DONE DEAL: Thierry Henry returns to former team ahead of Euro 2016

Thierry Henry can come back to a former team for this summer’s European Championship in France, with the Arsenal legend having united to re-join the BBC’s legion of pundits.

Henry won the tournament in 2000, and conjointly picked up a tourney winners’ medallion 2 years earlier, and can be delivery his insight to TV screens come back June.


The 38-year-old, WHO adorned up his soccer boots in 2014 when a spell with the big apple Red Bulls, has been operating as a scholar for rivals Sky Sports for the past year, having antecedently worked with the BBC at the 2014 tourney.

"I very enjoyed the planet Cup in Brazil and it absolutely was a very completely different expertiseas a scholar instead of a player," the previous military man explained.

am enjoying my broadcasting work and appearance forward to being a part of the BBC's team, covering a number of the nice matches that includes Europe's best players.

"It may be a tournament that's terribly near my heart, having won it fifteen years agone, and also thetruth it's being control in France can create it an additional special expertise."

One of Henry’s initial high-profile matches may be European nation against Wales, that the BBC nabbed the rights for earlier than ITV, although metropolis Lineker & Co. can got to ensure they offer the new recruit lots of area just in case he tries to grab their thighs as he did with Jamie Carragher!.