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Michael Owen is retiring from professional football at the end of the season at the age of 33. He scored 40 times in 89 England appearances, including a memorable solo goal from the halfway line in a World Cup knockout match against Argentina in 1998 which was his peak. He did brilliantly to bang a hatrick against Germany in the famous 5-1 win and he stole Arsenal out of the FA cup with 2 goals in 7 minutes for Liverpool.
He scored 179 goals in 306 appearances for Liverpool. However he left Liverpool when he should have stayed for being a greedy git 2004, and failed at all the clubs he played with thereafter including Real Madrid, Newcastle United, Manchester United and Stoke City. The three-year spell at Manchester United which he will never be forgiven for yielded his first Premier League winner's medal, in 2011, but he was only ever used as a back-up player
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