Mortgage Rates Fall Below 7% To Kick Off March<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>\nHe won a shiny golden ball (no, not the one from Harry Potter<\/i>)<\/h3>\n
In 2001, Owen became the first English player since Kevin Keegan to win the Ballon d\u2019Or<\/b>, which is French for \u201dWe\u2019re legally required to acknowledge this guy is ridiculous.\u201d<\/b> The award cemented his status as a footballing demigod who could: <\/p>\n\n- Score goals while apparently running in socks on a buttered floor<\/li>\n
- Make defenders question their life choices<\/li>\n
- Convince an entire nation that \u201cOwen\u201d was a synonym for \u201chope\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Also, he moonlighted as a Real Madrid benchwarmer (kind of)<\/h3>\n
In 2004, Owen joined Real Madrid, a club so stacked with superstars that his main job was to \u201dvibe\u201d<\/b> on the bench and occasionally sprint onto the pitch like a caffeinated cheetah to score in stoppage time. He still managed 13 goals in 36 appearances, proving he could out-score your faves while basically being a human victory cigar<\/b>. <\/p>\n
Of course, Owen\u2019s later career became a tragicomedy of hamstrings made of wet tissue paper<\/b> and horse-racing side quests (yes, really). But let\u2019s be real\u2014he\u2019ll always be the baby-faced assassin who turned football into a highlight reel before most of us learned to drive. Or tie our shoes. No judgment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When Michael Owen says if you don’t score? When Michael Owen says if you don\u2019t score? Picture this: Michael Owen, the man who once turned scoring into an art form (and also a very specific type of commentary poetry), drops the line, \u201cIf you don\u2019t score\u2026\u201d and then just\u2026 stops. No punchline. No follow-up. Just… Read More »Michael owen quotes:\u00a0why they\u2019re weirder than a penguin at a pool party?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}