored 40 goals: he is fourth in the list of all-time top scorers
for the England team, behind
Bobby
Charlton (49 goals),
Gary Lineker
(48) and
Jimmy Greaves (44). He has
also scored a record 26 goals for England in competitive matches
(World Cup and European Championship games and the qualifiers for
those tournaments) and has been captain for England in 7
matches.
As of December 2007, Owen has never gone more than four
international games in a row without scoring a goal. Owen's future
as first choice striker for England is uncertain however, due to
competition from Manchester United's
Wayne
Rooney and fast-developing
Theo
Walcott amongst others. Owen's lack of action in Fabio
Capello's first two England friendlies and Capello's selection of a
single striker
4-5-1 formation also support
the view that Owen's international opportunities may in future be
limited.
2008 was a tough year for Owen as he was excluded from
World Cup qualifiers against
Andorra,
Croatia,
Kazakhstan &
Belarus despite at times
being in good goalscoring form and having a good workrate in a poor
Newcastle side. Many fans and pundits have called for Owen to be
reinstated in the national team but whether Capello will select him
still remains to be uncertain. He was once again left out of the
squad for the friendly against
Germany in November 2008,
despite forwards
Emile Heskey and
Wayne Rooney being unavailable for the
match. However Capello stated in November 2008 that Owen could
still be reinstated to the side at some point in the future.
International goals
- Scores and results list England's goal tally
first.
| Goal |
Date |
Venue |
Opponent |
Result |
Competition |
Scored |
| 1 |
27 May 1998 |
Stade Mohamed V , Casablanca |
|
1–0 |
Friendly match |
1 |
| 2 |
22 June 1998 |
Stade de
Toulouse, Toulouse |
|
1–2 |
1998 FIFA World Cup |
1 |
| 3 |
30 June 1998 |
Stade Geoffroy-Guichard , Saint-Étienne |
|
2–2 (3–4 on penalties) |
1998 FIFA World Cup |
1 |
| 4 |
14 October 1998 |
Stade Josy Barthel , Luxembourg City |
|
3–0 |
UEFA Euro 2000
qualification |
1 |
| 5 |
4 September 1999 |
Wembley Stadium , London |
|
6–0 |
UEFA Euro 2000
qualification |
1 |
| 6 |
27 September 2000 |
Wembley Stadium, London |
|
1–1 |
Friendly match |
1 |
| 7 |
20 June 2000 |
Stade du Pays de Charleroi , Charleroi |
|
2–3 |
UEFA Euro 2000 |
1 |
| 8 |
2 September 2000 |
Stade de France , Paris |
|
1–1 |
Friendly match |
1 |
| 9 |
24 March 2001 |
Anfield , Liverpool |
|
2–1 |
2002 FIFA
World Cup qualification |
1 |
| 10 |
28 March 2001 |
Qemal Stafa , Tirana |
|
3–1 |
2002 FIFA
World Cup qualification |
1 |
| 11 |
1 September 2001 |
Olympic Stadium , Munich |
|
5–1 |
2002 FIFA
World Cup qualification |
3 |
| 14 |
5 November 2001 |
St James' Park, Newcastle |
|
2–0 |
2002 FIFA
World Cup qualification |
1 |
| 15 |
17 April 2002 |
Anfield, Liverpool |
|
4–0 |
Friendly match |
1 |
| 16 |
21 May 2002 |
Jeju World Cup Stadium , Seogwipo |
|
1–1 |
Friendly match |
1 |
| 17 |
15 June 2002 |
Stadium Big Swan , Niigata |
|
3–0 |
2002 FIFA World Cup |
1 |
| 18 |
21 June 2002 |
Shizuoka Stadium , Shizuoka |
|
1–2 |
2002 FIFA World Cup |
1 |
| 19 |
12 October 2002 |
Tehelné pole , Bratislava |
|
2–1 |
UEFA Euro 2004
qualification |
1 |
| 20 |
29 March 2003 |
Rheinpark Stadion , Vaduz |
|
2–0 |
UEFA Euro 2004
qualification |
1 |
| 21 |
11 June 2003 |
Riverside Stadium , Middlesbrough |
|
2–1 |
UEFA Euro 2004
qualification |
2 |
| 23 |
20 August 2003 |
Portman Road , Ipswich |
|
3–1 |
Friendly match |
1 |
| 24 |
10 September 2003 |
Old Trafford, Manchester |
|
2–0 |
UEFA Euro 2004
qualification |
1 |
| 25 |
1 June 2004 |
City of Manchester Stadium , Manchester |
|
1–1 |
2004 FA Summer
Tournament |
1 |
| 26 |
24 June 2004 |
Estadio da Luz , Lisbon |
|
2–2 (5–6 on penalties) |
UEFA Euro 2004 |
1 |
| 27 |
18 August 2004 |
St James' Park, Newcastle |
|
3–0 |
Friendly match |
1 |
| 28 |
13 October 2004 |
Tofik Bakhramov Stadium , Baku |
|
1–0 |
2006 FIFA
World Cup qualification |
1 |
| 29 |
26 March 2005 |
Old Trafford, Manchester |
|
4–0 |
2006 FIFA
World Cup qualification |
1 |
| 30 |
31 May 2005 |
Giants Stadium , East Rutherford |
|
3–2 |
Friendly match |
3 |
| 33 |
12 October 2005 |
Old Trafford, Manchester |
|
2–1 |
2006 FIFA
World Cup qualification |
1 |
| 35 |
12 November 2005 |
Stade de Genève , Geneva |
|
3–2 |
Friendly match |
2 |
| 36 |
3 June 2006 |
Old Trafford, Manchester |
|
6–0 |
Friendly match |
1 |
| 37 |
6 June 2007 |
A.
Le Coq
Arena, Tallinn |
|
3–0 |
UEFA Euro 2008
qualification |
1 |
| 38 |
8 September 2007 |
Wembley Stadium , London |
|
3–0 |
UEFA Euro 2008
qualification |
1 |
| 40 |
12 September 2007 |
Wembley Stadium, London |
|
3–0 |
UEFA Euro 2008
qualification |
2 |
Personal life
Owen met English-born Louise Bonsall at
primary school in 1984.
The couple bought
Lower Soughton Manor in Flintshire,
North
Wales
where Owen keeps his cars and Louise keeps her
horses. They got engaged on 14 February 2004, and
married on 24 June 2005, at the Carden Park Hotel in Chester
, Cheshire. The couple had initially planned to get
married at their home, but changed plans when they were informed
that if a licence was granted for a marriage ceremony the venue
must be made available for other weddings for three years, so opted
to marry in a registry office in informal clothing and have a
lavish reception the next day in the grounds of their home.
On 1 May 2003 their daughter, Gemma Rose, was born. On 6 February
2006, they welcomed a son named James Michael. Their third child, a
daughter, Emily May, was born on 29 October 2007.
After Owen returned to the UK to play for Newcastle United, he
traveled to a nearby
BAE facility on a daily
basis in order to fly, via
helicopter, to
train with his club. However, there is now a helipad installed
within the grounds of the house to accommodate Owen's
Eurocopter Dauphin, with which he both
travels and is training to become a pilot. Owen was eventually
banned from training to be a pilot by Newcastle United, due to
excessive insurance premiums.
Owen also
bought an entire street for his extended family (Austen
Close, Ewloe
), which is in an area close to where he used to
live. and in 2008 was reported in the Daily Express as surveying the purchase of the
original Walt Disney site with celebrity
realtor Paul Grimshaw in Estepona
, Southern Spain.
In 2004, Owen's sister Karen was assaulted by two youths, who
attempted to kidnap her. When she revealed that she was pregnant,
they fled.
Owen owns several cars and a helicopter and enjoys
horse racing and
gambling. Owen is the brother in-law of footballer
Richie Partridge.
Owen starred in a series of adverts that charted his life, and rise
to fame. In 2001, he was the advertising face of breakfast cereal
"
Nestlé Sporties". He also appeared in
several adverts for the washing powder
Persil, in a contract worth £1,000,000. Owen was
selected as one of the two cover athletes for
Pro Evolution Soccer 2008. He has
been an ambassador of the Swiss watchmaker
Tissot since 1998 and has a contract with car
manufacturer
Jaguar.
He has indicated that he would like to become involved with
Chester City in some capacity when
he retires as it was his local team growing up and his father is a
former Chester City player.
Career statistics
| Club |
Season |
League |
Cup |
League Cup |
Europe |
Other |
Total |
| Apps |
Goals |
Apps |
Goals |
Apps |
Goals |
Apps |
Goals |
Apps |
Goals |
Apps |
Goals |
| Liverpool |
1996–97 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
| 1997–98 |
36 |
18 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
44 |
23 |
| 1998–99 |
30 |
18 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
6 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
40 |
23 |
| 1999–2000 |
27 |
11 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
30 |
12 |
| 2000–01 |
28 |
16 |
5 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
11 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
46 |
24 |
| 2001–02 |
29 |
19 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
5 |
2 |
2 |
45 |
28 |
| 2002–03 |
35 |
19 |
2 |
0 |
4 |
2 |
13 |
7 |
1 |
0 |
55 |
28 |
| 2003–04 |
29 |
16 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
38 |
19 |
| Total |
216 |
118 |
15 |
8 |
14 |
9 |
52 |
21 |
3 |
2 |
297 |
158 |
| Real Madrid |
2004–05 |
35 |
13 |
4 |
2 |
– |
4 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
43 |
16 |
| Total |
35 |
13 |
4 |
2 |
– |
4 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
43 |
16 |
| Newcastle
United |
2005–06 |
11 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
11 |
7 |
| 2006–07 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
| 2007–08 |
29 |
11 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
33 |
13 |
| 2008–09 |
27 |
8 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
31 |
10 |
| Total |
70 |
26 |
5 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
78 |
30 |
| Manchester
United |
2009–10 |
10 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
5 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
18 |
4 |
| Total |
10 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
5 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
18 |
4 |
| Total |
331 |
159 |
24 |
11 |
19 |
13 |
61 |
23 |
4 |
2 |
436 |
210 |
Statistics accurate as of match played 25 November
2009
Honours
Liverpool
International
- FA Summer Tournament: 2004
Individual
References
-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/8131801.stm
- BBC Television, Match of the Day, 22 March 2008
- {{cite news |first=Nick |last=Coppack |title=Owen: Injuries
aren't an issue
|url=http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid={F9E570E6-407E-44BC-800F-4A3110258114}&newsid=6636149
|work=ManUtd.com |publisher=Manchester United |date=13 July 2009
|accessdate=13 July 2009 }}
- {{cite news |first=Gemma |last=Thompson |title=Malaysia XI 0
United 2
|url=http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid={3165B97F-681E-4B39-BE53-94EC9521C3DA}&newsid=6636503
|work=ManUtd.com |publisher=Manchester United |date=20 July 2009
|accessdate=20 July 2009 }}
- {{cite news |first=Adam |last=Bostock |title=Greentown 2 United
8
|url=http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid={3165B97F-681E-4B39-BE53-94EC9521C3DA}&newsid=6636832
|work=ManUtd.com |publisher=Manchester United |date=26 July 2009
|accessdate=26 July 2009 }}
- Includes other competitive competitions, including the
FA
Community Shield, UEFA Super Cup, Intercontinental Cup,
FIFA
Club World Cup
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