Theo Walcott

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Theo Walcott
Theo Walcott 2015.jpg
Theo Walcott, 2015
Personnel
Surname Theo James Walcott
birthday March 16, 1989
place of birth Stanmore , London ,  England
size 176 cm
position Right winger
Juniors
Years station
Newbury AFC
Swindon Town
Southampton FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2004-2006 Southampton FC 21 0(4)
2006-2018 Arsenal FC 270 (65)
2018– Everton FC 72 0(9)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
England U-16 4 0(0)
England U17 14 0(0)
2006 England U-19 1 0(0)
2006– England U-21 21 0(6)
2006 England B 1 0(0)
2006– England 47 0(8)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 14, 2020

2 As of May 24, 2017

Theo James Walcott (born March 16, 1989 in Stanmore , London ) is an English football player who is used as a winger and striker. He is of Jamaican descent. He has been under contract with Premier League club Everton since January 17, 2018 .

Club career

Southampton FC

Walcott grew up in the small town of Compton near Newbury and began his career with the AFC Newbury . There he scored more than 100 goals in a single season - including a mini-tournament. A little later he moved to Swindon Town for six months and then joined the youth department of Southampton FC at the age of 15 . At the age of 14, Walcott signed a sponsorship deal with Nike .

In the season 2004/05 he reached the final of the FA Youth Cup with the youth team of Southampton FC and lost there after extra time against Ipswich Town with 2: 3. In addition, after his substitution in September 2004 against Watford FC at the age of 15 years and 175 days, he was the youngest player in the club's history to act for the reserve team. A first assignment in the professional team of the club was still withheld from him; Southampton FC rose this season to the second-rate Football League Championship .

Two weeks after leaving school, Walcott was part of the professional squad preparing for the upcoming season in Scotland before the start of the 2005/06 season. At 16 years and 143 days, he was the youngest player in the club's first team history when he came on 0-0 against Wolverhampton Wanderers on August 6, 2005. On October 18, 2005, he was the first time at Leeds United in the starting line-up and scored his first goal for the professional team. After another goal at Millwall FC four days later, he also scored his first home game goal against Stoke City the following Saturday . His rise ultimately led to his being among the top three in the British Sportsman of the Year election in the category of young players under the age of 17 ("BBC Sports Personality of the Year Young Personality").

Arsenal FC

Theo Walcott (2007)

On January 20, 2006 Walcott moved to Arsenal for a transfer fee of initially five million pounds, which could rise to twelve million depending on the number of uses in the club and in the national team. This made him the most expensive 16-year-old player in British football history.

First Walcott played in Havant on February 7, 2006 in the reserve team against Portsmouth FC for his new employer, but lost there 2: 3 despite his own goal. He was then appointed to the 18-man squad for the first leg match against Real Madrid on February 21, 2006 in the Champions League at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium . Exactly on his 17th birthday, Walcott signed his first professional contract, which was dated until the summer of 2008.

Walcott made his Premier League debut on August 19, 2006, the first day of the new season . There he prepared after his substitution in the 73rd minute of play against Aston Villa for Gilberto Silva's equalizer with a cross. In the Champions League, he played for Arsenal for the first time in the second leg of the third qualifying round against Dinamo Zagreb on August 23, 2006 and was the youngest Arsenal player in a European club competition of all time to undercut the previous "record" of Cesc Fàbregas . He received a yellow card in the game, but set up another goal with a cross, scored by Mathieu Flamini . From the beginning Walcott was for the first time on October 14, 2006 against Watford FC in the Arsenal lineup. The achievements in the club and in the English national team ultimately ensured that he won the award for the best British young athlete, which had just been missed a year earlier, in 2006.

In the League Cup final against Chelsea on February 25, 2007, Walcott scored his first goal for Arsenal at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff and was the second youngest scorer in the competition's final history. However, this personal success was overshadowed by Didier Drogba’s two goals and the resulting 2-1 defeat, but above all by the tumult with the result of three red cards.

Walcott scored his first two Champions League goals for Arsenal in a 7-0 home win against Slavia Prague . His first goals in domestic competitions were in the League Cup against Tottenham Hotspur in January 2008 and in the Premier League a month later against Birmingham City . He then attracted particular attention in the quarter-final second leg of the Champions League against Liverpool, when he started a 70-meter run from his own penalty area and finally prepared the equalizer for Emmanuel Adebayor . Despite this individual achievement, Arsenal was ultimately eliminated from the competition. At the end of the 2007/08 season, Walcott had collected seven goals in competitive games.

For the 2008/09 season, Walcott took over the number 14 jersey that had previously been worn by Thierry Henry . He developed into a regular player, but was also repeatedly thrown back by lengthy injuries.

On August 21, 2010, he managed his first three-pack for Arsenal against Blackpool FC . In January 2013, he agreed with the club to extend his contract until the end of the 2015/16 season.

In the 2013/2014 season he scored five goals in as many games between December 14th and January 1st. With Arsenal FC he was at the top of the table and was in the 3rd round of the FA Cup . On January 4, 2014, he had to be carried off the field with the stretcher in the cup game against local rivals Tottenham Hotspur just before the end of the season. The next day a cruciate ligament rupture was diagnosed, which meant that the English team player was not only out for the rest of the season, but also for the 2014 World Cup .

Everton FC

On January 17, 2018, his move within the Premier League to Everton FC was announced. Walcott received a three and a half year contract there.

National team

Walcott played several times for the English U17 national football team and also took part in the U17 European Championship in Italy, but was eliminated in the preliminary round.

In the senior division, Walcott first came on May 25, 2006 for the English B selection against Belarus and was promoted to the senior national team five days later . In the friendly against Hungary , which England managed to win 3-1, he became England's youngest England national player of all time at the age of 17 years and 75 days.

The English national coach Sven-Göran Eriksson had already surprisingly appointed Walcott to the provisional squad for the 2006 World Cup in Germany on May 8, 2006 , although Walcott had not yet played a single international match. Although he was only intended as a substitute behind the injured regulars Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen , the surprise was that established Premier League strikers like Darren Bent (the best English league scorer in the 2005/06 season), Andy Johnson (the English top scorer of the 2004/05 season), Dean Ashton (a respected U-21 international) and Jermain Defoe (previously regularly appointed to the English squad) of "Personnel Walcott" fell victim to.

The English national team only had two fully recovered strikers in their squad, but Walcott was not to be used in any game in the World Cup itself. Eriksson justified Walcott's nomination primarily with the fact that the young player's World Cup experience would be helpful in future tournaments. Eriksson's decision was controversial in public. While some experts criticized the “unnecessary risk” involved in existing alternative strikers, other media representatives praised Eriksson's courage “to try something new”. While Eriksson even had to temporarily use midfielders as a striker in the tournament himself, Walcott was never on the field in any game.

On August 15, 2006 he was the youngest scorer in the English U-21 team when he scored the first goal against Moldova (final score 2-2) at Portman Road after three minutes in his premiere for this team . Against the highly valued Swiss junior team, he was able to convince again with a good performance in the 3-2 win. In the U-21's qualifying second leg against Germany on October 10, 2006, he finally ensured the victory of his team as a substitute with two goals within a few minutes. He scored the first goal after a long pass from Leighton Baines from his own half, where he defeated Michael Rensing with a shot in the lower right corner of the goal after only two touches of the ball . With his second goal, Walcott started on the left side at the level of the center line to a sprint into the opposing 16-meter space, then transformed with the inside to the second goal and reminded of the world-class striker Thierry Henry in his acceleration .

On June 1, 2008 Walcott came in a friendly against Trinidad and Tobago as a substitute in the 69th minute to his second international match. On September 10, 2008 Theo Walcott scored his first three goals in a 4-1 World Cup qualifier in Croatia in his fourth international match and was then replaced by David Beckham in the 84th minute . For the 2010 World Cup, Walcott was not nominated.

useful information

In his early teens, Walcott was a Liverpool fanatic . He named Michael Owen and Robbie Fowler as his role models .

Walcott was scheduled for a cameo in the fifth Harry Potter film , but this did not materialize due to his football obligations. His family, however, can be seen briefly in this film adaptation.

successes

Arsenal FC

Web links

Commons : Theo Walcott  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Theo Walcott became a national hero - then had to ask his mother to let him in" (Daily Mail)
  2. ^ "Theo Lions On His Shirt" (Daily Mirror)
  3. ↑ "Walcott spoiled for choice as Saints do their sums" (The Guardian)
  4. ↑ "Record Breaker!" (Saintsfc.co.uk)
  5. ↑ "Walcott Goes" (saintsfc.co.uk)
  6. ↑ "Arsenal complete Walcott transfer" (BBC Sport)
  7. ↑ "Walcott wins Young Sports award" (CBBC Newsround)
  8. ↑ "Chelsea 2-1 Arsenal" (BBC Sport)
  9. ↑ "Arsenal 7-0 Slavia Prague" (BBC)
  10. ↑ "Walcott to wear No 14 from 2008/09 campaign" ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2013 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Arsenal.com) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arsenal.com
  11. ↑ guardian.co.uk : " Theo Walcott admits Arsenal contract situation was distracting" (English, January 21, 2013, accessed January 21, 2013)
  12. ↑ World Cup failure for England's Theo Walcott
  13. ↑ Walcott: I Want To Push Everton To The Next Level. In: evertonfc.com. Everton FC , accessed January 18, 2018 .
  14. ^ "Walcott & Lennon in England squad" (BBC Sport)
  15. ^ "Eriksson defends Walcott choice" (BBC Sport)
  16. ^ "Wizardry of Walcott puts Germany under a spell" (The Times)
  17. ↑ Trinidad & Tobago 0 England 3: Caribbean cruise ( Memento from June 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (The Independent)
  18. ↑ http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/wm/startseite/525874/artikel_Capello-laesst-Walcott-zuhause.html
  19. ↑ THEO WALCOTT: WHY I'M A LIVERPOOL FAN ( Memento from September 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (www.liverpoolfc.tv)
  20. ↑ "Football Shorts: Theo misses out on Harry Potter film" (The Times)
personal data
SURNAME Walcott, Theo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walcott, Theo James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Stanmore , London