Tribute to the King ( From non-chelski fan)

Thierry Daniel Henry is born on 17 August 1977 in Les Ulis, Essonne, France. He is Arsenal's all-time leading scorer in both league matches and all competitions. He is now the captain of Arsenal, replacing Patrick Vieira after his departure from Arsenal.

Henry has been nominated three times for the FIFA World Player of the Year, finishing runner-up in 2003 and 2004, with the announcement of the 2006 winner to come in Zürich on December. Also, he was named by Pelé as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers in March 2004. He was recently named a starting striker on the 2006 FIFPro World XI team.
He has surpassed Ian Wright to take over as Arsenal's all-time leading scorer with over 200 goals for the club. In 2006, Henry became the first player to score more than twenty goals in five consecutive seasons (2002–2006). He won the European Golden Boot in 2004 and 2005, making him the first player to retain the trophy (the Golden Boot did not exist when Ally McCoist was the first player to have scored the highest number of goals in Europe two seasons in a row). He has received the Barclays Premiership player of the season award for four years due to his skill, pace, control and teamwork.

Henry trained at Clairefontaine, one of the nine French Football Federation's elite academies and played at a youth level for CO Les Ulis (1983–1989), then Palaiseau (1989–1990), Viry-Châtillon (1990–1992) and FC Versailles (1992–1993). Henry started his professional career at AS Monaco and was given his début in 1994 by then Monaco manager, Arsčne Wenger, at the age of 17. Wenger put Henry on the left wing because he believed that Henry's pace, natural ball control and skill would terrorise full-backs better than they would centre-backs. Wenger changed his view later, when he signed Henry for Arsenal.
Having impressed in the French national team's triumph in the 1998 World Cup, Henry left Monaco and moved to Italian club Juventus along with David Trézéguet in January 1999 for
Ł10.7 million. He was made to play on the wing. Unable to cope with Italian defensive discipline in an unfamiliar position, Henry scored just three goals in 13 starts for the Bianconeri.

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