{"id":294547,"date":"2023-10-21T19:26:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=294547"},"modified":"2023-10-21T19:26:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T19:26:09","slug":"wayne-rooney-and-michael-carrick-pay-tribute-to-sir-bobby-charlton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/soccer\/wayne-rooney-and-michael-carrick-pay-tribute-to-sir-bobby-charlton\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick pay tribute to Sir Bobby Charlton"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Wayne Rooney admits he is &#8216;still in shock&#8217; about the passing of Sir Bobby Charlton as he pays emotional tribute to former Manchester United, joining Michael Carrick in hailing him &#8216;an icon&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick paid a moving tribute to Sir Bobby Charlton<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sir Bobby Charlton passed away at the age of 86, leaving a significant legacy\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>LIVE BLOG: Keep up-to-date with all the reaction to Charlton&#8217;s passing\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wayne Rooney paid a moving tribute to Sir Bobby Charlton after learning the Manchester United and England great had passed away during his return to management on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>New Birmingham boss Rooney was leading his side at Middlesbrough, who are managed by his former United team-mate Michael Carrick, and both were clearly still shaken by the news when they discussed it soon after Middlesbrough\u2019s 1-0 win. Charlton\u2019s family said he \u2018passed peacefully in the early hours of Saturday morning.\u2019 He was 86.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I&#8217;m still in shock,\u2019 said a visibly emotional Rooney, who broke Sir Bobby\u2019s goalscoring records for both United and England.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I saw his image on the big screen at the start of the second half and didn&#8217;t know what was happening. He was a legend but more importantly a great human being.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He was always great with me during our many conversations about football and different things in life. He was a huge inspiration to me and a lot of players at United. It is a loss to football and his family.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/21\/18\/76841163-12657147-image-a-23_1697910578009.jpg\" height=\"472\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Wayne Rooney of Manchester United is presented with a golden boot by Sir Bobby Charlton to mark his 250th Manchester United goal\u00a0which saw him break Charlton&#8217;s club record<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/21\/18\/76841181-12657147-image-a-27_1697910669250.jpg\" height=\"592\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rio Ferdinand was amongst fellow Manchester United stars to pay tribute to the late legend<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/21\/18\/76840303-12657147-image-a-29_1697910765007.jpg\" height=\"468\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Michael Carrick recalled Charlton\u2019s visit to the United training ground in February 2008, around the time of the 50th anniversary of the Munich tragedy<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/21\/18\/76841185-12657147-image-a-28_1697910673678.jpg\" height=\"288\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>David Beckham offered his condolences to the former United director who scouted him<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/21\/18\/76841229-12657147-image-m-33_1697911015121.jpg\" height=\"368\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Manchester United footballer Bobby Charlton rests in a hospital bed on February 08, 1958 in Munich after being injured in a plane crash following takeoff from Munich airport<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I have huge respect for what he went through. He experienced the Munich air disaster in 1958. Then he won the World Cup in 1966 and the European Cup in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018When I broke his United goalscoring record at Stoke in January 2017, he was there in the dressing room after the game. He congratulated me and then said a few harsher words \u2013 but joking of course. He will be hugely missed.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Carrick, meanwhile, recalled Charlton\u2019s visit to the United training ground in February 2008, around the time of the 50th anniversary of the Munich tragedy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Charlton survived the crash, in which 23 people died, and said many years later that there wasn\u2019t \u2018a day that goes by I don\u2019t remember what happened and the people who are gone.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The one that stands out for me was the 50th anniversary of Munich, when he came into the training ground and spoke to us about the tragedy and what it meant to him,\u2019 recalled Carrick, who won 18 trophies during a 12-year spell at Old Trafford. \u2018Those are 45 minutes I will never forget.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s a bitterly sad day. I found out walking down the tunnel as I was leaving the changing room for the second half and I was devastated to hear the news.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Then standing on the touchline in that atmosphere, with the applause going round and Sir Bobby\u2019s picture on the screen, looking across and seeing Wayne next to me\u2026 the game for those few moments was irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018My mind flicked back to the moments I had shared with Sir Bobby. He was such an iconic figure in world football, not just English football, and in the Manchester United family.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/21\/18\/37910266-12657147-Charlton_held_the_appearance_and_goalscoring_records_at_United_u-a-31_1697910980132.jpg\" height=\"430\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Charlton held the appearance and goalscoring records at United until Wayne Rooney beat him<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/21\/18\/76841187-12657147-image-a-30_1697910771658.jpg\" height=\"429\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Wayne Rooney paid a moving tribute to Sir Bobby Charlton after learning the Manchester United and England great had passed away during his return to management on Saturday<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He cared so much about the players and the club. He showed nothing but pure support for us.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He would come in the changing rooms after every game, home and away, with his blazer and tie and proud to be part of Manchester United and pass on what it meant. I never took one of those conversations for granted.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I have the utmost respect for what he did as a player, what he did for the club and the country, but more so as a person and for the support he used to give us. There were always words of encouragement, giving us belief.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12657147\/Wayne-Rooney-admits-shock-passing-Sir-Bobby-Charlton-pays-emotional-tribute-former-Manchester-United-joining-Michael-Carrick-hailing-icon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Rooney admits he is &#8216;still in shock&#8217; about the passing of Sir Bobby Charlton as he pays emotional tribute to former Manchester United, joining Michael Carrick in hailing him &#8216;an icon&#8217; Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick paid a moving tribute to Sir Bobby Charlton Sir Bobby Charlton passed away at the age of 86,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick pay tribute to Sir Bobby Charlton - Tell My Sport<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/soccer\/wayne-rooney-and-michael-carrick-pay-tribute-to-sir-bobby-charlton\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick pay tribute to Sir Bobby Charlton - Tell My Sport\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wayne Rooney admits he is &#8216;still in shock&#8217; 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