Belgium         Czech Rep.         Denmark         England         France         Germany         Holland         Italy         Norway         Portugal         Romania         Slovenia         Spain         Sweden         Turkey         Yugoslavia Name: Micheal Owen Age: 21 Position: Striker England Caps: 18 England Goals: 5 Club: Liverpool Previous Clubs: none 1998-99 was yet another spectacular season for the boy genius. A brilliant hat trick against Newcastle at St James' Park in only the third game of the campaign augured well for the Reds and for Michael. However, while Liverpool's Premiership hopes disappeared into thin air, his career took off to gain new heights. At the start of the season there was much talk that this genius was tired, and that he had expended too much energy - both mental and physical - during England's World Cup campaign in France, but more goals and ceaseless running destroyed that particular myth. He continued to hit the back of the net with regularity in a manner which few other strikers in the league could match. But goalscoring apart, he runs relentlessly in the Liverpool cause, often chasing balls which appear to be going out of play, and chasing balls which other team mates have given up as lost. There is more than the merest hint of a Shankly player about him, and he continues to be chosen for his country. There is much more to come from this young man, and he is surely destined, injuries apart, to re-write the record books. Back