Declared English star Michael Owen announced his retirement at the end of the current season, after having spent a disappointing season with his club Stoke City, which competes in the Premier League Albraimierlaj.
Owen moved from Manchester United to Stoke City before the start of the season, but it did not provide a new team, where he participated in only 6 games in the league as well as one game in the FA Cup, scoring only one goal.
Owen said in a statement issued on Tuesday: a great deal of pride, it was announced my intention to retire from football at the end of the season .. It was a long journey I never dreamed ... I want to thank all of the endowment to the sides .. Beautiful wife Louise .. And my kids And my mother .. And my brothers .. In the end, my father ...
He began Owen trip with sparkle early, where brighten his star in the early age, and participated with his club Liverpool in the Premier League and 17 years old only, and succeeded P reserves place primarily in the Reds at the expense of veteran Robbie Fowler beginning of the season from 1997 to 1998, where he scored during this season 23 goals, in the local and European tournaments in which he participated, and repeated the same number in the following season.
In the season 2000 - 2001 made Owen 24 goals for Liverpool, scoring 28 goals in the seasonal 2001 to 2002, and from 2002 to 2003, one at a time, and in the last seasons with Liverpool scored 19 goals, before moving to Real Madrid in the season from 2004 to 2005 , compared with 8 million pounds, $ 12 million.
And despite stardom Owen in England, but it did not last with Algelaktios only just one season, where he had been confined to the bench for long periods, and scored 16 goals in 45 post with Real.
After the departure from Real Madrid, go Owen to Newcastle United, and continued it for 4 seasons, scoring 30 goals only in season from 2009 to 2010 moved to Manchester United and play at Old Trafford 3 seasons, scoring 17 goals, before finishing his career at Stoke City only one goal throughout this season, which is not over yet.
At the international level, is Owen fourth scorer for England throughout its history, after Sir Bobby Charlton, Gary Lineker, Jimmy Greaves, where he scored Owen 40 goals in 89 international matches involving the "Three Lions", in the period between 1998 and 2008.
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