May represent a win the World Cup for the peak moment in the process of any player, but the greatest achievement for Thierry Henry that he will be remembered in the history of football legend for Arsenal and English football.
Henry striker former France, who announced his retirement on Tuesday, the status of Michel Platini or Zinedine Zidane in his country will not have but 175 goals deck out the box competitors in the Premier League during the eight-year stint with Arsenal made him the greatest player in the club's history in a referendum for the fans in 2008.
Earlier this month, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said of Henry, aged 37 years. "He is a man Arsenal. There is no doubt that the greatest moments of his life and his career has lived here."
Like Zidane, who ended his career in international football famous Balntahh Marco Materazzi of Italy in the final match of the 2006 World Cup, the Arsenal sparked outrage around the world after he used his hand to clear the ball to teammate William Gallas to score the decisive goal ascended the France team for the 2010 World Cup at Ireland's expense.
But the incident will remain a black spot in the bright dress Henry, who began his journey in the French National Academy in Clairefontaine.
Rapid striker got his first professional contract from Monaco in 1994, when the club was under the leadership of Wenger himself.
Henry scored nine goals in 36 appearances for Monaco and played the first international match with France, which reached number to 123 in the victory 2-1 over South Africa in 1997 and scored his first goal with the national team, which reached number 51 in the same team in the nets in the opening match of the Cup 1998 World.
And put Henry, who played for a short time at Juventus before the start of his career with Arsenal in 1999 to end the international career after the face South Africa in the 2010 World Cup, when he distanced himself from the problems that have arisen about the team.
But then he had already become a legend in the Arsenal club rewarded bronze statue outside his stronghold Emirates Stadium London.
During his career record of Henry scored 228 in 337 games and won two titles in the Premier League and three in the FA Cup with Arsenal and won the love of the fans before moving to Barcelona in 2007 after the United States, where he ended his career in the ranks of the New York American Red Bulls.
Having won the World Cup in 1998, then won the European Championship in 2000, when chosen as the best player in the final against Italy, Henry completed the yields of European titles by winning the Champions League with Barcelona in 2009.
And brought down the curtain on the retirement of Henry the 1998 World Cup generation that only David Trezeguet and Robert Pires as playing in the Indian league was left of it.
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