Thierry Daniel Henry is a French footballer who plays as a striker for New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer. Henry has received many plaudits and awards in his football career and is renowned for his playing style. Henry was also one of the top commercially marketed footballers; he was ranked ninth in the world in 2006.
Background
Ethnicity:
His father, Antoine, is from Guadeloupe, and his mother, Maryse, is from Martinique.
He was runner-up for the 2003 and 2004 FIFA World Player of the Year awards; in those two seasons, he also won back-to-back PFA Players' Player of the Year titles. Henry is the only player ever to have won the FWA Footballer of the Year three times (2003, 2004, 2006), and the French Player of the Year on a record four occasions. 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.
Education
Henry complete a course at INF Clairefontaine, which specializes in football technic training.
Career
For 2 months in 2012 Henre was loaned back to Arsenal. After that term he backed in New York Red Bulls.
Religion
Since 2006, Henri has been practicing Islam, in an interview with Al-Jazeera, he said that he adopted this religion with the guidance of his colleagues in the national team: "I began to be interested in Islam under the influence of my friends on the team — Abidal and Ribery. Talking to them, I felt close to Islam and believed in this religion with all my heart. Islam has become the most important thing for me." Since then, the footballer has been celebrating some of the goals scored by making a prostration, sajda.
