Rooney wants Cup

Posted on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 at 6:06 pm and is filed under News.

Wayne Rooney has revealed that winning the FA Cup at Wembley would fulfill his biggest football abmitions.

“It’s the trophy I wanted to win the most when I was younger,” Rooney told Inside Football. “Like most kids, I grew up dreaming of scoring the winner in a Cup Final at Wembley.”

Rooney, who supported Everton as a youngster, told reporters that the openness of the FA Cup had always appealed to him as the smaller clubs were given a genuine opportunity to get their hands on silverware.

Now playing for Manchester United, Rooney has been on the receiving end of two defeats in FA Cup finals and is yet to fulfill his dream of lifting the historic FA Cup trophy for his club.

“I really want to win it this season,” Rooney said. “That would be a dream come true.”

In order to win the FA Cup Rooney will have to help United defeat his boyhood team in an FA Cup semifinal at Wembley on the 19th of April. The winner of the Manchester United/Everton clash will go on to face the winner of the first FA Cup semifinal between Arsenal and Chelsea.