Michael Owen
More soccer men, no more of this English footballer talk, I’m calling it soccer. Again though, I don’t understand the game so I’m telling you that he is a striker but I have no idea what that means. What I do know is that he looks doggone good. He is currently England’s fourth highest scorer of all time with forty goals. He was the recipient of the Ballon D’or in 2001.
His early life was spent in Chester, Cheshire. He started playing soccer when he was really young and he loved kicking a football around with his dad and two brothers even at the very young age. He got his first pair of football boots when he was seven years old. That might have been old then but now, that’s pretty normal I think. His favorite player was Gary Lineker and he always insisted that he was Gary when he and his dad had a kick about.
By the time he was seven his father persuaded the manager of Mold Alexandra to let Owen play on his team of 10 year olds. He was younger than most and most definitely smaller. He was busily showing off his flair and started in most games becoming known as the team’s secret weapon.
His individual accomplishments include PFA Young Player of the Year in 1998, BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1998 and Ballon D’or in 2001.
I’m thinking that he really wasn’t that young when he started when you consider the children today who are so young out there on ball fields all over America playing soccer. My own child played a team sport at the age of 5 this year but we haven’t attempted soccer yet.
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