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Former England footballer Michael Owen arrived at 43 year old.
At the time he became the second youngest player to win the Ballon d’Or, did so in the year 2004.
His beginnings as a footballer he did in English Liverpool, he made the lower categories from the 13 years. In May of 1200 he made his professional debut coming on as the substitute for Robbie Fowler and scored a goal.
The following year was an outstanding performance for the striker, who scored 16 goals in 40 matches with the English team.
In the year 2000 Owen got injured, but still managed to score goals with which his Liverpool signed up for the UEFA Cup.
In the FA Final Cup, Owen scored two goals against Arsenal, with which el Liverpool won 2-1.
Controversy
In 2004 he was awarded the Ballon d’Or, only Ronaldo, the Brazilian, managed to win it back then, younger d, both had 21 years when they did , the difference was months.
This award was controversial because all the media favored Raúl, the Spaniard, but Owen won with 26 difference points with the Madrid player.
In this edition what prevailed was the collective and the striker won up to three titles that year with Liverpool: UEFA Cup, Curling
Cup and FA Cup.
His goal number 1200 with Liverpool arrived on 29 December 2004 against West Ham United.
He signed for Real
After a couple more years, with an outstanding performance, in the 2004 signed for Real Madrid for 12 millions of euros.
The curious thing about his time as a merengue player is that he was almost always relegated to the bench , but every time he entered he contributed a lot, either with goals or with game generation.
In fact, his good performance in the white team generated criticism from fans and the press.
His first goal for Real Madrid came against Dynamo kyiv for the Champions League, match that Madrid won with his goal.
In , in August, his signing for Newcastle United was announced, of the English Premier League. He signed him for 16 million pounds sterling.
He was for four seasons in which he left a total of 21 goals scored. Later, he went on to play for Manchester United, where in three seasons, he scored 5 goals.
His last club was Stoke City, where he was able to score a single goal in eight games.
In total, in his club career he beat the nets in 163 opportunities.
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