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Thierry Daniel HENRY

Thierry Henry 
France
HENRY
Thierry Daniel
17/8/1977
Current club: FC Barcelona (Spain)
Position: striker
HONOURS

FIFA World Cup (1998)
UEFA European Championship (2000)
FIFA Confederations Cup (2003)
UEFA Champions League (2009)
French League (1997)
English FA Cup (2002, 2003, 2005)
English Premier League (2002, 2004)
Spanish League (2009)
Spain King’s Cup (2009)
French Young Footballer of the Year (1997)
French Footballer of the Year (2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
English Premier League Top Scorer (2002, 2004, 2005, 2006)
English Premier League Footballer of the Year (2003, 2004, 2006)
FIFA Confederations Cup Top Scorer (2003)
FIFA Confederations Cup MVP (2003)
English Football Hall of Fame (2008)

Profile

Henry first made his mark with AS Monaco (1993-99), helping them to the French title in 1997 and a UEFA Champions League semi-final in 1998. He joined Juventus FC in January for a significant fee but failed to settle and seven months later Wenger took Henry to Arsenal. Reaching the 2000 UEFA Cup final, Premiership titles followed in 2001/02 and 2003/04, when Henry was the league's leading scorer, a feat he repeated in 2004/05 and 2005/06, he won the ESM Golden Boot award in 2003/04 and 2004/05 and FA Cup winners' medals in 2002, 2003 and 2005. In 2005/06 Henry became Arsenal's all-time leading goalscorer and played in the UEFA Champions League final, a superb campaign ending in a disappointing 2-1 loss to FC Barcelona. In 1998, when he was only 20, with France he finished as his country's leading scorer as they won the FIFA World Cup. Further success followed at UEFA European championship in 2000, when he was again his country's top scorer with three strikes. Scored six goals in seven qualifiers for the European championship in 2004 and then found the net twice against Switzerland to help France to reach the last eight. In the 2006 World Cup he scored three times, including the winner in the quarter-final against Brazil, as Les Bleus finished runners-up. On 2007, Henry was transferred to FC Barcelona. In 2008–09 season, he won the first trophy of his Barcelona career beating Athletic Bilbao in the Copa del Rey final. Barcelona won the league and Champions League soon after, completing a treble for the Frenchman, who had combined with Lionel Messi and Samuel Eto'o to score 100 goals between them that season. The trio was also the most prolific trio in Spanish league history, scoring 72 goals and surpassing the 66 goals of Real Madrid's Ferenc Puskás, Alfredo di Stéfano and Luis del Sol of the 1960–61 season.

 
 
 
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