Wayne Rooney, an English footballer, was born on October 24, 1985 in Croxteth, Liverpool. He was born to Thomas Wayne and Jeanette Marie Rooney and has two younger brothers, Graeme and John. All the three brothers attended the De La Salle School, and since his childhood, Wayne Rooney was a fan of Duncan Ferguson, a Scottish footballer.
He has been playing for the England national football team since 2003, and on February 12, 2003, he featured in a friendly match against Australia, becoming the youngest player to represent the England national team. Wayne Rooney became England’s youngest goal-scorer when he scored in a 2-1 winning match against Macedonia. He also holds the record of being the youngest player to score at the 2004 Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) European Football Championships, when he netted a brace against Switzerland on June 17, 2004. After recovering from a metatarsal injury, Wayne Rooney made a comeback by playing as a substitute in a match against Trinidad and Tobago, and he started in the following match against Sweden.
At the age of ten, Wayne Rooney started his football career by joining the youth ranks of Everton in 1996, and he progressed to its senior team in 2002. On October 19, 2002, he ended the thirty match unbeaten run of Arsenal by netting the winning goal against them, and he became the youngest goal-scorer in Premier League history. Wayne Rooney went on to become BBC Sports' 2002-03 Young Personality of the Year, and after the two-year stint with Everton, he signed with Manchester United in 2004.
On September 28, 2004, Wayne Rooney played his first match for Manchester United, scoring a hat-trick in a 6-2 group stage win against Fenerbahçe S.K. at the UEFA Champions League. At the 2006 English Football League Cup final against Wigan Athletic, he scored a brace and contributed to the club’s 4-0 victory, following which Wayne Rooney was named the Man of the Match, and he secured his first senior medal. At the end of the 2005-06 season, he secured 16 goals and helped the club finish as runners-up at the Premier League.
On October 17, 2006, Wayne Rooney captained the team in a Champions League match against Copenhagen, and on November 26, 2006, he signed a new contrat with the club that will keep him with Manchester United until 2012. During the first half of the 2006-07 season, Wayne Rooney scored a hat-trick against the Bolton Wanderers F.C., and as of February 2007, he was the top English goal-scorer in the Premiership. He came on as a substitute and scored two goals at the Football Association (FA) Cup tie against Portsmouth, and followed it with another brace in the derby against Bolton.
His first goal after two-and-a-half years in Europe came on April 4, 2007 in a match against A.S. Roma in the quarter-final first leg of the 2006-07 UEFA Champions League. At the Champions League, Wayne Rooney continued to score in the quarter-final second leg against Roma, and in the semi-final first leg, he scored two goals in the club’s 3-2 victory over A.C. Milan. He went on to score a total of 23 goals by the end of April 2007, equaling with Cristiano Ronaldo, a team-mate. Wayne Rooney contributed to the club’s victory at the Premier League in two successive seasons, 2006-07 and 2007-08, and he helped the club win the 2007 FA Community Shield and the 2007-08 UEFA Champions League. In his football career, he scored many goals, and he leveled his scores with Ruud van Nistelrooy, a Dutch footballer.
Wayne Rooney won the Bravo Award in 2003 and was named the FA Premier League Player of the Month for February 2005, December 2005, March 2006 and November 2007. He was included in the UEFA Euro 2004 Team of the Tournament and the 2005-06 PFA Team of the Year. Wayne Rooney won several titles such as Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year of the 2005-06 season, the 2005 FIFPro World Young Player of the Year, the 2006 PFA Fans' Player of the Year and the PFA Young Player of the Year for two consecutive years in 2005 and 2006.
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