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Wayne Rooney

Personal information Full name	Wayne Mark Rooney[1] Date of birth	24 October 1985 (age 26) Place of birth	Croxteth, Liverpool, England Height	       1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[2] Playing position	Forward Club information Current club	       Manchester United Number	10 Youth career 1996–2002	       Everton Senior career*

Years	           Team	Apps†	(Gls)† 2002–2004	Everton	67	(15) 2004–	  Manchester United	236	(115) National team‡ 2000–2001	England U15	4	(2) 2001–2002	England U17	12	(7) 2002	       England U19	1	(0) 2003–	        England	73	(28) † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 8 October 2011 [3] Wayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985) is an English footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team. He is occasionally utilised in a deeper playmaking role. Rooney made his senior international debut in 2003 becoming the youngest player to represent England (a record later broken by Theo Walcott.) He is England's youngest ever goalscorer.[4] He played at UEFA Euro 2004 and scored four goals, briefly becoming the competition's youngest goalscorer. Rooney featured at the 2006 and 2010 World Cups and is widely regarded as his country's best player.[5][6][7][8][9][10] He has won the England Player of the Year award twice, in 2008 and 2009. As of September 2011, he has won 73 international caps and scored 28 goals.[3] Along with David Beckham, Rooney is the most red carded player for England, having been sent off twice.[11] Aged nine, Rooney joined the youth team of Everton, for whom he made his professional debut in 2002. He spent two seasons at the Merseyside club, before moving to Manchester United for £25.6 million in the 2004 summer transfer window. The same year, Rooney acquired the nickname Wazza.[12] Since then, with Rooney in the team, United have won the Premier League four times, the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League and two League Cups. He also holds two runner-up medals from both the Premier League and the Champions League. In August of the 2011–12 season Rooney scored his 150th goal, becoming United's highest goalscorer since the inception of the Premier League.[13] In 2009–10, Rooney was awarded the PFA Players' Player of the Year and the FWA Footballer of the Year. Rooney has won the Premier League 'Goal of the Season' award by the BBC's Match of the Day poll on three occasions. He was named in the FIFPro World 11 for 2011. Rooney is the third highest-paid footballer in the world after Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, with an annual income of €20.7m (£18m) including sponsorship deals Contents
 * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:04, 22 January 2012.