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Henry Wilson (Full name Henry William Wilson born 08 November 2002) is an English professional footballer and Striker for Inter Milan and the England national football team. He is the youngest ever premier league Premier League Golden Boot winner and has won the award four times. He has been awarded with three Ballon D'or awards which he won with Liverpool F.C in 2024 and 2025 as well as with F.C Barcelona in 2026.

Burnley
Wilson joined the Burnley youth academy when he was 14 years old. At first the coaches at the youth academy thought he was too slow and had a bad finish, but he was given a chance to develop in the academy and went on to prove his quality. He soon became a standout player earning the nickname 'la sombra' for his natural dribbling ability. On the 8th of June 2018 he was promoted to the senior team and 2 months later was to make his senior debut. He has since become Burnley's top scorer on 4 occasions and has gone far and even won some cups and competitions for the Clarets.

2018–19: Breakthrough
He made his debut for Burnley on 8 August 2018 in a Premier League game against Huddersfield, Being subbed on for Ashley Barnes. During the season, Wilson played in 40 Matches for Burnley scoring 25 in the league which earned him the Premier League Golden Boot award and he was awarded the PFA Players' Player of the Year for that year.

This season Wilson also became the youngest ever player to start a premier league game and youngest ever premier league scorer.

2019–2022: League and Europe's star man
Since Wilson's debut he has scored 112 goals in all competitions for Burnley and won the Golden Boot in the 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons in the Premier League being the 3rd player to hold the award for three consecutive seasons (Alan Shearer and Thierry Henry have also done the same) and youngest player to ever recieve the award at 16 years and 198 days old. In 2020 Wilson helped Burnley to their second ever FA cup and their first in 106 years. Wilson also lead Burnley into their first European Cup knockout round for 61 years in 2020-21 as they were knocked out by Olympique de Marseille on away goals. In the next season he returned to face them in the round of 32 in the UEFA Europa League however this time Burnley won 5-5 on away goals with the final goal coming from Wilson in the 118th minute. After this dramatic win Burnley went on to emphatically beat LOSC Lille 4-1 on aggregate to send them through to the Quarter Finals of the cup. It was here they faced eventual winners RB Leipzig as they were knocked out 1-0 on aggregate with Wilson missing the second leg due to a concussion he had picked up against rivals Blackburn Rovers in the Carabao Cup. He has been named as Europe's Golden Boy in 2021 and came 17th for Player of the year in 2022. He was named in the Premier League Team of the Season on 3 Occasions missing out on his 4th in 2022 to Eden Hazard and teammate Josef Martinez.

2022 Germany World Cup
The 2022 World Cup in Germany was Wilson's first World Cup as a player and all eyes were on him as the tournament began. A single goal (which was a deflection) in the first 3 games in the group was disappointing however this was made up by 4 goals in his next 2 games including a hat trick in Englands dramatic 4-3 win over Portugal. England's semi final tie saw them come up against France for a spot in the finals and another goal from Wilson was enough to ensure that in the 1-0 win. This took Wilson and England into their first final in 62 years and in the final they faced 5 time winners Brazil. A goal from Raheem Sterling took them one goal up and shortly after that Wilson scored into an open net after Sterling beat the keeper to ensure England were put 2 infront. The game ended 3-1 with goals from Marcus Rashford and Gabriel Jesus and England were crowned as World Cup Champions for the second time in their history. Wilson came second in the golden boot behind Gabriel Jesus but was seen as one of the tournaments best players.

2022-24 Liverpool and European Glory
After the penultimate game of the 2022-23 season Wilson revealed that he would depart from Burnley that summer. In his emotional final match at Turf Moor Wilson score twice in a 3-1 win over Leeds United. In the summer Wilson left to Liverpool F.C for a world record 300 Million Pounds. After a dissapointing start in Europe, failing to qualify into the knockout stages of the Champions League which lead to them dropping into the Europa League, Wilson lead Liverpool on a 25 Game unbeaten streak only drawing twice in the space of time. This meant Liverpool would participate in the 2024 Europa League Final which Liverpool ended up winning 4-3 in extra time. Liverpool finished second in the league however Wilson would pick up many awards including the golden boot for both the Premier League and Europa League and would also be crowned with the Golden Shoe. On December 15th 2024 Wilson was crowned Ballon D'or Winner beating out Marco Asensio and Gabriel Jesus to the award.

Career statistics
1 Includes UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League matches.