THIERY HENRY

Thierry Henry

Hierry Daniel Henry was born on 17 August 1977.He is a French footballer who plays
for Spanish La Liga club Barcelona andthe French national team predominantly as
a striker.

Personal information

Full name Thierry Daniel Henry
Date of birth 17 August 1977
(1977-08-17) (age 32)
Place of birth Les Ulis, Essonne, France
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position Striker/Winger

Club information
Current club Barcelona
Number 14

Youth career
1983–1989 CO Les Ulis
1989–1990 US Palaiseau
1990–1992 Viry-Châtillon
1992 Clairefontaine
1992–1994 Monaco

Senior career*
Years Club Apps (Gls)
1994–1999 Monaco 105 (20)
1999 Juventus 18 (3)
1999–2007 Arsenal 254 (174)
2007– Barcelona 62 (31)

National team
1997– France 114 (50)


Henry was born in the tough neighbourhoodof Les Ulis, Essonne—a suburb of Paris—where he played for an array oflocal sides as a youngster and showed great promise as a goal-scorer. He was spotted by AS Monaco in 1990 and signed instantly, making his professional debut in 1994. Good form led to an international call-up in 1998, after which he signed for the Serie A defending champions Juventus. He had a disappointing season playing on the wing, before joining Arsenal for £10.5 million
in 1999.

It was at Arsenal that Henry made his name as a world-class footballer. Despite initially struggling in the Premiership, he emerged as Arsenal's top goal-scorer
for almost every season of his tenure there. Under long-time mentor and coach

Arsène Wenger, Henry became a prolific striker and Arsenal's all-time leading scorer with 226 goals in all competitions. The Frenchman won two league titles and three FA Cups with the Gunners; he was twice nominated for the FIFA World Player of the Year, was named the PFA Players' Player of the Year twice, and the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year three times. Henry spent his final two seasons with Arsenal as club captain, leading them to the UEFA Champions League final in 2006. In June 2007, after eight years with Arsenal, he transferred to Barcelona
for a fee of €24 million. His first honours with the Catalan club came in 2008–09 when they won the league, cup and Champions League treble.

Henry has enjoyed similar success with the French national squad, having won the
1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000. In October 2007, he surpassed Michel Platini's record to become France's top goal-scorer of all time. Off the pitch, as a result of his own experience, Henry is an active spokesperson against racism in football. His footballing style and personality have ensured that he is one of the most commercially marketable footballers in the world; he has been featured in advertisements for Nike, Reebok, Renault, Pepsi and Gillette.

Early years

Henry is of Antillean heritage: his father, Antoine, is from Guadeloupe (La
Désirade island), and his mother, Maryse, is from Martinique. He was born and raised in a tough environment in the heavily urbanized Les Ulis district of Paris which, despite its hardships, provided good footballing facilities. As a seven-year-old, Henry showed great potential, prompting Claude Chezelle to recruit him to the local club CO Les Ulis. His father pressured him to attend training, although the youngster was not particularly drawn to football. He joined US Palaiseau in 1989, but after a year his father fell out with the club, so Henry moved to ES Viry-Châtillon for two years. US Palaiseau coach Jean-Marie Panza, Henry's future mentor, followed him there

Awards and honours

Henry has received many plaudits and awards in his football career. He was runner-up for the 2003 and 2004 FIFA World Player of the Year award; in those two seasons, he also won back-to-back PFA Players' Player of the Year titles.Henry is the only player ever to have won the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year three times (2003, 2004, 2006),and the French Player of the Year on a record four occasions. Henry was voted into the Premier League Overseas Team of the Decade in the 10 Seasons Awards poll in 2003, and in 2004 he was named by football legend Pelé as one of the top 125 greatest living
footballers.In terms of goal-scoring awards, Henry was the European Golden Boot winner in 2004 and 2005 (sharing it with Villarreal's Diego Forlán in 2005) and is the first ever player to retain the award. Henry has also been the top goal-scorer in the Premiership for four seasons (2002, 2004, 2005, 2006). In 2006, he became the first player to score more than 20 goals in the league for five consecutive seasons (2002 to 2006). Henry is currently third in the list of all-time English Premiership goal-scorers, behind Alan Shearer and Andy Cole. Given his accomplishments, France's all-time goal-scorer is today regarded by many coaches, footballers and pundits as one of the best footballers in the world. In November 2007, he was ranked 33rd on the Association of Football Statisticians' compendium for "Greatest Ever Footballers". Arsenal fans honoured their former player in 2008, declaring Henry the greatest Arsenal player. In another 2008 survey, Henry emerged as the favourite Premier League player of all time among 32,000 people surveyed in the Barclays 2008 Global Fan Report.

Monaco

* Ligue 1: 1996–97
* French Super Cup: 1997
Arsenal

* FA Premier League: 2001–02, 2003–04
* FA Cup: 2001–02, 2002–03, 2004–05
* FA Community Shield: 2002, 2004

Barcelona

* La Liga: 2008–09
* Copa del Rey: 2008–09
* UEFA Champions League: 2008–09
* Supercopa de España: 2009
* UEFA Super Cup: 2009


International

* FIFA World Cup: 1998
* UEFA European Football

Championship: 2000
* FIFA Confederations Cup: 2003

Individual

* UEFA Football Championship Team of

the Tournament: 2000
* Confederations Cup top goalscorer:

2003
* Confederations Cup Golden Ball:

2003
* FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 2006
* Ligue 1 Young Player of the Year:

1996–97
* PFA Players' Player of the Year:

2002–03, 2003–04
* European Golden Boot: 2004, 2005
* Premier League top scorer: 2001–02,

2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06.
* Onze d'Or: 2003, 2006
* PFA Team of the Year: 2001, 2002,

2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
* FWA Footballer Of The Year:

2002–03, 2003–04, 2005–06
* World XI Striker: 2006
* UEFA Team of the Year: 2001, 2002,

2003, 2004, 2006
* French Player of the Year: 2000,

2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
* English Football Hall of Fame: 2008
* Barclays Player of the Month: April

2000, September 2002, January 2004, April

2004
* FIFA 100
* Time 100: 2007