In the early 2000s, boys in every yard who played football knew the name Wayne Rooney. Some wore his uniform, others imitated his style of play, others admired his certain heroic power. All of them, without exception, enjoyed watching how a simple guy from a small area in Liverpool went to greater heights in football every year.
Rooney began his professional career with Everton at the age of 16. Already in 2004, at the age of 18, at EURO 2004 in Portugal, Wayne considered himself a star and the hope of the England team. He recalled that at a game against France he ran into Lilian Thuram and thought to himself: “You know who I am? I am the best player in the world, at that time, I think it was so”.
With his self-esteem overheated, Rooney ended up at Manchester United. In his debut match, he scored a hat-trick and many began to consider him a rising star. However, even then his first dark sides began to appear. The great coach Sir Alex Ferguson said that Rooney does not know how to spend his days off. “If you give him a rest, he immediately starts drinking.”said the former Manchester United coach.
Thus began the degradation of the athlete. The footballer brazenly cheated on his wife and was a fan of going to Liverpool brothels. He even slept with a 48-year-old lady. Rooney admitted that he was not embarrassed by her age, since the woman was wearing a latex suit with a mask and he did not pay attention to it. Problems with alcohol were getting worse. In 2011, Ferguson kicked Rooney out of the original lineup after he threw a party where he got drunk and sang songs with Ed Sheeran.
The football player began to lose his physical shape due to his wild lifestyle. However, he continued to show effective performance on the field, which spoke of his talent. However, Rooney began to tire more and more quickly and could not spend 90 minutes on the field at the same level.
After Ferguson left Manchester United, Rooney went into an even greater gap and was not going to help the team get out of the crisis. He began to be seen more and more often in casinos with girls of easy virtue.
EURO 2016 put an end to his career in the national team. Before one of the matches, Rooney got so drunk that he fell asleep at the bar in his tracksuit. These photos quickly spread throughout the media and Rooney never played another game for England. Leaving for Everton could not save the footballer’s football career. He still continued to drink, party and lose huge sums in the casino.
Currently, Rooney is coaching the MLS club DC United. Who knows how this football player’s career would have developed if it weren’t for drunkenness and all the consequences that accompany this matter.
Some football players cannot imagine their career without scandals. Even on the field, sometimes very dirty things happen. All this only makes the most popular sport even more interesting.