Michael Owen is a striker who plays for English side Manchester United. He has also been capped 89 times for England, scoring 40 goals. Owen came up through Liverpool’s youth team (even though he was a fan of Everton, where his father played) and scored in his senior debut in May 1997, at the age of 17. He soon went on to become a prolific goal scorer for Liverpool. He was the PFA Young Player of the Year in 1997-98 and European Footballer of the Year in 2001. (The only other English players to have won that award are Stanley Mathews, Bobby Charlton and Kevin Keegan.)
In the 2000-01 season Liverpool won the FA Cup, the League Cup, the UEFA Cup, the UEFA Super Cup and the FA Community Shield. The huge part he played in Liverpool winning those five titles also made him (the more unofficial) World Soccer Player of the Year, a title he is the only Englishman to have received. The next three seasons Owen still scored plenty of goals and Liverpool won the 2002-03 League Cup.
In August 2004 Owen signed with Spanish club Real Madrid. Owen only spent one season in Spain before moving back to the English Premier League. Newcastle signed him for a club record fee of £16 million.
Owen’s time at Newcastle was plagued by injuries, the worst sustained when he played for his country at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. That anterior cruciate ligament injury kept him out for almost the entire 2006-07 season. Owen’s contract with Newcastle expired in June 2009 and he went on a free transfer to Manchester United. Although not normally a regular starter for United he has scored several important goals for them, including a hat-trick in a Champions League match vs Wolfsburg in December 2009.
In his first season with United they won the 2009-10 League Cup. After winning the 2010-11 Premier League Owen has signed for another year with Manchester United.

Wes Brown is a defender who plays for English side Sunderland. He has also played 23 matches for the English national team. Brown joined the Manchester United youth academy at the age of 12. At the age of 19 he was part of the 1999 treble winning team. Since then he has gone on to win four more league titles with United, one more FA Cup, one more UEFA Champions League and also two League Cups.
In July 2011 Brown signed a four year deal with Sunderland.

Rio Ferdinand is a central defender who plays for English side Manchester United and the English national team. Ferdinand was a London boy and played as a youth with Eltham, Millwall, Queens Park Rangers and West Ham. He made his senior debut for West Ham in May 1996, at the age of 17. After a brief loan spell at Bournemouth Ferdinand worked his way into more playtime at West Ham. He was their Player of the Year in the 1997-98 season, still only a teenager. That season he also made his debut for England.
In November 2000 he signed for Leeds United for £18 million, which was a transfer record for a defender. Twenty months later Manchester United secured Ferdinand’s signature for another record £30 million. At Manchester United he has gone from success to success, now with an exceptional partnership in central defence with Nemanja Vidic. With United Ferdinand has won 4 Premier League titles, 2 League Cup titles and the 2008 UEFA Champions League. Injury problems have seen Ferdinand lose his captaincy at United (to Vidic) and in the England team. Injuries also saw him miss out on the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Patrice Evra is a left wing-back who plays for English side Manchester United and France. Evra played for Paris St Germaine’s youth team before heading to the small Italian club Marsala in 1998. After a couple of years in Italy he made his way back to France to play for Nice in Ligue 2. Hugely impressive at left back he moved on to Ligue 1 side AS Monaco in 2002. In his first season at Monaco they won the French League Cup. The following season they were runners-up in the Champions League.
In January 2006 Evra signed with Manchester United. He had some initial problems adapting to the English style of play but soon became a regular starter for the team. With Manchester United he has gone on to win 3 Premier League titles, 3 League Cups and the 2008 UEFA Champions League.
Evra has been a regular player for the French national team since 2004.