Michael Owen

Also known as Michael James Owen

Michael James Owen is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker for Liverpool, Real Madrid, Newcastle United, Manchester United, and Stoke City, as well as the England national team. Since retiring from football in 2013, he has become a racehorse breeder and owner and regularly features as a sports pundit and commentator. Regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation, in 2001, Owen was the recipient of the Ballon d'Or. In 2004, he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players.

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Michael Owen is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker for top clubs including Liverpool, Real Madrid, and Manchester United, and was considered one of the best strikers of his era, winning the Ballon d'Or in 2001. Since retiring in 2013, he has become involved in racehorse breeding and ownership while working as a sports commentator and pundit.

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Vinony catalogs Michael Owen in its Ballon d'Or collection (46 entries).

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Vinony files it under 1979 births, 1998 FIFA World Cup players and 2002 FIFA World Cup players.

Its subject is documented across 75 Wikipedia language editions.

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Instance of: human
Given name: Michael
Family name: Owen
Gender: male
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Place of birth: Chester
Occupation: association football player
Languages spoken: English language
Participant in: UEFA Euro 2000
Sport: association football
Member of team: England men's national association football team
Position played: forward
League: Premier League
Country for sport: England
Mass: 70
Official website: www.michaelowen.com
Image: Michael Owen.jpg
Height: 172

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Commons category: Michael Owen
date of birth: 1979-12-14
start of work period: 1997-00-00
end of work period: 2013-00-00
number of matches played/races/starts: 1
total goals in career: 1
social media followers: 3806908
writing language: English language
name in native language: Michael Owen

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Michael James Owen (born 14 December 1979) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker for Liverpool, Real Madrid, Newcastle United, Manchester United, and Stoke City, as well as the England national team. Since retiring from football in 2013, he has become a racehorse breeder and owner and regularly features as a sports pundit and commentator. Regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation, in 2001, Owen was the recipient of the Ballon d'Or. In 2004, he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players.

The son of former footballer Terry Owen, Owen was born in Chester and began his senior career at Liverpool in 1996. Displaying rapid pace and composed finishing, he progressed through the Liverpool youth team and scored on his Premier League debut in May 1997, becoming the club's youngest goalscorer, at 17 years, 143 days. In his first full season in the Premier League, Owen finished as joint top scorer with 18 goals, sharing the Premier League Golden Boot. He repeated this the following year and was Liverpool's top goal-scorer from 1997 to 2004, gaining his name as a proven goal-scorer despite suffering from a recurring hamstring injury. In 2001, Liverpool won a cup treble of the UEFA Cup, FA Cup (with Owen scoring two late goals in the final) and Football League Cup. He went on to score 118 goals in 216 appearances in the Premier League for Liverpool, and 158 goals in 297 total appearances.

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