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Biography of Thierry Henry


Thierry Daniel Henry (born 17 August 1977) is a retired French
professional footballer, who played as a forward. He played for  Monaco,
Juventus, Barcelona, New York Red Bulls and spent eight years at Arsenal where he is the
club's all-time record goal scorer. At international level he represented France and is his
country's record goals corer. He is regarded as one of the best players of his generation.
Henry was born in Les Ulis, Essonne (a suburb of Paris) where he played for an
array of local sides as a youngster and showed great promise as a goal-scorer. He was spotted
by AS Monaco in 1990 and signed instantly, making his professional debut in 1994. Good form
led to an international call-up in 1998, after which he signed for the Serie A defending
champions Juventus. He had a disappointing season playing on the wing, before joining Arsenal
for £11 million in 1999.
It was at Arsenal that Henry made his name as a world-class player. Despite
initially struggling in the Premier League, he emerged as Arsenal's top goal-scorer for almost
every season of his tenure there. Under long-time mentor and Coach Arsène Wenger, Henry
became a prolific striker and Arsenal's all-time leading scorer with 228 goals in all competitions.
The Frenchman won two league titles and three FA Cups with the Gunners; he was runner-up for
the FIFA World Player of the Year twice, was named the PFA Players' Player of the Year twice,
and the FWA Footballer of the Year three times. Henry spent his final two seasons with Arsenal
as club captain, leading them to the 2006 UEFA Champions League Final.
In June 2007, after eight years with Arsenal, he transferred to Barcelona for a fee
of €24 million. In 2009, he was an integral part of the club's historic treble when they won La
Liga, the Copa del Rey and the UEFA Champions League. He went on to achieve an
unprecedented sextuple by also winning the Supercopa de España, the UEFA Super Cup and
the FIFA Club World Cup. In total, Henry has been named in the UEFA Team of the Year five
times. In 2010, he joined the New York Red Bulls of the Major League Soccer, and won the
Eastern Conference title with them in 2010. He returned to Arsenal on loan for two months in
2012. In 2013 Henry with the New York Red Bulls won the MLS Supporters' Shield.
Complete the sentences below by using the verbs in the box!
1. Henry __________ to Barcelona for a fee of €24 million
2. Kaká ________ his football career at the age of eight.
3. Suharto took power as Indonesia’s second president in 1966.
4. Soekarno _______ to Technische Hoge School (now ITB) in Bandung, and was finished
during 1925.
5. Wenger _____ the Premier League and FA Cup double in his first full season in North
London.
6. Ronaldo ______ the Social Ramos indoor soccer team at the age of 12.
7. He ______ the important role to liberate the Indonesian nation from the Dutch
colonisation.
8. In 2003 he ______ Milan for a fee of €8.5 million.
9. He _______ his debut for the Brazil national team in 2002
10. As a young medical student, Guevara ________ throughout South America.

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