Biography and the life story of Thierry Henry "helped Arsenal to win the most historic title in English football"

Thierry Daniel Henry was born on August 17, 1977 in Les Ulis, a small town on the outskirts of Paris, France. He was born to the couple Antoine and Maryse Henry. His parents were immigrants, his father came from Guedeloupe, while his mother came from Martinique. Both of them came to France in search of a better life.

Henry lived in a place that could be considered specifically for minority residents. Although his family lived in a small apartment where life was difficult, his father always encouraged Little Henry to play football. Antoine often takes Henry to local soccer matches so he can learn football and become a reliable player.

At the age of six, Henry joined the Les Ulis junior team and six years later he played with AS Palaiseau. Then at the age of 13, he already played for the Viry-Chatillon U-15 team.

When his parents decided to separate for some reason, his mother took him to Orsay to join the Alexander Fleming School, a place where Henry could focus on education and football.

And right at the age of 14, he was chosen to be able to join the Clairefontaine Academy, a football training ground that spawned many world footballers from France.

While at the Academy, Henry immediately attracted the interest of AS Monaco's manager at the time, Arsene Wenger. Successfully impressed many, he then began his first professional appearance in 1994 when he lost 2-0 to Nice.

In 1996, Henry became a young French player under Wenger's supervision. He led the French team under the age of 18 in the European Championship, and he scored 7 goals in the competition.

Thanks to the brilliant performances shown, he managed to get a place in France's senior national team and successfully won the World Cup in 1998. That moment became an extraordinary moment for Henry, because he can play with classmates Patrick Vieira, Laurent Blanc, Marcel Desailly, until Zinedine Zidane . In the tournament, Henry appeared in six matches and scored 3 goals. Two years later he helped France win the European Cup.

Henry considers the figure of Marco Van Basten as his inspiration. In a television interview he mentioned that Van Basten was his idol player since childhood.

In Monaco alone, Henry managed to score 20 goals in 105 matches before finally joining Juventus in 1999. At that time, the Old Lady dared to pay 10.5 million paun or around Rp 178 billion to bring Henry to Italy.

However, Henry was unable to develop at Juventus. After only playing for one season, Henry digaet Arsenal with a price of 11 million pounds or around Rp 187 billion. In London, he again met his first mentor, Arsene Wenger.

Despite his pure position as a winger, Arsene Wenger successfully turned Henry into a powerful striker. Henry developed as a striker and was transformed into one of Arsenal's goal machines at the time.

In the 2001/2002 season, Thierry Henry scored 24 goals in the Premier League and managed to become the top scorer in the League. He also successfully led Arsenal in winning the Premier League title and FA Cup.

In 2001, Henry met with a British model, Claire Merry while filming a Renault Clio ad. Both fell in love at first sight and on July 5, 2003 both decided to get married. The results of their relationship were blessed with a child born in 2005.

But their relationship foundered in 2008, the two divorced after Henry was found out by his wife having an affair with Sadia Hewlett. After getting divorced Henry found his love again. This time he is in a relationship with Andrea Rajajic.

2003/04 season, Henry really developed with Arsenal. he scored 30 goals in the English Premier League and helped Arsenal to win the most historic title in English football.

At that time, Arsenal won the English League without feeling a single loss, which they later earned the nickname 'The Invincibles', a feat last achieved by Preston North End in the 1888/89 season, 115 years before Arsenal finally succeeded in repeating that history in the season 2003/04.

Thanks to his glory with Arsenal, Henry successfully won the title of primary league's best player in 2004. A year after that, he succeeded in bringing Arsenal to win their 10th FA Cup title.

In 2006, Henry made history again. He managed to break the record 185 goals Ian Wright for Arsenal. In fact, until now he still holds the record for most goals for Arsenal with 228 goals.

Together with Arsenal, Henry managed to become a legend. He successfully won 3 titles of the best Premier League players. And without doubt, Arsenal openly gave an award to the Frenchman in the form of a statue. The statue is outside the Emirates Stadium.

After feeling successful with Arsenal, Henry continued his professional career to Barcelona. Together with La Blaugrana, Henry was instrumental in 6 titles won by the Blaugrana in just one competition season.

That happened in 2009. Under the tutelage of Pep Guardiola, Barca won the Copa del Rey, Spanish La Liga, Spanish Supercup, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Supercup and FIFA Club World Cup.

Already feeling quite a career in Europe, Thierry Henry continued his adventure to the land of Uncle Sam. He joined the New York Red Bulls in 2010.

Even so, Henry had rejoined Arsenal for two months of his loan spell in the 2011 to 2012 season. After returning to the New York Red Bulls, Henry decided to retire from the world of the skin round exactly on December 16, 2014.

During his career, Henry has collected many prestigious trophies both individually and with the club and he is considered one of the deadliest strikers ever. He even entered the ranks of the 100 best footballers of all time.

With the national team, since making his debut in 1997, Henry has felt playing in four world cups and three European cups. He incised 51 goals from 123 appearances for Les Bleus.

Even so, Henry still could not be separated from various controversies, the most remembered by the public might be his handball action in the playoffs against the Republic of Ireland which made France qualify for the 2010 World Cup.

In addition to football and music, Henry is also very fond of Basketball and Film. Remarkably, he himself had been involved in starring in several films. One of the titles is Goal and Entourage. he has also been involved in several TV shows and documentaries titled The Referee, Substitute and 1: 1 Thierry Henry who all cover football.

After quitting being a footballer, Henry had worked as a commentator on Sky Sport, now Henry works as a coach. after previously serving as assistant coach of the Belgian national team.