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Here is Wayne Rooney delivering a heartfelt speech after becoming England's record goalscorer last night.
The 29-year-old's penalty in the 2-0 Euro 2016 qualifier win over Switzerland at Wembley Stadium took his total to 50, one more than Sir Bobby Charlton.
Rooney was presented with a commemorative shirt by England manager Roy Hodgson in the changing room after the game and made a short speech to his team-mates. In a video of the speech released by the FA, Rooney said: “Hopefully for the team and for myself there will be a lot more to come, we can be successful and hopefully a lot of the younger lads - Harry [Kane] coming through, Ross [Barkley], Raheem [Sterling], can come close and even pass me in the future. So I am grateful, it means the world to me and thank you very much.”
WATCH: ROONEY'S SPEECH
Hodgson said that Rooney had told his team-mates that he wanted to score more. “The players greeted him with great delight while that shirt was given to him. I provoked him to give a speech, a very good speech but fairly short as it should be. The one thing I can tell you about it was how proud he was to have achieved that, how determined he is not to stop at 50. That was good.”
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“I know Wayne well enough to know he's really delighted tonight. It's a proud moment for him and his family,” he added.
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