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- Birth nameMichael James Owen
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Michael Owen is a former England footballer who played for Liverpool, Real Madrid, Newcastle United, Manchester United and Stoke City. He claimed the Premier League Golden Boot twice and was the last English player to win the Ballon d'Or. Over the course of an impressive career, he won the FA Cup, Football League Cup (three times), UEFA Cup, UEFA Super Cup, Premier League title and appeared in three World Cups for England, amassing 89 caps. Michael is a co-owner of Manor House Stables racing yard near Chester and since retiring in 2013, he has been working as a pundit and co-commentator, an Ambassador for Bet Victor and Liverpool FC and alongside other commercial obligations, he has set up a football management company to help guide young players through their careers.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Amazon Studios
- Michael Owen is an English former footballer who played as a striker for Liverpool F.C., Real Madrid, Newcastle United F.C., Manchester United F.C. and Stoke City F.C., as well as for the England National Football Team. Since retiring from football in 2013, he has become a racehorse breeder and owner and regularly features as a sports pundit and commentator.
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 with 18 goals. He repeated this the following year and was Liverpool's top goal-scorer from 1997-2004, gaining his name as a proven goal-scorer despite suffering from a recurring hamstring injury. In 2001, Liverpool F.C. won a cup treble of the UEFA Cup, FA Cup and Football League Cup, and Owen was the recipient of the Ballon d'Or. He went on to score 118 goals in 216 appearances in the Premier League for Liverpool, and 158 goals in 297 total appearances.
Owen moved to Real Madrid in mid-2004; he was frequently used as a substitute. He scored 13 goals in La Liga before returning to England the following season where he joined Newcastle United F.C.. After a promising start to the 2005-06 season, 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. In the 2008-09 season Owen moved to Manchester United F.C. as a free agent. He spent three years at Old Trafford before joining Stoke City F.C. in September 2012. Owen is one of nine players to have scored 150 or more goals in the Premier League. He is also the youngest player to have reached 100 goals in the Premier League. On 19 March 2013, Owen announced his retirement from playing at the end of the 2012-13 season.
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 FIFA World Cup France (1998) brought him to national and international prominence and he went on to score in 2000 UEFA European Football Championship (2000), the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan (2002) and 2004 UEFA European Football Championship (2004). He is the only player to have scored in four consecutive major tournaments for England. He played at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany (2006), but suffered an injury which took him a year to recover from. Occasionally playing as captain, he is England's 11th-most-capped player and has scored a former national record (since overtaken by Wayne Rooney) of 26 competitive goals, with 40 in total from 89 appearances.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tango Papa
- SpouseLouise Bonsall(June 24, 2005 - present) (4 children)
- Children
- Became the first England footballer since Geoff Hurst in the 1966 World Cup final to score a hat-trick against Germany. His three goals came in a World Cup qualifier and England won the match 5-1.
- He was an ambassador for the English Football Association as they campaigned to host the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Despite sharing the platform with two of England's most famous players in history, Sir Geoff Hurst and Sir Bobby Charlton, the bid was unsuccessful.
- Won the UEFA Cup, FA Cup, Worthington Cup and FA Charity Shield with Liverpool FC.
- Joins Manchester United after Newcastle are relegated. Pundits see it as an attempt to make a stake at returning to the England squad, which at this point he has been out of for around a year.
- His girlfriend, Louise Bonsall, gave birth to a baby girl, Gemma Owen. The baby was born at Countess of Chester Hospital, and weighed 6lbs 8ozs.
- In the longer term, you have to fear for the future of the game. Football is massively popular in England but, when I was a kid, I never had a computer or anything. I drive along the road now and look at parks and they are empty. When school was finished I would be straight to the park at 4pm and my mum would be dragging me by the ear at 9pm to get home to bed. Life has changed and kids cannot be getting the same practice as my generation. Yet look at the beaches in Brazil and the streets of Africa and you can see why so many players come from abroad.
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