Theo Walcott: faster than lightning

Theo Walcott - English footballer who plays for the "Arsenal" and the national team of England. Both teams played on the right flank of the attack. Theo - one of the fastest players in the world, for that among teammates and got the nickname "Flash" and "Hussein Bolt" (American sprinter, fastest man on the planet).

Theo Walcott: biography and a bright career start

Walcott was born in Stanmore, north-west London, 16 March 1989. He was not sick of football from the cradle, as it often happens with gifted players. However, when the boy's parents sent him to the amateur team "Newbury", based near their home, Theo realized that the ball game - it's his calling. Forward distinguished several times in every match, and ultimately helped his team win the regional trophy. Very quickly noticed the boy in "Southampton", which subsequently became the first professional football club.

At the age of fifteen, Walcott made his debut for the youth team, "holy", becoming part of its youngest performer who has played in youth the FA Cup. Prior to the 2005-2006 season. He was a full preseason with the first team, and already at the start of the championship was the player base. Debuted striker, barely noting sixteenth birthday, and by the end of the season won a special prize as the most promising young player of the year. Theo managed to play for "Southampton" two dozen matches and already in the middle of the season moved to London "Arsenal" for five million euros (taking into account bonuses for successful performance, this amount could be increased by half). By the way, that he was a player in the "holy" Theo in one of the shopping centers of Southampton he met his future wife Melanie. A pair of 2013 is married and currently resides in London.

Gunner

In the first round of the 2006-2007 championship. in the "Arsenal" on the field there was little-known at the time, Theo Walcott. Photos of the young striker on the next day flew over all the prints, because the player is not just "do not spoil porridge", but also stood out in their own right. "Arsenal" will undoubtedly make a successful investment.

Shortly Theo Walcott made his debut in the main European tournament - the Champions League. Striker came on the field in the match against Zagreb "Dinamo". In that season, the football player has scored some beautiful goals, but most of all he remembered his trademark high-speed public race.

Crystal

In 2008, Theo Walcott won a huge honor, received a T-shirt with the fourteenth number on the back. It is under number 14 in the "Gunners" for many years played a major star and a legend of the London club - Thierry Henry. The young striker was a daunting task - to adequately replace its predecessor, and it became increasingly clear over time that sooner or later he will cope with it.

Theo signed with the "Arsenal" new long-term contract, however, things have evolved a football player is not as good as hoped. In the moments when he went on the field, Walcott was unstoppable, but the player was often prone to injury. Footballer even came to be called "crystal", by analogy with another star player, acting in the same position as that of Theo Walcott. Biography winger Bayern Munich and the Netherlands national team, Arjen Robben is also full of annoying injuries that prevented him to help his team in important matches. Theo went back to the core of the "Gunners" in the 2010-2011 season's. and immediately marked by a spectacular hat-trick. After a brief stay in the hospital, he went back to surf the right flank, leaving no chance to the opponents of full-backs on the Premier League.

To date, Theo Walcott - one of the most highly paid football players of "Arsenal". Despite the considerable time spent without match practice, striker for ten years in the "Gunners" closer to the mark in 300 matches and has walked on this indicator many legendary performers of the "red-white".

In the national

Walcott - the main striker of the national team of England football. He made his debut for the "Three Lions" in 17 years, setting another record age. Later, Theo and he became the youngest player among the English, who scored three goals in one match.

Walcott celebrated goals and the fields of Ukraine and Poland during the European Championship in 2012, but the World Cup 2016 striker missed because of his latest injury. Footballer continue to cause to the national team and now.