Club career

He foremost played for his primary school team in Hawarden, Wales, breaking all local scoring records within his 1st year. From either a age of Fourteen he attended a FA's School of Excellence in Staffordshire but also continued to survey at a local Hawarden High School and picked up 10 GCSEs.

Liverpool signed Owen as an apprentice while inside his teens, although as the son he experienced been a supporter of their local arch-rivals Everton. By having Owen's assist, Liverpool's youth team won a FA Youth Cup in 1996. He signed agent forms for the senior team good when his seventeenth birthday inside December 1996, making the arresting debut for the team against Wimbledon in May 1997, coming on as the substitute & scoring a goal. Using an injury to Robbie Fowler, he was thrust immediately into action as a number 1 team regular alongside a likes of newcomer Paul Ince and veteran playmaker Steve McManaman in the following 1997-98 season. Owen ended that year when joint top scorer in the Premier League, scoring eighteen goals (equal by owning Chris Sutton and Dion Dublin), when well when incurring voted as a PFA Young Player of the Year.

He continued to exist as the uniform goalscorer for Liverpool, & within 2001 helped the club to their virtually all successful year for many years. A team won a League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Cup, with Owen scoring ii goals in the survive couple of minutes against Arsenal in the Fthe Cup final to turn what appeared to become the One-0 kill into a Two-One triumph. Amazingly, nevertheless, he failed to score in the team's unbelievable Five-Four triumph against Deportivo Alavés in the UEFA Cup, & was substituted in this game. At a prevent of a month, he became a 1st British streaming video player for twenty years to win the European Footballer of the Year award.

Due to Liverpool's continued failure to win a Premier League or even a Champions League, Owen was often linked sustaining moves to more clubs, although he ab initio remained firm to his foremost employers. Yet, due to stalled contractual talks in the summer of 2004, and sustaining sole 1 seasin remaining in his contract prior to he may leave the club on a free transfer like Steve McManaman did, Liverpool sold Owen to the same destination, Real Madrid, in Spain, but unlike the McManaman situation, pocketed a fee of 12 million euros on 13 August 2004, with midfielder Antonio Nunez moving in the other counsel.

Owen experienced a slow run to his Madrid career & drew a few criticism from either fans & the Spanish click for his deficiency of form, typically existence confined to the substitutes bench in the period of matches. All the same, a successful link to to actiwithin by having the Engl& team within October 2004 seemed to revive his morale, and on his number one match back using Madrid ensuing this he scored his 1st goal for the team, the winner in a One-0 UEFA Champions League group game triumph all over Dynamo Kiev. He quickly followed this higher upright two or three years late by owning his 1st Spanish league goal for the team around the One-0 triumph all over Valencia, and likewise hit a target inside the trio of the next quaternity games to produce it Quintet goals in Vii sequent matches. He ended the year by using a extremely respectable Xiii goals within La Liga (the year's greatest ratio of goals scored to total of minutes played), when Rattling finished runners-higher in the Spanish championship. Inside August 2005 speculation arose that Owen would shortly section company by using Real Madrid sequentially to join one of a English Premier League's additional dominant teams & besides to locate his position when England's foremost guide striker, as a consequence Rattling's sign language of 2 supplementary forwards. This is simply conceivable around case Owen continues to play number one team football in the competitory league, although England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson has said that Owen will universally exist as in all likelihood to become selected in the team.

In August 24 2005, Newcastle United F.C. announced that they had agreed a club record fee of £17 million with Madrid for Owen, although they still had to negotiate with the player's advisers. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/4179194.stm]. Even so, Owen claimed that he would exclusively become unforced to spend a year in loan to them. This come good the day after Everton, traditional rivals of Owen's dear Liverpool, got the bid for the streaming video player turned down per Spanish club [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/e/everton/4176576.stm].

In August 31 2005 Owen finally signed the tetrad-month contract to play for Newcastle United, despite initial click speculation that he would like stand returned to Liverpool. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/4196760.stm] About 20,000 fans were present at Newcastle's habitat of St James' Park for Owen's official unveiling as a Newcastle player. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/4200808.stm] He scored his 1st goal for the club inside his 2nd appearance, the middle goal in a Three-0 away win at Blackburn Rovers on September 18 – Newcastle's first win of the year.

Clubs: Liverpool (1996-2004) Real Madrid (2004-2005) Newcastle United (2005-present)

Honours: FA Cup (2001) UEFA Cup (2001) League Cup (2001,2003) European Super Cup (2001) Charity Shield (2001) European Footballer of the Year (2001) PFA Young Player of the Year (1998)

International career
Owen got the extremely successful record at Youth & Under-21 international level, although he was exclusively briefly the member of the England Under-21 team before he processed his debut for the senior team around the friendly match against Chile in February 1998. Swimming therein game mass produced Owen a immature streaming video player to represent England in the whole of the 20th century.

Owen's young enthusiasm, pace & talent manufactured him the popular streaming video streaming video player nationally, & several fans were lament for him to become manufactured the regular player for the team ahead of that month's World Cup. His foremost goal for England, against Morocco in another friendly game just anterior to this tournament, exclusively increased these calls. A goal too processed him a youngest ever streaming video player to keep around scored for England, until his record was surpassed by Wayne Rooney in 2003.

Although he was selected for the Globe Ventral suction cup squad by manager Glenn Hoddle, he was kept on the bench as a substitute in the number one both games. Notwithstanding, his substitute appearance in the 2nd game against Romania saw him score a goal & hit a post by using an additional shot, nearly salvaging a kill. When that, Hoddle got little guide however to play him from either a begaround, & in England's 2nd circular match against Argentina he scored a arresting goal, voted by numerous when a goal of the tournament & really bringing him to the attention of the globe football scene.

Engl& wasted that match & went away from a tournament, however Owen experienced sealed his place as an automatic England guide and his popularity in the united states was brobdingnagian. At the prevent of the month he won a public vote to become elected winner of the prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the Year title, the award's immature ever recipient.

He has since played for England in the 2000 and 2004 European Championships and the 2002 World Cup, scoring goals in all trio tournaments. This makes him a simply streaming video player to ever keep around scored around quadruplet major tournaments for England. He potentially scored the hat-trick against Germany in the 2001 qualifying campaign for the 2002 World Cup, the number 1 English streaming video player to score the hat-trick against Germany since Geoff Hurst, who scored his hat trick in the 1966 World Cup Final.

Inside April 2002, he wwhen named as England's captain for the friendly match against Paraguay in place of the injured regular captain David Beckham. Owen was a immature England skipper since Bobby Moore in 1963, and since so has regularly captained England in the period of any absence for Beckham.

When of October 2005, Owen has been capped seventy-four days for Engl& and scored thirty-3 goals: he is 4th in the listings of 100%-instance top scorers for the England team, behind Bobby Charlton (49 goals), Gary Lineker (48) and Jimmy Greaves (44). He & Lineker jointly hang on to a record of twenty-xxiwe goals for England within competitory matches, i.e. Globe Ventral suction cup & European Championship games & a qualifiers for people tournaments.

Private Life

Owen married his childhood sweetheart, Louise Bonsall, on 25 June 2005. [http://au.news.yahoo.com/050624/19/uup4.html] It were engaged for over a year, from either February 14, 2004. A few have a girl, Gemma Rose Owen, born in May 2, 2003 in a same place in which two her parents were born - the Countess of Chester Hospital, Chester, England.

A few experienced at the start planned for married at their page, Lower Soughton Hall (touching Northop Hall), but changed plans whenever it were informed that whenever a licence was granted for the marriage the venue must exist as processed available for more weddings for leash years.

When of August 2005, a few come expecting their 2nd tyke.