Who is Thierry Henry?
HENRY is a retired French footballer who played as a forward.
The 40-year-old started his professional career at Monaco where he made over 100 appearances before moving to Juventus.
After an unsettled time in Italy, Henry was transferred to Arsenal for around £11million to re-unite with former manager Arsene Wenger.
The striker spent eight years with the Gunners scoring 174 goals in 254 appearances – and held the record for the most goals scored for one club (until it was beaten by Wayne Rooney in 2016).
After securing his status as a “legend” at Arsenal, Henry moved to Barcelona in the summer 2007 where he won two La Liga titles amongst numerous other trophies.
Henry finished his career at New York Bulls – with a short loan back to Arsenal – before retiring in 2014.
For France, Henry was an important asset to the side, gaining his debut in 1997.
He went on to make 123 appearances for his country, scoring 51 goals.
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What were his biggest achievements as a player?
THE list of Henry’s trophies throughout of his career is extremely long with numerous titles with Arsenal, Barcelona, and France.
For his country, the striker helped them lift the World Cup in 1998 and they were the runners-up in 2006.
He also won the 2000 Euros and the 2003 Confederations Cup.
Most of his trophies came at Arsenal where he was part of the Invincibles side in the Premier League.
Whilst at the Gunners he won two Premier League titles, two FA Cups, one Community Shield and was the runner-up in the Champions League.
Individually he was the Ballon d’Or runner-up in 2003.
What records did he break?
HENRY broke a number of records including:
- Top goalscorer for one club (beaten by Wayne Rooney in 2016)
- Only player to score over 20 goals in five successive Premier League seasons
- He has the most amount of goals scored at a single stadium (114 goals at Highbury)
- New York Red Bulls’ All-time leader in assists
- The most Premier League golden boots – four
- Won five French Player of the Year awards
- All-time top goalscorer for France and Arsenal
When did he join the Belgium set-up?
IT was announced that Thierry Henry would be joined Roberto Martinez’ team in the summer of 2016.
Henry was announced that he would be an assistant coach alongside Graeme Jones.
Speaking in October 2017, Martinez told ESPN that Henry had played a “big role” in Belgium’s World Cup qualification.
They were the first European team to secure their place at the tournament this summer remaining unbeaten through qualifying – scoring 43 goals and winning all but one of their games.
When is the World Cup?
ENGLAND travel out to Russia on Tuesday, June 12 before their World Cup campaign starts on Monday, June 18 with their first group match against Tunisia.
In Group G they will also face Panama (Sunday, June 24) and Belgium (Thursday, June 28).
If they win their group, England will face the runners-up of Group H which consists of Colombia, Japan, Poland and Senegal.
The final of the World Cup will be held on Sunday, July 15.
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