Thierry Henry is a French footballer who plays for
Spanish La Liga club Barcelona and the French national
team predominantly as a striker. Henry was born and
brought up in the tough neighbourhood of 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. He was spotted by AS Monaco in 1990 and
signed instantly, making his professional debut in 1994.
Good form led to an international call-up in 1998, after
which he signed for the Italian defending champions
Juventus. It was at Arsenal that Henry made his name as a
world-class footballer. Despite initially struggling in
the Premiership, he emerged as Arsenal's top goal-scorer
for almost every season of his tenure there.
On 25 June 2007 Henry was transferred to Barcelona from
Arsenal. At Barcelona, Henry was given the number 14
jersey, the same as he had worn at Arsenal. He scored his
first goal for his new club on 19 September 2007 in a 3–0
Champions League group stage win over Lyon, and he
recorded his first hat-trick for Barca in a league match
against Levante ten days later. He went on to surpass this
tally in a more integrated 2008–09 campaign, winning the
first trophy of his Barcelona career on 13 May 2009 when
Barcelona defeated Athletic Bilbao in the Copa del Rey
final. Barcelona won the league and Champions League soon
after, completing a treble for the Frenchman, who had
combined with Lionel Messi and Samuel Eto'o to score 100
goals between them that season.
Henry has had a successful career with the France
national team. His international career began in June 1997,
when his good form for Monaco was rewarded with a call-up
to the Under-20 French national team, where he played in
the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship alongside future
teammates William Gallas and David Trezeguet. Within four
months, France head coach Aime Jacquet called Henry up to
the senior team. The 20-year-old made his senior
international debut on 11 October 1997 in a 2–1 win
against South Africa. Jacquet was so impressed with Henry
that he took him to the 1998 World Cup. Although Henry was
a largely unknown quantity at international level, he
ended the tournament as France's top scorer with three
goals.

Full name: Thierry Daniel Henry
Date of birth: 17 August 1977 (age 31)
Place of birth: Les Ulis, Essonne, France
Height: 1.88m
Playing position: Striker, Left winger
Current club: Barcelona
Number: 14