Love him or hate him, and the jury is still out on that, Wayne Rooney is one of the best footballers of his generation, and they have almost been able to tame the beast that lurks inside him.
Rooney is a scouser and was born in Croxteth, which is a suburb of Liverpool in 1985. The family is of Irish descent and are Catholic. Rooney attended a Catholic school. He played football for Liverpool Schoolboys until he was 15 and famously scored 72 goals in a single season.
Between the ages of 9 and 15 Rooney played for Liverpool Schoolboys and scored record numbers of goals. Spotted by a scout he joined Everton ages nine and made his first appearance with them as an unused substitute in 2002.
The following year he played his first game and in that October his first goals were in a match against Wrexham; he scored twice and became the club’s youngest ever goal scorer.
In 2004, aged 18, he left Everton to sign for Manchester United. The transfer fee was a massive £25.6 million. In his first match with United he scored three goals in a Champions League match against Fenerbahce. With 11 league goals, he was the club’s top scorer that year. To date Rooney has scored 147 goals for United, his best season being 2009-10 when he scored an astonishing 34 goals.
He is also the youngest England player when he debuted in 2003 aged 17. He was also the youngest goal scorer. He has appeared for England 70 times and has scored 26 goals.
Rooney has always courted controversy and has a petulant nature. He also has a thuggish personality and uses foul language. He is alleged to have frequented with prostitutes on several occasions. His innate violent nature has landed him in trouble both on and off the pitch despite having taken a number of anger management courses in an attempt to tame his inner beast; it takes little to make him flare up.
Rooney has come a long way from that small house on the Croxteth estate. He now lives with his wife Coleen in a mansion in a Cheshire village which is reputed to have cost £4.25 million. Keep up to date with the latest goals and football scores of Manchester United as well as top European leagues at www.footballscores.com and also find out which team has the best odds online.
