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Despite all the wonder goals he scored during his successful career, Thierry Henry has ranked the FA Cup strike against Leeds in 2012 as the one that gives him the most joy
Arsenal legend Thierry Henry has revealed the only moment in his entier career as a footballer that he nearly cried, further revealing why his goal against Leeds United when he returned for a short stint in January 2012 was the best ever goal of his career.
In his initial eight-year spell at Arsenal that spanned from 1999 to 2007, Henry scored a record 226 goals, breaking Ian Wright’s record of 185, won two Premier League titles and two FA Cups, while also cementing his place as arguably the greatest-ever Premier League player.
On his return to the club on a short two-month loan spell in January 2012, he added two more goals against Leeds United in the FA Cup and against Sunderland in his last ever appearance for the club.
Speaking on The Rest Is Football podcast, Henry has revealed that the goal against Leeds United was his favourite of his career, a shock considering it was just a simple tap in into the back of the net from an exquisite Alex Song pass, despite all the wonder goals he scored for France, Arsenal, Barcelona and Monaco during his career.
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“I always say my favourite goal is the Leeds goal, and people will say, ‘what? First round of the cup, Leeds are in the championship, I mean?” Henry said.
“But it was the first time I scored a goal for my club, as a fan. It was the first time I let myself go. I was virtually on the verge of crying.
“I was coming back from my holidays and there was a level of expectation of, they wanted to see me again and I wanted to see them again.
“Everyone went to the stadium for that, people did even watch the game for that and for the first time, I felt like I was with the fans. For so long, I was scoring and celebrating with them, but thinking about (the next phase of play).
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“But for the first time in my life, I let myself go and I know you will say, ‘only that moment?’, but it really went through me like a fan.”
When he netted that goal, the roof at the Emirates Stadium was on the verge of falling off as the whole crowd was buzzing.
During the celebrations, he ran straight to Arsene Wenger and had a brief embrace, before looking up the air as if on the verge of tears.
Henry, who was known for his chisled physique and tendency to wear a stone-cold face without ever showing his emotions, revealed that it was the only moment of his career he nearly cried.
“I went to Wenger and if I could stop, I would have cried then, but obviously me bull*****ing, I went ‘aaaah!’.
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“But in that run, I looked up in the air and went like ‘is that how it feels when you score for your club?’.
“I did it for the national team, do not get me wrong, like I said to you, if you ask me now, I would go to the competitor, winning the World Cup, you know, beating Wrighty (Ian Wright’s Arsenal goalscoring record) but I understood emotions late, that part of my game late.
“For me it was like, ‘Thierry they need you to perform on Tuesday, Thierry they need you to perform on Wednesday. I was like okay, we finish the game against Blackburn at home and I am like ‘you need to prepare for the Champions League game against Villareal’. I was not enjoying anything.
“It was the moment I was enjoying every moment when I came back to Arsenal because I came back as a fan.”
The game kicked off at 7:45 PM UK time and was over by 9:40 PM, but Henry left the stadium at 1:45 AM as he was still in awe of the moment he had just experienced.
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“Even wearing the tracksuit, that night I left the stadium, it was like 2AM. I stayed in the dressing room with my socks, my boots, my shinpads, the shirt and my short and just sat there.
“My brother came down from the box and at one point, Costa’s the guy that was saying, ‘Thierry, we would like to go home’.
“I did not want to move. It was 1:45AM and I did not want to move. For one day, I lived the life of a fan, scoring for his club. I never took that opportunity to really do that before, to really embrace it.”
Henry is now the France U21s manager and also works as a pundit for CBS Golazo and Amazon.
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