Phil Foden is well-known for his skill and inventive quality. He is a gifted and precocious teenage blessed with the knack of drifting past opponents. He has great excellency in crossing, tackling, work rate, stamina, speed. He can play as a wing-back or a winger on the right with adhesive control of the ball.
Phil Foden is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the England national team. With a market value of €85 million, He is one of the most expensive and Top-rated Midfielders in the football world. He is also considered one of the best young players of his generation.
Foden's breakthrough into professional football came in 2017 when he won the FIFA U-17 World Cup Golden Ball award following England's successful Under-17 World Cup campaign. He made his debut for City during the same year and in December was named BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year.
In 2019, he won a second Premier League and became the club's youngest-ever goalscorer in the UEFA Champions League, and is the youngest English player to both start a match and score in the knockout stages of the competition. In 2021, he was named the Premier League Young Player of the Season and the PFA Young Player of the Year.
Foden has represented England at many youth levels, scoring 19 goals in 51 youth caps. He was first called up to the senior team on 25 August 2020 and made his debut against Iceland on 5 September 2020, in a 1–0 victory in the UEFA Nations League.
Phil Foden was born on 28th May 2000 in Stockport, a large town in Greater Manchester, England, the UK. His birth name is Philip Walter Foden. He holds an English nationality and belongs to the Caucasian ethnicity. His birth sign is Gemini. He is a follower of Christianity.
Foden was born into a middle-class family. His father Phil Foden Sr. used to work in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport while his mother Claire Foden is a housekeeper. Foden was raised up along with his younger sister in Edgeley, a modest Stockport suburb - far removed from the affluent towns and villages of Cheshire.
Since childhood, Foden was inclined toward football. As a result, he joined the youth academy of Manchester City at the age of four and signed his Academy scholarship in July 2016. He was privately educated at St Bede's College, with his tuition fees being paid for by Manchester City.
Phil Foden is romantically linked with a beautiful blonde named Rebecca Cooke. Rebecca shares the same age as Phil as she was also born in the year 2000. She is also said to be a native of Stockport. But we are not sure about her profession as she tends to keep a low profile life. Rebecca doesn’t appear to have Instagram and Phil doesn’t post much about his private life.
Foden and Rebecca had known each other since their childhood. It’s not clear when they first started dating, but we know that they went to school together, so their love journey might have started in their early teens in the mid-2010s. The pair really enjoy's each other's company and have been dating for more than six years.
While yet to be married, they have already welcomed a son, Ronnie, born in January 2019. The couple once again became parents to their second child: a daughter, born in the summer of 2021. Rebecca was seen with their newborn second child for the first time during an outing in Stockport, Cheshire in July 2021. It is said that the couple is also planning to marry soon.
As of January 2022, the net worth of Phil Foden is estimated to be around €1.7 million. On 2nd January 2018, while joining the senior squad of Manchester City FC, the 17 years old Rashford's market value was around €5 million. Currently, his market value has reportedly skyrocketed to €85 million. (Updated on December 23, 2021).
In 2017, the Midfielder signed a five-year contract with Manchester City, and as per the contract, he was earning a weekly salary of £12,000 per week, which was £624,000 annually. On December 10, 2018, Foden extended his contract with Manchester City. As per the contract, for the 2021-22 season, Manchester United FC is paying him £1.5 million annually.
Being a Nike athlete, he earns additional income from his endorsement deals. The professional player hasn't lack behind from living a luxurious lifestyle through his massive earnings. He owns a lavish mansion worth £2 million in the Stockport suburb of Bramhall.
His car collection includes a Mercedes CLA 45 Coupe ( £60,000), Mercedes S Class Coupe (￡100,000), and Range Rover Velar (￡70,000).
Phil Foden is 5 ft 7 inches tall and his body weight is around 70 Kg. He has an Athletic build body. As a football player, he regularly does workout and gym exercises to keep him fit and active. He has a Gazza cut hairstyle which he has colored into a peroxide blonde. His eyes are brown in color.
He always does heavy exercise which includes weight lifting, push-ups, Single-leg squats, Dumbbell bench step-ups, and others. He arrives every morning at the Manchester City football training center for warm-ups and training. He has a little ink situation going on his right arm.