He’s a regular pundit on BT Sport football coverage and occasionally appears on BBC’s “Match of the Day” as a pundit. The son of former footballer Terry Owen, Owen was born in Chester and started his senior career at Liverpool in 1996. He advanced through the Liverpool youth team and scored on his debut in May 1997. In his first complete season in the Premier League he concluded as joint top scorer with 18 goals. He repeated this the subsequent year and was Liverpool’s top goal scorer from 1997–2004 and got his name as an established goal scorer, despite a recurring hamstring injury. He went to score 118 goals in 216 appearances in the Premier League for Liverpool, and 158 goals in 297 overall appearances. Regarded as among the finest Liverpool players, Owen came 14th in the “100 Players Who Shook The Kop” — an official Liverpool fan survey.
Owen went to Real Madrid for 8million in mid-2004; he was often utilized as a replacement. Following a promising beginning to the 2005–06 season, harms mostly ruled him out over the next 18 months. Newcastle were relegated in the 2008–09 season and Owen went to Manchester United as a free agent. Owen can also be the youngest player to have achieved 100 goals in the Premier League. On 19 March 2013, Owen declared his retirement from playing by the end of the 2012–13 season.
Worldwide, Owen first played for the senior England team in 1998, becoming England’s youngest player and youngest goalscorer in the time. His performance in the 1998 FIFA World Cup brought him to national and international visibility and he went to score in UEFA Euro 2000, the 2002 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2004. He’s the sole player to have scored in four major tournaments for England. He played in the 2006 FIFA World Cup but suffered an injury which took him a year to recuperate from. Sometimes playing as captain, he’s England’s tenth most-capped player , and it has scored a national record of 26 competitive goals, with 40 in total from 89 appearances, most recently in 2008.
Owen’s long injury absence following the 2006 World Cup resulted in a dispute between FIFA, The Football Association and Newcastle United, and eventually resulted in a unprecedented 10m damages prize to Newcastle, and brought changes to the settlement arrangements between club and state involving injuries endured by contracted team players while on international duty.