Celebrity host: Wayne Rooney

Wayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985) is an English footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team.

Aged 9, Rooney joined the youth team of Everton, for whom he made his professional debut in 2002. He spent two seasons at the Merseyside club, before moving to Manchester United for £25.6 million in the 2004 summer transfer window. Since then, United have won the Premier League three times, the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League and two League Cups with Rooney in the team. He has also been awarded the PFA Players' Player of the Year and the FWA Footballer of the Year in 2009–10.

Rooney made his senior international debut in 2003 and, at UEFA Euro 2004, he briefly became the competition's youngest goalscorer. He is frequently selected for the England squad and also featured at the 2006 and 2010 World Cups. Rooney has won the England Player of the Year award twice, in 2008 and 2009. As of March 2011, he has won 70 international caps and scored
* 1 Early life
* 2 Club career
o 2.1 Everton
o 2.2 Manchester United
+ 2.2.1 Debut season
+ 2.2.2 2005–07
+ 2.2.3 2007–09
+ 2.2.4 2009–10
+ 2.2.5 2010–11
* 3 International career
o 3.1 International goals
* 4 Career statistics
o 4.1 Club
o 4.2 International
* 5 Honours
o 5.1 Club
o 5.2 Individual
* 6 Personal life
o 6.1 Family
o 6.2 Commercial interests
o 6.3 Paul Stretford controversy
o 6.4 David Moyes
o 6.5 Allegations of infidelity
* 7 References
* 8 External links
Rooney was born in Croxteth, Liverpool to Thomas Wayne and Jeanette Marie Rooney (née MorreyHe was brought up Catholic in Croxteth with younger brothers Graeme and John three attended De La Salle School. He grew up supporting his local club Everton; his childhood hero was Duncan Ferguson
Club career
EvertonRooney began playing for Liverpool Schoolboys and at the age of 10 was signed on schoolboy terms by Everton After scoring in an FA Youth Cup match, he revealed a T-shirt under his jersey that read, "Once a Blue, always a Blue Since he was under 17 at the time and therefore ineligible for a professional contract, he was playing for £80 a week and living with his family on one of the country's most deprived council estates.

On 19 October 2002, five days before his 17th birthday, Rooney scored a match-winning goal against reigning league champions Arsenal; in addition to ending Arsenal's 30-match unbeaten run it made Rooney the youngest goalscorer in Premier League history, a record that has since been surpassed twice; first by James Milner and then by James Vaughan. He was named BBC Sports' 2002 Young Personality of the Year.At the end of the 2003–04 season, citing Everton's inability to challenge for European competition (they had finished seventh the previous season and only just missed out on a UEFA Cup place, but finished in 17th place in 2003–04, narrowly avoiding relegation), Rooney requested a transfer that Everton refused to oblige unless the transfer fee was in excess of £50 million.

Wayne Rooney

Name : Wayne Rooney

Birthdate : 24 Oct 1985

Birthplace : Croxteth, Liverpool

Position :Striker

Appearances :303

Goals Scored :137

Joined United :31 Aug 2004

United Debut :28 Sept 2004 v Fenerbahce (H)

International :England

Wayne Rooney started his rise time at Old Trafford in September 2004.Wayne Rooney's first play at Everton, the club's childhood Wayne Rooney, In the year 2004/05 Wayne Rooney was able to collect 17 goals in 43 appearances and rightly named PFA Young Player of the Year.

Rooney's second season at Old Trafford again saw him take a big step. He ended the season with 19 goals in 48 matches and the second elected Sir Matt Busby Player

Wayne Rooney is a striker at Manchester United, he is a great striker.

There was more success to follow in 2008/09 as the England striker picked up his third league winners' medal with the Reds in May. Sadly, however, Wayne Rooney and United couldn't add another European title as Barcelona ran out victorious in the Champions League final in Rome.

The striker began the 2009/10 campaign in fine fettle, netting in the Reds' opening two games against Chelsea, in the Community Shield, and Birmingham City in the league. Another energetic display from Rooney followed in the 5-0 thrashing of Wigan at the DW Stadium on 22 August during which Wayne Rooney fired his 100th and 101st goals for the club.

His 2000/10 feats were rewarded with a clutch of individual honours, including the PFA and Football Writers' Player of the Year.