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Player Profile Name Thierry Henry

Remember the kid in the playground who was better than

everyone else with a football at 😄 his feet? That's what Thierry Henry was like in his

pomp.

The Frenchman had exquisite technique, searing pace and surprising strength. 😄 And

like the typical schoolboy superstar, he did pretty much everything for his team. Henry

was the captain, the talisman, 😄 the dead-ball expert, the penalty-taker and the

assist-maker.

Then there's the goals, a club record 228 of them to be precise. 😄 And what

a portfolio Henry built up during his eight years as Arsenal. Thumping drives, delicate

chips, jinking runs, audacious 😄 backheels, even the odd header - the Frenchman had a

myriad of ways to find the net.

Everyone has their own 😄 Henry highlights but here's just

a few to whet the appetite: that flick-up and lob over Fabien Barthez, the slaloming

😄 run against Liverpool, the 60-yard surge against Spurs, that cheeky clip against

Charlton, that beauty in the Bernabeu. Etcetera, etcetera, 😄 etcetera.

And remember,

Henry wasn't even a bonafide striker when he arrived at Highbury in the summer of 1999.

Remember when 😄 he came off the bench for his debut against Leicester and threatened the

North Bank regulars with his scattergun shooting? 😄 Surely Henry wasn't the natural

replacement for Nicolas Anelka?

Arsène Wenger thought otherwise and, with the help of

his eager French 😄 student, transformed Henry from erratic winger into striker

extraordinaire. Henry took nine games to open his Arsenal account but a 😄 brace against

Derby announced his arrival as a decent finisher. By the end of the season he was

scoring at 😄 will and within a few years he was regarded as the best striker in the

world. The North Bank could 😄 stop ducking and start celebrating.

They had plenty to

celebrate too as Henry's goals came hand in hand with trophies. There 😄 were

disappointments at first - the Uefa Cup and the FA Cup slipped agonisingly through

Arsenal's grasp at the turn 😄 of the century - but a Double in 2002 made amends. Henry's

contribution was emphatic: 32 goals in all competitions.

The 😄 Frenchman raised the bar

even higher in the following two campaigns. Arsenal had to settle for the FA Cup in

😄 2003 but 42 goals, 23 assists and both Player of the Year awards summed up just how

influential Henry had 😄 become. He scooped both awards in 2004 as well and contributed 39

goals as Arsenal completed an unbeaten title season. 😄 Of all the 'Invincibles', Henry

was surely the most indispensable.

In hindsight, this was probably Henry's prime and he

can count 😄 himself unlucky to miss out on the FIFA World Player of the Year award in

2003 and 2004, finishing runner-up 😄 on both occasions. The Frenchman was unplayable at

times, capable of scoring from anywhere and terrorising defences all over the

😄 continent, especially when he drifted out left to pick up possession and run at

retreating opponents.

As football became increasingly big 😄 business, Henry became the

Arsenal 'brand'. This attractive, charismatic figurehead was now a global superstar,

admired by all and feared 😄 by opponents. He even received standing ovations at away

grounds and had a special affinity with Portsmouth's fans after sporting 😄 a Pompey shirt

after an FA Cup tie at Fratton Park. Rival fans wished he was theirs, but Henry was

😄 ours.

Patrick Vieira's surprise departure in the summer of 2005 took Henry onto an even

higher plain - he was now 😄 Arsenal captain. He celebrated in style, eclipsing the Club's

scoring record with a brace at Sparta Prague in October of 😄 that year. Henry had learned

so much about forward play from Ian Wright; now he was leaving the ultimate finisher 😄 in

his wake.

Two League titles, three FA Cups, four Golden Boots, five Player of the Year

awards and that Club 😄 record represented a major haul, but one thing was missing from

Henry's CV. The Champions League had eluded him after 😄 an agonising defeat in the 2006

Final but he made amends three years later when he was part of the 😄 Barcelona team which

beat Manchester United.

New York is where Henry now plies his trade. But he will always

be an 😄 Arsenal man. In 2007 the fans voted for the Gunners' Greatest Moments and Henry

was involved in five of the 😄 top 10. A year later, he eclipsed Bergkamp, Adams et al to

win our Gunners' Greatest Player poll.

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