When I was 20 or 21, I didn't... I won't say care about anything, but you're like in your own world - you made something that you always wanted to do, and then you kind of think only about your family and yourself.

In total Henry has been named in the UEFA Team of the Year five times. However Henry concluded his debut season as the club's top scorer with 19 goals in addition to nine league assists second behind Lionel Messi's 10. Henry was voted into the Premier League Overseas Team of the Decade in the 10 Seasons Awards poll in 2003 and in 2004 he was named by football legend Pelé as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers.

Henry was born in Les Ulis Essonne (a suburb of Paris) where he played for an array of local sides as a youngster and showed great promise as a goal-scorer. Thierry Daniel Henry (French pronunciation: ​[tjɛʁi ɑ̃ʁi]; born 17 August 1977) is a French footballer who plays as a striker for New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer. His first honours with the Catalan club came in 2009 when they won the La Liga Copa del Rey and Champions League treble.