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Probably no other football player of these days has been complimented as much in recent years as he has. Sven Goran Eriksson called him the second Pele, Pele himself added that he has a really great talent. Despite his young age, Wayne Rooney has already rewritten several records. But more is expected from him. And that is understandable. Because if it weren't for that, a term like "rooneymania" probably wouldn't have been added to the English dictionary.
Last December, receiving the "Golden Boy" award, which is given to the best young European player, Wayne Rooney was left without major team achievements. He was eliminated from the Champions League, did not win in the English championship, and lost painfully in the FA Cup final. Rooney came to Manchester specifically to win everything.
And although today the front pages of English newspapers usually feature "Chelsea" and Mourinho, everyone in the football homeland is convinced - Rooney won't be looking for an answer for long. The answer is on the football field. In simple words, it is a bit more difficult for him - is that he doesn't make an intellectual impression from the outside - is not wrong. His personal agent even advised him not to give long interviews - so that Wayne wouldn't make any foolish mistakes.
But perhaps it is precisely this hero that England's football needs, which in recent years has grown tired of the stylish and adorned Beckham. With a look of a metalworker or a cow slaughterer. But it is precisely players like Rooney who are called "boys from the neighborhood."
A goal from 35 meters
Last summer, during the European Championship, the famous striker for England Gary Lineker, commenting on the matches, was asked: "What does it take to score goals like Rooney?" "It's very simple - you just have to be born talented," replied the man who 15 years ago was a favorite of English fans himself.
It probably goes without saying what Rooney's first toy was. A football, received as a gift from his father in childhood, became Wayne's ticket to the big football world. In one of the neighborhood courts, he was noticed by the club scout Bob Pendleton and took him to the children's football school. Rooney was nine years old at the time. And a year later, he attracted crowds of fans to children's team matches.
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