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BBC Radio Manchester
BBC Radio Manchester is a BBC Local Radio station broadcasting to Greater Manchester and north east Cheshire in North West England. It broadcasts 24 hours a day from studios at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays via a transmitter at Holme Moss, with a small repeater at Saddleworth covering Tameside and Saddleworth. It can also be heard on DAB radio and via internet streaming.
BBC Radio Manchester originally launched on 10 September 1970 as the first local radio station in the city of Manchester. Initially broadcasting from small studios at Picadilly Gardens in Manchester City Centre, the station's long-standing home was New Broadcasting House on Oxford Road in the city.
In 1983 and 1984 BBC Radio Manchester ran a series of experimental community stations, each of which used the 1296kHz AM frequency in turn. The stations were BBC Radio Bury (late 1983/early 1984), BBC Radio Oldham, BBC Radio Rochdale (eight weeks from 14 May 1984), BBC Radio Trafford (which operated from a mobile studio in a school playground) and BBC Radio Wigan (summer 1984). The stations were part-time services which opted out from the main BBC Radio Manchester service.
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Belarus
Belarus (
i/bɛləˈruːs/ bel-ə-ROOSS; Belarusian: Беларусь, Russian pronunciation: [bʲɛlaˈrusʲ] Russian: Беларусь, Белоруссия, Belarus', Belorussiya), officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno (Hrodna), Gomel (Homiel), Mogilev (Mahilyow) and Vitebsk (Vitsebsk). Over forty percent of its 207,600 square kilometres (80,200 sq mi) is forested, and its strongest economic sectors are agriculture and manufacturing.
Until the 20th century, the lands of modern-day Belarus belonged to several countries, including the Principality of Polotsk, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Russian Empire. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Belarus became a founding constituent republic of the Soviet Union and was renamed as the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR). The borders of Belarus took their modern shape in 1939 when some lands of the Second Polish Republic were incorporated into it after the Soviet invasion of Poland. The nation and its territory were devastated in World War II, during which Belarus lost about a third of its population and more than half of its economic resources. The republic was redeveloped in the post-war years. In 1945 the Belorussian SSR became a founding member of the United Nations, along with the Soviet Union and the Ukrainian SSR.
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Belfast
Coordinates: 54°35′49″N 5°55′48″W / 54.597°N 5.930°W / 54.597; -5.930
Belfast (from Irish: Béal Feirste, meaning "mouth of the shoal") is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the fourteenth largest city in the United Kingdom and second largest on the island of Ireland. It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly. The city of Belfast has a population of 267,500 and lies at the heart of the Belfast urban area, which has a population of 579,276. The Larger Urban Zone, as defined by the European Union, has a total population 641,638. Belfast was granted city status in 1888.
Historically, Belfast has been a centre for the Irish linen industry (earning the nickname "Linenopolis"), tobacco production, rope-making and shipbuilding: the city's main shipbuilders, Harland and Wolff, which built the well-known RMS Titanic, propelled Belfast on to the global stage in the early 20th century as the biggest and most productive shipyard in the world. Belfast played a key role in the Industrial Revolution, establishing its place as a global industrial centre until the latter half of the 20th century. Industrialisation and the inward migration it brought made Belfast, if briefly, the biggest city in Ireland at the turn of the 20th century and the city's industrial and economic success was cited by Ulster unionist opponents of Home Rule as a reason why Ireland should shun devolution and later why Ulster in particular would fight to resist it.
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Belgium
Belgium (i/ˈbɛldʒəm/ BEL-jəm), officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO. Belgium covers an area of 30,528 square kilometres (11,787 sq mi), and it has a population of about 11 million people. Straddling the cultural boundary between Germanic and Latin Europe, Belgium is home to two main linguistic groups, the Dutch-speakers, mostly Flemish (about 60%), and the French-speakers, mostly Walloons (about 40%), plus a small group of German-speakers. Belgium's two largest regions are the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders in the north and the French-speaking southern region of Wallonia. The Brussels-Capital Region, officially bilingual, is a mostly French-speaking enclave within the Flemish Region. A German-speaking Community exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political conflicts are reflected in the political history and a complex system of government.
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Bilbao
Bilbao (
/bɪlˈbaʊ/, /bɪlˈbɑːoʊ/;Spanish: [bilˈβao]; Basque: Bilbo, IPA: [bilbo]) is a municipality and city in Spain, the capital of the province of Biscay in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. With a population of 353,187 as of 2010[update], it is the largest city of its autonomous community and the tenth largest in Spain. With roughly 1 million inhabitants, Bilbao lies within one of the most populous metropolitan areas in northern Spain. The Bilbao metropolitan area includes the comarca of Greater Bilbao (875,552) plus satellite towns, ranking the fifth largest in Spain.
Bilbao is situated in the north-central part of Spain, some 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) south of the Bay of Biscay, where the estuary of Bilbao is formed. Its main urban core is surrounded by two small mountain ranges with an average elevation of 400 metres (1,300 ft).
Since its foundation in the early 14th century, Bilbao was a commercial hub that enjoyed significant importance in the Green Spain, mainly thanks to its port activity based on the export of iron extracted from the Biscayan quarries. Throughout the nineteenth century and beginnings of the twentieth, Bilbao experienced heavy industrialization that made it the centre of the second industrialized region of Spain, behind Barcelona. This was joined by an extraordinary population explosion that prompted the anexation of several adjacent municipalities. Nowadays, Bilbao is a vigorous service city that is experiencing an ongoing social, economic, and aesthetic revitalization process, started by the symbolic Bilbao Guggenheim Museum, and continued by infrastructure investments, such as the airport terminal, the rapid transit system, the tram line, the Alhóndiga, or the currently under development Abandoibarra and Zorrozaurre renewal projects.
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Brussels
Brussels (French: Bruxelles, pronounced [bʁysɛl] (
listen); Dutch: Brussel, pronounced [ˈbrʏ.səɫ] ( listen); German: Brüssel, pronounced [ˈbʁyː.səl]), officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region (French: Région de Bruxelles-Capitale (help·info), Dutch: Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (help·info)), is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union (EU). It is also the largest urban area in Belgium, comprising 19 municipalities, including the municipality of the City of Brussels, which is the de jure capital of Belgium, in addition to the seat of the French Community of Belgium and of the Flemish Community.
Brussels has grown from a 10th-century fortress town founded by a descendant of Charlemagne into a metropolis of more than one million inhabitants. The metropolitan area has a population of over 1.8 million, making it the largest in Belgium.
Since the end of the Second World War, Brussels has been a main centre for international politics. Hosting principal EU institutions as well as the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the city has become the polyglot home of numerous international organisations, politicians, diplomats and civil servants.
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Cardiff
Cardiff (i/ˈkɑrdɪf/; Welsh: Caerdydd (info) Welsh pronunciation: [kairˈdiːð, kaˑɨrˈdɨːð]) is the capital and largest city in Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for Wales. The unitary authority area's mid 2010 population was estimated to be 341,054, while the population of the Larger Urban Zone was estimated at 861,400 in 2009. Cardiff is a significant tourism centre and the most popular visitor destination in Wales with 18.3 million visitors in 2010. In 2011, Cardiff was ranked 6th in the world in National Geographic's alternative tourist destinations.
The city of Cardiff is the county town of the historic county of Glamorgan (and later South Glamorgan). Cardiff is part of the Eurocities network of the largest European cities. The Cardiff Urban Area covers a slightly larger area outside of the county boundary, and includes the towns of Dinas Powys and Penarth. A small town until the early 19th century, its prominence as a major port for the transport of coal following the arrival of industry in the region contributed to its rise as a major city.
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City of Salford
The City of Salford ( /ˈsɒlfəd/) is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It is named after its largest settlement,Salford, but covers a far larger area which includes the towns of Eccles, Swinton and Pendlebury, Walkden and Irlam which apart from Irlam each have a population of over 35,000. The city has a population of 218,000, and is administered from the Salford Civic Centre in Swinton.
The current city boundaries were set as part of the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972, and cover an amalgamation of five former local government districts. It is bounded on the south east by the River Irwell, which forms its boundary with the city of Manchester and by the Manchester Ship Canal to the south, which forms its boundary with Trafford. The metropolitan boroughs of Wigan, Bolton and Bury lie to the west, northwest and north respectively. Some parts of the city, which lies directly west of Manchester, are highly industrialised and densely populated, but around one third of the city consists of rural open space. This is because the western half of the city stretches across an ancient peat bog known as Chat Moss.
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Minsk
Coordinates: 53°54′N 27°34′E / 53.9°N 27.567°E / 53.9; 27.567
Minsk (Russian: Минск, [mʲinsk]; Belarusian: Мінск, pronounced [minsk]) is the capital and largest city in Belarus, situated on the Svislach and Niamiha rivers. Minsk is also a headquarters of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). As the national capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus; it is also the administrative centre of Minsk Region (voblast) and Minsk raion (district). It has a population of 1,836,808 inhabitants (2009).
The earliest historic references to Minsk date to the 11th century (1067), when it was noted as a provincial city within the principality of Polotsk. The settlement developed on the rivers. In 1242, Minsk became a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It received town privileges in 1499.
From 1569, it was a capital of the Minsk Voivodship in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was part of a region annexed by the Russian Empire in 1793, as a consequence of the Second Partition of Poland. From 1919–1991, after the Russian Revolution, Minsk was the capital of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic within the Soviet Union.
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Moorside High School
Moorside High School established in 1934 is a specialist secondary school in Mathematics and Computing located in Swinton, near Manchester, England. It is located on the East Lancashire Road, a dual carriageway. It is about a 15 minute walk from Swinton town centre and Swinton Shopping Centre or a five minute drive. Under the recent government plan the school was to merge with The Swinton Academy, however the merger will not go ahead, instead a new school will be built.
Like all schools in Salford LEA, it is for ages 11–16 with no sixth form, because it is state run there is no exam to pass to gain entry into the school, local pupils are automatically placed into the nearest high school. However if they wish to attend a certain high school they must complete the relevant forms and send them to Moorside High as early as they can before the following academic year as places at the school are limited to 1050. As of 2010 the school has 800 pupils attending. Morside Primary School is the main feeder school locally with St Peter's C of E Primary School also being a feeder school in the area.
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (Irish: Tuaisceart Éireann pronounced [ˈt̪ˠuəʃcəɾˠt̪ˠ ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠ] ( listen), Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann or Norlin Airlan) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west. As of 2001, its population was 1,685,000, constituting about 30% of the island's total population and about 3% of the population of the United Kingdom. Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, Northern Ireland is largely self-governing. According to the agreement, Northern Ireland co-operates with the rest of Ireland – from which it was partitioned in 1921 — on some policy areas, while other areas are reserved for the Government of the United Kingdom, though the Republic of Ireland "may put forward views and proposals".
Northern Ireland was for many years the site of a violent and bitter inter-communal conflict — the Troubles — which was caused by divisions between nationalists, who are predominantly Roman Catholic, and unionists, who are predominantly Protestant. Unionists want Northern Ireland to remain as a part of the United Kingdom, and generally see themselves as British, while nationalists wish for it to be politically reunited with the rest of Ireland, independent of British rule, and generally see themselves as Irish. Additionally, people from both sides of the community may describe themselves as Northern Irish. Since 1998, most of the paramilitary groups involved in the Troubles have ceased their armed campaigns.
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Pentrebane
Pentrebane (Welsh: Pentre-Baen) is a district in the west of Cardiff, capital of Wales.
Pentrebane sits on the top of the hill overlooking the adjacent suburbs of Fairwater and Llandaff, and on the cusp of St. Fagans and the Vale of Glamorgan. To the north of the suburb lies the route of the former Llantrisant and Taff Vale Junction Railway and is served by Fairwater railway station.
There are three primary schools in close proximity to each other: Holy Family R.C. Primary, Pentrebane Primary and Ysgol Coed Y Gof. A Roman Catholic secondary school, Bishop Hannon was built in Pentrebane in the 1960s but demolished around 1987 to make way for housing (on what is now called Bell Fields).
Coordinates: 51°29′37″N 3°15′11″W / 51.49361°N 3.25306°W / 51.49361; -3.25306
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San Marino
San Marino, officially the Republic of San Marino (i/sæn məˈriːnoʊ/ san-mə-REE-noh; Italian: Repubblica di San Marino) and also known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino (Italian: Serenissima Repubblica di San Marino), is a state situated on the Italian Peninsula on the eastern side of the Apennine Mountains. It is an enclave surrounded by Italy. Its size is just over 61 km2 (24 sq mi) with an estimated population of over 30,000. Its capital is the City of San Marino. San Marino has the smallest population of all the members of the Council of Europe.
San Marino is the oldest surviving sovereign state and constitutional republic in the world, as the continuation of the monastic community founded on 3 September 301, by stonecutter Marinus of Rab. Legend has it that Marinus left Rab, then the Roman colony of Arba, in 257 when the future emperor, Diocletian, issued a decree calling for the reconstruction of the city walls of Rimini, which had been destroyed by Liburnian pirates.
The constitution of San Marino, enacted in 1600, is the world's oldest constitution still in effect. The country's economy mainly relies on finance, industry, services and tourism. It is one of the wealthiest countries in the world in terms of GDP (per capita), with a figure comparable to some of the more developed Italian regions, such as Lombardy and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. San Marino is considered to have a highly stable economy, with one of the lowest unemployment rates in Europe, no national debt and a budget surplus.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Alba ([ˈalˠ̪apə] listen (help·info))) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the southwest. In addition to the mainland, Scotland constitutes over 790 islands including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides.
Edinburgh, the country's capital and second largest city, is one of Europe's largest financial centres. Edinburgh was the hub of the Scottish Enlightenment of the 18th century, which transformed Scotland into one of the commercial, intellectual and industrial powerhouses of Europe. Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, was once one of the world's leading industrial cities and now lies at the centre of the Greater Glasgow conurbation. Scottish waters consist of a large sector of the North Atlantic and the North Sea, containing the largest oil reserves in the European Union. This has given Aberdeen, the third largest city in Scotland, the title of Europe's oil capital.
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Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone (i/siːˌɛrə liːˈoʊn/), officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the northeast, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest. Sierra Leone is a constitutional representative democratic republic and covers a total area of 71,740 km2 (27,699 sq mi) Sierra Leone has a tropical climate, with a diverse environment ranging from savannah to rainforests. As of 2011, Sierra Leone has an estimated population of 6 million[1] (2011 United Nations estimte). Freetown is the capital, largest city as well as its economic, commercial, educational, cultural and political centre. Bo is the country's second largest city and the second major economic and commercial centre.
Sierra Leone is divided into four geographical regions: the Northern Province, Eastern Province, Southern Province and the Western Area; which are subdivided into fourteen districts. The districts have their own directly elected local government known as district council, headed by a council chairman. The country's six municipalities of Freetown, Bo, Kenema, Makeni, Koidu Town and the coastal town of Bonthe have their own directly elected city councils headed by mayors.
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Sky News
Sky News is a 24-hour British and international satellite television news broadcaster with an emphasis on UK and international news stories.
The service places emphasis on rolling news, including the latest breaking news. Sky News also hosts localised versions of the channel in Australia and in New Zealand, as well as their previously operated version in Ireland. Sky News is also offered in an international version without the British adverts under the name Sky News International available in Europe and Asia.
Based at a news centre in London, Sky News started broadcasting on 5 February 1989 as part of the then four-channel Sky Television service. Sky News provides an hourly news radio service to multiple radio networks in the UK and Ireland. The channel currently has seven UK bases each with their own correspondents, and the channel can also call upon a wide range of resources and global bureaux provided by its parent company News Corporation such as reporters from Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network (its sister news and business channels).
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Spain
Spain (i/ˈspeɪn/ SPAYN; Spanish: España, pronounced: [esˈpaɲa] ( listen)), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España), is a sovereign state and a member of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar; to the north and north east by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.
Spanish territory also includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast, and two autonomous cities in North Africa, Ceuta and Melilla, that border Morocco. Furthermore, the town of Llívia is a Spanish exclave situated inside French territory. With an area of 504,030 square kilometres (194,610 sq mi), it is the second largest country in Western Europe and the European Union after France, and the fourth largest country in Europe after Russia, Ukraine and France.
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Thailand
Thailand (
/ˈtaɪlænd/ TY-land or /ˈtaɪlənd/;Thai: ประเทศไทย, RTGS: Prathet Thai), officially the Kingdom of Thailand (Thai: ราชอาณาจักรไทย, RTGS: Ratcha Anachak Thai; IPA: [râːt.tɕʰā ʔāːnāːtɕàk tʰāj] (
listen)), formerly known as Siam (Thai: สยาม; RTGS: Sayam), is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the southern extremity of Burma. Its maritime boundaries include Vietnam in the Gulf of Thailand to the southeast, and Indonesia and India in the Andaman Sea to the southwest.
The country is a constitutional monarchy, headed by King Rama IX, the ninth king of the House of Chakri, who, having reigned since 1946, is the world's longest-serving head of state and the longest-reigning monarch in Thai history. The king of Thailand is titled Head of State, Head of the Armed Forces, the Upholder of the Buddhist religion, and the Defender of all Faiths.
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Wales
Walesi/ˈweɪlz/ (Welsh: Cymru;Welsh pronunciation: [ˈkəm.rɨ] ( listen)) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain,bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km2 (8,023 sq mi). Wales has over 1,200 km (750 mi) of coastline, including its offshore islands; the largest, Anglesey (Ynys Môn), is also the largest island in the Irish Sea. Wales is largely mountainous, with its highest peaks in the north and central areas, especially in Snowdonia (Eryri), which contains Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), its highest summit.
During the Iron Age and early medieval period, Wales was inhabited by the Celtic Britons. A distinct Welsh national identity emerged in the centuries after the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the 5th century, and Wales is regarded as one of the modern Celtic nations today. Gruffydd ap Llywelyn was recognised as King of Wales in 1057. Llywelyn ap Gruffydd's death in 1282 marked the completion of Edward I of England's conquest of Wales. The castles and town walls erected to ensure its permanence are now UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Owain Glyndŵr briefly restored independence to what was to become modern Wales, in the early 15th century. Wales was subsequently annexed by England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535–1542 since when, excluding those matters now devolved to Wales, English law has been the legal system of Wales and England. Distinctive Welsh politics developed in the 19th century. Welsh Liberalism, exemplified in the early 20th century by Lloyd George, was displaced by the growth of socialism and the Labour Party. Welsh national feeling grew over the century; Plaid Cymru was formed in 1925 and The Welsh Language Society in 1962. The National Assembly for Wales, created in 1999 following a referendum, holds responsibility for a range of devolved policy matters.
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West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972.
West Yorkshire, which is landlocked, consists of five metropolitan boroughs (City of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, City of Leeds and City of Wakefield) and shares borders with the counties of Derbyshire (to the south), Greater Manchester (to the south-west), Lancashire (to the north-west), North Yorkshire (to the north and east) and South Yorkshire (to the south-east).
West Yorkshire County Council was abolished in 1986, and so its districts (the metropolitan boroughs) are now effectively unitary authorities. However, the metropolitan county, which covers an area of 2,029 square kilometres (783 sq mi), continues to exist in law, and as a geographic frame of reference.
West Yorkshire encompasses the West Yorkshire Urban Area, which is the most built-up and biggest urban area within the historic county boundaries of Yorkshire.
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Worsley
Coordinates: 53°30′33″N 2°23′04″W / 53.5093°N 2.3845°W / 53.5093; -2.3845
Worsley is a town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies along the course of Worsley Brook, 5.75 miles (9.25 km) west of Manchester. The M60 motorway bisects the area.
Historically a part of Lancashire, Worsley has provided evidence of Roman and Anglo-Saxon activity, including two Roman roads. The completion in 1761 of the Bridgewater Canal allowed Worsley to expand from a small village of cottage industries to an important town based upon cotton manufacture, iron-working, brick-making and extensive coal mining. Later expansion came after the First and Second World Wars, when large urban estates were built in the region.
Today, Worsley is under consideration to be made a World Heritage Site, including Worsley Delph, a scheduled monument. A significant part of the town's historic centre is now a conservation area.
Worsley is first mentioned in a Pipe roll of 1195–96 as Werkesleia, in the claim of a Hugh Putrell to a part of the fee of two knights in nearby Barton-upon-Irwell and Worsley. There are many variations on the name; Werkesleia, 1195; Wyrkedele, 1212; Whurkedeleye, c. 1220; Worketley, 1254; Worcotesley, Workedesle, 1276; Wrkesley, Wrkedeley, Workedeley, 1292; Wyrkeslegh, Workesley, 1301; Worsley, 1444; and "Workdisley alias Workesley alias Worseley", 1581. The spelling of the name in early documents, suggests a Saxon origin. Ge-Weore, the Old English form of the name, means "the cleared place which was cultivated or settled." The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles contain no references to Worsley.
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Aaron Ramsey
Aaron James Ramsey (born 26 December 1990) is a Welsh footballer who plays for Arsenal and captains the Wales national football team. A central midfielder with a wide range of passing, he established himself as a playmaker for Arsenal following the departure of Cesc Fàbregas.
Ramsey played for Cardiff City as a schoolboy where he spent eight years in youth football before making 16 appearances for the senior team. Ramsey moved to Arsenal in 2008 in a £5 million deal, where he quickly gained first team experience.
As a child Ramsey attended Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni in the Caerphilly County Borough. Before turning to football, he was a keen rugby player and as a schoolboy he played as a winger for Caerphilly R.F.C.s youth development programme, where he was approached by scouts from Rugby League side St Helens RLFC after playing in a youth match against them but had already been signed by Cardiff City's youth academy. He lived with his parents, Marlene and Kevin, and his brother, Josh until moving to London where he was housemate with former Cardiff City teammate, Chris Gunter, who was then playing for Tottenham Hotspur before moving to Nottingham Forest. Ramsey is bilingual, speaking both Welsh and English.
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Alan Hansen
Alan David Hansen (born 13 June 1955 in Sauchie, Clackmannanshire, Scotland) is a Scottish former football player and BBC television football pundit. He played as a central defender for Partick Thistle, Liverpool and Scotland. In 1990 he became the first outfield player to win English league titles in three different decades. As a pundit, Hansen has acquired a reputation for his critical and analytical approach to the game, particularly in regard to defending.
Hansen's grandfather Frederik Hansen (1912–1999) was Danish and was a distant relative of professional golfer Søren Hansen. Alan attended Lornshill Academy. Hansen received a permanent scar to his forehead from running into a plate-glass panel, aged 15. The glass was in a brand-new youth club which Hansen attended. During his 2 hour hospital stay he had 27 stitches in his head. He sued the education authority and won the case.
Alan Hansen played his early football (along with his brother John) at the Scottish Junior league (Scottish equivalent of non league in England, one level below senior) club, Sauchie Juniors.
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Alan Shearer
Alan Shearer OBE, DL (born 13 August 1970) is a retired English footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and for the England national team. He is considered by some as one of England's best strikers, being both Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer. After retiring as a player in 2006, Shearer worked as a television pundit for the BBC. In 2009 he briefly left his BBC role to become Newcastle United's manager in the last eight games of their 2008–09 season, in an unsuccessful attempt to save them from relegation.
A native of Newcastle upon Tyne, Shearer made his professional debut with English top-flight club Southampton in 1988, scoring a hat-trick in the process. During several years on the south coast, he became known for his classic style of play, strength and goalscoring ability; he soon received an international call-up along with a transfer to Blackburn Rovers in 1992. Shearer established himself as a player in northern England; he became a regular in the England squad, and his 34-goal tally helped Blackburn secure the Premier League title in 1994–95. He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. The 1995–96 season saw Shearer make his first Champions League appearances and finish as the top scorer in the Premier League with 31 goals. He was also top scorer at Euro 1996 with England, scoring five goals, and in the 1996–97 Premier League, with 25 goals. He scored 283 league goals in his career, including a record 260 in the Premier League, and a total of 422 in all competitions including international at all levels. Shearer has amassed a goals to game ratio of 0.667 throughout his career at every level.
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Alessandro Del Piero
Alessandro Del Piero (Italian pronunciation: [alesˈsandro del ˈpjɛːro]) Ufficiale OMRI (born 9 November 1974 in Conegliano, Veneto) is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer who plays for Juventus. He will be a free agent from 30 June 2012. Del Piero was named in the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living footballers selected by Pelé as a part of FIFA's centenary celebrations. Del Piero was also voted in the list of best European players for the past 50 years in the UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll. In the year 2000, Del Piero was the world's best-paid football player from salary, bonuses, and advertising revenue.
Along with three awards in Italy for gentlemanly conduct he has also won the Golden Foot award, which pertains to personality and playing ability.http://www.channel4. May com/sport/football_italia/sep3q.html Del Piero usually plays as a supporting-striker and occasionally between the midfield and the strikers, known in Italy as the "trequartista" position. Del Piero's playing style is regarded by critics as creative in attacking, assisting many goals as well as scoring himself, as opposed to just "goal poaching." His free-kick and penalty taking is also highly regarded. Del Piero has become famous over the years for scoring from a special "Del Piero Zone"("Gol alla Del Piero"), approaching from the left flank and curling a precise lob into the far top corner of the goal.
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Alex Ferguson
Sir Alexander Chapman "Alex" Ferguson, CBE (born 31 December 1941) is a Scottish football manager and former player who has managed Manchester United since 1986. His tenure has seen the club go through an era of success and dominance both in England and in Europe, giving Ferguson a reputation as one of the most admired and respected managers in the history of the game.
Ferguson previously managed East Stirlingshire and St. Mirren, before a highly successful period as manager of Aberdeen. After a brief stint as manager of the Scotland national team following the death of Jock Stein, he was appointed manager of Manchester United in November 1986.
With 25 years as manager of Manchester United, he is the longest serving manager in their history after overtaking Sir Matt Busby's record on 19 December 2010. His tenure is also the longest of all the current League managers. During this time, Ferguson has won many awards and holds many records including winning Manager of the Year most times in British football history. In 2008, he became the third British manager to win the European Cup on more than one occasion.
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Anders Lindegaard
Anders Rosenkrantz Lindegaard (born 13 April 1984) is a Danish footballer who plays as a second choice goalkeeper for Manchester United, having joined the club in November 2010. He initially came through the ranks of hometown club Odense Boldklub, but left due to a lack of first team opportunities. He got his senior breakthrough winning the 2009 Norwegian Football Cup with Aalesund. He was named 2010 Goalkeeper of the Year in both Denmark and Norway.
He represented Denmark at U19 and U20 level, before making his senior debut on 7 September 2010 against Iceland.
Born in the Dyrup suburb of Odense, Lindegaard started his career at local Danish Superliga team Odense Boldklub (OB). He made his Danish Superliga debut in a 3–1 victory against Silkeborg IF on 19 November 2006. He made his UEFA competition debut on 30 July 2009, in a 4–3 win over Rabotnički. During most of his time in Odense, he was kept out of the team by Arek Onyszko, and he had two loan spells at Kolding FC, where he remained undefeated in the ten league games he got for the team, after it had lost the first four games of the season, and Aalesunds FK, who he would later join permanently. When Onyszko was sacked by Odense in June 2009 due to him being convicted for assaulting his ex-wife, Lindegaard was seen as his replacement. However, the arrival of Roy Carroll at Odense two months later forced him to move on.
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Andrei Kanchelskis
Andrei Antanasovich Kanchelskis (Russian: Андрей Антанасович Канчельскис; Ukrainian: Андрій Антанасович Канчельскіс; Lithuanian: Аndrėjus Kančelskis) is a Lithuanian origin Ukrainian-born Russian former professional footballer and manager of FC Ufa.
As a player he was right winger from 1988 to 2006, he is notably remembered for his spells in the English Premier League with Manchester United and Everton and in the Scottish Premier League with Rangers. He is the only player in history to have scored in each of the Glasgow, Merseyside and Manchester local derbies. He also played in the top flight of English football with Southampton and Manchester City, as well as also appearing as a professional for Dynamo Kyiv, Shakhtar Donetsk, Fiorentina, Al-Hilal, Saturn Moscow Oblast and Krylia Sovetov. He was capped internationally by the Soviet Union, CIS and Russia. He moved into management in 2010 with FC Torpedo-ZIL Moscow after two years as general director of FC Nosta Novotroitsk.
Kanchelskis started his career with Dynamo Kyiv in 1988 and then went to Shakhtar Donetsk in 1990.
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Andrew Cole
Andrew Alexander Cole (born 15 October 1971 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire), more commonly known by the name Andy Cole (by which he was universally known in the 1990s), but in 2000, he allegedly asked to be known as Andrew Cole. is an English former professional footballer and coach at Football League One side Huddersfield Town.
As a player he was a striker from 1988 to 2008 and is mostly notably remembered for his time in the Premier League with Manchester United, where he spent six years of his career and winning numerous trophies in the process. He also played in the top division of English football for Arsenal, Newcastle United, Blackburn Rovers, Fulham, Manchester City, Portsmouth and Sunderland, as well as in the Football League for Bristol City, Birmingham City, Burnley and Nottingham Forest.
A former England international, Cole is the second-highest goalscorer in Premier League history; in his career, Cole has scored a total of 187 Premier League goals, placing him behind Alan Shearer who has 260 goals. Cole has the distinction of being one of the few players in England to have swept all possible honours in the English game, including the PFA Young Player of the Year award, as well as the coveted UEFA Champions League title. Cole was also capped fifteen times for England between 1995 and 2001, scoring once, against Albania in a World Cup Qualifier.
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Andrew Flintoff
Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff MBE (born 6 December 1977) is a broadcaster and former English cricketer who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club, England and the Indian Premier League team Chennai Super Kings. A tall (6' 4") fast bowler, batsman and slip fielder, Flintoff according to the ICC rankings was consistently rated amongst the top international allrounders in both ODI and Test cricket. His nickname "Freddie" or "Fred" comes from the similarity between his surname and that of Fred Flintstone[citation needed].
From his debut in 1998, Flintoff became an integral player for England, and has both captained and vice-captained the team. However, he suffered regular injuries throughout his international career, often due to his heavy frame and bowling action. During the period 2007–09 he played in only 13 of England's 36 Test matches, but nevertheless remained a core member of the England squad, being selected whenever available. On 15 July 2009 he announced his retirement from Test cricket at the conclusion of the 2009 Ashes series, on 24 August, but made himself available for future commitments in One Day International and Twenty20 International matches.
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Anita Lonsbrough
Anita Lonsbrough MBE (born 10 August 1941 in York) is a former swimmer from Great Britain who won a gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
At the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff she won gold in the 220 yards breaststroke and the medley relay.
At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, on 27 August 1960, at the age of 19, she won gold in the 200 m breaststroke in 2:49.5 ahead of West Germany's Wiltrud Urselmann (2:50.0), setting a new world record time. She was one of only two GB gold medallists that year, the other being Don Thompson in the 50 kilometre walk.
She would also be the last British woman to win Olympic gold in swimming until Rebecca Adlington gained the gold in the 2008 Summer Olympics, 48 years later.
At the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth she won three golds: 110 yards breaststroke; 220 yards breaststroke; and 440 yards individual medley.
At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo she came seventh in the 400 m individual medley
Lonsbrough was a Treasurer's Office clerk employed at the Huddersfield Town Hall. She won her first gold medal for swimming in the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff. Five world records and seven gold medals followed until her retirement in 1964. At one time she held the Olympic, Empire and European titles at the same time.
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Antonio Valencia
Luis Antonio Valencia Mosquera (born 4 August 1985), commonly known as Antonio Valencia (Spanish pronunciation: [anˈtoɲo βaˈlensja]), is an Ecuadorian footballer who currently plays as a winger for Manchester United and the Ecuadorian national team. He has also occasionally been deployed as an emergency right back for Manchester United.
After progressing through the youth system at El Nacional, Valencia became a first team regular and made over 80 appearances for the club before signing for La Liga side Villarreal CF in 2005. He only made two league appearances for the Spanish side in between successful loan spells at Recreativo de Huelva for the 2005–06 season and later English Premier League club Wigan Athletic from 2006 to 2008. Wigan later signed Valencia on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee in January 2008. His performances for Wigan soon attracted attention from several high profile clubs and he turned down a move to Real Madrid before signing for Manchester United in June 2009. Valencia has since won the 2009–10 Football League Cup, the 2010 FA Community Shield, and the 2010–11 Premier League during his time at Manchester United, along with being voted into PFA Team of the Year in his debut season.
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Arjen Robben
Arjen Robben (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑrjən ˈrɔbə(n)]; born 23 January 1984) is a Dutch footballer who plays for the German Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. Though often classified as a forward, he usually plays behind the forwards (inside position) as a winger, and he is also known for his dribbling skills, speed, crossing ability and his accurate long-range shot. He is also a part of the Netherlands national team and has appeared at Euro 2004, the 2006 World Cup, Euro 2008 and at the 2010 World Cup.
Robben first came to prominence with Groningen, for whom he was player of the year for the 2000–01 Eredivisie season. Two years later he signed for PSV, where he became the Netherlands' Young Player of the Year and won an Eredivisie title. The following season Robben's signature was pursued by leading English clubs, and after protracted transfer negotiations he joined Chelsea in the 2004 close season.
Robben's Chelsea debut was delayed through injury, but upon returning to fitness he helped Chelsea to consecutive Premier League titles, and was the FA Premier League Player of the Month in November 2005. After a third season in England which was punctuated by injury, Robben moved to Spanish club Real Madrid for €35 million. In August 2009, Robben transferred to Bayern Munich for a fee of around €25 million, scoring two goals on his debut. In his first season in Munich, Bayern won the league title, Robben's fifth league title in eight years, and got to the Champions League final. After his first season with the Bavarian club, the player was also named Footballer of the Year in Germany.
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Ashley Young
Ashley Simon Young (born 9 July 1985) is an English footballer who plays as a winger for Manchester United and the English national team. Born and raised in Hertfordshire, Young started his career at Watford, making his first senior appearances in 2003 under the management of Ray Lewington. He became a first-team regular in 2004–05, and was one of Watford's key players in their promotion winning 2005–06 season. Young continued to play well for Watford in the Premier League, and in January 2007 he transferred to Aston Villa for a fee of £8 million, rising to £9.65 million with add-ons. He established himself in the first team at Villa Park, and has since earned 20 caps for England, scoring six goals. On 23 June 2011, Young signed for Manchester United for an undisclosed fee.
Despite having been turned away by Watford's Academy after an unsuccessful spell, Young endeavoured to improve himself as a player and was eventually offered a professional deal by the club. The 18-year-old was handed his first team début under Ray Lewington in September 2003, scoring as a substitute against Millwall. He achieved five substitute appearances that season, scoring three goals, and made his first start for the club in the League Cup. Young came to prominence in the 2004–05 season, playing a part in 34 of Watford's league matches as they struggled to survive in the Championship. Although he failed to find the net, his performance during this season earned him the club's Young Player of the Season award.
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Barry McGuigan
Finbarr Patrick McGuigan MBE (born 28 February 1961), known as Barry McGuigan and nicknamed The Clones Cyclone, is a former Irish and British professional boxer who became a world featherweight champion.
McGuigan was born in Clones, Ireland, son of singer Pat McGuigan (died 1987). He represented Northern Ireland in the Commonwealth Games at Edmonton 1978 and represented Ireland at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Pat McGuigan sang "Danny Boy" before several of his son's fights. This fact inspired the Hacienda Brothers' song "If Daddy Don't Sing Danny Boy", written by boxer and musician Chris Gaffney.
During his career, McGuigan fought at a number of venues in Ireland and Britain. He attracted an enormous following in the mid-1980s, particularly to the King's Hall in Belfast which he normally filled to capacity. McGuigan is a Roman Catholic, and at a time when Roman Catholics and Protestants were clashing during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, McGuigan married a Protestant woman, Sandra, and they have been married for 28 years. McGuigan has commented on the support he got from both Protestant and Catholic in Ireland that it was because:
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Ben Amos
Benjamin Paul "Ben" Amos (born 10 April 1990) is an English footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Manchester United. Born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, Amos began his career with Crewe Alexandra's youth academy, but joined Manchester United at the age of 11. He has spent time on loan at Peterborough United, Molde, and Oldham Athletic. Additionally, Amos is an England youth international, having represented his country at every level from Under-16 to Under-21.
Amos was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire and was a member of the Crewe Alexandra academy until he was released at the age of 10. While at Crewe, he also played for another local team, Bollington United, as a centre midfielder. One year, Amos was playing for his local team against the team at the top of the table, and they needed to win the match to win the league. Amos' team's goalkeeper was injured during the game, and as the tallest on the team, Amos was put in goal; however, he had also been the team's regular penalty taker all season, so when they were awarded a penalty, he went all the way up the pitch to take the kick. He scored, and his team went on to win the game 3–2, together with the league title. After the game, his parents told him that a Manchester United scout had been watching him and that he had been invited for trials. Amos joined Manchester United at the age of 11.
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Bill Foulkes
William Anthony Foulkes (born 5 January 1932) is a former English footballer who played for Manchester United in the Busby Babes teams of the 1950s, and also in the 1960s. His favoured position was centre back. For Manchester United, he played 688 games which places him at number 4 on the all-time list of appearances behind Paul Scholes, Bobby Charlton and Ryan Giggs. He made 3 appearances as a substitute. He also started in every single United game in the seasons 1957–58, 1959–60, 1963–64 and 1964–65. He scored a total of 9 goals in his 18 seasons at United and helped the club win four First Division titles, one FA Cup and one European Cup. Despite this, he was capped only once for England in 1955.
Foulkes was born in St Helens, Lancashire, in 1932. His grandfather had captained St Helens Rugby League Football Club and was also an England rugby international. His father had also played rugby league for St Helens, and had also played football for New Brighton in the Third Division North. Foulkes himself played for the Whiston Boys Club in his teens, and also worked at the Lea Green Colliery around the turn of the 1950s. He married Teresa Suffler at St Nicholas Church, Whiston, in 1956. He had three children; Geoff (born 1962), Steve(born 1958) and Amanda (born 1964). He also has Grandchildren named Lewis(born in 1992), Matthew(born 1993) and Adam born 1996, Jessica, Edward, Harvey and Philippa.
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Bobby Charlton
Sir Robert "Bobby" Charlton CBE (born 11 October 1937 in Ashington, Northumberland) is an English former professional football player, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. A member of the England team who won the World Cup and Ballon d'Or for European Footballer of the Year in 1966. He played almost all of his club football at Manchester United, where he became renowned for his attacking instincts and passing abilities from midfield and his ferocious long-range shot. He was also well known for his fitness and stamina, allowing him to dominate the pitch. His elder brother Jack, who was also in the World Cup-winning team, is an ex-defender for Leeds United and manager.
He began to play for Manchester United's first team in 1956, and over the next two seasons gained a regular place in the team, during which time he survived the Munich air disaster of 1958 after being rescued by Harry Gregg. After helping United to win the Football League in 1965, he won a World Cup medal with England in 1966 and another Football League title with United the following year. In 1968, he captained the Manchester United team that won the European Cup, scoring two goals in the final to help his team be the first English side to win the competition. He has scored more goals for England and United than any other player. Charlton held the record for most appearances for Manchester United (758), but this was surpassed by Ryan Giggs on 21 May 2008 (the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final). Charlton also held the club record for most league appearances (606) until this too was overtaken by Ryan Giggs on 6 March 2011.
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Bobby Moore
Robert Frederick Chelsea "Bobby" Moore, OBE (12 April 1941 – 24 February 1993) was an English footballer. He captained West Ham United for more than ten years and was captain of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, and was cited by Pelé as the greatest defender that he had ever played against.
He won a total of 108 caps for the England team, which at the time of his international retirement in 1973 was a national record. This record was later broken by 125-cap goalkeeper Peter Shilton. Moore's total of 108 caps continued as a record for outfield players until 28 March 2009, when David Beckham gained his 109th cap. However, unlike Beckham, Moore played every minute of every one of his caps.
Moore attended Westbury Primary School and Tom Hood School, Leyton.
He played for both schools.
Moore joined West Ham United as a player in 1956 and, after advancing through their youth set-up, he played his first game on 8 September 1958 against Manchester United. In putting on the number six shirt, he replaced his mentor Malcolm Allison, who was suffering from tuberculosis.
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Brendan Foster
Brendan Foster CBE (born 12 January 1948 in Hebburn, now Tyne and Wear, (County Durham at the time), England) is a British former distance runner, entrepreneur and the founder of the Great North Run. He won the Bronze medal in the 10,000 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He also won the 5,000 metres at the 1974 European Championships and the 10,000 metres at the 1978 Commonwealth Games.
Educated at St Joseph's Grammar School, the University of Sussex and Carnegie College of Physical Education, Foster returned to St Joseph's Grammar School as a chemistry teacher. His pupils included footballer turned manager Phil Brown, whom he tried to encourage to take up running over football.
Brendan Foster's athletic career saw him compete in three Olympic Games, claiming Britain's only track and field medal (bronze in the 10,000 metres) at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. Although only winning a bronze medal, Brendan Foster had the distinction of setting the Olympic record in the heats of the event, a record which lasted until 1984. In 1973 he broke the World Record for two miles at Crystal Palace with a time of 8:13.68. In 1974 he won the European Championships 5,000m, beating Olympic champion Lasse Virén en route to Gold. In the same year he broke the 3,000m World Record on his home track, Gateshead International Stadium with a time of 7:35.1. That year, Foster was awarded the BBC's prestigious Sports Personality of the Year award.
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Brian McClair
Brian John McClair (born 8 December 1963, Bellshill) is a Scottish former professional footballer and director of youth academy at Premier League side Manchester United.
As a player he was a forward from 1980 to 1998, notable for his near 11-year spell at Manchester United, as well as important tenures at Scottish clubs Celtic and Motherwell. He was nicknamed "Choccy", as his last name rhymed with the delicacy "Chocolate Eclair".
McClair began his career with Aston Villa on leaving school in 1980, but left after one season (in which Villa were Football League champions) having never played a competitive game.
He then returned to Scotland and signed for Motherwell scoring 15 league goals in two seasons.
A £100,000 fee took McClair to Celtic. In four seasons with the club, he made 145 league appearances and scored 99 goals.
During his time at Celtic, they were Scottish Cup winners in 1985 and Premier Division champions in 1986. In the 1986–87 season, he scored 35 goals in 44 league appearances and won both the Scottish Football Writers' Association Player of the Year and the Scottish Players' Player of the Year awards.
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Bryan Robson
Bryan Robson OBE (born 11 January 1957) is an English football manager and a former player. He played in midfield for West Bromwich Albion in the late 70s before moving to Manchester United in 1981 where he became the longest serving captain in the club's history. He was the manager of Sheffield United, being relieved of his first team duties at the club in February 2008. The following month, Robson returned to Manchester United as an ambassador for the club.
Born in Chester-le-Street, County Durham, Robson began his playing career at West Bromwich Albion, before moving on to Manchester United, whom he captained to three FA Cups and a European Cup Winners' Cup. He also won two FA Premiership winners medals. Towards the end of his playing career he moved into management as player-manager with Middlesbrough. Robson had a good goal-scoring record; terrific anticipation, movement, timing on and off the ball; was fiercely competitive and brave; possessed high levels of stamina; tackled, passed well and was also a good header of the ball.[citation needed] He represented England on 90 occasions, making him the sixth most capped England player of all-time, and has the eleventh highest goalscoring tally with 26. Robson captained his country 65 times, with only Bobby Moore and Billy Wright having captained England on more occasions. Robson is also known by the nicknames "Robbo" and "Captain Marvel". Bobby Robson stated that after Kevin Beattie, Robson was, along with Alan Shearer, the best British player he ever worked with. In August 2011, Robson was voted as the greatest ever Manchester United player from a poll of ex Manchester United Players as part of a new book, 19, released to celebrate their 19th league title win.
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Bébé
Tiago Manuel Dias Correia (born 12 July 1990), better known by his nickname Bébé, is a Portuguese footballer who currently plays for Manchester United. He plays as a striker.
Bébé is the son of Cape Verdean immigrants and is the fourth player of Cape Verdean descent to join Manchester United; the others are Portuguese international winger Nani, French international left-back Patrice Evra and former Swedish international Henrik Larsson. He was given his nickname, which means baby in Portuguese, by his older brother.
Bébé was abandoned as a young child by his father Francisco and his mother Deolinda. He was consequently raised by his grandmother in a suburb of Lisbon, until the age of 12, when a court placed him in the care of the church. He moved to the Casa do Gaiato shelter in Santo Antão do Tojal, 20 km outside Lisbon. During his time there, he and seven other residents of the shelter were invited to play for the CAIS team in the 2009 European Street Football Festival in the Bosnian town of Foča. Despite Bébé scoring four goals in six matches, CAIS did not progress beyond the second group stage of the tournament.
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Cesc Fàbregas
Francesc "Cesc" Fàbregas Soler (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈsɛsk ˈfaβɾəɣəs]; born 4 May 1987) is a Spanish footballer who plays as a central midfielder for La Liga club FC Barcelona.
Fàbregas started his career as a trainee with Barcelona but was signed by Premier League side Arsenal in September 2003 at the age of 16. Following injuries to key midfielders in the 2004–05 season, he went on to establish himself as Arsenal's starting central midfielder, playmaker, and captain. He broke several of the club's records in the process, earning a reputation as one of the best young players for his position. In 2011, he returned to Barcelona for an initial fee of £29m (€34m) with a further £4m (€5m) in variables.
In international football, the Spaniard's national career began when he represented the Under-17 side at the 2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Finland. As a result of his club performances, he was called up to the senior squad in 2006. He has played in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2008 and 2010 FIFA World Cup, helping Spain to become eventual winners in the two most recent tournaments.
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Chris Hoy
Sir Christopher Andrew "Chris" Hoy, MBE (born 23 March 1976 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish track cyclist representing Great Britain and Scotland. He is a multiple world champion and Olympic Games gold medal winner. With his three gold medals in Beijing 2008, Hoy became Scotland's most successful Olympian, the first Briton to win three gold medals in a single Olympic games since Henry Taylor, in 1908, and the most successful Olympic male cyclist of all time.
Hoy went to school at Stockbridge Primary School, a state school in Edinburgh. He subsequently attended George Watson's College, a prestigious Edinburgh private school before continuing his studies at the University of St Andrews in 1996, before transferring to Moray House at the University of Edinburgh from where he graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Applied Sports Science in 1999. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in July 2005 and another from Heriot-Watt University in November 2005. Hoy returned to St Andrews University in June 2009 to be awarded an honorary Doctor of Science. Hoy was inspired to cycle at age six by the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Before track cycling, Hoy raced BMX between the ages of 7 and 14 and was ranked second in Britain, fifth in Europe and ninth in the world. He received sponsorship from Slazenger and Kwik-Fit and was competing in Europe and the US. Hoy also rowed for the Scottish junior team, coming second in the 1993 British championship with Grant Florence in the coxless pairs. He played rugby as part of his school's team.
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Chris Smalling
Christopher Lloyd "Chris" Smalling (born 22 November 1989) is an English footballer who plays as a centre back for Manchester United and the England national team.
During his youth, Smalling played for the Millwall academy before joining local non-league side Maidstone United. He was selected for the Kent Schools Under 16 squad in 2005 before progressing to the Under 18's in 2007, and his performances for Kent Schools resulted in him being selected to play for the England Schools Under-18 squad in 2008. During this time Smalling had also established himself in the Maidstone United first team, and his impressive displays for club and country led to him signing a two year deal with Middlesbrough in May 2008.
Barely a month after signing for Middlesbrough however, Smalling had his contract with the club terminated after raising concerns with home sickness. Shortly after, in June 2008, he signed for Premier League side Fulham. He made his professional debut with them in May 2009 in the final game of the 2008–09 season and helped them reach the 2010 Europa League final the following season.
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Christian Panucci
Christian Panucci (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkristjan paˈnuttʃi]; born 12 April 1973) is a retired Italian footballer. He was a member of the Italian national team. Panucci was a right back, but also played as a centre back.
Panucci started playing with Genoa in 1990 and then moved to Milan in July 1993. Panucci later moved to Real Madrid (becoming the first Italian to play for the Spanish club), Internazionale, Chelsea (on loan, scoring once in the UEFA Cup against St Gallen), and AS Monaco before moving to Roma in 2001. He won the Champions League with both Milan and Madrid. In those two stops, as well as Roma, he was coached by Fabio Capello.
After a great deal of travelling throughout his career, Panucci finally settled at Roma. He joined the Roman club in the 2001–02 campaign, the year after the Giallorossi won the national title. He went on to become a key player and one of the leaders of the club. In July 2002, he was signed permanently for €9.81 million.
Panucci, a reliable leader both on and off the field, has often taken the responsibility to speak for the team in moments of difficulty, as seen after Roma's shock elimination from the Champions League in 2007. In January 2009, Panucci was dropped from Roma's first team squad after refusing to sit on the bench for a league match against Napoli and was later also excluded from the Champions League squad list. He then announced his intention to leave Roma, but no serious bidder was found in the January transfer window and he ultimately stayed, returning to the first team on 28 February after he apologised to his fellow players and the club management. He was sent off in the second Derby della Capitale of the 2008-09 season after a heated on-pitch clash with Lazio player Stephan Lichtsteiner following his hard challenge on the Swiss defender. His contract with Roma ended on 30 June 2009, which he had signed in October 2005.
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Christoph Metzelder
Christoph Tobias Metzelder (born 5 November 1980 in Haltern, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German footballer who plays for FC Schalke 04 as a central defender.
Most of his professional career, which was spent mostly at Borussia Dortmund, was blighted by injuries. He did manage, however, to collect nearly 50 caps for the German national team, appearing with it at two FIFA World Cups.
In the summer of 2000, Metzelder signed by Borussia Dortmund from lowly SC Preußen Münster, and he was an instant success. At the end of his first season in the Bundesliga, he won his first cap for Germany, playing the second half of a 5–2 friendly win in Hungary, on 15 August 2001.
The second season at Dortmund brought him the 2002 national title, and 14 matches with Germany, all the way to the 2002 FIFA World Cup final with Germany. However, he missed the entire 2003–04 season due to an Achilles tendon injury, and only took part in 16 league contests in the following campaign.
After over two years out of the national squad, Metzelder was called by new boss Jürgen Klinsmann for a friendly with China, in October 2005. He also netted his first two league goals, in 1–1 draws against 1. FSV Mainz 05 and Hamburger SV, and would be Germany's undisputed starter at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, partnering with SV Werder Bremen's Per Mertesacker.
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Christopher Chataway
Sir Christopher John Chataway (born 31 January 1931) is a British former middle- and long-distance runner, television news broadcaster, and a Conservative politician. His stepson is the Conservative MP Charles Walker.
Chataway was educated at Sherborne School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where his studies were overshadowed by his success on the athletics track as a long-distance runner.
Chataway had a short but distinguished athletics career. At the Helsinki Olympic Games of 1952, in the 5000 metres final, after being passed on the last bend by the Czech long distance runner, Emil Zátopek, France's Alain Mimoun, and West Germany's Herbert Schade, Chataway's foot brushed the curb and he crashed headlong to the ground. Chataway managed to finish the race in fifth place. On leaving university he took an executive job with Guinness. When Sir Hugh Beaver of Guinness came up with the idea of the Guinness Book of Records, it was Chataway who suggested his old university friends Norris and Ross McWhirter as editors, knowing of their liking for facts.
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Christopher Dean
Christopher Colin Dean, OBE (born 27 July 1958 in Calverton, Nottinghamshire, England) is a famous British ice dancer who won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics with his skating partner Jayne Torvill. They also won a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Dean grew up in Calverton, Nottinghamshire.
From 1974-80, he was a police constable with Nottinghamshire Police.
Christopher Dean began to skate at the age of 10 after he received a pair of skates as a Christmas present. His parents were keen ballroom dancers. At school he was captain of the football team and he saw ice skating as a sport that was athletic and graceful. Dean's first ice partner was Sandra Elson. They began skating together when he was 14 and competed as ice dancers for a few years. However, despite becoming British Junior Dance champions, the team parted, as Dean and Elson did not get along well. Dean then agreed to try out Jayne Torvill, another skater at the Nottingham rink. The pair were first coached by Janet Sawbridge but in 1978 Betty Callaway became their coach.
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Clive Allen
Clive Darren Allen (born 20 May 1961) is a retired English footballer, a prolific scorer for a number of clubs.
Allen is the son of ex-Tottenham Hotspur forward Les Allen, who was a member of the legendary team which won the First Division title and FA Cup "double" in 1961 (the Cup success occurred exactly two weeks before Allen Jnr's birth). He is the brother of former footballer Bradley Allen and cousin of football manager Martin Allen and ex West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Paul Allen. He holds the unique distinction of playing for more London based football clubs than any other footballer in history.
A fearfully accurate centre forward, Allen joined Queens Park Rangers as a youth player, making his debut in 1978 at the age of 17. Allen scored a hat trick on his full debut against Coventry City in a 5-1 win, but QPR were relegated at the end of that season and Allen became a first-choice striker in their quest to return to the top flight, scoring a phenomenal 28 goals in 1979-80, though QPR failed to win promotion. This prompted Arsenal to make a bid of £1,250,000 for him in the summer of 1980, which QPR accepted. At the time, it was the highest fee to be paid for a teenager by any British club.
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Colin Hendry
Edward Colin Hendry (born 7 December 1965) is a retired Scottish footballer and manager, who played as a defender. Hendry started his career with Dundee in 1983 and spent spells at Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City, Rangers, Coventry City, Bolton Wanderers and Blackpool. He was part of the Blackburn squad that won the Premiership in 1995 and the Rangers squad that won the domestic treble in 1999. His most recent stint in football was as manager of Scottish First Division side Clyde, from June 2007 until January 2008, when he chose to resign for family reasons.
Hendry first played for local clubs Keith and Islavale, mainly as a striker. He began his professional career in 1983 with Dundee, and in 1987 was picked up by Blackburn Rovers, where he was converted into a defender. One of his first appearances came in the Full Members Cup final, where he scored the only goal in the 1-0 Wembley win over Charlton Athletic.
He played over 100 games for Blackburn before joining Manchester City in 1989, where he was named Player of the Year in the 1989–90 season. His days at City were numbered, however, after he fell out of manager Peter Reid's plans when Reid took over in November 1990 on the departure of Howard Kendall to Everton.
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Colin Todd
Colin Todd (born 12 December 1948) is an English football manager and former player. As a player, he made more than 600 appearances in the Football League, playing for Sunderland, Derby County, Everton, Birmingham City, Nottingham Forest, Oxford United and Luton Town, and also played in the North American Soccer League for the Vancouver Whitecaps. He won two Football League titles with Derby County during the 1970s, and won the PFA Players' Player of the Year award in 1975. He was capped by England on 27 occasions.
He has managed English league clubs Middlesbrough, Bolton Wanderers, Swindon Town, Derby County, Bradford City, Darlington and Danish Superliga side Randers FC. He took Bolton Wanderers to the Division One title with 98 points and 100 goals, although he was unable to establish them in the Premier League.
The young Todd had opportunities to sign for Newcastle United and Middlesbrough, but chose Sunderland "because of their tradition for youth". He played a major part in the Sunderland youth team's 1967 victory in the FA Youth Cup, led by coach Brian Clough. By then Todd was already a first-team regular. He made his debut as substitute for Charlie Hurley in a 1–1 draw away against Chelsea in the First Division on 10 September 1966, and by mid-season had established himself in the starting eleven. He missed only three league games in the next three seasons, at the end of which Sunderland were relegated from the top flight. After 191 appearances and three goals in all competitions for Sunderland, Todd rejoined Clough at Derby County in February 1971.
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Craig Bellamy
Craig Douglas Bellamy (born 13 July 1979) is a Welsh footballer who plays as a winger/striker for Liverpool and the Welsh national team. Born in Cardiff, Bellamy was the captain of the Welsh national side for four years after taking over from Ryan Giggs in 2007, but stood down in January 2011 due to injuries. Since making his professional debut for Norwich City in 1997, he has played for a number of clubs in England, making his name at Newcastle United when signed by Bobby Robson in 2001 and has also had a loan spell with Scottish Premier League side Celtic in 2005. On 31 August 2011, Bellamy completed a move back to former club Liverpool from Manchester City.
During his career, Bellamy has won the Scottish Cup, the FA Community Shield and the Football League Cup. He has also been criticised for his behaviour both on and off the pitch, but has accumulated millions of pounds for various charities and has also established a football academy in Sierra Leone.
Bellamy began his footballing career as a three-year-old at Bristol Rovers, and spent two years at the club before being brought into the youth system of Norwich City. His first team debut for the Canaries came at Arsenal on 15 March 1997. The 18 year-old Bellamy became a first team regular during the 1997–98 season, making 38 appearances with 13 goals. On 22 August 1998, Bellamy scored Norwich's 5000th league goal in competitive football, scoring the second (a penalty) in the Canaries 4–2 win over Queens Park Rangers Despite this personal high, he missed two months of that season through injury after a clash with Wolverhampton Wanderers defender Kevin Muscat, but still managed to have a successful season, amassing 17 goals in 38 appearances.
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Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro,OIH, (born 5 February 1985), commonly known as Cristiano Ronaldo, is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a winger or striker for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and is the captain of the Portuguese national team. Ronaldo became the most expensive footballer in history after moving from Manchester United to Real Madrid in a transfer worth £80 million (€93.9 million/$131.6 million). In addition, his contract with Real Madrid, in which he is paid €12 million per year, makes him one of the highest-paid footballers in the world, and his buyout clause is valued at €1 billion as per his contract.
Ronaldo began his career as a youth player for Andorinha, where he played for two years, before moving to C.D. Nacional. In 1997, he made a move to Portuguese giants Sporting Clube de Portugal. Ronaldo's precocious talent caught the attention of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, who signed him for £12.24 million (€15 million) in 2003. The following season, Ronaldo won his first club honour, the FA Cup. He also played at Euro 2004 with Portugal and scored his first international goal in the opening game of the tournament against Greece, in addition to helping Portugal reach the final. He was featured in the UEFA Euro All-Star Team of this competition.
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Cyrille Regis
Cyrille Regis, MBE (born 9 February 1958) is a French-born English former footballer. His professional playing career spanned 19 years, where he made 610 league appearances and scored 159 league goals, most prolifically at West Bromwich Albion and Coventry City.
Regis was born in Maripasoula, French Guiana, to Robert and Mathilde Regis. His father moved to England in 1962, with the rest of the family, including Cyrille, following a year later. The family lived initially in the Portobello Road area of London, later moving to Stonebridge. Raised as a Roman Catholic, Regis attended Kensal Rise Primary School and later, Cardinal Hinsley RC Secondary School in Harlesden. At Cardinal Hinsley he participated in athletics, cricket and football, and was called up to represent the Borough of Brent boys football team. He was also offered a trial by Chelsea, but was unable to take advantage due to a hamstring injury. Regis progressed to playing Sunday league football for Ryder Brent Valley. He then moved to Oxford & Kilburn Boys before re-joining Ryder Brent Valley. After leaving school, Regis trained as an electrician, earning a City and Guilds diploma; he continued to practice the trade until his move into professional football. Cyrille is the cousin of John Regis MBE, the former English athlete, who still holds the UK record for the 200 metres.
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Dai Rees
David James Rees, CBE (31 March 1913 – 10 September 1983) was one of the Britain's leading golfers either side of World War II.
The winner of many prestigious tournaments in Britain, Europe and farther afield, Rees is best remembered as the captain of the Great Britain Ryder Cup team which defeated the United States at Lindrick Golf Club in Yorkshire, England in 1957. It was the only defeat which the United States suffered in the competition between 1933 and 1985.
Rees was born in Fontegary, near Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. He was brought up around golf, with his father being the head professional and his mother a steward at The Leys Golf Club. His family soon moved to Aberdare, where his father had taken up the position of head professional at Aberdare Golf Club.
In 1983 Rees was involved in a car crash on his way back from watching an Arsenal football match. He died several months later, aged 70, having failed to recover from his injuries.
Rees began his career aged 16 as an assistant professional to his father at Aberdare Golf Club. Rees took over as the professional at South Herts Golf Club following the death of Harry Vardon in 1937. Like Vardon before him, he remained in the position until he died in 1983.
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Daley Thompson
Francis Morgan Ayodélé "Daley" Thompson CBE (born 30 July 1958), is a former decathlete from England. He won the decathlon gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and broke the world record for the event four times.
With four world records, two Olympic gold medals, three Commonwealth titles, and wins in the World and European Championships, Thompson is considered by many to be the greatest decathlete of all time. Robert Chalmers described him as "the greatest all-round athlete this country [Great Britain] has ever produced."
Thompson was born in Notting Hill, London, the second son of a Nigerian father and Scottish mother. His father was a taxi driver who was shot dead in Streatham when Thompson was about twelve. At seven years old Thompson was sent to Farney Close Boarding School, Bolney, Sussex, which he described as "a place for troubled children". Thompson's name is a contraction of Ayodele, a Yoruba word meaning "joy comes home". Thompson's first ambition was to become a professional footballer, but he later switched his interests to athletics.
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Damon Hill
Damon Graham Devereux Hill OBE (born 17 September 1960) is a retired British racing driver from England. In 1996 Hill won the Formula One World Championship. As the son of the late Graham Hill, he is the only son of a world champion to win the title. His father died in an aeroplane crash when Hill was 15.
Hill was born in Hampstead, London on 17 September 1960 to Graham and Bette Hill. Graham Hill was a racing driver in the international Formula One series. He won the world drivers' championship in 1962 and 1968 and became a well known personality in the United Kingdom. Graham Hill's career provided a comfortable living. By 1975 the family lived in a "25-room country mansion" in Hertfordshire and Damon attended the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School. The death of his father in an aeroplane crash in 1975 left the 15-year-old Hill, his mother, and sisters Samantha and Brigitte in drastically reduced circumstances. Hill worked as a labourer and a motorcycle courier to support his further education.
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Dani Behr
Dani Behr (born 9 July 1974) is an English singer, actress and television presenter.
Behr was born in Mill Hill London, of South African Jewish descent. Her father is a partner in London estate agents Behr & Butchoff. Dani Behr is a graduate of the Sylvia Young Theatre School, and was discovered by Pet Shop Boys manager Tom Watkins, who put her in his female Bros concept, Faith Hope & Charity singing alongside Diana Barrand and future Xpansions star Sally Ann Marsh, signed to the WEA record company. However the band was not successful and Behr moved into television production.
In 1989, Dani Behr had a cameo appearance in Grange Hill and then later was a presenter on the late night Channel 4 music show, The Word, for three years. She went on to feature in over 30 TV shows, including The Big Breakfast, Hotel Babylon, Ice Warriors; and in 2002 the co-presenting role alongside Joe Mace on the first series of the BBC's flagship children's program The Saturday Show. She also provided the voice for the onboard ship's computer (coincidentally) named Dani in the computer game "Privateer 2".
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Danny Welbeck
Daniel Nii Tackie Mensah "Danny" Welbeck (born 26 November 1990) is an English footballer who plays for Manchester United and the England national team. He is a centre forward who can also play on the wing.
Welbeck made his way through the youth teams at Manchester United before making his senior debut in 2008 and scoring in the process. He has since gone on to win the 2008–09 Football League Cup and the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup before being sent on loan to Preston North End and more recently Sunderland.
He made his senior England debut in March 2011 in a 1–1 friendly draw against Ghana.
Born in Longsight, Manchester, England, to Ghanaian parents, Welbeck was first spotted by Manchester United as a six year-old. He joined United during the 2005–06 season,[citation needed] making his debut for the club's Under-18 side on 8 April 2006 in a league match against Sunderland. He then came on as a substitute in the next game, before being named as an unused substitute in the team's last two games of the season. The following season, he made a further 28 appearances for the Under-18s, scoring nine goals, including eight appearances and one goal in the FA Youth Cup, in which he helped the team to reach the final, despite being two years younger than some of the other players. He was not handicapped despite suffering from Osgood–Schlatter disease, and was making rapid progress, despite his pneumonia.
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Darren Fletcher
Darren Barr Fletcher (born 1 February 1984 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a central midfielder for English Premier League club Manchester United. He is the current captain of Scottish national team. The industrious footballer has also played as a right winger or as an emergency defender. Fletcher is a midfielder whose passing and tackling are exemplary, as is his discipline and commitment to the cause.
Fletcher came through the ranks of Manchester United's Youth Academy and has won four Premier Leagues, one FA Cup, two League Cups, the UEFA Champions League and the FIFA Club World Cup. Fletcher was included in the PFA Premier League Team of the Year for 2009–10.
Fletcher made his Scotland debut in 2003 and scored his first international goal on his second appearance. After Barry Ferguson was banned from international football because of a breach of regulations, Fletcher was given the captain's armband in August 2009. Fletcher has since gained 58 caps and scored five goals for Scotland.
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David Bardsley
David John Bardsley (born 11 September 1964 in Manchester) is an English former professional footballer.
Bardsley started with Blackpool in 1982 and subsequently moved to Watford in 1983 for £150,000 where he was noted for his pace, and played every game in Watford's run to the 1984 FA Cup Final, where they eventually lost to Everton. He played 121 matches in all competitions for Watford, scoring nine goals. In September 1987 Bardsley transferred to Oxford United to replace David Langan for a then club record of £265,000. He played 89 games for Oxford scoring seven goals. In 1989 Bardsley completed a £500,000 move to QPR.
Bardsley played in the QPR team of the early to mid-1990s that finished fifth in the Premier League in 1992–93, eighth in 1993–94 and eighth in 1995. He was part of the Premier League Team of the Year for 1992–93, the inaugural season of the Premier League.
After QPR's relegation from the FA Premier League in 1996, Bardsley suffered a potentially career-threatening Achilles tendon injury which kept him out for the best part of two seasons. He returned at the tail end of the 1997–98 season in the midst of a relegation battle under Gerry Francis' management. He played 253 games for QPR scoring four goals, helping keep QPR in Division One and the Premier League.
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David Batty
David Batty (born 2 December 1968 in Leeds, West Yorkshire) is an English retired professional footballer, who played as a defensive midfielder.
He is most famous for playing for Leeds United, Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United, also being capped for the England national football team, and representing the nation at UEFA Euro 1992 and the 1998 World Cup.
Batty made his debut for Leeds in November 1987 as an 18-year-old during a 4–2 win over Swindon Town, and quickly earned a reputation as a fiercely competitive midfielder in the mould of Leeds legend Billy Bremner. Perceived to be a bit lightweight, to build up Batty's strength Bremner would call him into his office every morning to drink sherry with a raw egg stirred into it. Batty was a key member of the Leeds team that won promotion from the second division in 1989–90, and a member of a midfield which included Gary Speed, Gary McAllister and Gordon Strachan, when Leeds won the first division championship in 1991–92. As a tireless and sometimes ruthless forager of the ball there were few equals, but there was more to his game than simply breaking up opposition attacks; having won the ball, his distribution was excellent, making him the springboard for many counter attacks. If there was one aspect missing from his game it was the lack of goals, as evidenced by the affectionate cries of "shoot" from Leeds fans whenever Batty received the ball anywhere within the opponents half.
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David Beckham
David Robert Joseph Beckham, OBE (born 2 May 1975) is an English association footballer who plays for Los Angeles Galaxy. He has played for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, Milan, and the England national team for which he holds the appearance record for an outfield player.
Beckham's career began when he signed a professional contract with Manchester United, making his first-team debut in 1992 aged 17. During his time there, United won the Premier League title six times, the FA Cup twice, and the UEFA Champions League in 1999. He left Manchester United to sign for Real Madrid in 2003, where he remained for four seasons, clinching the La Liga championship in his final season with the club. In January 2007, it was announced that Beckham would leave Real Madrid for the Major League Soccer club Los Angeles Galaxy, signing a five-year contract with them on 1 July 2007. While a Galaxy player, he spent two loan spells in Italy with Milan in 2009 and 2010. On 20 November 2011, he joined an elite group of players to have won three league titles in three different countries, when Los Angeles won their third MLS Cup.
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David Broome
David McPherson Broome CBE (born 1 March 1940) is a retired Welsh show jumping champion.
Broome was born in Wales, attended Monmouth School and still maintains his stables at Mount Ballan Manor, Crick, near Chepstow in Monmouthshire. He won the European championships in 1961, 1967, and 1969, individual Olympic bronze medals in 1960 and 1968, the latter on his best-known horse Mr Softee, on which he was only two fences (8 faults) behind the Gold medal position. In 1960 he was also voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year. He won the World individual championship in 1970, and in the same year was Western Mail Welsh Sports Personality of the year. In 1978 he was part of the world championship winning British team. He turned professional in 1973. David Broome has won the King George V Gold Cup a record six times on six different horses between 1960–1991, a record yet to be equalled. He has enjoyed most of his success on Irish Sport Horses and he has said his favourite horse of all was Sportsman.
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David Cameron
David William Donald Cameron (pronunciation: /ˈkæmərən/; born 9 October 1966) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party. He represents Witney as its Member of Parliament (MP).
Cameron studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford, gaining a first class honours degree. He then joined the Conservative Research Department and became Special Adviser to Norman Lamont, and then to Michael Howard. He was Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications for seven years.
He was defeated in his first candidacy for Parliament at Stafford in 1997, but was elected in 2001 as the Member of Parliament for the Oxfordshire constituency of Witney. He was promoted to the Opposition front bench two years later, and rose rapidly to become head of policy co-ordination during the 2005 general election campaign. With a public image of a youthful, moderate candidate who would appeal to young voters, he won the Conservative leadership election in 2005.
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David de Gea
David de Gea Quintana (Spanish pronunciation: [daˈβið ðe ˈxea]; born 7 November 1990) is a Spanish footballer who plays for Manchester United as a goalkeeper. Born in Madrid, he started his career aged 10 with Atlético Madrid and rose through the academy system at the club before making his senior debut in 2009. After being made Atlético's first-choice goalkeeper, he helped the team win both the UEFA Europa League and the UEFA Super Cup, and his performances attracted the attention of Manchester United, whom he joined in June 2011. He is also the current captain for the Spain U21 national side.
De Gea joined Atlético Madrid's youth system at the age of 10, and made his way up through the ranks at the club. He spent his first professional seasons playing for Atlético Madrid B in Segunda División B. With first-choice goalkeeper Sergio Asenjo away on international duty at the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, De Gea was called up to the senior side as cover for Roberto. He made his debut for the Atlético first-team at the age of 18 on 30 September 2009, coming on as a substitute after Roberto was injured after 27 minutes of Atlético's UEFA Champions League group stage match away to Porto; De Gea conceded two late goals as Atlético lost 2–0.
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David Ginola
David Desire Marc Ginola (English pronunciation: /ˈdʒɪnəlɑː/) (born 25 January 1967) is a French former international football player who has also worked as an actor and model.
Ginola was born in Gassin, Var. He played football for ten seasons in his native France before moving to England in 1995, when he signed for Newcastle United. He stayed in the country until retiring seven years later, having also turned out for Tottenham Hotspur, Aston Villa and Everton. Since his retirement from the game in 2002 he has become involved in several new pursuits, including acting.
Ginola played at club level for Toulon (1985–88), Racing Levallois 92 (1988–90), Brest (1990–92), Paris Saint-Germain (1992–95), Newcastle United (1995–97), Tottenham Hotspur (1997–2000), Aston Villa (2000–2002) and Everton (2002).
Ginola made his first senior appearance for Sporting Toulon as an eighteen year-old in a 1985 2–0 victory away at Metz. He played fourteen times in his first season, and by 1986 he was a regular in the Toulon line-up.
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David Hemery
David Peter Hemery, CBE, (born 18 July 1944) is a British former athlete, winner of the 400m hurdles at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, but his father's work took the family to the United States, where he attended school and graduated from Boston University. At one point the family had returned to England for a time, and Hemery moved back and forth across the Atlantic during his training.
Hemery's first International title came at the 1966 Commonwealth Games, where he won the 120 yd hurdles in 14.1 seconds, a title he retained four years later at the 1970 Commonwealth Games (by then it was the 110m hurdles which he won in 13.8 seconds).
At the Mexico Olympics in 1968, Hemery won the 400m hurdles in 48.12 seconds, a new world record. His margin of victory was the largest since the 1924, beating second-placed Gerhard Hennige from West Germany by almost a second. BBC coverage of the race is notorious for the words of the commentator David Coleman, who reached a near orgasm of excitement as Hemery crossed the line, and then made the unfortunate remark that he neither knew nor cared who came third in the race. Hemery's British teammate John Sherwood turned out to be the bronze medal winner in a close finish that had to be settled by slow motion replay. It was an early example of Colemanballs. Hemery's performance helped him win the 1968 BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
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David Seaman
David Andrew Seaman MBE (born 19 September 1963 in Rotherham, South Yorkshire) is an English former football goalkeeper who played for several clubs, most notably Arsenal. He retired from the game on 13 January 2004, following a recurring shoulder injury. He was awarded the MBE in 1997 for services to the sport.
The peak of his career was during his period as Arsenal and England goalkeeper in the 1990s and early 2000s; during his time at Arsenal he won many medals including three league championships (1991, 1998, 2002), four FA Cups (1993, 1998, 2002, 2003), the League Cup in 1993 and the European Cup Winners Cup in 1994. During this time he also played in the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, and Euro 96 and Euro 2000, and is England's second-most capped goalkeeper with 75 caps, after Peter Shilton.
Seaman's career highs came in his successful performance in UEFA Euro 96 and in Arsenal's UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, Premier League and FA Cup (including a superb save from Paul Peschisolido for Sheffield United in the FA Cup 2002–03) campaigns in the mid-90s and early-2000s. Notable lows came with two costly errors, both from long-range efforts — conceding a last-minute goal in the 1995 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final to Nayim and conceding to a Ronaldinho free-kick in the 2002 FIFA World Cup quarter-final.
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Davinia Taylor
Davinia Taylor (born Davinia Murphy on 11 November 1977 in Wigan) is an English actress and socialite.
Taylor attended Rossall School, Bolton School and then Winstanley Sixth Form College from 1994, studying theatre and Performing arts A Levels. She left before finishing her course to work as a model. She then joined the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, playing party girl Jude Cunningham from 1996–1998. In 2006, The Sunday Mirror reported that Taylor was returning to the cast of Hollyoaks, but she has since withdrawn from the opportunity due to "personal problems".
The original Hollyoaks part led to roles in the television movies Bostock's Cup, Is Harry on the Boat?, the comedic film, Soul Patrol, as well as a spot on an episode of Urban Gothic, presenting work on The Big Breakfast and Top of the Pops @ Play and an appearance in the documentary series Young, Hot and Talented for Channel 5. She appeared in Maxim magazine in February 2003, and has been named in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World" list in 1996 (56), 1997 (97), and 1998 (86).
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Denis Irwin
Denis Joseph Irwin (born 31 October 1965 in Cork, Ireland) is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a full back from 1983 to 2004.
He is best known for his long and successful stint at Manchester United, where he established himself as one of the most important players in the United team that won a host of domestic and European trophies in his time there between 1990 and 2002. He has been regarded by Sir Alex Ferguson as pound for pound his greatest ever signing. Earlier in his career he played for Leeds United and then Oldham Athletic, and finished his career with a two year spell at Wolverhampton Wanderers. Irwin was capped by the Republic of Ireland national side 56 times, scoring four goals and featuring in the side that reached the second round (last 16) at the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
Irwin grew up in Cork and was educated at Coláiste Chríost Rí. As a schoolboy he excelled at both Gaelic football and hurling, and played at Croke Park more than once, on one occasion marking future Irish team mate, Niall Quinn.
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Dennis Bergkamp
Dennis Nicolaas Bergkamp (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈdɛnɪs ˈbɛrχkɑmp] ( listen); born 10 May 1969) is a Dutch former professional footballer who is the assistant manager to Frank de Boer at Ajax. Originally a wide midfielder and subsequently a main striker, he was deployed as a second striker, where he remained throughout his playing career. Bergkamp has been described by Jan Mulder as having "the finest technique" of any Dutch international and a "dream for a striker" by teammate Thierry Henry.
The son of an electrician, Bergkamp was born in Amsterdam and played as an amateur in the lower leagues. He was spotted by Ajax at the age of 11 and made his professional debut in 1986. Good form led to an international call-up a year later, attracting the attention of several European clubs. Bergkamp signed for Italian club Internazionale in 1993 where he had two disappointing seasons, before joining Arsenal in 1995. It was at Arsenal where Bergkamp rejuvenated his career, helping the club to win three Premier League titles, four FA Cup trophies and reach the 2006 UEFA Champions League Final, which marked his last appearance as a player. With the Netherlands national team, Bergkamp surpassed Faas Wilkes's record to become the Netherlands' top goalscorer of all time in 1998, later surpassed by Patrick Kluivert.
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Des Lynam
Desmond Michael "Des" Lynam, OBE (born 17 September 1942, Ennis, County Clare, Ireland) is an Irish television and radio presenter based in the UK.
He has hosted television coverage of high profile events for many years. He has presented the popular shows, Grandstand, Match of the Day, Holiday, How Do They Do That? and Countdown.
Desmond Michael Lynam moved with his family to Brighton at the age of six. He recalled having a strong Irish accent at the time, but eventually lost it. He passed the eleven-plus in 1954, to attend Varndean Grammar School. After sitting his A-levels, he went into the insurance business, working as a salesman, where he remained for most of the 1960s.
He married Susan Skinner in 1965 and had one son, Patrick (born 1970); however by 1973 the marriage began to break down owing to Lynam's career and other commitments, and they divorced in 1974. Lynam has never remarried, but has lived with Rose Diamond, his long-time partner, for many years.
He is a supporter of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.
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Didier Drogba
Didier Yves Drogba Tébily (French pronunciation: [didje dʁɔɡba]; born 11 March 1978) is an Ivorian footballer who plays as a centre forward for Chelsea. He is the captain and all-time top scorer of the Côte d'Ivoire national football team (Ivory Coast). He has scored more goals for Chelsea than any other foreign player and is currently Chelsea's fourth highest goal scorer of all time. His key attributes include his physical strength, ability in the air, and his ability to retain possession of the ball.
After playing in youth teams, Drogba made his professional debut aged 18 for Ligue 2 club Le Mans. A late bloomer, he signed his first professional contract aged 21; it was not until the 2002–03 season that he realized his potential, scoring 17 goals in 34 appearances in Ligue 1 for Guingamp. During the same season he made his first international appearance for Côte d'Ivoire, in September, and scored his first international goal the following February. He moved to Olympique de Marseille in 2003 for £3.3 million. His scoring success at Olympique de Marseille continued, finishing as the third highest scorer in Ligue 1 with 19 goals and helped the club to reach the 2004 UEFA Cup Final.
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Dimitar Berbatov
Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov (Bulgarian: Димитър Иванов Бербатов, [diˈmitɐr bɛrˈbatɔf]); born 30 January 1981) is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a striker for Manchester United. He captained the Bulgarian national team from 2006 to 2010, and is its all-time leading goalscorer and has also won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year a record seven times, surpassing the number of wins by Hristo Stoichkov.
Born in Blagoevgrad, Berbatov started out with home-town club Pirin before joining CSKA Sofia as a 17-year-old in 1998. He was signed by Bayer Leverkusen of Germany in January 2001 and played in his first Champions League final 18 months later, coming on as a substitute in the 2002 UEFA Champions League Final, which Leverkusen lost 2–1 to Real Madrid. After five-and-a-half years with Leverkusen, he joined English club Tottenham Hotspur in July 2006, where he spent two years before moving to Manchester United. He played in his second Champions League final in 2009, during his side's 2–0 defeat against FC Barcelona. Berbatov is the first non-Englishman in Premier League history to have scored five goals in a single match, having done so in Manchester United's 7–1 win over Blackburn Rovers in November 2010.
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Dorothy Hyman
Dorothy Hyman (born 9 May 1941 in Cudworth, Barnsley, Yorkshire) is a British athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.
She competed for Great Britain in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy in the 100 metres, where she won the Silver medal. She followed this up by winning the bronze medal in the 200 metres.
Four years later in Tokyo, Japan in the 1964 Games she helped the Great Britain team pick up a bronze medal in the 4 x 100 m relay with team mates Janet Simpson, Mary Rand and Daphne Arden.
She also won individual 100 m Gold and 200 m Silver at the 1962 European Championships in Belgrade and, representing England, completed the 100 m/200 m sprint double at the 1962 Commonwealth Games.
Arguably Britain's best ever female sprinter, she has a stadium in her home village in Cudworth, Barnsley, named in her honour.
In 2011, she was inducted into the England Athletics Hall of Fame.
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Dunga
Carlos Caetano Bledorn Verri (born October 31, 1963 in Ijuí, Rio Grande do Sul), commonly known as Dunga (pronounced Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈdũɡɐ]), is a former Brazilian football defensive midfielder and a World Champion for Brazil in the 1994 World Cup. Dunga coached the national team in the 2010 FIFA World Cup and was dismissed by the Brazilian Football Confederation following the team's elimination in the quarter finals.
His nickname is derived from the Portuguese translation of Dopey, a dwarf from the Snow White tale, and was given to him by his uncle due to his short height during his childhood. It was believed that he would be a short adult and the nickname remained in use even after he grew up and became taller. He is of Italian and German descent.
At the club level, Dunga played for Internacional (1980–84, 1999–2000), Corinthians (1984–85), Santos (1985–87), Vasco da Gama (1987), Pisa (1987–88), Fiorentina (1988–92), Pescara (1992–93), Stuttgart (1993–95), and Jubilo Iwata (1995–98).
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Eden Hazard
Eden Hazard (born 7 January 1991) is a Belgian international footballer who currently plays for French club Lille in Ligue 1 and the Belgium national team. He primarily plays as an attacking midfielder and a winger. Hazard is known for his creativity, speed, and technical ability and is described as a "fearless, explosive attacking midfielder who can change the game with a turn of pace or a dribble". He has also been described as "a defender's nightmare" and has earned critical acclaim for his playing style, which has led to the media, coaches, and players drawing comparisons to FIFA World Player of the Year winners Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Hazard is the son of former Belgian footballers and began his football career in Belgium playing for local clubs Royal Stade Brainois and Tubize. In 2005, he moved to France joining first division club Lille. Hazard spent two years in the club's academy and, at the age of 16, made his professional debut in November 2007. In his first full season as a starter, he won the National Union of Professional Footballers (UNFP) Young Player of the Year award becoming the first non-French player to win the award. In the 2009–10 season, Hazard captured the award again becoming the first player to win the award twice. He was also named to the league's Team of the Year. Since making his debut in 2007, Hazard has become an integral part of the club under manager Rudi Garcia racking up over 190 appearances. In the 2010–11 season, he was a part of the Lille team that won the league and cup double and, as a result of his performances, was named the UNFP Ligue 1 Player of the Year becoming the youngest player to win the award. Hazard was also given the Bravo Award by Italian magazine Guerin Sportivo for his performances during the 2010–11 season.
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Edwin van der Sar
Edwin van der Sar OON (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɛtʋɪn vɑn dɛr ˈsɑr]) (born 29 October 1970) is a Dutch former footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Ajax, Juventus, Fulham and Manchester United. He is the most capped player in the Netherlands national team's history. He currently works as an analyst and has stated an interest in coaching in the near future.
He started his senior career at Ajax and is considered to be a member of a golden generation of players at the club. He remained there for nine years before moving to Italian club Juventus and then to England, first to Fulham and then to Manchester United. He is one of the few footballers to have won the UEFA Champions League with two different teams – with Ajax in 1995 and Manchester United in 2008; in the latter, he was also named UEFA Man of the Match. Van der Sar also won the UEFA Cup with Ajax in 1992.
Throughout a long and successful career, Van der Sar achieved and set numerous records. In the 2008–09 season he set the world league clean sheet record by not conceding a single goal for 1,311 minutes. Along with being the most capped player for the Netherlands national team, with 130 caps, he is also the oldest player to win the Premier League, at 40 years and 205 days old. Individually Van der Sar has won several honours, including Best European Goalkeeper in 1995 and 2009, and UEFA Club Goalkeeper of the Year in 2009. He is considered, by critics and fellow players, as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time.
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Eli Ohana
Eli Ohana (Hebrew: אלי אוחנה; born February 1, 1964 in Jerusalem, Israel) is a former Israeli football player and later a manager. He is currently the manager of the Israel U21 team. He is considered to be one of the greatest Israeli players ever.
Ohana was born in Jerusalem to a Jewish traditional family that moved to Jerusalem from the Wadi Salib ma'abara in Haifa. He had 7 brothers and two sisters (one of them was from his fathers previous marriage). The family struggled with financial problems.
At the age of eleven, Ohana joined the youth system of Beitar Jerusalem. The one who encouraged him to do that was his brother, Yossi. His father, a traditional Jew, opposed but eventually allowed him on condition he will visit a synagoge before a practice every Saturday.
Despite being good on the field, at school he had problems and his brother Yossi told him he has to choose, football or school. He chose football, despite his fathers resistance. At that time Eli's brother Yossi got married and took Eli to live with him and his wife.
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Emilio Butragueño
Emilio Butragueño Santos (born 22 July 1963 in Madrid) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a striker.
He was best known for his spell with Real Madrid. Nicknamed El Buitre (The Vulture), he was a member of the legendary Quinta del Buitre, along with Manolo Sanchís, Rafael Martín Vázquez, Míchel and Miguel Pardeza.
Butragueño amassed La Liga totals of 341 games and 123 goals for his main club, in 12 seasons, and represented the Spanish national team in two World Cups (being the second top scorer in the 1986 edition) and as many European Championships, scoring 26 international goals for his country, a record that stood for several years.
In 1981, skilled Butragueño joined Real Madrid's youth system, and played first for its reserve side, before being given his senior debut by Alfredo Di Stéfano on 5 February 1984 against Cádiz CF. He made an instant impact, scoring twice and assisting for the third goal in a 3–2 away turnaround, after Real trailed by 0–2. On 12 December that year, he made his European competition debut, contributing to a 6–1 home triumph against R.S.C. Anderlecht for the UEFA Cup third round (after a 0–3 loss in Brussels), as the Merengues went on to win the competition.
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Eric Cantona
Éric Daniel Pierre Cantona (French pronunciation: [kantɔna]) (born 24 May 1966) is a French actor and former French international footballer. He played for Auxerre, Martigues, Marseille, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nîmes and Leeds United before ending his professional footballing career at Manchester United, where he won four Premier League titles in five years and two League and FA Cup Doubles.
Cantona is often regarded as having played a key role in the revival of Manchester United as a footballing force and he enjoys iconic status at the club. He wore the number 7 shirt at United, which was previously worn by George Best and Bryan Robson, and subsequently worn by David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo. Cantona is affectionately nicknamed by Manchester United fans as "King Eric", and was voted as Manchester United's greatest ever player by Inside United magazine. Set against his footballing achievements was a poor disciplinary record throughout his career, including a conviction for assault on a fan in 1995.
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Ezekiel Fryers
Ezekiel David "Zeki" Fryers (born 9 September 1992) is an English footballer who plays for Manchester United as a left-back and centre-back.
During the 2010–11 season, Fryers suffered a serious knee injury that kept him out for most of the season. Fryers made his senior début for Manchester United in the League Cup on 20 September 2011, starting alongside Michael Carrick in central defence in United's third round 3–0 victory over rivals Leeds United. He then played in their 3–0 fourth round win against Aldershot Town on 25 October, appearing as a left back. On 2 November, he was a late substitute for Jonny Evans during a 2–0 win against Oțelul Galați in a Champions League group stage match at Old Trafford. He made his Premier League début in a game against Wolverhampton Wanderers, coming on as a substitute for Patrice Evra in the 68th minute; the game finished 4–1. On 26 December 2011, Fryers continued to press for more inclusions as a 46th minute substitute for Jonny Evans in a league match against Wigan Athletic.
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Fabien Barthez
Fabien Alain Barthez (born 28 June 1971 in Lavelanet) is a former French footballer goalkeeper who won honours with Manchester United and the French national team, with whom he won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000 and reached the final of the 2006 World Cup. He shares the record for the most World Cup finals clean sheets with Peter Shilton, with 10. In club football he won the Champions League as well as several Ligue 1 and Premier League titles.
Born in Lavelanet, France, Barthez made his first division debut for Toulouse on 21 September 1991, against Nancy. He joined Marseille in 1992, and won both the French championship and the Champions League at the end of his first season in Marseille. The 1993 victory made him the youngest goalkeeper to win a Champions League title until Iker Casillas did so in 2000. However, Marseille would be stripped of their domestic title, though not of the Champions League crown, due to their involvement in a domestic match fixing scandal, and a year later (1994) would suffer a forced relegation to the second division due to a related financial bankruptcy. He stayed with the club in Division 2 for the 1994–95 season despite many offers from elite French clubs.
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Fatima Whitbread
Fatima Whitbread MBE (born Fatima Vedad; 3 March 1961) is a British former javelin thrower and multiple medal-winner.
Fatima Vedad was born in Stoke Newington, London, to a Turkish Cypriot mother and Greek Cypriot father. She grew up in a series of children's homes, occasionally being left in the care of her abusive biological mother. In a 2003 interview with the Observer, Whitbread said, "It was a nightmare of a childhood and it was only because I loved sport so much that I got through it and met my true mother."
At the age of 14 she was adopted by the Whitbread family and spent her teenage years in Chadwell St Mary, Essex. Margaret Whitbread, her javelin coach, had offered to take her in when she realised that Fatima was spending a lot of time with her family. She attended Dilkes County Primary School and the Culverhouse Secondary School (now the Ockendon Academy), both in South Ockendon, Essex, then Torrells School, Grays following her adoption.
She broke the javelin world record with a throw of 77.44m in the qualifying round of the 1986 European Championships in Athletics (where she also won the final) and became World Champion in 1987. She became well known in the UK for her celebratory wiggle after defeating arch-rival Petra Felke in these events. Her performances in 1987 led to her being voted winner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.
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Federico Macheda
Federico "Kiko" Macheda (Italian pronunciation: [maˈkɛːda]; born 22 August 1991 in Rome) is an Italian footballer who plays as a forward for English club Queens Park Rangers, on loan from Manchester United. He joined Manchester United from Lazio for an undisclosed fee in September 2007.
Macheda began his football career with Lazio's youth team after being spotted at the local Atletico Prenestino club in Rome. However, due to Italian football regulations preventing under-18s from signing professional contracts, he was not permanently tied to the club, and shortly after his 16th birthday, he was signed by Manchester United of England, where regulations permit the signing of players aged 16 and up. Following his family's relocation to England, he officially joined the club as a trainee on 16 September 2007.
Macheda went straight into the Manchester United Under-18 side, and scored the only goal of the game on his debut, a 1–0 away win over Barnsley on 15 September 2007. In his first season with the club, he finished as the Under-18s' top scorer with a total of 12 goals in 21 appearances for the under-18s, and even made his debut for the reserves on 26 February 2008, when he came on as a 68th-minute substitute for Gerard Piqué in a 2–0 away defeat to Liverpool. On 12 May 2008, Macheda earned a Manchester Senior Cup winners' medal when he was named as an unused substitute for the 2–0 win over Bolton Wanderers in the final.
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Fernando Torres
Fernando José Torres Sanz (Spanish pronunciation: [ferˈnando ˈtores]; born 20 March 1984), nicknamed El Niño (The Kid in Spanish), is a Spanish footballer who plays for Chelsea and the Spain national team as a striker.
Torres started his career with Atlético Madrid, progressing through their youth system to the first team squad. He made his first team debut in 2001 and finished his time at the club having scored 75 goals in 174 La Liga appearances. Prior to his La Liga debut, Torres played two seasons in the Segunda División for Atlético Madrid, making 40 appearances and scoring seven goals. He joined Premier League club Liverpool in 2007 after signing for a club record transfer fee. He marked his first season at Anfield by being Liverpool's first player since Robbie Fowler in the 1995–96 season to score more than 20 league goals in a season. Torres became the fastest player in Liverpool history to score 50 league goals after scoring against Aston Villa in December 2009. He left the club in January 2011 to join Chelsea for a record British transfer fee of £50 million, which also made him the most expensive Spanish player in history.
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Gabriel Heinze
Gabriel Iván Heinze (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈeinse]; born 19 April 1978) is an Argentine footballer who plays for A.S. Roma in Italy. A combative defender with timing and impressive aerial ability, which makes him a useful asset in either penalty box, he can operate as either a left and centre back.
Nicknamed Gringo ("Blonde" in Argentine-Spanish slang), he made a name for himself at Paris Saint-Germain, moving in 2004 to Manchester United, and subsequently to Real Madrid, winning three major titles with the latter two.
Heinze played more than 70 times with Argentina, representing the nation at two World Cups and as many Copa América tournaments.
Heinze was born in Crespo, Entre Ríos to a German father and an Italian mother, thus also holding both nationalities. He began his career in his home country with Newell's Old Boys. Following attention from various European clubs, the 19-year old signed for Real Valladolid in Spain, not managing one single La Liga appearance in his first season, and also being loaned to Sporting Clube de Portugal in the 1998 summer.
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Gareth Bale
Gareth Frank Bale (born 16 July 1989) is a Welsh footballer who plays for English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Wales national team as a winger.
Bale began his professional career at Southampton, playing at left back, earning acclaim as a free kick specialist. Since transferring to Spurs in 2007, managerial and tactical shifts have seen him transform into a more offensively-oriented player. Recently, Bale has played an integral role in Tottenham's success domestically and in the Champions League.
Bale was born in Cardiff to parents Frank, a school caretaker, and Debbie, an operations manager; he attended Eglwys Newydd Primary School at Whitchurch. He is the nephew of former Cardiff City footballer Chris Pike. It was while at this school he first came to the attention of Southampton at age nine, when he was playing in a six-a-side tournament with his first club, Cardiff Civil Service Football Club. Growing up his football hero was fellow Welshman and Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs.
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Garry Birtles
Garry Birtles (born 27 July 1956) is a retired English footballer, who played as a forward in The Football League between the 1970s and 1990s. He is best known for his time at Nottingham Forest, during which he won the 1979 and 1980 European Cup Finals. He was also capped three times by England.
Birtles was signed by Nottingham Forest from non-league Long Eaton United for £2,000. He made his Forest debut as a winger in March 1977 in the old Second Division, against Hull City. From that point on he disappeared from first team contention, not making his second appearance until September 1978. Peter Withe had been sold to Newcastle and "prodigy" Steve Elliott failed to make the grade, allowing Birtles an unexpected chance which he grasped, scoring his first goal for the club in his third match, in the European Cup against Liverpool. Birtles kept his place for the rest of the season, capping his success with a fantastic display in the 3–2 win over Southampton in the 1979 League Cup Final (scoring 2 goals) and a 1979 European Cup winner's medal via the 1–0 victory over Malmö FF of Sweden in Munich's Olympic Stadium. He was quickly established as one of the top strikers in England, having scored 14 times in the league alone that season.
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Gary Lineker
Gary Winston Lineker, OBE (born 30 November 1960), is a former English footballer, who played as a striker. He is a sports broadcaster for the BBC, Al Jazeera Sports and Eredivisie Live. He remains England's top scorer in the FIFA World Cup finals, with ten goals.
Lineker began his football career at Leicester City and became known as a prolific goalscorer; despite failing to score in his first ten games, he finished as the First Division's joint top goalscorer in 1984–85 and earned his first England cap. He then moved to League Champions Everton where he remained a clinical finisher, scoring 40 goals in 57 games. His first team honours came at Barcelona, where he won the Copa del Rey in 1988 and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1989. He returned to England in 1989, joining Tottenham Hotspur, and over three seasons he scored 67 goals in 105 games and won the FA Cup. Lineker's final club was Nagoya Grampus Eight and he retired in 1994 after two seasons at the Japanese side.
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Gary Neville
Gary Alexander Neville (born 18 February 1975) is an English former footballer. He is England's most capped right-back and was Manchester United's club captain for five years.
Neville spent his entire playing career at Old Trafford, making him a rare one-club man. At the time of his retirement in 2011, he was United's second longest serving player in the squad, behind his long-time team-mate Ryan Giggs. He made his international debut in 1995 and was first-choice right-back for club and country for more than ten years.
He is the older brother of Premier League footballer and Everton captain Phil Neville, who was also a Manchester United player (from 1993 until 2005). His sister Tracey Neville plays netball for England, his mother Jill is a receptionist for Bury.
Since retiring from football at the end of the 2010-11 season, Neville has gone into punditry and is a commentator for Sky Sports. On 14 May 2012, Neville was appointed as a coach at England by new manager Roy Hodgson.
The older of the Neville brothers joined Manchester United as an apprentice upon leaving school in 1991, and captained the youth side to FA Youth Cup glory in his first season. He made his senior debut for United in September 1992 against Torpedo Moscow in the UEFA Cup. Neville emerged as part of Alex Ferguson's youth-oriented side of the 1990s (nicknamed Fergie's Fledglings, an updated take on the 1950s equivalent Busby Babes) that included his brother Phil, Ryan Giggs, David Beckham, Nicky Butt and Paul Scholes. In the 1994–95 season, he became first-choice right-back when Paul Parker was ruled out by injury, and remained so until his retirment, although in his first season as a regular player he often found himself on the sidelines as Denis Irwin was switched to right back with Lee Sharpe (normally a winger) filling the left-back role.
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Gary Pallister
Gary Andrew Pallister (born 30 June 1965) is an English former professional footballer, sports television pundit and operations director of Conference National side Darlington.
As a player he was a defender from 1984 to 2001 and is most noted for his nine-year spell at Manchester United from 1989 until 1998. He also played for Middlesbrough and Darlington and was also capped 22 times by England between 1988 and 1996.
His footballing career started at non-league Billingham Town, but at the age of 19, he joined his boyhood heroes Middlesbrough as a defender, making 156 League appearances over nearly five seasons (helping them win promotion to the Football League Second Division in 1987 and First Division in 1988), with a seven-game loan spell at Darlington in 1985, before he moved to Manchester United on 29 August 1989 for £2.3 million, by which time Middlesbrough were back in the Second Division after relegation.
It was the national record for a defender at the time, as well as being the highest fee between British clubs and the second highest fee to be paid by a British club – second only to Ian Rush's return to Liverpool from Juventus a year earlier.
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Gary Shaw
Gary Shaw (born 21 January 1961) was an English football striker who played for Aston Villa in the early 1980s. His goals helped Aston Villa win the English First Division championship in 1980–81 and the European Cup the following year - the only Birmingham-born player in the team. In 1981 he was voted PFA Young Player of the Year. He was also included in the 40-strong preliminary England World Cup squad for the 1982 finals; however, he was not picked in the final 22.
His promising Villa career was effectively ended after sustaining a knee injury in an away game at Nottingham Forest. After a heavy tackle, he was helped to his feet by Ian Bowyer and, in Shaw's words, something in his knee 'clicked'. After his recovery, he continued to play for Villa until 1987–88, when he was sold to Klagenfurt in Austria. He finished his career off at Kilmarnock, Shrewsbury, Walsall and the Hong Kong-based Ernest Borel FC.
Shaw gained seven caps for the England under-21s.
As a boy he lived in Meriden Drive, Kingshurst, and spent hours kicking a football round on a patch of grass opposite the Punch Bowl public house known locally as 'The Island'.
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Gary Speed
Gary Andrew Speed, MBE (8 September 1969 – 27 November 2011) was a Welsh football player and manager. He is best known for his spell between 1984 and 1996 at Leeds United where he won the English Football League First Division Championship in 1992, and also for his spell between 1998 and 2004 at Newcastle United. He was also the captain of the Wales national football team until he retired from international football in 2004. He remains the most capped outfield player for Wales and the second overall, having appeared 85 times at senior level between 1990 and 2004, playing mainly as a left-side attacking midfielder. He started off his career in 1988 and retired in 2010. Speed was appointed manager of Sheffield United in 2010, but he left the club after a few months in December 2010 to manage the Wales national team.
Speed played professionally for Leeds United, Everton, Newcastle United, Bolton Wanderers and Sheffield United. Rarely troubled by injury or suspension, he held the record for the most appearances in the Premier League at 535, until it was surpassed by David James. At the time of his death, only James and Ryan Giggs had played in more Premier League matches than Speed. Including his appearances in The Football League and cup competitions, he made 840 domestic appearances, in addition to 85 full caps at international level. He played in the Leeds United team that won the Football League First Division championship in 1991–92, the year before the FA Premier League was formed. He also played in consecutive FA Cup finals for Newcastle United, losing to Arsenal in 1998 and to Manchester United in 1999.
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George Best
George Best (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a winger for Manchester United and the Northern Ireland national team. In 1968 he won the European Cup with United, and was named the European Footballer of the Year and Football Writers' Association Player of the Year. He is described by the national team's governing body, the Irish Football Association, as the "greatest player to ever pull on the green shirt of Northern Ireland".
Born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Best began his club career in England with Manchester United, who had spotted his talent at the age of 15. He went on to see success with United scoring 179 goals from 470 appearances over 11 years. His playing style combined pace, acceleration, balance, two-footedness, goalscoring and the ability to beat defenders. Best unexpectedly quit United relatively early in 1974 at age 27, but returned to football for a number of clubs around the world in short spells, until finally retiring in 1983, age 37. In international football, he was an automatic choice when fit, being capped 37 times and scoring nine goals from 1964 to 1977, although the team's performance never allowed his talent to be displayed in the finals of a European Championship or World Cup.
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Georgi Kinkladze
Georgi Kinkladze (Georgian: გიორგი ქინქლაძე; born 6 July 1973), also spelled as Georgiou,Giorgi, or Gio is a Georgian former footballer, who played as a midfielder. A playmaker, he first came to prominence with his performances for Georgia against Wales in 1994 and 1995. He transferred from his hometown team Dinamo Tbilisi to English Premier League club Manchester City in 1995, where his dribbling ability and spectacular goals made him a cult hero, winning the club's Player of the Year award in two consecutive seasons.
After enduring two relegations with City, he joined Dutch champions Ajax in 1998, but did not settle and returned to England with Derby County a little over a year later. He spent four years at Derby, making nearly 100 appearances. After leaving Derby in 2003, he became a journeyman footballer, having unsuccessful trials at several clubs before joining Cypriot club Anorthosis in 2004, where he won a league championship medal. He finished his playing career with Russian club Rubin Kazan in 2006.
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Gianluigi Buffon
Gianluigi "Gigi" Buffon, Ufficiale OMRI (born 28 January 1978 in Carrara, Italy), is a FIFA World Cup-winning Italian goalkeeper who currently plays for Serie A club Juventus. He is widely considered by experts to be one of the most dominant and successful goalkeepers in history. Buffon was declared by Pelé to be one of the 125 greatest living footballers in the world. He has been named the Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year a record eight times. Also, he has been named the IFFHS (International Federation of Football History & Statistics) goalkeeper of the year four times and was named goalkeeper of the 21st Century by the same organisation.
Buffon began his career with the youth system of Parma in 1991 at the age of 13. He graduated from the youth squad in 1995 and at the young age of just 17, Gianluigi made his Serie A debut for Parma in a 0–0 home draw against Milan on 19 November 1995. He went on to make 8 more first team appearances that season. In 1996, his second full season with the club, Buffon was named as the starting goalkeeper and would go on to make well over 200 appearances for his club in all competitions. In his fourth season with the club, he won the UEFA Cup. He was by this time, already considered a major prospect and in the summer of 2001, he was snatched up by Italian giants Juventus for a world-record goalkeeper's transfer fee of a reported £32.6 million, with part of the transfer fees paid via the transfer of Jonathan Bachini to Parma.
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Glenn Hoddle
Glenn Hoddle (born 27 October 1957, Hayes, London) is an English former footballer and manager who played as an attacking midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur, AS Monaco, Chelsea and Swindon Town and at international level for England.
In 2007 he was inducted into the National Football Museum Hall of Fame which cited him as one of the most gifted English footballers of his generation exhibiting "sublime balance and close control, unrivalled passing and vision and extraordinary shooting ability, both from open play and set pieces".
He is currently running the Glenn Hoddle Academy in Spain, set up to help young British players return to professional football after being released by their clubs. Hoddle's younger brother Carl was also a footballer and died at the age of 40 from a brain aneurysm on 2 March 2008.
He has been manager of Swindon Town (earning promotion to the Premier League), Chelsea (taking them to the FA Cup final), Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur (reaching a League Cup final) and most recently Wolverhampton Wanderers.
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Gordon Pirie
Douglas Alistair Gordon Pirie (February 10, 1931 – December 7, 1991) was an English long-distance runner. He was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England and died of cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer) in Lymington, Hampshire.
In 1955 he won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. During that year he had beaten the legendary triple Gold medalist in distance running at the 1952 Olymics, Emil Zatopek. Gordon Pirie broke 5 world records in the course of his career, his annus mirabilis being 1956, when on June 19 in Bergen, Norway, he ran 13:36.8 for 5000 m, beating Vladimir Kuts (USSR), and knocking 25 seconds from his own personal best. On June 22 in Trondheim, Norway, he equalled the world 3000 metres record with 7:55.6, and on 14 September, in Malmö, Sweden, he set up a new record with 7:52.7. He ran one sub-4 minute mile clocking 3:59.9 and, on hearing the result, shouted out 'I've done, I've done it!'.
In the Olympics, held in Melbourne later that year, Pirie was unlucky. He ran against Kuts in the 10,000 metres and despite the tactics of Kuts, an aggressive front runner whose bursts of speed were particularly damaging to a long-striding runner like Pirie, he stayed with him into the last mile when every other competitor had dropped well back. Kuts then surrendered the lead for a short while, then made a last, despairing sprint which Pirie could not match and he dropped back. Kuts said later that if Pirie had stayed with him on that last sprint he would have dropped out of the race.[citation needed]
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Graeme Le Saux
Graeme Pierre Le Saux ( /ləˈsoʊ/ lə-SOH; born 17 October 1968 in Jersey) is a retired English footballer of French ancestry who played for the Premier League clubs Chelsea, Blackburn Rovers and Southampton, and for the England national football team. Primarily a left back, he was sometimes also played in midfield or on the left wing.
After beginning playing in Jersey, he moved to England and debuted for Chelsea in 1989. He left Chelsea in 1993 to join the Blackburn side being built by wealthy benefactor, Jack Walker, and was part of their 1994–95 Premier League winning team. In 1997 he returned to Chelsea, staying there for six seasons until moving to Southampton in 2003. He announced his retirement from football upon Southampton's relegation from the Premier League in 2005.
In his club playing career, he scored 20 goals from 403 club appearances. He was twice named in the Professional Footballers' Association Team of the Year, in 1995 with Blackburn and in 1998 with Chelsea. His return to Chelsea in 1997 in a £5 million transfer made him the most expensive defender in English football. As an England international, he made 36 senior appearances from 1994 until 2000, including starting all four England games at the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France, and scoring one international goal, against Brazil.
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Greg Rusedski
Gregory "Greg" Rusedski (born 6 September 1973, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a British Canadian former tennis player who turned professional in 1991 and played until his retirement on 7 April 2007, at the age of 33. He is a former British No. 1 and ATP World No. 4.
Rusedski now provides commentary and analysis on the BBC's Wimbledon coverage.
Rusedski's first career singles tournament title was at the Hall of Fame Championship in Newport, Rhode Island in 1993.
Rusedski reached the singles final of the US Open in 1997, where he lost to Pat Rafter in four sets, (shortly thereafter reaching his career high rank of World No. 4). He also won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.
In 1998, Tim Henman eclipsed Rusedski as Britain's number one tennis player. Rusedski, however, won the Grand Slam Cup in 1999.
Rusedski was defeated in the second round of Wimbledon in 2005 by Joachim Johansson of Sweden 7–6, 3–6, 6–4, 7–6. Following that disappointment, Rusedski had a successful July. He successfully defended his title at the Hall of Fame Championship, defeating Vince Spadea in the final. This was the first time he had successfully defended a title and the third time he had won the championship. He then reached the semifinals at both the RCA Championships in Indianapolis, losing to Taylor Dent, and the Canada Masters tournament in Montreal, losing to Andre Agassi.
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Hansi Müller
Hans-Peter "Hansi" Müller (born 27 July 1957 in Stuttgart) is a former German footballer.
Playing for his hometown side VfB Stuttgart, he took part to the UEFA Euro 1980 with West Germany, aged 22, after a brief taste of action at the 1978 FIFA World Cup, where started all four games. The tournament would prove to be Müller's international peak. He had a disappointing 1982 World Cup, and despite returning to Italy to play for F.C. Internazionale Milano, he made his 42nd and last appearance for West Germany the following year.
He ended his career in Austria with FC Swarovski. Later he was an official ambassador for the city of Stuttgart for the 2006 FIFA World Cup and Innsbruck at UEFA Euro 2008.
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Harry Kewell
Harold "Harry" Kewell (born 22 September 1978) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a midfielder for Melbourne Victory in the A-League. Internationally he has received 55 caps, and scored 16 goals, while playing for the Australian national team. An exceptional dribbler on the wing, also capable of playing as an attacking midfielder and as a second striker, he is often regarded within the media as "Australia's finest football export", despite his career being blighted with injury.
Kewell scored a goal against Croatia which took Australia through to the knockout stages of the 2006 World Cup, the Australian national team's second World Cup. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Australian Professional Footballers' Association. Kewell also has a British passport through his father's heritage. Former Middlesbrough midfielder-turned pundit Robbie Mustoe named Kewell as one of the greatest players he had played against but questioned his consistency after his initial injuries. Former German international Michael Ballack has also highlighted Kewell's ability and inconsistency.
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Henry Cooper
Sir Henry Cooper OBE KSG (3 May 1934 – 1 May 2011) was an English heavyweight boxer known for the effectiveness of his left hook, "Enry's 'Ammer", and his knockdown of the young Muhammad Ali. Cooper held the British, Commonwealth and European heavyweight titles several times throughout his career, and unsuccessfully challenged Ali for the world heavyweight championship in 1966.
Following his retirement from the sport, Cooper continued his career as a television and radio personality and was enormously popular in Britain: he was the first (and is today one of just three people) to twice win the public vote for BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award and is thus far the only boxer to be awarded a knighthood.
Cooper was born in Lambeth, London to Henry and Lily Cooper. He, his identical twin brother, George (1934–2010), and elder brother Bern grew up in a council house on the Bellingham Estate on Farmstead Road, South East London. During the Second World War they were evacuated to Lancing on the Sussex coast.
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Ian Botham
Sir Ian Terence Botham OBE (born 24 November 1955) is a former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator. He was a genuine all-rounder with 14 centuries and 383 wickets in Test cricket, and remains well-known by his nickname "Beefy". While a controversial player both on and off the field at times, Botham also held a number of Test cricket records, and still holds the record for the highest number of wickets taken by an England bowler.
He is generally regarded as being England's greatest ever all-rounder, particularly in Test cricket, although having earned celebrity status, his award of a knighthood was ostensibly in recognition of his services to charity.
Just like fellow cricketers Jim Cumbes and Arnold Sidebottom, Botham was also a talented footballer, and made 11 appearances in the Football League.
On 8 August 2009, Botham was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
Botham was born in Heswall on the Wirral, to Herbert Leslie Botham (who worked for Westland) and Violet Marie, née Collett (a nurse). Both his parents played cricket. He went to Milford Junior School in Yeovil, Somerset, where his "love affair" with sport began, and played for Somerset Under-15s. He left Bucklers Mead Comprehensive School at the age of 15 without completing his GCSEs, intent on playing cricket for Somerset, although he also had an offer to play football for Crystal Palace F.C. From an early age he was always single-minded. When informed that Botham wanted to be a sportsman, the Careers Mistress at his school said to him, "Fine, everyone wants to play sport, but what are you really going to do?" (interviewed BBC Radio 4's Fiona Glover, 20 November 2010, Saturday Live).
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Ian Rush
Ian James Rush, MBE, (born 20 October 1961 in Flint) is a Welsh former footballer. He is best remembered as a player for Liverpool, where he was among the top strikers in the English game in the 1980s and 1990s. He also had spells playing at Chester City, Juventus, Leeds United, Newcastle United, Sheffield United, Wrexham and Sydney Olympic. Rush made 73 appearances for the Wales national football team and he remains the record goalscorer for Wales with 28 goals between 1980 and 1996.
Since retiring as a player in 1999, Rush has had a stint as manager of Chester City (2004–05), and has worked as a television football pundit. He was also very well known for his moustache.
Rush's reputation was enhanced by scoring for Chester in a shock 2–0 FA Cup third round win at Second Division giants Newcastle United in January 1980, with Chester equalling their best run by reaching the last 16 where they narrowly lost to Ipswich Town two rounds later. His last game for Chester was a 2–1 win over Southend United at Sealand Road on 26 April 1980 in which he did not score.
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Ian Wright
Ian Edward Wright, MBE is a former English professional footballer turned television and radio personality and currently part-time first-team coach of Milton Keynes Dons
Wright enjoyed success with London clubs Crystal Palace and Arsenal, spending six years with the former and seven years with the latter. With Arsenal he has lifted the Premier League title and both major domestic trophies, and the European Cup Winners Cup. He played 581 league games, scoring 387 goals for seven clubs in Scotland and England and earned 33 caps for the English national team.
He also played in the Premier League for West Ham United and Nottingham Forest, the Scottish Premier League for Celtic and the Football League for Burnley.
After retiring from the game he has been active in the media, usually in football related TV and radio shows. His son, Bradley and stepson, Shaun are both professional footballers.
Wright came to professional football relatively late. Despite having had trials at Southend United and Brighton during his teens, he was unable to attract sufficient interest to win a professional contract offer. Reverting to playing for amateur and non-league teams, he was left disillusioned about his chances of a career as a professional footballer.
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Iker Casillas
Iker Casillas Fernández (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈikeɾ kaˈsiʎas feɾˈnandeθ]; born 20 May 1981) is a Spanish football goalkeeper who plays for the Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and the Spanish national team, being the captain of both. In 2008 he led the Spanish national team to their first European Championship in 44 years, and in 2010 to win the World Cup, Spain's first ever, being also named the tournament's best goalkeeper.
Casillas has been nominated for the European Footballer of the Year award twice, ranking fourth overall in 2008 and again receiving more votes than any other goalkeeper in 2009. At the end of 2009 he was voted into the UEFA Team of the Year for the third consecutive time. As of 2011 Casillas is one of a very select group of players who have won all major club and national championship titles. In 2010, he was awarded with the Sports Prince of Asturias Award. On 19 October 2010, Casillas became the most capped goalkeeper of all time in the UEFA Champions League and in November 2011, he became the most capped player of all time for the Spanish national team.
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Imogen Thomas
Imogen Mary Thomas (born 29 November 1982) is a Welsh glamour model, beauty queen and television personality. She rose to fame in 2003, after winning Miss Wales, and achieved further note in 2006, when she lasted three months on the seventh series of reality TV series Big Brother.
Imogen was born to Charles Thomas, an education welfare officer, and his wife Janette in Gorseinon, near Swansea, South Wales. Her parents separated when she was two years old, and, after her mother remarried when she was six, she was brought up by her mother and step-father in Llanelli, South Wales. She speaks Welsh fluently. Thomas has a sister, Alana. Thomas developed alopecia when she was six, losing chunks of her hair.
Thomas started working as a model at age 13, and at the age of 17 moved to London to become a professional model. Working in bars to pay for her living costs, she was rejected by many modelling agencies due to her height.[citation needed]
She reluctantly returned to her studies, and gained a degree in Health studies and Psychology at the University of Worcester. During this period she entered beauty contests, and was crowned Miss Wales in 2003, beating future Big Brother 9 winner Rachel Rice, who came third. She went on to represent Wales at Miss World in China. This prompted her to return to London to try glamour modelling, and also working as a bar hostess at London's Sanderson Hotel.
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Jaap Stam
Jakob "Jaap" Stam (born 17 July 1972 in Kampen) is a retired Dutch football player who was twice voted best defender in the 1998–99 and 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League. He played for several European clubs including PSV Eindhoven, Manchester United, S.S. Lazio, A.C. Milan and AFC Ajax before retiring in October 2007. Stam is currently the assistant manager of Art Langeler at his former club FC Zwolle.
Stam started his career with local amateur football club DOS Kampen. On 15 August 1992, Stam made his professional debut for FC Zwolle in a 1–1 draw against SC Heracles in the Eerste Divisie. He became a first team regular right away and moved to Eredivisie side Cambuur Leeuwarden for the following season, but relegated in his first season which brought him back into the Eerste Divisie. Two seasons at Cambuur earned him a transfer to Eredivisie side Willem II. At Willem II he impressed at the Eredivisie level straight away, which meant his final breakthrough. A shock 1–0 home victory over Ajax led to Stam's transfer to PSV Eindhoven in the same season in which they eventually won the KNVB Cup, his first professional trophy.
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Jack Wilshere
Jack Andrew Garry Wilshere (born 1 January 1992) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Arsenal and the England national team.
Wilshere came up through Arsenal's youth academy and impressed from an early age. He made his first team debut in 2008, at the age of 16, and was Arsenal's youngest ever league debutant. In his short career thus far Wilshere has earned a number of accolades including the PFA Young Player of the Year, PFA Team of the Year, and Arsenal's Player of the Season as voted on by the fans for his performances in his first full campaign for Arsenal during the 2010–11 season.
Wilshere was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire and currently lives in Hitchin, where he grew up, attending Whitehill Junior School and The Priory School. He captained The Priory School Football team to County Cup and District Cup glory from Year 7 through to Year 10, and also added the Under 15s National Cup to his list in Year 8, playing alongside Leyton Orient's Jake Argent-Martin and Jack Reeves.
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Jackie Stewart
Sir John Young 'Jackie' Stewart, OBE (born 11 June 1939) is a Scottish former racing driver. Nicknamed the 'Flying Scot', he competed in Formula One between 1965 and 1973, winning three World Drivers' Championships. He also competed in Can-Am. He is well known in the United States as a color commentator (pundit) of racing television broadcasts, and as a spokesman for Ford, where his Scottish accent has made him a distinctive presence. Between 1997 and 1999, in partnership with his son, Paul, he was team principal of the Stewart Grand Prix Formula One racing team. In 2009 he was ranked fifth of the fifty greatest Formula One drivers of all time by journalist Kevin Eason who wrote: "He has not only emerged as a great driver, but one of the greatest figures of motor racing."
Stewart's family were Austin, later Jaguar, car dealers and had built up a successful business, Dumbuck Garage, in Milton, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland where Stewart was born and was educated at Dumbarton Academy. His father had been an amateurmotorcycle racer, and his brother Jimmy was a racing driver with a growing local reputation who drove for Ecurie Ecosse and competed in the 1953 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, until he went off at Copse Corner in the wet.
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James Milner
James Philip Milner (born 4 January 1986) is an English footballer who plays as a winger or central midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the England national team. He previously played for Leeds United, Swindon Town, Newcastle United and Aston Villa. He is mainly a winger but is versatile and can deputise at both full-back positions when needed. In the 2009–10, season he was utilised in a more central position by Aston Villa.
Milner's talent in football, cricket, and long-distance running was recognised at a very young age. He represented his school in these sports and played football for amateur teams from Rawdon and Horsforth. He supported Leeds United from a young age and was a season ticket holder at the club. In 1996 he joined the Leeds United youth academy and worked his way up. He made his debut for the first team in 2002, aged only 16, and gained prominence as the youngest player to score in the Premier League.
While at Leeds United, he spent time on loan at Swindon Town to gain experience as a first-team player. Following his move to Newcastle United, he was loaned to Aston Villa for a season. He had since established himself as a regular starter in the Newcastle, and later the Villa and Manchester City first teams. He made more than 100 appearances for Newcastle, as well as making a record number of appearances for the England under-21 team. He made his debut for the full team against Netherlands in August 2009 and also played at the 2010 World Cup.
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Jayne Torvill
Jayne Torvill, OBE (born 7 October 1957) is a British ice dancer. With Christopher Dean, she won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Torvill was born in Clifton, Nottingham, England, and grew up in Nottingham, attending Clifton Hall Girls' Grammar School and worked in the city as an insurance clerk.
She became hooked on ice skating at the age of 8 following an after-school trip to the local ice rink. In 1971 at age 14 Torvill became the British National Pairs Champion with her then partner Michael Hutchenson. After parting with Hutchenson, Torvill continued to skate on her own for a while before teaming up with Dean in 1975. After placing 5th in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, Dean gave up his job as a policeman and Torvill gave up hers as an insurance clerk to skate together full-time.
Torvill and Dean's free program at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics, performed to the music of Maurice Ravel's Boléro, became world famous. They received twelve perfect 6.0 marks, one of five occasions they were awarded all perfect scores for artistic impression. This is one of the most popular achievements in the history of British sport, watched by a British television audience of twenty four million.
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Jermaine Jenas
Jermaine Anthony Jenas ( /ˈdʒiːnəs/ JEE-nəs; born 18 February 1983 in Nottingham) is an English footballer who plays for Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League. He is of mixed African-Caribbean and English descent.
Jenas began his career at Nottingham Forest where he immediately impressed during the 2001–02 season. After a single season at the City Ground, which produced four goals in 33 games, Jenas was sold to Newcastle United for £5 million in February 2002.
Despite an impressive first full season with Newcastle United, in which he won the 2002–03 PFA Young Player of the Year award, Jenas failed to repeat his initial form with the club and his two subsequent seasons were disappointing considering his early promise. Known for his strong "box-to-box" play and ability to score from midfield, Jenas' last two years with Newcastle were marked by a series of inexplicably bland displays, but goals and energy started to dry up, leading to Jenas starting fewer games. Despite temporarily regaining his form and gaining the vice-captaincy under new manager Graeme Souness early in the 2004–05 season, Jenas' form dipped again with only two goals in 48 appearances. He scored a total of 12 goals in 152 appearances for Newcastle United.
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Jesper Olsen
Jesper Olsen (born 20 March 1961) is a Danish former footballer who most notably played for Ajax of the Netherlands and Manchester United of England. Olsen was a regular left winger for the Danish national team, scoring five goals in 43 matches. He represented Denmark at the Euro 1984 and 1986 World Cup tournaments.
He started his senior career for Næstved IF, and made his debut for the Danish national team in a July 1980 friendly match against the Soviet Union. He had a trial with Arsenal FC in 1978-79, scoring a goal in a reserve team game. After a failed attempt by Ajax July 1980 to get Jesper Olsen to Amsterdam, he moved abroad in July 1981 to play professionally for Ajax in the Netherlands.
While playing for Ajax, Olsen became well known for his part in the infamous "passed penalty" routine he performed with Johan Cruyff. When Cruyff was awarded a penalty kick in a Dutch Eredivisie league match against Helmond Sport on 5 December 1982, with Ajax leading 1-0, Cruyff passed the ball sideways to Olsen, who returned it to Cruyff, with the Dutchman then slotting the ball past the bemused goalkeeper to make the score 2-0. It was allowed by the referee because the penalty is a direct free kick, so it can also be taken indirectly. During his stay with Ajax, Olsen earned the nickname De Vlo (The Flea) due to his posture and his ability to twist, turn and jump to avoid tackles. He was also called "The Untouchable". The Ajax coach in the 1981-82 season, Kurt Linder, regarded him the most surprisingly talented player in the young Ajax squad, both technically and tactically phenomenal.
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Jim Laker
James "Jim" Charles Laker (9 February 1922 – 23 April 1986) was a cricketer who played for England in the 1950s, known for "Laker's match" in 1956 at Old Trafford, when he took nineteen wickets in England's victory against Australia. He played 46 Test matches between 1948 and 1959, taking 193 wickets with a bowling average of 21.24; in all first-class matches he took 1,944 wickets at 18.41.
Born in Frizinghall, Bradford, Yorkshire, he was known as an elegant off-spin bowler. He consistently performed well against Australian cricket teams, and formed a successful partnership with Tony Lock, a left-arm orthodox spinner. He was also part of the Surrey side that dominated the county championship with seven consecutive titles from 1952 to 1958. He was selected as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1952.
Laker was brought up by his aunts in Saltaire. Before the outbreak of World War II, he was called down to the Yorkshire nets, where he impressed enough to earn approval as a batsman. War brought a temporary end to his cricketing plans, but reports began to emerge in about 1943 of an off-spinner in North Africa of whom greybeards said, "You can hear the ball buzz as he lets it go."
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Jimmy Case
James Robert Case (born 18 May 1954) is a retired English football player who shot to fame with the all-conquering Liverpool side of the 1970s and became known as a player with one of the hardest shots in the game.
Case was brought up in Allerton and was a distant neighbour of musician Paul McCartney on the council estate which had been built in the interwar years. He was a keen member of the local scouts. As a young teenager he was quite small for his age.
His credentials, however, were established locally when during a football game between the Garston Church Choir and the Allerton Scouts he gave the goalkeeper of the choir a hefty kick when the score was 23-22, with coats as goalposts. Jimmy established his reputation as a winner, if not a bad loser.
Even though Jimmy's team lost, his legend was born. There were subsequent games on Springwood Park where Jimmy played with such aces as John Gidman (Everton) and Billy Ashcroft (Middlesbrough).
Although small in stature, Jimmy graduated through the schools teams and then joined a tough dockers' side, Blue Union. The physical nature of these early games would have an impact on the rest of his football career.
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Joe Calzaghe
Joseph William "Joe" Calzaghe, CBE, (pronounced /kælˈzæɡi/ kal-ZAG-ee; born 23 March 1972) is a retired Welsh professional boxer. He is a former WBO, IBF, WBC, WBA & The Ring Super Middleweight Champion and The Ring Light Heavyweight Champion.
Calzaghe is the longest-reigning world champion in recent years, having held the WBO Super Middleweight title for over ten years and made 21 successful defenses. He relinquished the title to move up to light heavyweight. As his super middleweight and light heavyweight reigns overlapped, he retired with the longest continual time as world champion of any active fighter. He is part of the Team Calzaghe based at the Newbridge boxing club.
Between 2006 to 2008, he was rated by The Ring magazine as a top ten pound for pound boxer. On January 2009, Calzaghe was ranked #3 in the world by The Ring. He retired in February 2009 with an undefeated record and as a reigning World Champion. Calzaghe is rated by Boxrec as the 11th pound-for-pound best British boxer of all time.
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John Curry
John Anthony Curry, OBE (9 September 1949 – 15 April 1994) was a British figure skater. He was the 1976 Olympic and World Champion. He was famous for combining ballet and modern dance influences into his skating.
Curry was born on 9 September 1949 in Birmingham, England. He was educated at Solihull School, an Independent School in the West Midlands. As a child, Curry wanted to become a dancer, but his father disapproved of dance as an activity for boys, so instead at the age of 7 he began to take figure skating lessons.
For the first several years, Curry's involvement with skating was rather casual. Curry's father died when he was 16; he then moved to London to study with Arnold Gerschwiler, who coached him to his first British title in 1971. In 1972, Curry found an American sponsor who enabled him to study in the United States with Gus Lussi and Carlo Fassi.
Fassi coached Curry to European, World, and Olympic titles in 1976.
Curry was the flag bearer at the 1976 Winter Olympics for Great Britain. He was also voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1976.
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John Surtees
John Surtees, OBE (born 11 February 1934, Tatsfield, Surrey) is a British former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver from England. He was 500cc motorcycle World Champion in 1956 and 1958–60, Formula One World Champion in 1964, and remains the only person to have won World Championships on both two and four wheels. He is also the ambassador of the Racing Steps Foundation.
Surtees is the son of a south London motorcycle dealer. He had his first professional outing in the sidecar of his father's Vincent, which they won. However, when race officials discovered Surtees's age, they were disqualified. He entered his first race at 15 in a grasstrack competition. In 1950, at the age of 16, he went to work for the Vincent factory as an apprentice. He made his first headlines in 1951 when he gave Norton star Geoff Duke a strong challenge in an ACU race at the Thruxton Circuit.
In 1955, Norton race chief Joe Craig gave Surtees his first factory sponsored ride aboard the Nortons. He finished the year by beating reigning world champion Duke at Silverstone and then at Brands Hatch. However, with Norton in financial trouble and uncertain about their racing plans, Surtees accepted an offer to race for the MV Agusta factory racing team.
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John Terry
John George Terry (born 7 December 1980) is an English professional footballer. Terry plays in a centre back position and is the captain of Chelsea in the Premier League. He was also captain of the England national football team, holding the post from August 2006 to February 2010, and from March 2011 to February 2012.
Terry was named UEFA Club Defender of the Year in 2005, 2008 and 2009.PFA Players' Player of the Year in 2005, and was included in the FIFPro World XI for four consecutive seasons, from 2005 to 2008. He was also named in the all-star squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the only English player to make the team. He wears the number 26 shirt for Chelsea.
Terry is Chelsea's most successful captain, having led them to three Premier League titles, four FA Cups and two League Cups since 2004. He is one of five players to have made over 500 appearances for Chelsea and is also the club's all-time highest scoring defender. In 2007, he became the first captain to lift the FA Cup at the new Wembley Stadium in Chelsea's 1–0 win over Manchester United, and also the first player to score an international goal there, scoring a header in England's 1–1 draw with Brazil.
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John Wark
John Wark (born 4 August 1957) is a Scottish former footballer who spent most of his playing time with Ipswich Town. He won a record four Player of the Year awards before becoming one of the four inaugural members of the club's Hall of Fame. Wark had long spells at the club, which bookended his career, and a third, brief interlude dividing his briefer periods at Liverpool and Middlesbrough. A versatile player, Wark played most of his professional games as a midfielder, although he sometimes played as a central defender and on occasion as a striker.
Born in Glasgow, Wark represented Scotland in international football, winning 29 caps and scoring seven goals. This included selection for Scotland in the 1982 FIFA World Cup in which he made three appearances and scored twice.
During his playing career, Wark appeared in the film Escape to Victory. Since retiring as a professional player in 1996, he has continued to work for Ipswich Town—since April 2009 in the corporate hospitality department. His autobiography, Wark On, was published in 2009.
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Jonny Evans
Jonathan Grant "Jonny" Evans (born 2 January 1988) is a Northern Irishfootballer who plays as a defender for Manchester United and Northern Ireland. Evans was born in Belfast and started his career at Greenisland FC, where he was spotted by Manchester United scouts. He progressed through Manchester United's football Academy to play in several foreign tours in the summer of 2006. He then went on loan to Royal Antwerp and had two spells with Sunderland. He made his Manchester United first team debut in the 2007–08 League Cup, becoming a regular first-team squad member the following season. While playing for United, he has been their only Northern Irish first team player.
Evans was scouted while playing for Greenisland FC, the same club that his brother, Corry, and Craig Cathcart played for before moving to Manchester United. At the age of nine, he was invited to attend the Manchester United Centre of Excellence in Belfast, before being invited for a trial in Manchester a year later. Rule changes within The Football Association at the time meant that clubs were limited to players who lived within an hour and a half of the club, so Evans' opportunities were limited. However, the Evans family soon relocated to Manchester, allowing Jonny to train with Manchester United full-time. Evans progressed through Manchester United's Academy, featuring in two of the club's three games during the 2006 summer tour of South Africa, as well as domestic friendlies against Celtic and Preston North End. Evans also made a surprise appearance in the Amsterdam Tournament against Ajax. Evans spent the first half of the 2006–07 season on loan at Manchester United's Belgian feeder club Royal Antwerp, alongside fellow youngsters Darron Gibson, Danny Simpson and Fraizer Campbell.
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Jonny Wilkinson
Jonathan Peter "Jonny" Wilkinson OBE (born 25 May 1979 in Frimley, Surrey) is an English rugby union player and former member of the England national team. Wilkinson rose to acclaim from 2001 to 2003, before and during the 2003 Rugby World Cup and was acknowledged as one of the world’s best rugby union players. He was an integral member of the 2003 Rugby World Cup-winning England squad, scoring the winning drop goal in the last minute of extra time against Australia in the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final. He then came back from several injuries to lead England to the final of the 2007 world cup. He plays his club rugby union for Toulon following twelve seasons in the English Premiership with the Newcastle Falcons. Wilkinson has also toured twice with the British and Irish Lions, in 2001 to Australia and 2005 to New Zealand, scoring 67 Test points in the 6 Lions test matches he has started. On 3 April 2009 at Guildford Cathedral, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Surrey for services to the sports industry. He announced his retirement from international rugby union in early December 2011.
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Kaká
Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁiˈkaɾdu iˈzɛksõw duˈsɐ̃tus ˈlejtʃi]; born 22 April 1982), commonly known as Kaká (Portuguese: [kaˈka] ( listen)), is a Brazilian football attacking midfielder who currently plays for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and the Brazilian national team. Kaká started his footballing career at the age of eight, when he began playing for a local club. At the time, he also played tennis, and it was not until he moved on to São Paulo FC and signed his first professional contract with the club at the age of 15 that he chose to focus on football.
In 2003 he joined Milan for a fee of €8.5 million. While at Milan, Kaká won the Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awards in 2007. After his success with Milan, Kaká joined Real Madrid for a transfer fee of €65 million, second only to that of Zinedine Zidane, €75 million. Later Real Madrid transferred Cristiano Ronaldo for a fee of €96 million, setting a new transfer fee record, making Kaka's fee the third highest ever. In addition to his contributions on the pitch, Kaká is known for his humanitarian work. In 2004, by the time of his appointment, he became the youngest ambassador of the UN World Food Programme. Kaka is the first sportsperson to amass 10 million followers in twitter.
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Karim Benzema
Karim Benzema (Arabic: كريم بن زيمة; born 19 December 1987) is a French international footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Madrid in La Liga. He primarily plays as a striker whose influence can extend out to the wings and is known for his technical ability, powerful style of play, and vast goal-scoring ability. He is described as an "immensely-talented striker" who is "strong and powerful" and "a potent finisher from inside the box".
Benzema was born in the city of Lyon beginning his football career with local club Bron Terraillon. In 1996, he joined the biggest club in the city Olympique Lyonnais and, subsequently, came through the club's youth academy. Benzema made his professional debut in the 2004–05 season and appeared sporadically in his first three seasons as Lyon won three titles in that span. In the 2007–08 season, Benzema became a starter and had a breakthrough year scoring over 30 goals as Lyon won its seventh straight league title. For his performances, he was named the National Union of Professional Footballers (UNFP) Ligue 1 Player of the Year and named to the organization's Team of the Year. Benzema was also the league's top scorer and given the Bravo Award by Italian magazine Guerin Sportivo. After another season at Lyon, in July 2009, Benzema signed a six-year contract with Spanish outfit Real Madrid. After struggling to establish himself in his debut season with the club, in the ensuing two seasons, Benzema reached prominence scoring 58 goals en-route to helping Real Madrid win the Copa del Rey in 2011 and the 2011–12 edition of La Liga. In December 2011, he was named the French Player of the Year for his performances during the calendar year.
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Kelly Holmes
Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE, MBE(Mil.) (born 19 April 1970) is a retired British middle distance athlete. She specialised in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events and won a gold medal for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She set British records in numerous events and still holds the records over the 600, 800, 1000, and 1500 metres distances.
Inspired by Sebastian Coe, Holmes began competing in middle distance events in her youth. She joined the British Army but continued to compete at the organisation's athletics events. She turned to the professional athletics circuit in the early 1990s and in 1994 she won the 1500 m at the Commonwealth Games and took silver at the European Championships. She won a silver and a bronze medal at the 1995 Gothenburg World Championships but suffered from various injuries over the following two years, failing to gain a medal at her first Olympics in Atlanta 1996. She won silver in the 1500 m at the 1998 Commonwealth Games and bronze in the 800 m at the 2000 Sydney Olympics; her first Olympic medal.
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Kenny Dalglish
Kenneth Mathieson "Kenny" Dalglish (Scottish pronunciation: [dɛlɡliːʃ]) MBE (born 4 March 1951) is a Scottish former footballer and manager. In a 22-year playing career, he played for two clubs, Celtic and Liverpool, winning numerous honours with both. He is Scotland's most capped player, with 102 appearances, and joint leading goal scorer, with 30 international goals. Dalglish was voted PFA Player of the Year for the 1982–83 season, and Football Writers' Footballer of the Year in 1979 and 1983. In 2009 FourFourTwo magazine named Dalglish as the greatest striker in post-war British football, and in 2006 he topped a Liverpool fans' poll of "100 Players Who Shook the Kop". He has been inducted into both the Scottish and English football Halls of Fame.
Dalglish began his career with Celtic and between 1971 and 1977 he won four Scottish First Division titles, four Scottish Cups and one Scottish League Cup with the club. In 1977, Bob Paisley paid a British transfer record of £440,000 to bring Dalglish to Liverpool. His years at Liverpool marked one of the club's most successful periods: he won seven league titles, three European Cups and five domestic trophies. For these achievements and his style of play he was given the name King Kenny by Liverpool supporters. Dalglish became player-manager of Liverpool in 1985 and in a six-year tenure won three league titles and two FA Cups. He resigned as Liverpool manager in 1991.
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Kevin Beattie
Thomas Kevin Beattie (born 18 December 1953) is an English former footballer, who played at both professional and international levels as a central defender.
Born in Carlisle, Beattie joined Ipswich Town in July 1971, making his senior debut in August 1972. At Ipswich, Beattie was the 1973–74 PFA Young Player of the Year (the very first winner of the award), and he also won the UEFA Cup in 1978 and 1981. He received his 1981 UEFA Cup winners medal in 2008, following a petition organised by Rob Finch, the ghostwriter of Beattie's autobiography, after he had missed the final due to injury.
He retired due to injury in December 1981, but later returned to play for Colchester United, Middlesbrough, Harwich & Parkeston, Sandvikens IF, Kongsberg IF, Nybergsund IL-Trysil and Clacton Town.
He also earned nine caps for the England national team between 1975 and 1977. He was once described by Bobby Robson as the best England player he had ever seen.
In May 2012, Beattie was convicted of benefit fraud, and given a 12-week curfew. He later apologised and described it as a "silly mistake."
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Kevin Keegan
Joseph Kevin Keegan, OBE (born 14 February 1951) is a former international footballer and former manager of the England national football team and several English clubs, most notably Newcastle United.
As a player in the 1970s and 1980s, he has been described as "arguably the first superstar English player to attract the modern media spotlight". He began his playing career at Scunthorpe United in 1968, before moving to Liverpool of Division One in 1971. At Liverpool, Keegan won three First Division titles, two UEFA Cups, one FA Cup and the European Cup. He also gained his first England cap in 1972, and moved to German top-flight club Hamburger SV in the summer of 1977. At Hamburg he was crowned European Footballer of the Year in both 1978 and 1979, won the Bundesliga title in 1978–79, and reached the European Cup final the following year. Keegan moved to Southampton that summer, and spent two seasons at the club before a transfer to second-tier Newcastle United in 1982. He helped Newcastle to promotion in his second season, and retired from football in 1984, having been capped 63 times for England, scoring 21 goals.
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Kyle Walker
Kyle Andrew Walker (born 28 May 1990) is an English footballer who plays as a defender for English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, and the England national football team.
Walker was born in Sheffield and grew up in the Sharrow district of the city. He attended Porter Croft Infant & Junior School, followed by High Storrs School until 2006.
Walker joined boyhood club Sheffield United at the age of seven after being recommended by Football Unites, Racism Divides and progressed through the ranks to become a regular fixture in the reserves by 2008.
In November 2008 he was allowed to join League One side Northampton Town for a month's loan to gain first team experience, making his debut on 15 November 2008 in a defeat at the hands of Oldham Athletic. His one month loan was later extended into January, before eventually returned to Bramall Lane having played nine games for the Cobblers.
Soon after returning to his parent club, Walker made his full debut for Sheffield United on 13 January 2009 starting in a third round FA Cup tie against Leyton Orient. With the Blades losing a number of players to injury in the closing weeks of the season, Walker was a surprise inclusion in the starting line up for the crucial last two games of the season. He made his full league debut for the club on 25 April 2009 against Swansea City. After two outstanding performances he retained his place as Sheffield United entered the play offs, starting both games against Preston North End and the final against Burnley at the end of May. By playing in the final, Walker became the youngest Sheffield United player ever to play at Wembley Stadium.
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Larnell Cole
Larnell James Cole (born 9 March 1993) is an English footballer who plays for Manchester United as a midfielder.
Cole arrived as a school boy at Manchester United before coming through the academy. A notable game came in 2011 when he scored a hat-trick against rivals Manchester City in a 6–1 victory in the Premier Academy League. He then went on to make an impact in the club's run to the FA Youth Cup final, scoring a penalty and setting up team-mate Ravel Morrison on the way to a 3-2 comeback against Liverpool in the quarter final.
Cole made his senior debut for Manchester United in the League Cup on 20 September 2011, coming as a substitute in the 77th minute in United's third round victory over rivals Leeds United.
Cole was called up for the England Under-19 friendly against the Netherlands in August 2011 and went on to make his debut as a substitute in the 0-0 draw on 1 September 2011.
Statistics accurate as of match played on 20 September 2011
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Lee Dixon
Lee Michael Dixon (born 17 March 1964) is a former English professional footballer born in Manchester.
He formed part of the Arsenal defence from the late 1980s, through till 2002. He was capped 22 times for England, scoring once.
Dixon currently works for the BBC's Match of the Day (as well as MotD 2 and 3) as a football pundit and writes a corresponding column for their website. At the time of his retirement, he had played at 91 out of the 92 Football League grounds – every one except Fulham F.C.'s Craven Cottage.
Dixon was a boyhood Manchester City supporter. He began his professional playing career in the lower divisions. On leaving school in 1980, he joined Burnley as an apprentice in 1980, turning professional in 1982, then signed for Chester City (where he experienced finishing bottom of the whole Football League in 1983–84), Bury and later Stoke City.
Dixon was signed by Arsenal boss George Graham in January 1988 following the departure of England right back, Viv Anderson, to Manchester United. This was the first time that Dixon had played in the First Division.
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Lee Sharpe
Lee Stuart Sharpe (born 27 May 1971 in Halesowen, Worcestershire) is an English former professional footballer, sports television pundit and reality television personality, who as a player was predominantly a left winger from 1988 to 2004.
Sharpe joined Manchester United from Torquay United as a youngster in 1988, playing for the club up until 1996. He won a total of eight caps for England, but his later career failed to live up to its potential after leaving Manchester United in his mid-twenties. Sharpe moved to Leeds United in 1996, but persistent knee injuries kept him from making an impact on the squad, and he was loaned to Sampdoria at the start of the 1998–99 season. Another loan to Bradford City in March 1999 turned into a permanent deal at the end of the season. He stayed at Bradford for three seasons, but he gradually slipped down the league ladder, eventually moving to Iceland to play for Grindavík in 2003. He retired from professional football in 2003, but achieved renewed fame after a number of reality television appearances. He briefly returned to football in 2004, playing for Garforth Town, but his return was short-lived.
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Lennox Lewis
Lennox Claudius Lewis, CM, CBE (born 2 September 1965) is a retired boxer and the most recent undisputed world heavyweight champion. He holds dual British and Canadian citizenship. As an amateur he won gold representing Canada at the 1988 Olympic Games after defeating future heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe in the final.
Lewis turned professional in 1989, winning his first 21 fights. In 1992 he knocked out Donovan Ruddock to take over the number one position in the World Boxing Council (WBC) rankings and eventually be declared WBC heavyweight champion in 1993. Lewis lost the title to Oliver McCall in 1994 but defeated McCall in a rematch to win the vacant WBC title in 1997. Lewis went on to defend the title four times, becoming the Lineal Champion after beating Shannon Briggs by KO in 1998. He became undisputed champion after defeating Evander Holyfield in November 1999. After defeating Mike Tyson by KO in 2002 and stopping Vitali Klitschko in 2003, Lennox Lewis retired from boxing in 2004.
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Les Ferdinand
Leslie "Les" Ferdinand MBE (born 8 December 1966 in Paddington, London) is a former English footballer. His playing career included spells at Queens Park Rangers, Beşiktaş, Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United and Bolton Wanderers F.C., during which period he earned a number of appearances for England. He became the first player to score for 6 different Premier League clubs.
He is the cousin of current Premier League players Rio and Anton Ferdinand and his son Aaron currently plays for Harrow Borough in the Isthmian League. He also has a daughter, Lauren. Popularly nicknamed Sir Les, he was made an MBE in the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours.
On 5 November 2008 Ferdinand joined fellow ex-Spur Tim Sherwood on the coaching staff of Tottenham Hotspur, utilising his experience to work with the strikers.
Ferdinand is the joint fifth highest scorer of all time in the Premier League with 149 goals.
Ferdinand started his career in non-league football, first at AEL (a KOPA Cypriot team in England) then to Southall then moving to Hayes. He was spotted by Queens Park Rangers and moved there for £30,000.
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Liam Brady
Liam Brady (born 13 February 1956) is an Irish former association football player, and former assistant manager of the Republic of Ireland national football team.
In his playing days, Brady was a midfielder renowned for his elegant technical skills, most notably his left foot, and his high-quality passing and close control. He found success both with Arsenal (one FA Cup title) and Juventus (two Serie A titles), and won 72 caps for the Republic of Ireland national football team.
Brady is now head of Youth Development at Arsenal, and is a frequent television pundit with RTÉ Sport.
Born in Dublin, Brady started his career at Arsenal, moving to London to join the side on schoolboy forms in 1971, at the age of 15. He turned professional on his 17th birthday in 1973, and made his debut on 6 October 1973 against Birmingham City as a substitute for Jeff Blockley, and put in an assured performance. However his next match, in a North London derby against Tottenham Hotspur, Brady had a poor match, and Arsenal manager Bertie Mee decided from then on to use the young Irishman sparingly for the time being. Brady ended the 1973–74 season with 13 appearances (four of them as substitute) to his name.
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Linford Christie
Linford Cicero Christie OBE (born 2 April 1960) is a former sprinter from the United Kingdom. He is the only British man to have won gold medals in the 100 metres at all four major competitions open to British athletes: the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games. He was the first European to break the 10-second barrier in the 100 m and still holds the British record in the event. He is a former world indoor record holder over 200 metres, and a former European record holder in the 60 metres, 100 metres and 4 x 100 metres relay. With 23 major championship medals including 10 gold medals, he is the most decorated British male athlete.
Christie's track career was ended when he received a two-year ban for taking a performance-enhancing substance, although he has always denied any wrongdoing. Since his retirement he has focused on coaching, helping Katharine Merry and Darren Campbell to Olympic medals, and his sports management company, "Nuff Respect".
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Lionel Messi
Lionel Andrés Messi (Spanish pronunciation: [ljoˈnel anˈdɾes ˈmesi], born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine footballer who plays in La Liga for FC Barcelona and is the captain of the Argentina national team, mainly as a forward.
By the age of 21, Messi had received Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations. The following year in 2009 he won both the Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year, and won the inaugural FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2010 and 2011. He also won the 2010–11 UEFA Best Player in Europe Award. Messi is the fourth football player to win three Ballons d'Or, after Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini and Marco van Basten and the second player to win three consecutive Ballons d'Or, after Michel Platini. His playing style and small stature have drawn comparisons to Diego Maradona, who himself declared Messi as his "successor".
Messi has won five La Liga titles and three Champions League titles. In 2012, Messi made UEFA Champions League history by becoming the first player to score five goals in one match, in a 7–1 win against Bayer Leverkusen. With two goals in the next round against A.C. Milan, he matched José Altafini's record of 14 goals in a single UEFA Champions League/European Cup season. He also became the first player to top-score in four successive European Champion Clubs' Cup campaigns. He set the world record for most goals scored in a season during the 2011–12 season, with 73 goals.
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Liz McColgan
Elizabeth ("Liz") McColgan (née Lynch) MBE (born 24 May 1964) is a Scottish former middle-distance and long-distance track and road-running athlete. She won the gold medal for the 10,000 metres at the 1991 World Championships, and a silver medal over the same distance at the 1988 Olympic Games. She was also a two-time gold medalist over the distance at the Commonwealth Games, as well as winning the New York City Marathon, Tokyo Marathon and London Marathon.
Elizabeth "Liz" McColgan (born Elizabeth Lynch, May 24, 1964) grew up in the Whitfield area of Dundee and was a pupil of St Saviour's RC High School. She joined her local athletics club, the Hawkhill Harriers, at age 12 at the advice of her PE teacher. Coached by Harry Bennett, she soon discovered a talent for distance running and won her first UK titles at the age of 18. Following Bennett's death, McColgan self-coached herself in preparation for the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1986.
At the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, McColgan took the gold medal in the 10,000 metres, finishing nearly 12 seconds ahead of the nearest competitor and giving the host country its only gold medal in Athletics. This was followed by a silver medal at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
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Lucílio Batista
Lucílio Cardoso Cortez Batista (born 26 April 1965 in Lisbon) is a retired Portuguese football referee.
A bank teller by profession, Batista started refereeing Portuguese first division matches in the mid-90s. Amongst his many games in the national territory, he was in charge for the controversial League Cup final between Lisbon neighbours S.L. Benfica and Sporting Clube de Portugal, in March 2009.
Internationally, he refereed two matches at the 2004 UEFA European Football Championship, on home soil. He also refereed two matches at the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup in France.
Batista also had a run in the UEFA Champions League (16 matches) and UEFA Cup (ten) during his career. He retired from the game at the end of the 2009–10 season.
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Marco van Basten
Marcel "Marco" van Basten (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɑr.koʊ̯ vɑm.ˈbɑs.tə(n)]; 31 October 1964) is a Dutch football manager and former football player, who played for Ajax and Milan, as well as the Dutch national team, in the 1980s and early 1990s. He is regarded as one of the greatest forwards of all time and has scored 277 goals in a high-profile career, which ended in 1995 as a result of an injury suffered two years earlier. He was later the head coach of Ajax and the Dutch national team.
Known for his strength on the ball, his tactical awareness and spectacular strikes and volleys, van Basten was named European Footballer of the Year three times (1988, '89 and '92) and FIFA World Player of the Year in 1992. Van Basten was voted eighth in a poll organised by the French weekly magazine France Football consulting their former Ballon d'Or winners to elect the Football Player of the Century. In 2004, a nationwide poll was held for the 100 greatest Dutch people (De Grootste Nederlander) and van Basten was number 25, the second highest for a football player[citation needed]. In March 2007, Sky Sports ranked van Basten first on its list of great athletes who had their careers cut short.
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Mark Cavendish
Mark Cavendish MBE (born 21 May 1985) is a Manx professional road racing cyclist who rides for UCI ProTeam Team Sky. He rode for HTC-Highroad prior to its disbandment at the end of the 2011 season. Originally a track cyclist specialising in the madison, points race, and scratch race disciplines, he has competed on the road since 2006, rising to prominence as a sprinter. He is the 2011 Road World Champion and winner of the 2011 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.
On the track Cavendish won gold in the madison at the 2005 and 2008 World Championshps, with Rob Hayles and Bradley Wiggins respectively and in the scratch race at the 2006 Commonwealth Games riding for Isle of Man.
As a road cyclist he achieved eleven wins in his first professional season, equalling the record held by Alessandro Petacchi. Cavendish has won a total 20 Tour de France stages putting him joint 6th on the all-time list with Nicolas Frantz and 10th on the all-time list of Grand Tour stage winners with 33 victories. Other notable wins include the 2009 Milan – San Remo classic and the points classification in both the 2010 Vuelta a España and the 2011 Tour de France.
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Mark Hughes
Leslie Mark Hughes, OBE (born 1 November 1963), is a former Welsh international footballer and the current manager of Queens Park Rangers having joined on 10 January 2012. As an international footballer, he made 72 appearances and scored 16 goals.
During his playing career he was most noted for two spells at Manchester United, but he also played for Barcelona and Bayern Munich, as well as the English clubs Chelsea, Southampton, Everton and finally Blackburn Rovers, before retiring in 2002.
He won a host of medals during his playing career, including two Premier League title medals, four FA Cups, three League Cups and two European Cup Winners' Cups. He also collected an FA Cup runners-up medal and a League Cup runners-up medal.
His reign as Wales manager was his first managerial post; he was appointed in 1999 and remained in the role until 2004. He failed to qualify for a World Cup or European Championship during his five years in charge, although his reign coincided with a marked improvement in results; he came particularly close to securing European Championship qualification in 2004.
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Martin Keown
Martin Raymond Keown (born 24 July 1966) is a former English footballer who played as a defender from 1984 to 2005 notably in the Premier League for Arsenal where he made over 300 appearances for the club and won nine major trophies.
He also played for Brighton & Hove Albion, Aston Villa, Everton, Leicester City and Reading. Keown made his England debut in 1992 against France and went on to win 43 caps for the national side over the next 10 years, gradually forming a respected defensive partnership with Arsenal team-mate Tony Adams at both club and international level. Keown represented England at four major international football finals including the 1998 and 2002 World Cups.
He is now a part-time scout and coach for Arsenal, as well as a pundit for the BBC, ESPN, TV3 Ireland, and Al Jazeera Sports +3.
A tough and uncompromising centre back from Oxford, Keown played for local sides and his local Gaelic football team as a boy, before joining Arsenal on a schoolboy contract in 1980, though he made his professional debut on loan at Brighton & Hove Albion in 1984.
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Mary Rand
Mary Denise Rand, MBE, (née Bignal) (born 10 February 1940) is a former English track-and-field athlete. She won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, becoming the first-ever British female to win an Olympic gold medal in a track and field event.
She is the daughter of Eric and Hilda Bignal. She was born and grew up in Wells, Somerset, England. At the age of 16, Millfield School offered her an athletics scholarship. She excelled in all sports and won All-England Schools' titles. She was outstanding at high jump, long jump and hurdles. In 1956, she was invited as a guest of the Olympic squad at a training camp in Brighton, where she beat Britain's best high jumpers.
At the age of 17, Rand set a British national record of 4046 points in the pentathlon. She won a silver medal in the 1958 Commonwealth Games long jump and came fifth in the high jump. One month later she came seventh in the European pentathlon championships.
In the 1960 Olympics in Rome, she set a British record of 6.33m in the qualifying round of the long jump, which if repeated, would have won her a silver in the final. In the final she fouled two of the three jumps and finished ninth. She also finished fourth in the 80m hurdles. She won a bronze medal in the European Championship long jump in 1962.
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Massimo Bonini
Massimo Bonini (born 13 October 1959 in San Marino) is a retired Sanmarinese footballer and coach, who played as a midfielder for Italian sides Bellaria Igea Marina, Forlì, Cesena, Juventus and Bologna.
Bonini played for Juventus between 1981 and 1988, in which he played 296 matches and scored 6 goals. He won 3 Scudetti, 1 Italian Cup, 1 European Champion Clubs' Cup, 1 Cup Winners' Cup, 1 European Super Cup and 1 Intercontinental Cup. He is the only Sanmarinese footballer to have won a European Cup.
Since the San Marino Football Federation was not officially recognised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) until 1990, players from San Marino were assimilated to Italian players. For this reason, Bonini was entitled to play for the Italian Football Federation and actually played for the Italian Under-21 football team. Since he always refused to give up the citizenship of San Marino, he had to wait until 1990 in order to play for San Marino’s first team, winning 19 full caps since then. He was also briefly the national coach of the San Marino national team after retirement.
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Matthew Le Tissier
Matthew Le Tissier ( /ləˈtɪsi.eɪ/) is a retired, Guernsey-born, English footballer. Le Tissier spent his entire club career with Southampton and gained eight caps for the England national football team. An attacking midfielder with exceptional technical skills, Le Tissier is the second-highest ever scorer for Southampton behind Mick Channon and was voted PFA Young Player of the Year in 1990. He was the first midfielder to score 100 goals in the Premier League. He is notable for his record at scoring penalty kicks, converting from the spot 47 times from 48 attempts and is considered one of the greatest ever from the 12 yard spot.
In spite of interest from bigger clubs such as Tottenham Hotspur in 1990 and Chelsea in 1996, Le Tissier remained at Southampton for his entire professional career, his loyalty garnering special affection from Southampton's fans who nicknamed him "Le God".
Following the end of his playing career, Le Tissier became a football pundit, and currently works as a panelist on Sky Sports show Soccer Saturday. In 2011 he became Honorary President of Guernsey FC.
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Mervyn Day
Mervyn Day (born 26 June 1955 in Chelmsford, Essex) is a former professional footballer who played in the Football League as a goalkeeper for West Ham United, Leyton Orient, Aston Villa, Leeds United, Luton Town, Sheffield United and Carlisle United. He later managed Carlisle United. He was formally chief scout at Leeds United.
He was educated at Kings Road Primary School, attended also by another famous West Ham player, Geoff Hurst, and King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford.
He represented Essex Schools at all levels and was picked for the England Schools squad six times, though he did not play. At aged 15 Ipswich Town, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United sent scouts to watch Day. Ron Greenwood's West Ham United signed Day on a youth contract in July 1971.
In February 1973 he signed a professional contract with West Ham and on 29 August 1973 he made his debut in a draw against Ipswich Town. Day became the first team goalkeeper soon after. In 1975, aged 19 he became the youngest goalkeeper ever to appear in an FA Cup Final, in their victory over Fulham. He received the PFA Young Player of the Year Award that same season, the only goalkeeper to have won the award. He was tipped as the next great England goalkeeper. In 1976 he appeared in the Cup Winners' Cup Final which West Ham lost 4–2 to Anderlecht at a sold out Heysel Stadium. However, a loss of form and injuries saw him drop out of the side, and Phil Parkes' performances were good enough to keep Day out when he regained fitness.
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Michael Carrick
Michael Carrick (born 28 July 1981) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Manchester United and the England national team. He has made more than 300 Premier League appearances and played in 50 UEFA Champions League games as of April 2011. Carrick primarily plays as a centre midfielder and at the time of his move to Manchester United distinctive features of his play included his inventive distribution of the ball along with his passing and crossing abilities.
Carrick began his career at West Ham United, joining the youth team in 1997 and winning the FA Youth Cup two years later. He was sent on loan twice during his debut season, to Swindon Town and Birmingham City, before securing a place in the first team by the 2000–01 season. He experienced relegation in the 2002–03 season and was voted into the PFA First Division Team of the Year in the following campaign. He made more than 150 appearances for the Hammers, however, in 2004, he moved to rival London club Tottenham Hotspur for a fee believed to be £3.5 million. He was ever-present during his Spurs career, scoring twice in 75 appearances, before moving to Manchester United in 2006 for £18 million.
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Michael Owen
Michael James Owen (born 14 December 1979 in Chester) is an English professional footballer who is currently a free agent after being released by Manchester United in June 2012.
The son of former footballer Terry Owen, Owen began his senior career at Liverpool in 1996. He progressed through the Liverpool youth team and scored on his debut in May 1997. In his first full season in the Premier League he finished as joint top scorer with 18 goals. He repeated this the following year and was Liverpool's top goal scorer from 1997–2004, despite a recurring hamstring injury. In 2001, Liverpool won a cup treble of the UEFA Cup, FA Cup and Football League Cup, and Owen was the recipient of the Ballon d'Or. He went on to score 118 goals in 216 appearances in the Premier League for Liverpool.
Owen moved to Real Madrid for £8 million in mid-2004; he was frequently used as a substitute. He scored 13 goals in La Liga and had the season's highest ratio of goals scored to number of minutes played. He returned to England the following season, joining Newcastle United for £16 million. After a promising start to the 2005–06 season, injuries largely ruled him out over the next 18 months. After his return he became team captain and was the team's top scorer for the 2007–08 season. After the final season of his four-year contract, Newcastle were relegated, and Owen moved to Manchester United as a free agent.
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Moorside High School
Moorside High School established in 1934 is a specialist secondary school in Mathematics and Computing located in Swinton, near Manchester, England. It is located on the East Lancashire Road, a dual carriageway. It is about a 15 minute walk from Swinton town centre and Swinton Shopping Centre or a five minute drive. Under the recent government plan the school was to merge with The Swinton Academy, however the merger will not go ahead, instead a new school will be built.
Like all schools in Salford LEA, it is for ages 11–16 with no sixth form, because it is state run there is no exam to pass to gain entry into the school, local pupils are automatically placed into the nearest high school. However if they wish to attend a certain high school they must complete the relevant forms and send them to Moorside High as early as they can before the following academic year as places at the school are limited to 1050. As of 2010 the school has 800 pupils attending. Morside Primary School is the main feeder school locally with St Peter's C of E Primary School also being a feeder school in the area.
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Nani
Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha (born 17 November 1986), commonly known as Nani, is a Portuguese footballer currently playing as a winger for English club Manchester United in the Premier League and the Portugal national team. Although predominantly right-footed, he has been utilised on the left-wing on many occasions.
Nani was born in Cape Verde and emigrated to Europe with his family at an early age. He was raised in Portugal and began his football career playing for local side Real Massamá. At the age of 16, he began training with Sporting Clube de Portugal and S.L. Benfica on alternate days, eventually joining Sporting's youth squad after they offered him pre-season training. In 2005, he made his professional debut with the club and won the Portuguese Cup during his second season with them. Nani was named the SJPF Young Player of the Month for May 2007 and his performances with Sporting culminated into a move to English club side Manchester United in July 2007 for a fee of €25 million. Nani won the Community Shield on his competitive debut at the club and has since added a number of trophies which included the Premier League and Champions League during his debut season at the club. He has established himself as first-choice winger at Manchester United and has won a further Premier League title, the Football League Cup, one FIFA Club World Cup, and three Community Shield titles. Individually, Nani has been included into the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) Premier League Team of the Year on one occasion and was a nominee for the PFA Young Player of the Year in 2011.
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Nemanja Vidić
Nemanja Vidić (Serbian Cyrillic: Немања Видић, Serbian pronunciation: [ně̞maɲa v̞ǐːditɕ]) (born 21 October 1981) is a Serbian footballer who captains English Premier League club Manchester United. He was part of the Serbia national football team from 2002 to 2011.
After establishing himself at Red Star Belgrade during the early 2000s, Vidić moved to Spartak Moscow in the summer of 2004. He further increased his reputation when he was part of the "Famous Four" Serbian national team defence that conceded just one goal during the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign. He would later sign for Man United for around £7m in January 2006 before establishing a prominent defensive partnership with Rio Ferdinand the following season and earning a reputation for his no-nonsense defending.
He has collected a host of honours in his United career including 3 consecutive Premier League titles (4 titles in total), the UEFA Champions League, the FIFA World Club Cup, three League Cup medals, as well as being included in three consecutive (4 in total including 2010–11 season) PFA Team of the Year sides from 2007 to 2009. In the 2008–09 season, he helped United to a record-breaking run of 14 consecutive clean sheets and was awarded the Barclays Player of the Season. He also collected both the club's Fans' and Players' Player of the Year awards. At the start of the 2010–11 season Vidić was selected as the new team captain of Manchester United. He collected his second Barclays Player of the Season in 2010-11.
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Neville Southall
Neville Southall MBE (born 16 September 1958) is a Welsh former international footballer. He has been described as one of the best goalkeepers of his generation and won the FWA Footballer of the Year award in 1985. He was awarded the MBE in 1995 for his services to football.
After joining Bury from Winsford United for £6,000 in 1980, he moved on to Everton for £150,000 the following year. He went on to make a club record 578 appearances in the Football League and Premier League (750 in all competitions); his honours with the club include a European Cup Winners' Cup medal in 1985, a First Division championship medal in 1984–85 and 1986–87, an FA Cup winners medal in 1984 and 1995, and an FA Charity Shield winners medal in 1984, 1985, 1986, and 1995. He also played in the 1985 and 1989 FA Cup finals, the League Cup final in 1984, and helped Everton to second place in the league in 1985–86. After leaving Everton in 1998, he became Torquay United's regular goalkeeper for two years. He also made a handful of appearances for numerous other clubs. He played internationally for Wales, winning a record 92 caps between 1982 and 1998; despite this he did not feature in any major international competitions. According to the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, he played a total of 979 competitive matches for club and country.
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Nick Faldo
Sir Nicholas Alexander Faldo (born 18 July 1957) is an English professional golfer on the European Tour who now mainly works as an on air golf analyst. Over his career, he has won six majors: three Open Championships and three Masters. He was ranked the World No. 1 on the Official World Golf Rankings for a total of 98 weeks.
In 2006, Faldo became the lead golf analyst for CBS Sports.
Faldo was born in Welwyn Garden City, England. He borrowed some clubs from his neighbours after watching Jack Nicklaus play the 1971 Masters on television. While working as a carpet fitter, Faldo won the English Amateur and the British Youths Championship in 1975. He turned professional in 1976 and quickly achieved success, finishing 8th on the European Tour Order of Merit in 1977 and 3rd in 1978 and winning a European Tour event in each of those seasons. In the former year he became the youngest player to appear in the Ryder Cup at the age of 21. Faldo was one of the leading players on the European Tour in the early 1980s, and he topped the Order of Merit in 1983.
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Nicky Butt
Nicholas "Nicky" Butt (born 21 January 1975) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder from 1992 to 2011.
He began his career with Manchester United and spent 12 years in their first-team before moving to Newcastle United in 2004. He spent one season on loan to Birmingham City in 2005–06. He is also a former England international; he won 39 caps in a seven-year England career. He finished his career abroad, playing 3 times for South China.
Born in Gorton, Manchester, Butt began his career at Manchester United as an important part of their youth team before turning professional in 1993.
He made his first-team debut in the 1992–93 season as a substitute against Oldham Athletic in a 3–0 Premier League win on 21 November 1992, but did not get his big break in the team until the 1994–95 season, often covering for Roy Keane in the event of injuries and suspension. One of his first appearances for the first team came in the FA Cup semi-final on 10 April 1994, also against Oldham as a substitute, this time in a 1–1 draw at Wembley Stadium. United won the replay 4–1 at Maine Road but he was not included in the squad.
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Nicolas Anelka
Nicolas Sébastien Anelka (French pronunciation: [nikɔlas anɛlka]) (born 14 March 1979 in Le Chesnay, France) is a professional football player who is currently a player and assistant manager of Shanghai Shenhua. Anelka was also a regular starter for the French national team. Former Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti has described him as a quick player with good aerial ability, technique, shooting, and movement off the ball.
Anelka began his career at Paris Saint-Germain, but soon moved to Arsenal. He became a first team regular and won the PFA Young Player of the Year Award the following season. Real Madrid signed him for £22.3 million in 1999, a record fee at the time, but he did not settle in well and returned to Paris Saint-Germain in a £20 million deal. Despite regular first team football in Paris, Anelka set his eyes upon the Premier League once more; he went on loan to Liverpool in January 2002 but joined Manchester City for £13 million at the start of the 2002–03 season.
After three seasons in Manchester, he moved to Fenerbahçe for two seasons before returning to England to join Bolton Wanderers – in deals worth £7 million and £8 million, respectively. He transferred to Chelsea from Bolton for a reported £15 million in January 2008. During his transfers over the years, he has built an aggregate transfer cost of just under £90 million. On 12 December 2011, Shanghai Shenhua announced that they have reached an agreement with Anelka to join the team when the winter transfer window opens.
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Nigel Mansell
Nigel Ernest James Mansell, CBE (born 8 August 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England) is a British racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship (1992) and the CART Indy Car World Series (1993). Mansell was the reigning F1 champion when he moved over to CART, being the first person to win the CART title in his debut season, making him the only person to hold both titles simultaneously.
His career in Formula One spanned 15 seasons, with his final two full seasons of top-level racing being spent in the CART series. Mansell remains the most successful British Formula One driver of all time in terms of race wins with 31 victories, and is fourth overall on the Formula One race winners list behind Michael Schumacher, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna. He held the record for the most number of poles set in a single season, which was broken in 2011 by Sebastian Vettel. He was rated in the top 10 Formula One drivers of all time by longtime Formula One commentator Murray Walker. In 2008, American sports television network ESPN ranked him 24th on their top drivers of all-time. He was also ranked #9 of the 50 greatest F1 drivers of all time by the Times Online on a list that also included such drivers as Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna, Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark.
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Nigel Martyn
Antony Nigel Martyn (born 11 August 1966), more commonly known as Nigel Martyn, is a former English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper from 1987 until 2006
Having started his career with Bristol Rovers he moved to Crystal Palace where he became the first £1million goalkeeper in British football and also won the Full Members Cup. Martyn then left to spend six seasons at Leeds United. He went on to win 23 England caps. An ankle injury forced him to retire in 2006, following three seasons at Everton.
Born in St Austell, Cornwall, Martyn started his career as a midfielder until invited to play as a goalkeeper for his brother's works team when he was sixteen. He started by playing amateur football for Cornish sides Heavy Transport F.C., Bugle and St Blazey while working in a plastics factory and for a coal merchant, before beginning his professional career with Bristol Rovers in 1987 after apparently having been "spotted" by Rovers' tea lady whilst she was on holiday.
While still in Cornwall he was also a cricketer, and played with Cornwall Schoolboys as a wicket keeper, as well as Fowey C.C. Since his retirement from professional football, he has returned to cricket, playing regularly for a local Leeds team.
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Ole Gunnar Solskjær
Ole Gunnar Solskjær (born 26 February 1973 in Kristiansund, Møre og Romsdal) is the manager of Molde FK. He is better known as a former footballer who spent most of his career playing for Manchester United. Often dubbed "the baby-faced assassin," he played 366 times for the Red Devils and scored 126 goals during a very successful period for the club. He was recognised as a "super sub" for his knack of coming off the bench to score late goals. Solskjær's defining moment in football came in injury time of the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final where he scored the winning last-minute goal against Bayern Munich, completing a remarkable comeback and winning The Treble for United.
Before he moved to England, Solskjær completed a year's national service in the Norwegian Army, and played part time for Third Division Norwegian Clausenengen FK, later moving to Norwegian Premier League Molde FK in 1994. He joined United in 1996, for a transfer fee of £1.5 million. He is a patron of the Manchester United Supporters' Trust (formerly Shareholders United).
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Oliver Norwood
Oliver James Norwood (born 12 April 1991) is a footballer who plays as a midfielder for Manchester United. Although he was born in England, and represented that country at under-17 level, he has represented Northern Ireland at every level from under-19 to the senior team.
Born in Burnley, Lancashire, Norwood began his football career playing for his brother's team in his home town. He was spotted by Manchester United scouts when he was 6 years old and joined the club at the age of 7. After eight appearances for Manchester United's under-18s side in 2005–06 and 2006–07, he joined the club as a trainee in July 2007. He became a regular in the under-18s team in 2007–08, scoring twice in 22 appearances, and he made his debut for the reserve team in a 2–1 away win over Middlesbrough on 6 November 2007. The following season, he scored nine goals in 28 appearances for the under-18s, as well as appearing a further 10 times for the reserves. His form prompted the club to sign him on a professional contract in July 2009.
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Owen Hargreaves
Owen Lee Hargreaves (born 20 January 1981) is a Canadian-born English professional footballer. Hargreaves is known as a hard-working and "solid defensive midfielder who works tirelessly to win the ball" and provide his teammates with possession. Born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Hargreaves played with Calgary Foothills as a youth before beginning his professional football career in Germany with Bayern Munich. After seven years with the Munich side – during which time he won four German league titles and the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League – Hargreaves signed for Manchester United in 2007, winning the Premier League and UEFA Champions League in his first season.
However, his time at Manchester United was plagued with injuries and he was allowed to leave the club at the end of his contract in June 2011. Hargreaves posted YouTube videos in a bid to convince potential suitors of his fitness, and in August 2011, Manchester City offered a one-year contract to Hargreaves, which he accepted. As a Canadian with a Welsh mother and an English father, Hargreaves was eligible to represent Canada, Wales or England. He opted to play for the England U-21 team in 2000 and was capped by the senior squad the following year. He is the only player to have played for England without having previously lived in the United Kingdom, and only the second after Joe Baker, to have done so without having previously played in the English football league system.
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Paolo Maldini
Paolo Cesare Maldini (born 26 June 1968) is an Italian former footballer who played as a left or central defender, being adept with either foot although naturally right footed. He spent all 25 seasons of his career at Serie A club Milan, before retiring at the age of 41 in 2009, becoming a symbol and a legend of the club. During that period, he won the Champions League five times, as well as seven Serie A titles, one Coppa Italia, five Supercoppa Italiana, five European Super Cups, two Intercontinental Cups. He played for 14 years for the Italian national team, making his debut in 1988 before retiring in 2002 with 126 caps and four World Cup participations.
Maldini played at a world class level for his entire career spanning 2 and a half decades, and won the Best Defender trophy at the UEFA Club Football Awards at the age of 39. He came second to George Weah for the FIFA World Player of the Year Award in 1995, the closest a defender had ever reached to winning the award at the time. He was also the Milan and Italy captain for many years and was considered a leader amongst leaders by fellow footballers, leading to the nickname "Il Capitano" (the Captain). Paolo's father Cesare formerly played for and captained Milan, and is a successful national U-21 manager.
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Pat Jennings
Patrick Anthony "Pat" Jennings OBE (born 12 June 1945 in Newry, County Down) is a Northern Ireland former football player. He played 119 games for Northern Ireland as a goalkeeper, a figure which at the time was a world record and is still a Northern Ireland record, in an international career which lasted for over 22 years. During his career Jennings played for Newry Town, Watford, and in the top division with Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal, winning the FA Cup with both of the north London rivals. In total, Jennings made over 1,000 top level appearances, and despite being a goalkeeper he scored in the 1967 FA Charity Shield.
After playing for Shamrock Rovers' under-18 side at the age of 11, Jennings concentrated on Gaelic football until he was sixteen years old, when he made his soccer comeback with his hometown side Newry Town. After impressing with the team he moved to English Third Division side Watford in May 1963. Jennings again impressed in his first season in England, playing every league game for his club, and making two international appearances that season. He was signed by Tottenham Hotspur for £27,000 in June 1964.
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Patrice Evra
Patrice Latyr Evra (French pronunciation: [patʁis evʁa]; born 15 May 1981) is a French international footballer who plays for English club Manchester United in the Premier League and the France national team. Originally an attacker, he primarily plays as a left back and is described as "the classic example of a modern full-back" who is renowned for his "pace, athleticism, and determination". Evra "offers a genuine attacking outlet down the left" and is also "strong in the air" despite his noticeably small frame. Evra, whom Sir Alex Ferguson praised for his leadership, has served as captain for both Manchester United and France.
The son of a diplomat, Evra was born in Senegal and arrived in Europe when he was a year old. He was raised in France and began his football career playing for various clubs in the Île-de-France region such as hometown club CO Les Ulis and CSF Brétigny. In 1997, he had a stint at professional club Paris Saint-Germain. A year later, Evra seized his first footballing opportunity in neighboring Italy when he signed his first professional contract with Marsala in Sicily. He made his professional debut with the club and, in the ensuing season, joined Monza. After a year playing with Monza, Evra returned to France to play for Nice. Originally a midfielder, while playing at Nice, he was converted into a full back. In 2002, Evra moved to Monégasque club Monaco and contributed to the team that won the Coupe de la Ligue in 2003. He also featured in European competition for the first time in his career and, in the 2003–04 season, was the starting left back on the Monaco team that reached the 2004 UEFA Champions League Final. In that same season domestically, Evra was named the National Union of Professional Footballers (UNFP) Ligue 1 Young Player of the Year. He was also named to the organization's Ligue 1 Team of the Year.
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Patrick Kluivert
Patrick Stephan Kluivert ([ˈpɛtrɪk ˈklœy̆vərt] ( listen); born 1 July 1976) is a Dutch former footballer, currently head coach of the youth side of FC Twente. He played as a striker for AFC Ajax, A.C. Milan, FC Barcelona, Newcastle United, Valencia CF, PSV Eindhoven, and Lille OSC. Kluivert played for the Dutch national team from 1994 to 2004. He is their all-time leading goalscorer with 40 goals. In 2004, he was named in the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living footballers chosen by Pelé as part of FIFA's centenary observances.
Patrick Stephan Kluivert was born on 1 July 1976 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. His father, a professional football player, was born in Calcutta, Suriname and his mother in Curaçao. Kluivert learned to play football on the street. After he played for football club Schellingwoude one year, he joined the AFC Ajax youth academy at the age of seven.
During his younger years, he played several different positions, even as a defender. He was strong in technique, football intelligence, and speed, but his personality was considered too impulsive. Kluivert played for the Dutch national teams under-15, under-16 and under-17.
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Patrick Vieira
Patrick Vieira (born 23 June 1976 in Dakar, Senegal) is a retired French footballer of Senegalese descent who is the Football Development Executive at Manchester City in the English Premier League.
He rose to prominence during his time at Arsenal from 1996 to 2005, where he won three Premier League titles – one unbeaten – and four FA Cups, eventually becoming club captain. After leaving Arsenal in 2005, he spent one season at Juventus before joining Internazionale in 2006, following Juventus' relegation for their part in a match-fixing scandal. He has 107 caps for France, and was part of their 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000-winning sides.
In May 2010, Vieira was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. He announced his retirement from professional football on 14 July 2011. Vieira is currently Football Development Executive at Manchester City with a role to oversee aspects such as youth development, commercial partners and the club's social responsibility programme, "City in the Community".
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Paul Gascoigne
Paul John Gascoigne (born 27 May 1967), nicknamed Gazza, is an English retired professional footballer.
Playing in the position of midfield, Gascoigne's career included spells at Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Lazio, Rangers, Middlesbrough, Everton and Gansu Tianma, at all of which he scored at least one goal. He was capped 57 times for the England national football team.
Gascoigne was born in the Dunston area of Gateshead, England.
Gascoigne started playing football at the age of four, playing in the street and nearby park. He played for his school Brighton Avenue Primary School, Gateshead team from the age of eight, and later played for the local Redheugh Boys' Club although being underage. He later attended Breckenbeds Junior High School (which closed in September 1996) then the Heathfield Senior High School (also closed in September 1996), both in the Low Fell area of Gateshead.
He was noticed by football scouts while playing for Gateshead Boys, and given a trial at Ipswich Town although he failed to impress. Further trials at Middlesbrough and Southampton proved unsuccessful, before Newcastle United signed him as a schoolboy in 1980. At school he was once caught practising his autograph during a geography lesson, his reason being that he was "going to be a famous footballer". His teacher was unimpressed, telling him that "only one in a million becomes a professional footballer." Nevertheless, he was signed on as an apprentice at Newcastle in 1983, initially playing for the youth team under Colin Suggett.
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Paul Ince
Paul Emerson Carlyle Ince (born 21 October 1967 in Ilford, Greater London) is an English football manager and a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder from 1982 to 2007.
He spent the majority of his playing career at the highest level, after leaving West Ham United he joined Manchester United where he played in the Premier League. After two years in Italian Serie A with Internazionale he returned to England to play in the top flight for Liverpool, Middlesbrough and Wolverhampton Wanderers. After a spell as player-coach of Swindon Town, he hung up his boots whilst player-manager of Macclesfield Town in 2007. He went on to manage Milton Keynes Dons (twice), Blackburn Rovers and Notts County. He was capped 53 times by England, scoring 2 goals.
As a player he won numerous honours with Manchester United, became the first black player to captain the England team and was also the first black Briton to manage a team in the highest tier of English football.
Ince grew up as a West Ham United supporter. He was spotted playing, aged 12, by West Ham manager John Lyall around the time that the club was in the Second Division and achieved a surprise FA Cup final triumph over Arsenal.
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Paul Merson
Paul Charles Merson (born March 20, 1968) is an English former professional footballer, manager and current sports television pundit. As a player he played as a forward who later in his career dropped into the midfield playmaker position in a career that lasted from 1985 until 2006.
He notably played in the Premier League for Arsenal, Middlesbrough and Aston Villa, as well as appearing in the Football League for Brentford and Portsmouth. He also played for Walsall where he spent two years as player-manager before finishing his career in non-league football with Tamworth. He briefly came out of retirement in 2012 for Welshpool Town where he played in a one-off game. Merson earnt 21 caps for England, scoring 3 times.
Born in Harlesden, North West London, Paul Merson started his career at Arsenal, joining the club as an apprentice in 1984. After a loan spell at Brentford, then under manager Frank McLintock, he made his debut for the Gunners on 22 November 1986 against Manchester City, and gradually established himself in George Graham's successful Arsenal side of the late 1980s. By the 1988-89 season he was a regular on the right wing, at the end of which Arsenal secured the First Division title with a last gasp Michael Thomas goal in the final game of the season against Liverpool. Merson scored ten times that season, made his debut for the England U21 side, and was voted PFA Young Player of the Year.
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Paul Pogba
Paul Labile Pogba (born 15 March 1993) is a French footballer who plays for English club Manchester United. Of Guinean descent, he operates primarily as a midfielder and is comfortable at playing both in attack and defence. Pogba is described by his club as a "powerful, skillful, and creative" player who has "an eye for goal and a penchant for the spectacular".
Pogba started his football career playing for local amateur clubs in Paris such as US Roissy-en-Brie and US Torcy before joining professional club Le Havre in 2007. He played for Le Havre for two years before venturing to England to join Manchester United in 2009. Pogba's transfer was subject to controversial debate as his former club accused the English club of tapping up the player.
Pogba is a French youth international having represented his nation at all levels for which he has been eligible. With the under-16 team, he captained his nation to victories at the Aegean Cup and the Tournoi du Val-de-Marne and, at under-17 level, played at the 2010 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship.
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Paul Scholes
Paul Scholes ( /ˈpɔːl ˈskoʊlz/; born 16 November 1974) is an English footballer, a one-club man who has played his entire professional career for Manchester United.
Born in Salford, but later moving to Langley, Scholes excelled in both cricket and football whilst at school. He first trained with Manchester United at the age of 14 after being spotted by a scout visiting his school, signing for them as an apprentice on leaving school in 1991, and turning professional in 1993. He made his full debut for United in the 1994–95 season. He went on to play a key part in the club's Treble-winning success in the 1998-99 season, and has won ten Premier League, three FA Cup and two UEFA Champions League winners medals.
Scholes represented the England national team from 1997 to 2004, gaining 66 caps and participating in the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, as well as the UEFA Euro 2000 and Euro 2004 tournaments.
Cited by some of his footballing peers as one of the best midfielders of his generation, Scholes has also been criticised for his discliplinary record, amassing over 120 bookings in all competitions during his career and being sent off ten times.
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Paul Walsh
Paul Anthony Walsh (born 1 October 1962 in Plumstead, London) is an English former professional footballer and sports television pundit.
As a player he was a diminutive and pacy centre forward who played from 1979 to 1996 and shot to fame in the 1980s during spells with Charlton Athletic, Luton Town, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur. He also went on to play for Queens Park Rangers, Manchester City and Portsmouth. He was capped 4 times by England scoring 1 goals.
Walsh began his career at Charlton where he quickly established himself in the team, he made his debut as a 16 year-old substitute in a Second Division fixture with Shrewsbury Town during the 1979–80 season and went on to appear in nine league games as Charlton failed to hold to their Second Division status. Walsh was given a chance in Division Three and struck up a brilliant front line with Addicks great Derek Hales. Walsh notably scored a hat-trick against Brentford, Charlton won the League Cup tie 5–0. Charlton went on to gain promotion as well as reach the 5th round of the FA Cup. Walsh enjoyed himself in the higher division bagging a respectable 13 goals as the Addicks finished mid table.
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Paula Radcliffe
Paula Jane Radcliffe, MBE (born 17 December 1973) is an English long-distance runner. She is the current women's world record holder in the marathon with her time of 2:15:25 hours. She is a three-time winner of the London Marathon, two-time New York Marathon champion, and won the 2002 Chicago Marathon.
Radcliffe is a former world champion in the marathon, half marathon and cross country. She has also been European champion over 10,000 metres and in cross country. On the track, Radcliffe won the 10,000 metres silver medal at the 1999 World Championships and was the 2002 Commonwealth champion at 5000 metres. She has represented Great Britain at the Olympics four times consecutively (1996 to 2008), but has not won a medal on the Olympic stage.
Radcliffe is an asthma sufferer who is against the use of drugs in sport. She is married to her coach, Gary Lough, and has two children.
Her running has earned her a number of accolades including the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, Laureus World Comeback of the Year, IAAF World Athlete of the Year, AIMS World Athlete of the Year (three times) and a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). She has also been nominated for World Sportswoman of the year on several occasions. In 2010, she was inducted into the England Athletics Hall of Fame.
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Pep Guardiola
Josep "Pep" Guardiola i Sala (Catalan pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛb ɡwəɾðiˈɔɫə]; born 18 January 1971) is a Spanish football manager and former player. As a player, Guardiola played as a defensive midfielder and spent the majority of his playing career with FC Barcelona. He was part of Johan Cruyff's "dream team" that won Barcelona's first European Cup. He also played for Brescia and Roma in Italy; Al-Ahli in Qatar; and for Dorados de Sinaloa in Mexico while attending managing school. While playing in Italy, he served a four-month ban for a positive drug test although he was cleared of wrongdoing twice on appeal in 2009 before the Courts of Justice of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and the Federal Anti-Doping Courts of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI). As an international, he played for Spain, and in friendly matches for Catalonia.
After retiring as a player, Guardiola became coach of FC Barcelona B. On 8 May 2008, Barcelona President Joan Laporta announced that Guardiola would succeed Frank Rijkaard as the first team manager. He signed his contract on 5 June 2008. In his first season as manager, Barcelona won the treble of La Liga, the Copa del Rey, and the Champions League. In doing so, Guardiola became the youngest UEFA Champions League-winning manager ever. The following season, Guardiola and Barcelona won the Supercopa de España, the UEFA Super Cup, and the FIFA Club World Cup, bringing the manager's tally to the maximum of six trophies in six competitions in one year, thus completing the first ever sextuple.
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Peter Reid
Peter Reid (born 20 June 1956) is an English football manager, pundit and retired player, who is currently without a club since his departure from Plymouth Argyle.
A defensive midfielder in his playing days, Reid enjoyed a long and successful career. He built his reputation as one of England's brightest midfield talents of the time at Bolton Wanderers, before signing for Everton in 1982. It was there that he enjoyed the most fruitful spell of his career, as he helped the club win domestic and European honours, including the Football League twice. He was voted as the PFA Players' Player of the Year in 1985 and came fourth in the World Soccer Player of the Year award, behind Michel Platini, Preben Elkjær and Diego Maradona. He also received his first senior England call-up that year, and represented his country at the 1986 FIFA World Cup and 1988 UEFA European Championship. He won 13 caps in total. Reid joined Queens Park Rangers in 1989, but moved on to Manchester City a year later to begin his managerial career.
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Peter Schmeichel
Peter Bolesław Schmeichel MBE (Danish pronunciation: [ped̥ɐ ˈsmɑɪ̯ˀɡ̊l̩]; born 18 November 1963) is a retired Danish professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and was voted the "World's Best Goalkeeper" in 1992 and 1993. He is best remembered for his most successful years at English club Manchester United, whom he captained to the 1999 UEFA Champions League to complete the Treble, and for winning UEFA Euro 1992 with Denmark.
Born in Gladsaxe, Copenhagen, Schmeichel was famous for his intimidating physique (he is 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) tall and weighed about 105 kg (16 st 7 lb) during his playing days. He wore specially made size XXXL football shirts. Unusual for a goalkeeper, Schmeichel scored 11 goals during his career, including one for the national team. He is also the most capped player for the Denmark national team, with 129 games between 1987 and 2001. In addition to Euro 92, he played for his country at the 1998 FIFA World Cup and three additional European Championship tournaments. He captained the national team in 30 matches.
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Peter Shilton
Peter Leslie Shilton OBE (born 18 September 1949 in Leicester, England) is a former English footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He currently holds the record for playing more games for England than anyone else, earning 125 caps.
His 30-year career included eleven different clubs, three World Cups, two European Cup finals and more than 1,000 competitive matches. He has the rare distinction of having played over 100 league games for five different clubs. Shilton did not make his World Cup finals debut until the age of 32 but he played in 17 finals matches and shares the record 10 clean sheets in World Cup finals with French keeper Fabien Barthez.
During his time at Nottingham Forest he won two European Cups, a UEFA Super Cup, the First Division championship, the Football League Cup and many other honours.
Shilton also holds the all-time record for the most competitive appearances in world football.
Shilton was a 13 year old pupil at King Richard III Boys School, Leicester, when he started training at schoolboy level with his local club Leicester City in 1963. He caught the eye of first-team goalkeeper Gordon Banks, who commented to the coach about how promising he was. Within four years, Shilton had forced Banks' own departure from Leicester after the teenager gave the club an ultimatum over which goalkeeper should be first choice.[citation needed]
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Phil Neal
Philip George "Phil" Neal (born 20 February 1951 in Irchester, Northamptonshire, England) is a former footballer who was, at one time, the most successful player in English football history. He played for Liverpool 650 times over an eleven year period and is the only player to have appeared in the first five of their European Cup finals, winning four of them. He was a dependable full back. His son, Ashley Neal, also had a footballing career, albeit short-lived.
Neal also had a seven year career with England, winning 50 caps and playing in the 1982 World Cup.
Neal began his career at Wellingborough Town F.C. before he joined Northampton Town.
A full back who joined the club on 9 October 1974 for £66,000 after making his name in English football's lower divisions with Northampton, Neal was the first signing to be made by manager Bob Paisley, snapped up as a replacement for the ageing Chris Lawler. Although he played a few games on the left side of the defence, it was as an industrious, energetic right back that he made his name.
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Phil Neville
Philip John "Phil" Neville (born 21 January 1977) is an English footballer who captains Premier League club Everton. Neville also played for England from 1996 until 2007. He is the younger brother of former Manchester United defender Gary Neville, and the twin brother of England netball international Tracey Neville.
Neville won six Premier League titles, three FA Cups and the Champions League with his previous club, Manchester United. He can play in defence or midfield, and is often used as a full back. Due to this versatility he has operated in a number of different positions throughout his career.
Born in Bury, Greater Manchester, Neville, along with brother Gary, was one of "Fergie's Fledglings". Phil attended Elton High School where he was Deputy Head Boy. He started training with the Manchester United Academy along with his brother, then later joined as a trainee, making his first-team debut in the 1994–95 season but did not get many first-team opportunities until the following season.
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Ralf Little
Ralf Alistair J. B. Little (born 8 February 1980) is an English actor, writer and semi-professional footballer, working mainly in television comedy. He is best known for playing Antony Royle in The Royle Family and Jonny Keogh in the first six series of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.
Little was born in Oldham, Greater Manchester. He attended Bolton School (Boys' Division). Some of his early television roles included minor roles in various programmes such as Elidor, Children's Ward,Sloggers,Bostock's Cup, Always and Everyone, and a production of Aladdin.
Ralf's big break came when he was offered to play Antony Royle in the BBC sitcom, The Royle Family. He took three months out of his 'A' Level studies to record the series, after which he returned to school and got the grades he needed to get into his chosen course at university. Shortly after starting his medical studies degree at university, the first series of The Royle Family began to air and offers to audition started coming Little's way, as many as five per week. This prompted him to abandon his studies and focus on his acting career. The original run of the series was from Autumn 1998 to December 2000, and after a one-off special in 2006 returned for a series of Christmas specials from 2008, with Little returning to the role of Antony in 2006 and from 2009.
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Ralph Milne
Ralph Milne (born 13 May 1961) is a Scottish former footballer whose clubs included Dundee United, Charlton Athletic, Bristol City and Manchester United. He played as a midfielder.
Jim McLean, Milne's manager at Dundee United, summed up Milne's career and footballing ability when writing his own autobiography:-
"If I had an outstanding failure then it was Ralph Milne. He should have been playing in World Cups. He should have won a bundle of Scotland international honours. It was a tragedy that that boy was not playing for his country all the time. He had tremendous talent - and I failed with him. He did not have the right attitude to the game and I could not instil that into him."
Milne is Dundee United's all-time top scorer in Europe with a tally of 15 in the two competitions - the UEFA and European Cups.
He was sold to English Football League First Division club Charlton Athletic in the summer of 1987, but stayed there less than a year (in which he failed to score in 22 league games).
Milne dropped down two divisions to join Bristol City, where he was more successful with six goals in 30 Third Division games.
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Reece Brown
Reece Brown (born 1 November 1991) is an English footballer who plays as a defender for Manchester United.
Brown joined Manchester United at the age of nine, having previously played for Fletcher Moss Rangers. After making his way through United's youth teams he was awarded his first professional contract by the club in the summer of 2009.[citation needed]
On 29 September 2010, he joined Bradford City on a month's loan along with fellow Manchester United defender Oliver Gill. Brown, like Gill, made his debut on 2 October 2010 in a 0–1 defeat to Morecambe. On 25 October 2010, the pair returned to Manchester United after the expiration of their month's loan despite Bradford's willingness to extend their stay.
On 16 August 2011, he joined Doncaster Rovers on a month's loan. He made his debut on the same day, coming on as a 85th-minute substitute for Kyle Bennett in Doncaster's 1–0 home defeat by Nottingham Forest.
Brown returned from his loan spell at Doncaster on 10 September 2011 and after a couple of impressive displays in the reserves, he was included in the first-team squad for the League Cup third round tie against Leeds United, however he was an unused substitute on the night.
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Rio Ferdinand
Rio Gavin Ferdinand (born 7 November 1978) is an English footballer. He plays at centre back for Manchester United in the Premier League and for the England national football team. He has amassed 81 caps for England in total, and has been a member of three FIFA World Cup squads.
Ferdinand began his football career playing for various youth teams, finally settling at West Ham United where he progressed through the youth ranks and made his professional Premier League debut in 1996. He became a fan favourite, winning the 'Hammer of the Year award' the following season. He earned his first senior international cap in a match against Cameroon in 1997, setting a record as the youngest defender to play for England at the time. His achievements and footballing potential attracted Leeds United and he transferred to the club for a record-breaking fee of £18 million. He spent two seasons at the club, becoming the team captain in 2001.
He joined Manchester United in July 2002 for around £30 million, breaking the transfer fee record once more. He won the Premier League, his first major club honour, in a successful first season at the club. In September 2003, he missed a drugs test and was banned from competition for eight months from January until September 2004, causing him to miss half a Premier League season, Manchester United's FA Cup triumph, and the Euro 2004 international competition. Upon his return, he established himself in the Manchester United first team and received plaudits for his performances, featuring in the PFA Team of the Year three times in four years. More club success followed with another Premier League win in the 2006–07 season and a Premier League and UEFA Champions League double the following year.
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Robbie Brady
Robert "Robbie" Brady (born 14 January 1992) is an Irish footballer who plays for Manchester United as a winger. He has also played internationally for Ireland at under-17, under-19, and under-21 levels.
Born in Baldoyle, North Dublin, Brady attended Pobalscoil Neasáin and was part of the under-16 all-Ireland champion team. Brady joined the Manchester United Academy in July 2008. He signed his first professional contract with Manchester United in July 2010.
On 19 July 2011, Manchester United loaned Brady to Championship club Hull City until 31 December. He made his debut in the first game of the season on 5 August 2011 at the KC Stadium in a 0–1 defeat to Blackpool. He scored his first competitive goal for the Tigers in a 1–0 win against Reading at the KC Stadium on the 27 August 2011. The loan of Robbie Brady was extended until the end of the 2011–12 season on 5 January 2012. On 21 January 2012, Brady scored in their 1–0 win against Reading at the Madejski Stadium.
On 9 August 2011, Brady scored two goals for Republic of Ireland U21 in a Friendly match against Austria U21, Ireland end up winning the game 2–1. He also scored in the 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Champ. qualifiers against Hungary and Liechtenstein.
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Robbie Fowler
Robert Bernard "Robbie" Fowler (born 9 April 1975) is an English professional footballer and manager who plays as a striker and is currently without a club
He is best remembered for his playing days at Liverpool and is the fourth-highest goalscorer in the history of the Premier League. Fowler scored 183 goals in total for Liverpool, 128 of which were scored in the Premier League (162 Premier League goals in total). He subsequently played for Leeds United and Manchester City, before returning to Liverpool in January 2006.
He moved clubs 18 months later to sign for Cardiff City. He refused a one year "pay as you play" contract extension and signed with Blackburn Rovers on a three-month "pay as you play" deal instead. In December 2008, he departed Blackburn and forged a career in Australia with North Queensland Fury and Perth Glory. In 2011 he joined Thai side Muangthong United as a player, but later was appointed player/manager where he remained until 2012. He has been capped for England twenty-six times, scoring seven goals.
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Robert Pirès
Robert Emmanuel Pirès (born 29 October 1973 in Reims) is a French international footballer who is currently a free agent. He is perhaps best known for his time with Arsenal, with whom he won three FA Cups and two FA Premier League titles including the club's famous unbeaten season of 2003–04. A former France international, Pirès earned 79 caps between 1996 and 2004 for his country, including winning both the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000.
Pirès has played the majority of his career as a left winger, but can also play all across the midfield or in a position to support the striker(s).
Pirès was born in Reims to a Portuguese father and Spanish mother. Pirès, the elder of two boys, spent most of his childhood dressed in two football shirts that reflected his divided loyalty. One was a Portugal shirt (his father was a Benfica fan) and the other was a Real Madrid shirt. Pirès confessed he had difficulty in school because his French was not good due to the fact his parents only spoke Spanish and Portuguese. His passion for football was inherited from his father, António, who played with Les Corpo, a local team, and every Saturday night Pirès would watch him play. At the age of 15, Pirès left school and began his dream of a career in football with a two-year sports degree course in Reims. At the insistence of his mother, Pirès continued with Reims and eventually was called up four years later.
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Robert Prosinečki
Robert Prosinečki (pronounced [robert prosinetʃki], born 12 January 1969) is a Croatian football manager and former football midfielder. Prosinečki is regarded by many as the player with best technique that ever played in and for Croatia. Former national squad teammate Zvonimir Boban, humbly, also agreed with this. His dribbling is considered excellent, and his ability to keep possession of the ball is very highly regarded. He is one of the few footballers to have played for both the Spanish rival clubs Real Madrid and FC Barcelona.
After retiring from active football he worked as assistant manager of the Croatia national football team between 2006 and 2010, before being appointed manager of Red Star Belgrade in December 2010.
Prosinečki was born in Schwenningen, West Germany, into a family of Yugoslav gastarbeiters of mixed ethnicity. His father Đuro was Croatian, hailing from Gornji Čemehovec village near Kraljevec na Sutli, and his mother Emilija Đoković is Serbian, originally from Ježevica village near Čačak.
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Roberto Baggio
Roberto Baggio (Italian pronunciation: [roˈbɛrto ˈbaddʒo]; born 18 February 1967) is a retired Italian footballer. Widely regarded as one of the finest footballers of all time (4th in the Fifa internet poll; member of the Fifa World Cup Dream Team), Baggio won both the Ballon d'Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year in 1993. He is the only Italian player ever to score in three World Cups. He is also one of the top 5 all-time goalscorers for Italy. Baggio is known as Il Divin Codino (The Divine Ponytail), for the hairstyle he wore for most of his career and his Buddhist background.
Baggio was born in Caldogno, Veneto, son of Matilde and Fiorindo Baggio. He has 7 brothers and sisters. As a youngster, he always had a keen interest in the sport of football and played for a local youth club over a period of nine years. After scoring 6 goals in one game, Baggio was persuaded by scout Antonio Mora to join Vicenza. Roberto Baggio is the 6th of 8 siblings. His younger brother, Eddy Baggio, was also a footballer who played 86 games in Serie B. After his serious career threatening injury in 1985, Baggio, formerly a Roman Catholic, converted to Buddhism. He married his girlfriend Andreina Fabbi in 1989, in a traditional Roman Catholic ceremony however. They have a daughter, Valentina, and two sons, Mattia and Leonardo.
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Robin Cousins
Robert "Robin" Cousins (born 17 August 1957 in Bristol) is a British retired competitive figure skater. He is the 1980 Olympic Champion, the 1980 European champion, a three-time (1978, 1979 & 1980) World medalist and four-time (1977, 1978, 1979 & 1980) British national champion. He later starred in ice shows and also produced his own. He has also appeared in theatre productions, including in the West End, and has commentated on figure skating events for the BBC. Since 2006 he has been on the panel of judges on ITV's Dancing on Ice and currently takes the position of head judge.
From a sporting family (his father was a goalkeeper for Millwall) of Bristol, England, Robin Cousins took to figure skating very early after skating for the first time at Westover Road Ice Rink in Bournemouth. He won his first national title in 1969 at the age of twelve on the novice level. By age fourteen, he was Britain's junior champion, and he made his international debut that same year.
As a young skater, Cousins also did ice dancing at the same time as singles, his first coach being a dancer. He was later coached by Carlo Fassi. Cousins is able to spin in both directions.
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Robin van Persie
Robin van Persie (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrɔbɪn vɑn ˈpɛrsi] ( listen); born 6 August 1983) is a Dutch footballer who plays as a striker for Arsenal and the Dutch national team. He is a youth product of Feyenoord. Having joined Arsenal in 2004, Van Persie became the club captain on 16 August 2011. His playing style and ability have drawn comparison to Dutch legend Marco van Basten.
The son of two artists, Van Persie was encouraged to follow in his parents' footsteps, but he instead preferred football and joined SBV Excelsior's youth squad. He made his breakthrough at his hometown club Feyenoord, where he spent three seasons and won the 2002 UEFA Cup. He was named the Dutch Football Talent of the Year for the 2001–02 season. Disagreements with manager Bert van Marwijk culminated in a change of club and Van Persie moved to Premier League side Arsenal for £2.75 million in 2004 as a long-term replacement for Dennis Bergkamp. He won the FA Community Shield and the FA Cup in his first season with the London club and went on to win the 2006 Rotterdam Sportsman of the year award. Van Persie has been named Premier League Player of the Month three times. Van Persie topped the goal assists leader board with 11 assists in the 2008–09 Premier League.
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Ron Yeats
Ronald 'Ron' Yeats (born 15 November 1937 in Aberdeen, Scotland) is a Scottish former footballer. He was the captain of the first great Liverpool team of the 1960s.
Yeats was an Under 15 Schoolboy international who played for Aberdeen Lads clubs when he was signed by Dundee United. Previously, he worked in a slaughter house before he turned professional.
Yeats, a stockily-built 6 ft 2 in central defender, was bought by manager Bill Shankly in 1961 from United and was immediately installed as captain as Liverpool gained promotion from the Second Division after eight seasons away from English football's top flight. He made his debut in a 2-0 league victory over Bristol Rovers at Eastville on the 19 August 1961, his first goal came 2 years later in the 75th minute of the 1-0 First Division victory over bitter rivals Manchester United at Old Trafford on the 23 November 1963.
When Yeats was signed, Shankly was so impressed and proud of the physical presence of his new player that he told waiting journalists to "The man is a mountain, go into the dressing room and walk around him". Yeats lived up to the reputation and the nickname ("The Colossus") his huge frame gave him, playing at the heart of Liverpool's defence for a decade and winning the club's first major honours in nearly 20 years. Shankly later described Yeats's arrival, along with that of striker Ian St John (also in 1961), as the "turning point" as Liverpool began their quest to compete with — and beat — the best in England and in Europe.
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Ronaldinho
Ronaldo de Assis Moreira (born 21 March 1980 in Porto Alegre), commonly known as Ronaldinho (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁonawˈdʒĩɲu]) or Ronaldinho Gaúcho, is a Brazilian footballer who is currently a free agent and plays for the Brazilian national team as an attacking midfielder or forward. He is a two-time winner of the FIFA World Player of the Year, awarded to the best player over the year. He won the award in both 2004 and 2005.
"Ronaldinho," the diminutive and term of endearment for "Ronaldo," is accompanied in Brazilian usage by the nickname "Gaúcho," in order to distinguish him from fellow footballer and countryman Ronaldo, who was known as "Ronaldinho" in Brazil beforehand. Ronaldo simply went by his first name upon his move to Europe, thereby allowing Ronaldinho to drop the "Gaúcho" and go by the name Ronaldinho abroad.
Prior to his move to Flamengo, he played for Paris Saint-Germain F.C., FC Barcelona and A.C. Milan. With the Spanish club, he won his first Champions League in 2006 and the Ballon d'Or in 2005. He became a Spanish citizen in January 2007.
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Ronaldo
Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima (Portuguese pronunciation: [χoˈnawdu luˈiz naˈzaɾiu dʒi ˈlimɐ]; born 18 September 1976), commonly known as Ronaldo, is a retired Brazilian footballer who last played for Corinthians. He is considered by experts and fans as one of the greatest football players of all time. In 2012, he was voted Goal.com's "Player of the Decades" in an online poll gathering 29.55% of all votes. He won his first Ballon d'Or as the European Footballer of the Year in 1997 (aged only 21) and again won the award in 2002 (26 years old). Additionally, he is one of only three men to have won the FIFA Player of the Year award three times, along with French footballer Zinedine Zidane and Argentine striker Lionel Messi.
Considered by many as the most complete striker in the past 30 years, in 2007, he was named as one of the best starting eleven of all-time by France Football and was named to the FIFA 100, a list of the greatest footballers compiled by fellow countryman Pelé. In 2010, he was voted Goal.com's "Player of the Decade" in an online poll, gathering 43.63 percent of all votes and was also included as centre forward in the "Team of the Decade". On 23 February 2010, Ronaldo announced that he would retire after the 2011 season, signing a two-year contract extension with the Corinthians at the same time. Ronaldo has played for Brazil in 98 international matches, scoring 62 goals. He was a part of the Brazilian squad that won the 1994 and 2002 World Cups. During the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Ronaldo became the highest goalscorer in the history of the World Cup with his fifteenth goal, surpassing Gerd Müller's previous record of 14. He is also the only player to have won the World Cup Golden Ball and Golden Boot in separate tournaments. Having suffered a string of serious injuries throughout his career, Ronaldo retired on 14 February 2011, citing pain and hypothyroidism as the reasons for his premature retirement.
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Roy Keane
Roy Maurice Keane (born 10 August 1971) is an Irish former footballer and manager. In his 18-year playing career, he played for Cobh Ramblers, Nottingham Forest, and Manchester United, before ending his career at Celtic. Keane was a dominating central-midfielder, noted for his aggressive and highly competitive style of play, an attitude which helped him excel as captain of Manchester United from 1997 until his departure in 2005, having joined the club in 1993. Keane helped United achieve a sustained period of success in more than 12 years at the club. He then signed for Celtic but retired as a player less than a year later.
He played at international level for much of his career, representing the Republic of Ireland over a period of 14 years, most of which he spent as captain. He played in every Republic of Ireland game at the 1994 FIFA World Cup, although he was sent home from the 2002 World Cup after an incident with national coach Mick McCarthy.
He was appointed manager of Sunderland shortly after his retirement as a player, and took the club from 23rd position in the Football League Championship in late August to win the division title and gain promotion to the Premier League. Keane's arrival was cited as the catalyst for Sunderland's recovery. He managed to keep Sunderland from relegation in the 2007–08 season, but in his second season as a top-flight manager he left his position with Sunderland in the relegation zone. In April 2009, he was appointed as manager of Ipswich Town, but was sacked by the club in January 2011 with them 19th in the Championship.
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Ruud van Nistelrooy
Rutgerus Johannes Martinus "Ruud" van Nistelrooij (Dutch pronunciation: [ryt vɑn ˈnɪstəlroːi̯] ( listen); born 1 July 1976) is a retired Dutch footballer. He is the second-highest goalscorer in Champions League history with 60 goals. He is a three-time Champions League top scorer, as well as a top scorer in three different European domestic leagues. He was a pure goal scorer known for his shooting ability, calmness in front of goal and positioning.
Van Nistelrooy began his career with Den Bosch, before moving onto Heerenveen, eventually making a name for himself at PSV Eindhoven where he won two Dutch leagues. His goalscoring record at PSV attracted attention from Manchester United; a deal was in place in the summer of 2000, but because of injury problems his move was secured a year later for a then British record fee of £19 million. His time at United was successful, winning the Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup and FA Community Shield, along with winning the Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year twice. Van Nistelrooy hit 150 goals in just 219 games for United, as well as being their all time European record goalscorer, but fell out of favour towards the end of his tenure. Real Madrid then secured his services in 2006. Although an injury blighted the end of his days with Madrid, he did win La Liga twice and the Supercopa de España before signing for Hamburg during the January transfer window in 2010. After a season-and-a-half with Hamburg, he moved back to Spain with Málaga in the summer of 2011. His retirement from football was announced on 14 May 2012.
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Ryan Giggs
Ryan Joseph Giggs OBE (born Ryan Joseph Wilson on 29 November 1973) is a Welsh footballer who plays for Manchester United. Giggs made his first appearance for the club during the 1990–91 season and has been a regular player since the 1991–92 season. He established himself as a left winger during the 1990s, and continuing in this position well into the 2000s, though he has been increasingly used in a deeper playmaking role in his latter years. Giggs is known for his tireless running, ball possession and ability to create goalscoring opportunities for those around him.
Giggs is the most decorated player in English football history. He also holds the club record for competitive appearances. During his time at United, he has won 12 Premier League winner's medals, four FA Cup winner's medals, three League Cup winner's medals and two Champions League winner's medals. He has two runner-up medals from the Champions League, three FA Cup finals and two League Cup finals, as well as being part of the team five times when it finished second in the Premier League. In recent years, Giggs has captained the team on numerous occasions, particularly in the 2007–08 season when regular captain Gary Neville was ruled out with various injuries.
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Ryan Green
Ryan Michael Green (born 20 October 1980) is a Wales international footballer who plays as a defender for Hereford United. He is perhaps best known for breaking Ryan Giggs's record as the youngest player to be capped for the Wales national football team, a record which has since been surpassed.
Born in Cardiff, Green began his career as a trainee with Wolverhampton Wanderers turning professional in October 1997. He made his Wolves first team debut on 10 November 1998, in a 2–1 victory against Sheffield United at Molineux. After 70 minutes he suffered a medial ligament injury which sidelined him for six months. He struggled to establish himself at Wolves and joined Torquay United on loan in March 2001, playing ten times as Torquay successfully fought off relegation to the Conference. However he scored an own goal in the final game of the season, a 3–2 win away to Barnet which nonetheless resulted in Torquay surviving at Barnet's expense.
He moved to Millwall on a free transfer in October 2001, and almost joined Bradford City in 2002, a move scuppered by the financial impact on Football League clubs of the ITV Digital collapse. Instead he joined Cardiff City on a monthly contract in November 2002, joining Sheffield Wednesday two weeks later. He was released by Wednesday at the end of the season, joining Hereford United in July 2003. In three seasons with Hereford he made a total of 117 appearances, scoring 4 goals. His first senior goal came against Telford United when, in the third minute of injury time, he ran the length of the pitch to get into a position to score the winning goal. He scored his most notable goal in his final match for the Bulls, the 2006 Conference play-off final against Halifax Town. In the second period of extra time, he curled a shot into the top left corner of the goal, which secured Hereford's return to the Football League. However he left shortly afterwards, on 31 May 2006, signing a two-year contract with Bristol Rovers.
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Ryan Tunnicliffe
Ryan Tunnicliffe (born 30 December 1992) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Manchester United. He has also played internationally for England at under-16 and under-17 levels.
Born in Bury, Tunnicliffe was first scouted by Manchester United at the age of nine, while playing for local side Roach Dynamos. He progressed through the Manchester United academy and signed as a scholar in July 2009. He turned professional in December the same year.
He was a "key performer" as the United under-18 side won the FA Youth Cup in 2011. His performances that season earned him the clubs Jimmy Murphy Young Player of the Year award.
On 1 July 2011, Manchester United agreed for Tunnicliffe to spend a six month loan spell at Peterborough United, alongside teammate Scott Wootton. He made his debut in the opening game of the season on 6 August in a 2–1 home win over Crystal Palace, coming on as a substitute for Lee Frecklington in the 87th minute. He then made his first start in a League Cup game against Stevenage and set up the opening goal for team-mate David Ball.
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Sam Johnstone
Samuel Luke "Sam" Johnstone (born 25 March 1993) is an English footballer who plays for Manchester United.
Johnstone joined Manchester United at academy level; in the 2010–11 season, he was number one keeper in the academy, where he shared the duties the previous season. On 26 July 2011, Johnstone joined League One side Oldham Athletic on loan, as both of their first-choice 'keepers were sidelined by injury. He made two appearances, both in pre-season friendlies; a 0–0 home draw with Burnley and a 1–0 away victory against Fleetwood Town, before returning to his parent club. On 9 September 2011, Johnstone joined League One side Scunthorpe United, on a one-month loan after their first choice keeper Josh Lillis suffered a long-term injury. the following day he made his debut at the Glanford Park in a 1–1 draw to Sheffield United. On 19 October 2011, Johnstone dislocated his finger during a training session, making Scunthrope United search for a emergency goalkeeper once again. On 10 November 2011, Scunthorpe extend the loan until 9 December 2011, which was then extended to 10 January 2012. He started in the reserve league play-off final, against Aston Villa, which ended 0-0 after 90 minutes, and he made the winning save to win United the cup.
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Sami Hyypiä
Sami Hyypiä (born 7 October 1973) is a retired Finnish footballer and current manager of German club Bayer Leverkusen. He last played for German Bundesliga side Bayer 04 Leverkusen and was the captain of the Finland national football team. He joined Leverkusen in summer 2009, ending a ten year spell at Liverpool. On 2 May 2011, Hyypiä announced his intention to retire from professional football at the end of the 2010–11 season in order to take up a coaching role with Bayer Leverkusen.
Hyypiä began his career with Ykkönen side KuMu and soon moved to Veikkausliiga outfit MyPa. He spent four years at the club, helping them win the Finnish Cup in 1992 and 1995. He moved to Willem II Tilburg in 1995 and spent the next four years there. He became the team captain and was nominated their player of the year after helping them qualify for the UEFA Champions League.
Hyypiä moved to Liverpool, the team he supported as a child, in a deal worth £2.6 million. He quickly established himself in the first team, partnering Stéphane Henchoz in defence. By 2001, he regularly captained the team and that season Liverpool won a slew of honours, completing a cup treble of the League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Cup, in addition to winning the UEFA Super Cup and FA Community Shield. He became first choice captain in the 2001–02 season and was part of the Football League Cup winning team in 2003. Steven Gerrard superseded him as captain in 2003 but Hyypiä still occasionally captained the side in his absence. Hyypiä won his highest football honour in 2005 as a part of Liverpool's victorious 2004–05 Champions League campaign. He is fondly remembered by many fans as a Liverpool legend.
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Scott Gibbs
Scott Gibbs (born 23 January 1971 in Bridgend) is a former rugby footballer who represented Wales and the Lions in rugby union and Wales and Great Britain in rugby league. His most memorable feats were his performance in the 1997 British Lions tour to South Africa (in which he was named "Player of the Series") and the superb individual try he scored in the dying minutes of the last ever Five Nations match in 1999 against England.
Gibbs started his Rugby career at Pencoed RFC at mini and youth level, his first class career started at Bridgend RFC during the 1990/91, followed by a short spell at Neath RFC, before making his Welsh debut in 1991 against England. However he moved to Swansea RFC in January 1992, scoring a try on his debut in a Cup game against Oakdale. Gibbs also scored further tries that season in the cup against Neath RFC and Newport RFC to help Swansea reach the final where they lost to Llanelli RFC at Cardiff Arms Park.
Despite being only 22, he was selected for the 1993 British Lions tour to New Zealand, where he impressed so much that he was selected for the second and third tests instead of then-England captain Will Carling.
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Scott Parker
Scott Matthew Parker (born 13 October 1980) is an English footballer who plays for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur. He is the FWA Footballer of the Year for the 2010–11 season. He has represented England at every level from under-16 to senior. Uniquely, he won his first four England caps while playing for four different clubs. He is known as a tough tackling central midfielder.
Parker was born in Lambeth, London, and attended Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College in New Cross Gate. As a 13 year old, he appeared in a well-known British advert for McDonald's, in which he played keepie uppie, during the 1994 FIFA World Cup campaign. Parker is a graduate of The Football Association's now-defunct national School of Excellence at Lilleshall.
After graduating from Lilleshall, Parker signed for Charlton Athletic as a trainee and made his first team debut as a substitute against Bury in the First Division on 23 August 1997, a game which ended 0–0. He signed his first professional contract with the club two months later. Over the next couple of years he made only a few sporadic substitute appearances for Charlton, although he was one of the brightest prospects in English football. In October 2000 Charlton, then in the Premier League, loaned Parker to First Division side Norwich City for two months to give the England under-21 international some first team experience. At Norwich he scored once against Sheffield Wednesday. On his return to The Valley, Parker was immediately called into the first team to replace injured captain Mark Kinsella. Parker played so well for Charlton that, upon his return from injury, Kinsella could not regain his place in the starting line-up. Parker soon became the linchpin of Charlton's midfield, combining tenacious tackling with an ability to carry the ball quickly from defence to attack and play telling passes, creating many chances for his teammates. He played 145 times for Charlton, scoring 10 goals.
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Sean McGinty
Sean Andrew McGinty (born 11 August 1993) is an English-Irish footballer who plays as a defender for Manchester United.
McGinty was born in Maidstone, Kent. He spent three years in the youth setup at Charlton Athletic before moving to Manchester United in July 2009. He progressed through the youth academy and was part of the side that won the 2010–11 FA Youth Cup, before signing a pro contract in the summer of 2011. On 27 February 2012, McGinty signed for Football League Two side Morecambe on an initial loan until 31 March, with an option to extend. He made his debut the next day in a 2–1 defeat to Dagenham & Redbridge at the Globe Arena. On 12 March 2012, McGinty returned to Manchester United after he dislocated his shoulder in the match against Hereford United.
Statistics accurate as of match played on 10 March 2012
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Sebastian Coe
Sebastian Newbold Coe, Baron Coe, KBE (born 29 September 1956), often known as Seb Coe, is an English former athlete and politician. As a middle distance runner, Coe won four Olympic medals, including the 1500 metres gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and set eight outdoor and three indoor world records in middle distance track events (and also participated in a world record relay). His rivalries with fellow Britons Steve Ovett and Steve Cram dominated middle-distance racing for much of the 1980s.
Following his retirement from athletics he served as a Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party from 1992–97, and became a life peer in 2000. He was the head of the London bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, and, after the International Olympic Committee awarded the games to London, became the chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. In 2007, he was also elected a vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations. On 25 August 2011, he was re-elected for another four year term.
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Sergio Busquets
Sergio Busquets Burgos (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈserxjo βusˈkets], Catalan: [βusˈkɛts]; born 16 July 1988) is a Spanish footballer who plays for FC Barcelona and the Spanish national team, as a defensive midfielder.
He was a relatively obscure player when he arrived in FC Barcelona's first team in July 2008, but eventually made a name for himself in a relatively short period of time, reaching the Spanish national team in less than one year after making his professional club debut.
Busquets was born in Sabadell, Barcelona, Catalonia. In 2005, he joined local FC Barcelona's youth ranks, scoring seven goals in 26 matches for the Juvenil A team in his second season. Two years later, he was promoted to the B team under Josep Guardiola, and helped it achieve promotion to the third division. In that same season he would make his first-team debut, coming on as a substitute in a Catalonia Cup match.
On 13 September 2008, Busquets played his first La Liga match, 90 minutes in a 1–1 home draw against Racing de Santander. During Barcelona's UEFA Champions League match against FC Basel at St. Jakob-Park on 22 October 2008, he scored the second goal in the 15th minute in a 5–0 group stage win. In early December, in another start, he scored his second goal with Barça in the competition, netting in the 83rd minute of a 2–3 home loss against FC Shakhtar Donetsk. On 22 December, Busquets signed a contract extension until 2013, with a buy-out clause of €80 million.
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Shane Williams
Shane Mark Williams (born 26 February 1977) is a Welsh former international rugby union player who has played as a wing for the Ospreys. He can also play scrum-half. Williams is the record try scorer for the Wales national team and he is third on the international list of leading Rugby union Test try scorers behind Daisuke Ohata and David Campese. He is Wales' most capped winger.
In 2008, Williams was selected as the IRB International Player of the Year.
Williams is well known for his side-step, acceleration and his ability to find open space through opposition defence. He has been described as one of the most exciting wingers in the world.
Since his retirement from international rugby in 2012, Williams has worked as a presenter on S4C's Six Nations rugby programme Y Clwb Rygbi Rhyngwladol. Williams has been selected in the Barbarians squad. If he plays, it is likely to be his last ever appearance as a player.
Williams was born in Morriston in Swansea, but grew up in Glanaman in the Amman Valley. He picked up his first rugby ball while still in primary school, and was always small for his age, even going into secondary school at Amman Valley Comprehensive School (now Ysgol Dyffryn Aman). Told that he was too small to play rugby, Williams took up football instead, playing for Cwmamman United A.F.C.; in his first appearance for the club's junior team, Williams had to play in goal as no one else would volunteer to take the position. Williams' former junior football coach, Alun Rees, remembers him as a "superb goalkeeper", but notes that he could also play outfield. Williams played for Cwmamman United up to the senior level, while only playing rugby sporadically, and admits that, at the time, football was "[his] main sport". However, on the day of Cwmamman United's cup final, Williams was invited to play rugby with his friends at Amman United RFC; Amman United ended up winning by 82 points, with Williams scoring five tries.
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Shay Given
Séamus John James "Shay" Given (born 20 April 1976) is an Irish footballer who plays for Aston Villa and the Republic of Ireland national team as a goalkeeper.
With 121 international caps over the last 15 years, Given has made more appearances for the Republic of Ireland than any other player in history. With more than 100 caps, he is thus a member of the FIFA Century Club. He gained his first international cap in 1996, and has rarely missed a full international game since. He played in goal during every match for his country during the 2002 FIFA World Cup campaign, helping them to reach the knockout stage. He was later on the pitch in Paris when the Republic was controversially knocked out of the playoffs for a spot in the 2010 FIFA World Cup by France before helping his team qualify for UEFA Euro 2012.
Given started his playing career as a youth goalkeeper at Celtic in the early 1990s, leaving in 1994 having been deemed surplus to requirements, Given was part of the Sunderland team who won the Football League First Division title in 1995–96, while on loan from Blackburn Rovers. He was signed by Newcastle United in 1997, and it was there that he began competing to be a first-choice Premier League goalkeeper. Given was part of the teams who came runners-up in the 1998 and 1999 FA Cup campaigns, and was named in the Premier League Team of the Season for 2001–02 and 2005–06. He played in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup with Newcastle, and was involved in the club's title challenge in 2001–02. Although he submitted a transfer request during the 2000–01 campaign after losing his position in the starting lineup, it was denied, and Given went on to regain his place.
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Sion Cleaver
Sion Cleaver is a sports Journalist based in the United Kingdom, specialising in football reporting. He currently works as a match reporter for Goal.com and is a Welsh language reporter for Wrexham F.C. He regularly contributes to Backpage Football and has previously written for Merthyr Town F.C., Brash Games and the short-lived computing magazine RISC OS Now.
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Stanley Matthews
Sir Stanley Matthews, CBE (1 February 1915 – 23 February 2000) was an English footballer. Often regarded as one of the greatest players of the English game, he is the only player to have been knighted while still playing, as well as being the first winner of both the European Footballer of the Year and the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year awards. Matthews' nicknames included "The Wizard of the Dribble" and "The Magician".
A near-vegetarian teetotaller, he kept fit enough to play at the top level until he was 50 years old. He was also the oldest player ever to play in England's top football division and the oldest player ever to represent the country. He played his final competitive game in 1985, at the age of 70. Matthews was also an inaugural inductee to the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002 to honour his contribution to the English game.
He spent nineteen years with Stoke City, playing for the "Potters" from 1932 to 1947, and again from 1961 to 1965. He helped Stoke to the Second Division title in 1932–33 and 1962–63. In between his two spells at Stoke he spent fourteen years with Blackpool; where he became an FA Cup winner in 1953 (known as the Matthews Final), after he was on the losing side in the 1948 and 1951 finals. Between 1937 and 1957 he won 54 caps for England, playing in the FIFA World Cup in 1950 and 1954, and winning nine British Home Championship titles.
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Stephen Carr
Stephen Carr (born 29 August 1976 in Dublin) is an Irish footballer who plays for and captains Birmingham City. He previously played for the Premier League teams Tottenham Hotspur and, for a shorter spell, Newcastle United. He is a former international player with the Republic of Ireland. His position is right back, but had been known to deputise at left back or centre back when required.
As a fifteen year old, Carr went on trial from Stella Maris Football Club where he played his schoolboy football to Tottenham Hotspur and was signed up by then manager Ossie Ardiles. He made his debut for the club on 29 September 1993 away to Ipswich Town in the 1993–94 Premier League season. However he had to wait until the 1996–97 season to establish himself as a regular first-team player, when he made 28 appearances that campaign.
He picked up a League Cup medal with Spurs in 1999 after contributing to a 1–0 win over Leicester City in the final. The 1999-00 Premier League season was arguably his best ever as far as his performances are concerned, as well as scoring a fantastic 35-yard screamer[citation needed] against champions Manchester United.
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Steve Cram
Stephen "Steve" Cram MBE (born 14 October 1960, in Jarrow, Tyneside, England) is a British retired athlete. Along with fellow Britons Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, he was one of the world's dominant middle distance runners during the 1980s. Nicknamed "The Jarrow Arrow", Cram set world records in the 1500 metres, 2000 metres and the mile during a 19-day period in the summer of 1985. He was the first man to run 1500 metres under 3 minutes and 30 seconds. He won the 1500 metres gold medal at the 1983 World Championships, and the 1500 metres silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games.
In 2008 Cram was appointed Chancellor of the University of Sunderland, replacing Lord Puttnam, and in 2009 elected as President of Jarrow & Hebburn Athletics Club.
Steve Cram is UK ambassador for Atos Origin, the Worldwide IT Partner for the International Olympic Committee, for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
In 1980, Cram won his place in the British Olympic team after finishing in 2nd place to Ovett in the mile at Crystal Palace. The race had been marked as a run-off between Cram and Scottish miler Graham Williamson for the final place (a selection decision which was severely criticized by Ovett in his 1984 autobiography). Cram, aged 19, reached the final of the 1500 metres at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, in which Coe and Steve Ovett famously vied for the gold medal. Cram finished well down the field, in eighth place, but healthier for the experience.
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Steve Davis
Steve Davis, OBE (born 22 August 1957 in Plumstead, London) is an English professional snooker player. He has won more professional titles in the sport than any other player, including six World Championships during the 1980s, when he was the world number one for seven years and became the sport's first millionaire. He has won 28 ranking events in total, second only to Stephen Hendry.
Davis' achievements also include three Masters and a record six UK Championship titles. In 1988 he became the first player to complete snooker's Triple Crown in a single season. He is also a former four-time World Doubles champion with Tony Meo and won the World Team Classic/World Cup four times with England. In 1982, he became the first player to compile a televised maximum break and is one of four players to have compiled over 300 competitive century breaks. Though he has not won a major tournament since 1997, he continues to play snooker at a high level and reached the quarter-finals at the 2010 World Championship. He was still ranked in the world's top 16 at the age of 50, and is ranked number 51 after the 2012 World Championship.
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Steve Finnan
Stephen John "Steve" Finnan (born 24 April 1976 in Limerick, Ireland) is a retired Irish international footballer who played as a right back. He is the only player to have played in the World Cup, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, Intertoto Cup, all four levels of the English league football and the Football Conference.
Finnan was born in the Janesboro area of Limerick City, and moved to Chelmsford, England at a young age. He began his career playing in Wimbledon's youth system, but he joined non-League club Welling United in 1993 after being released at the age of 16. Finnan turned professional when he signed with Birmingham City in 1995, who paid a fee of £100,000 to Welling United to acquire his services. He scored his first professional goal against Watford.
Finnan made a loan switch to Notts County in March 1996, making his debut in a 2–1 victory over Walsall and scoring his first goal a month later in a 4–2 victory over Bristol Rovers. He appeared in all of Notts game for the remainder of the season, helping the team finish fourth in the Second Division and qualify for the promotion play-offs. In the first leg of the semi-finals held at the Alexandria Stadium he scored against Crewe Alexandra, with the match ending 2–2. The return leg at home saw Notts win 1–0, winning 3–2 on aggregate. In the Final of the play-offs against Bradford City at Wembley Stadium, Notts County lost 2–0. He returned to Birmingham following the conclusion of the loan deal.
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Steve McManaman
Steven McManaman (born 11 February 1972) is a retired English footballer who played as a midfielder, winger and playmaker. Having spent his playing career at two of European football's most successful clubs of the 20th century,Liverpool and Real Madrid, as well as a spell at Manchester City, McManaman is the most decorated English footballer to have played at any foreign club in terms of trophies won overseas.
McManaman was the first British player to win the UEFA Champions League title twice, and was also the first English footballer to win the Champions League with a non-English club. In 2008, he was ranked third in a Top 10 of greatest British footballers to play overseas, just behind Kevin Keegan and John Charles.
He is also notable for a contractual saga in the late 1990s, that resulted in his football transfer becoming one of the most controversial and high profile Bosman ruling related transfers of all time, with the deal resulting in McManaman once becoming the highest paid British player in history, for the years 1999 through 2001.
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Steve Moran
Stephen James "Steve" Moran, (born Croydon 10 January 1961) was a pacy mobile striker who was one of the stars for Southampton during the mid 1980s. Moran was one of the finest strikers that Southampton has possessed. He had a knack of scoring some crucial goals for the club and had a fine understanding with midfielders Steve Williams and David Armstrong.
Moran attended Prices School in Fareham and appeared regularly for his school team, where he was spotted by scouts. He signed for Southampton in August 1979 and made his debut as a substitute in a 4–1 home win against Manchester City in January 1980, scoring with his very first touch of the ball.
In the 1980–81 season, Moran scored 18 goals in 30 starts in the league, and in 1982 he was voted PFA Young Player of the Year.
Among the 99 goals that Moran scored for the Saints were a hat-trick in an 8–2 victory over Coventry City at The Dell in April 1984, during the club's most successful ever league season, when they finished as runners-up to Liverpool. In the same year, Moran scored an injury-time winner in the 4th Round of the FA Cup, away to arch rivals Portsmouth. David Armstrong crossed from the right and Moran arrived at the back post to volley left-footed past the Pompey 'keeper Alan Knight.
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Steve Ovett
Stephen Michael James "Steve" Ovett OBE (born 9 October 1955), is a former middle distance runner from England. He was gold medalist in the 800 metres at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, U.S.S.R., and set world records for 1500 metres and the mile run. To this day, he holds the UK record for 2 miles (3,219 m), which he set in 1978.
Born in Brighton, Sussex, and educated at Varndean School, Ovett was a talented teenage athlete. As a youngster, he showed great promise as a footballer, but gave it up for athletics, because he did not want to do a sport where he would have to rely on teammates.[citation needed]
His first major athletics title came in 1973, when he won the European junior 800m, followed the next year in Rome with a silver in the senior event. He won AAA titles in the 800m from 1974 to 1976, in the 1500m in 1979 and in the mile in 1980. At age 18, he won the silver medal at 800 metres in the 1974 European Athletics Championships, setting a new European Junior 800m record of 1:45.77 in the process.
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Steve Redgrave
Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave CBE (born on 23 March 1962, in Marlow, Buckinghamshire) is a retired English rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000 as well as a bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Games. He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships gold medals. He has carried the British flag at the opening of the Olympic Games on two occasions. In 2011 he received the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award
Redgrave is one of only four Olympians to have won a gold medal at five consecutive Olympic Games. This achievement led to him being hailed as Britain's greatest Olympian.
He married Ann Callaway (now Lady Redgrave) in 1988; an accomplished rower in her own right, Ann represented Great Britain in the women's eight at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 and was Chief Medical Officer to the GB rowing team from 1992 - 2001.
Redgrave was educated at Great Marlow School, a state secondary comprehensive school in Marlow in Buckinghamshire.
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Steven Gerrard
Steven George Gerrard MBE ( /ˈdʒɛrɑrd/; born 30 May 1980) is an English footballer who plays for and captains Premier League club Liverpool. He also has 91 caps for the England national team. He has played much of his career in a centre midfield role, but he has also been used as a second striker and right winger.
Gerrard, who has spent his entire career at Anfield, made his début in 1998 and cemented his place in the first team in 2000, succeeding Sami Hyypiä as team captain in 2003. His honours include two FA Cups, three League Cups, one UEFA Champions League, one UEFA Cup, and two Super Cups. In 2005, Gerrard came third in voting for the Ballon d'Or.
Gerrard made his international debut in 2000 and has represented England at the Euro 2000 and Euro 2004, as well as the 2006 World Cup where he was the team's top goalscorer with two goals. Gerrard first captained his country at the 2010 World Cup in the absence of regular captain Rio Ferdinand, who missed the tournament through injury. He was named again as England captain for the Euro 2012.
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Stirling Moss
Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss, OBE FIE (Fellow of the Institute of Engineers) (born 17 September 1929 in London) is a former racing driver from England. His success in a variety of categories placed him among the world's elite—he is often called "the greatest driver never to win the World Championship".
Moss was educated at two independent schools: at Clewer Manor Junior School, a preparatory school linked to the senior school Haileybury and Imperial Service College, and then to the senior school, both of which were for boys (but are now co-educational), and located at Hertford Heath, near Hertford in Hertfordshire.
Moss, who raced from 1948 to 1962, won 212 of the 529 races he entered, including 16 Formula One Grands Prix. He would compete in as many as 62 races in a single year and drove 84 different makes of car over the course of his racing career, including Lotus, Vanwall, Maserati, Jaguar, Ferrari and Porsche. Like many drivers of the era, he competed in several formulae—very often on the same day.
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Sylvinho
Sylvio Mendes Campos Junior (born 12 April 1974 in São Paulo, Brazil), commonly known as Sylvinho (sometimes alternatively spelled Silvinho) is a retired Brazilian footballer, who played for Corinthians, Arsenal, Celta Vigo, FC Barcelona and Manchester City. He usually played on the left as an attacking left back and is known for his overlapping runs.
He started his career at Corinthians from 1994 until 1999. In 1999 he became the first ever Brazilian player to sign for English club Arsenal, who he signed for ahead of North London rivals Tottenham Hotspur who made numerous offers for the Brazilian. Before long he was first choice at left back displacing long-time fan-favourite Nigel Winterburn. He had a setback early on in his first season when he missed a penalty in a shootout as Arsenal crashed out of the League Cup to Middlesbrough, and that season finished in similar heartbreak as Arsenal lost 4–1 on penalties against Turkish club Galatasaray in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final, although this time he did not take a penalty. During his second season at the club he was displaced by Ashley Cole. His stay only lasted for two years but in his short spell there he gained many friends and admirers and scored several spectacular goals including ones against Sheffield Wednesday,Charlton Athletic and Chelsea. He also scored twice in the Champions League for Arsenal against Sparta Prague and Spartak Moscow.
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Teddy Sheringham
Edward Paul "Teddy" Sheringham MBE (born 2 April 1966) is a retired English footballer, and the father of footballer Charlie Sheringham. Sheringham played as a striker, and had a successful career at the club level, winning almost every domestic honour available with his clubs, most notably the Treble with Manchester United in the 1998–99 season. The pinnacle of his career came when he scored the equaliser and provided the assist for Manchester United's winning goal in the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final against Bayern Munich. Sheringham also represented England at international level. He was awarded an MBE in June 2007. He retired from competitive football at the end of the 2007–08 season with Colchester United, at the age of 42, after a career lasting 25 years.
Sheringham began his professional career at Millwall in 1982 at the age of 16, after impressing a scout when playing for non-league club Leytonstone & Ilford during a youth team game against Millwall. He was signed up, initially as an apprentice and scored on only his second appearance for the club in a match away at Bournemouth in January 1984. After being loaned out by the club twice in 1985 to Aldershot and later a Swedish side, Djurgården, he quickly became a first choice selection at Millwall and during the late 1980s formed a striking partnership with Tony Cascarino. He was the club's top goalscorer in four seasons (1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89 and 1990–91) and played in every game of the season twice, in 1986–87 and 1990–91.
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Terry McDermott
Terence "Terry" McDermott (born 8 December 1951 in Liverpool) is a former football midfielder and coach. He is the father of Newcastle United player Greg McDermott and Marsaxlokk player Neale McDermott
McDermott joined Bury as a youngster in 1969. He made a total of 90 appearances and eight goals before joining Newcastle United in 1973.
Manager Joe Harvey gave McDermott his Newcastle debut on 17 March 1973, at Old Trafford, with a match against Manchester United. He came off the bench but could not do anything to prevent Newcastle losing 2-1.
McDermott reached the FA Cup Final in 1974 against Liverpool. However, Newcastle lost the match 3-0.
Liverpool boss Bob Paisley, in his first season in charge after replacing Bill Shankly, brought McDermott to Merseyside in November 1974. He made his Liverpool debut, along with Phil Neal, on 16 November, in a Merseyside derby with fierce rivals Everton at Goodison Park. Neither side could break the deadlock with both sides sharing the points. McDermott's first goal came in a 1-1 league draw with Burnley at Turf Moor on 8 March 1975.
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Thierry Henry
Thierry Daniel Henry (French pronunciation: [tjɛʁi ɑ̃ʁi]; born 17 August 1977) is a French footballer who plays as a striker for New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer.
Henry was born in Les Ulis, Essonne (a suburb of Paris) where he played for an array of local sides as a youngster and showed great promise as a goal-scorer. He was spotted by AS Monaco in 1990 and signed instantly, making his professional debut in 1994. Good form led to an international call-up in 1998, after which he signed for the Serie A defending champions Juventus. He had a disappointing season playing on the wing, before joining Arsenal for £11 million in 1999.
It was at Arsenal that Henry made his name as a world-class footballer. Despite initially struggling in the Premier League, he emerged as Arsenal's top goal-scorer for almost every season of his tenure there. Under long-time mentor and coach Arsène Wenger, Henry became a prolific striker and Arsenal's all-time leading scorer with 228 goals in all competitions. The Frenchman won two league titles and three FA Cups with the Gunners; he was nominated for the FIFA World Player of the Year twice, was named the PFA Players' Player of the Year twice, and the FWA Footballer of the Year three times. Henry spent his final two seasons with Arsenal as club captain, leading them to the 2006 UEFA Champions League Final.
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Thomas Müller
Thomas Müller (German pronunciation: [ˈtʰoː.mas ˈmʏ.lɐ]; born 13 September 1989) is a German footballer who plays for Bayern Munich and the German national team. Müller plays as a midfielder or forward, and has been deployed in a variety of attacking roles—as an attacking midfielder, second striker, and on either wing. He has been praised for his pace, technique and composure, and has shown consistency in scoring and creating goals. A product of Bayern's youth system, he made his first-team breakthrough in the 2009–10 season after Louis van Gaal was appointed as the main coach; he played almost every game as the club won the league and cup double and reached the Champions League final. This accomplishment earned him an international call-up, and at the end of the season he was named in Germany's squad for the 2010 World Cup, where he scored five goals in six appearances as the team finished in third place. He was named as the Best Young Player of the tournament and won the Golden Boot as the tournament's top scorer, with five goals and three assists.
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Tom Cleverley
Thomas William "Tom" Cleverley (born 12 August 1989) is an English footballer who plays mainly as a central attacking midfielder in the Premier League for Manchester United.
After starting his career in the youth setup at Bradford City, Cleverley joined Manchester United at the age of 12. Between 2007 and 2009 he played for Manchester United's reserve team, and occasionally in first team friendly matches. Cleverley was loaned to League One side Leicester City at the start of 2009, for whom he made his first Football League appearances, helping the team secure the League One title and promotion to the Championship. He spent the 2009–10 season on loan with Watford in the Championship, where he scored 11 goals in 33 league games and was voted as their Player of the Season. On 31 August 2010 he joined Wigan Athletic on a season long loan, where he scored 4 goals in 25 appearances and helped them to avoid relegation on the final day of the season. He returned to Manchester United for the start of the 2011–12 season and made his first competitive appearance in the Community Shield victory against Manchester City.
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Tom Simpson
Tom Simpson (30 November 1937–13 July 1967) was the most successful English road racing cyclist of the post-war years. Simpson was Britain's first men's road race World Champion (a feat matched only by Mark Cavendish in 2011), and won three monument classics, Paris-Nice and two Vuelta a España stages. He infamously died of exhaustion on the slopes of Mont Ventoux during the 13th stage of the Tour de France in 1967. The post mortem found that he had taken amphetamine and alcohol, a diuretic combination which proved fatal when combined with the heat, the hard climb of the Ventoux and a stomach complaint.
Simpson was the youngest of the six children of coalmine worker Tom Simpson senior and his wife Alice, née Cheetham, and was born in Haswell, County Durham. Tom senior worked at nearby South Hetton Colliery, while Alice ran Haswell Workingmen's Club. After World War II, the Simpson family moved to Harworth in north Nottinghamshire, another mining village, where Simpson grew up and acquired his interest in cycling. He attended the village school and later Worksop Technical College and in 1954 was an apprentice draughtsman at an engineering company in Retford.
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Tony Cottee
Anthony Richard "Tony" Cottee (born 11 July 1965 in Plaistow, England) is an English former professional footballer and manager who now works as a television football commentator.
As a player he was a striker from 1982 until 2001, notably playing in the top flight of English football for West Ham United, Everton and Leicester City. He was capped seven times by England, and played in the Football League for Birmingham City, Norwich City and Millwall. He also had a spell in Malaysia with Selangor and spent a season as player/manager of Barnet.
He played in the 1989 FA Cup Final for Everton and won the League Cup with Leicester City in 2000. His final career tally was 579 league games and 226 goals. In all competitions, he managed 712 games and 293 goals. He exceed his ambition to score 200 league goals in his career, but fell just short of his target of 300 goals in all competitions. Still, he was one of the most prolific goalscorers that English football saw during the 1980s and 1990s.
Cottee began his career at West Ham, where he made his first team debut in the First Division against Tottenham Hotspur on 1 January 1983, at the age of 17, scoring in the process. He played a total of eight games in the 1982–83 season, scoring five goals. He established himself in the first team during the 1983–84 season, when still only 18, and scored 15 times in the league. He did even better in 1984–85, when he scored 17 First Division goals. By the age of 20, he had already managed an impressive 37 league goals.
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Tony Dorigo
Anthony Robert "Tony" Dorigo (born 31 December 1965) is an Australian-born English former professional footballer who played as a defender from 1983 to 2001.
He played for Aston Villa, Chelsea, Leeds United and the England national side., as well as Torino, Derby County and Stoke City.
Despite being born in Australia, Dorigo holds a British passport and during his playing career he represented the England team on 15 occasions. He also made 7 appearances for the England B team and 11 for the England under-21s.
He made his league debut for Aston Villa against Ipswich in 1984 as an 18 year old and would go on to win the clubs player of the year award during his time at Villa Park.
He signed for Chelsea from Aston Villa for £475,000 and he won the club's player of the year award in his first season, though they were also relegated. He helped the club win promotion back to the First Division at the first attempt. He left Chelsea in somewhat acrimonious circumstances in the summer of 1991, having made and then withdrawn a transfer request, and then seemingly fallen out with manager Bobby Campbell after being dropped from the side due to declining a new contract. He was sold to Leeds for £1.3m. He made 180 appearances for Chelsea, scoring 11 goals.
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Tony McCoy
Anthony Peter McCoy OBE (born 4 May 1974), commonly known as A. P. McCoy or Tony McCoy, is a Northern Irish horse racing jockey.
Having recorded his first win at age 17 in 1992, by 2009 he had ridden over 3,000 winners and been named British jump racing Champion Jockey every year since 1995/6. His winners included the prestigious Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle, Queen Mother Champion Chase, King George VI Chase and the 2010 Grand National, riding Don't Push It on his 15th attempt. He has ridden over 13,000 races (equivalent of 31,000 miles or 1.25 times around the earth). In addition, McCoy was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2010, becoming the first jockey to win the award.
McCoy rode his first winner, 'Legal Steps', at Thurles, on 26 March 1992 at the age of 17. Success in Ireland soon led to a move across the Irish Sea, and he began riding in England in 1994. McCoy's main trainer was Martin Pipe but they parted ways. He had begun working at a dealers yard when he was 15, and then apprenticed with Jim Bolger for 4 years.
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Tony Woodcock
Anthony Stewart "Tony" Woodcock (born 6 December 1955) is a retired English international footballer who played professionally in both England and Germany as a striker. He won the European Cup in 1979 with Nottingham Forest.
Born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, Woodcock started his career at Nottingham Forest, whom he joined as an apprentice in 1974. After loan spells at Lincoln City and Doncaster Rovers, Woodcock broke into the Forest first team in 1976-77, helping the team to promotion to the First Division. Under Brian Clough, Forest went on to win the First Division title and Football League Cup in 1978 (Woodcock winning the PFA Young Player of the Year award that year as well), and the European Cup in 1979. He also scored in Forest's victory over Southampton in the 1979 Football League Cup Final.
He made his debut for England in 1978 against Northern Ireland; he would go on to win 42 caps for his country (scoring 16 goals), and play in the 1982 FIFA World Cup.
Woodcock was signed by West German side 1. FC Köln for the 1979/80 season, where he spent three seasons. He scored 28 goals in 81 matches for the German side.
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Ubaldo Righetti
Ubaldo Righetti (born March 1, 1963 in Sermoneta) is a retired Italian professional football player.
He played 10 seasons in the Serie A for A.S. Roma, U.S. Lecce and Delfino Pescara 1936.
He scored in a penalty shootout that Roma eventually lost to Liverpool F.C. in the 1984 European Cup Final.
He currently works as a commentator for RAI.
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Vadim Evseev
Vadim Valentinovich Evseev (Russian: Вадим Валентинович Евсеев; born 8 January 1976 in Mytishchi, Moscow Oblast) is a retired Russian footballer, who recently played for Belarusian Premier League side Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino and is a former Russian international.
Evseev started to play for the Dynamo football school. In 1990, after having been left out of the international tournament in France, he moved to the Lokomotiv school. After two years at Spartak Mytishchi, in 1993 he was invited to play for the reserve team of Spartak Moscow.
He debuted for the Spartak's first team on 6 March 1996, in the Champions League quarterfinal against Nantes. In 1998 Evseev spent the second half of the season on loan in Torpedo Moscow.
Evseev played in Lokomotiv Moscow since 2000. He was then dropped to the reseve team in 2006 after having an argument with the new manager Anatoly Byshovets. By the start of the 2007 Russian Premier League he was in newly-relegated to the First Division Torpedo Moscow, but failed to accommodate and was subsequently sold to Saturn Moscow Oblast in the summer of 2007.
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Virginia Wade
Sarah Virginia Wade, OBE (born 10 July 1945) is a former English tennis player. She won three Grand Slam singles championships and four Grand Slam doubles championships. She won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon on 1 July 1977, in that tournament's centenary year, the last time any Briton has won a singles championship at that tournament. After retiring from competitive tennis, she coached for four years.
Born in Bournemouth in England, Wade learned to play tennis in South Africa, where her parents moved when she was one year old. Her father was the Archdeacon of Durban. When Wade was 15, the family moved back to England and she went to Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School and Talbot Heath School. She went on to study mathematics and physics at the University of Sussex, graduating in 1966.
Wade's tennis career spanned the end of the amateur era and the start of the open era. In 1968, she scored two notable firsts. As an amateur, she won the inaugural open tennis competition — the British Hard Court Open at Bournemouth. She turned down the US$720 first prize. Five months later, she had become a professional and captured the women's singles championship at the first U.S. Open (and the prize-money of $6,000)($40,100 today), defeating Billie Jean King in the final.
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Wayne Bridge
Wayne Michael Bridge (born 5 August 1980) is an English footballer who plays as a left back for Manchester City. A graduate of the Southampton Academy where he made his debut in 1998, he has also played for Chelsea, West Ham, Manchester City and Fulham during his Premiership career. Bridge made 36 appearances for the England national team, including representing England in the World Cup.
Bridge was born in Southampton, but moved to Winchester at an early age. He attended Oliver's Battery Primary and Kings' School, Winchester. When playing for Olivers Battery he was spotted by Micky Adams, who recommended him to Southampton, who signed him as a trainee in July 1996. He made his reserve team debut, as a centre-forward against Portsmouth on 13 August 1997 and turned professional in January 1998.
He made his first-team debut on 16 August 1998 (the opening day of the 1998–99 season) coming on as a replacement for John Beresford, who had badly damaged his knee. Bridge made his first senior start in the next match on 22 August in a 5–0 defeat away to Charlton Athletic. As Southampton struggled to pick up points (with only two points after the first nine games), Bridge played (on the left wing) in most of Saints' league games until early December before losing his place to Hassan Kachloul. For the remainder of the 1998–99 Premier League season Bridge was only used occasionally, as Saints narrowly completed their "Great Escape" from relegation. He completed his first season as a first-team player with 15 starts and 8 substitute appearances.
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Wayne Rooney
Wayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985) is an English footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team.
Rooney made his senior international debut in 2003 becoming the youngest player to represent England (a record later broken by Theo Walcott). He is England's youngest ever goalscorer. He played at UEFA Euro 2004 and scored four goals, briefly becoming the competition's youngest goalscorer. Rooney featured at the 2006 and 2010 World Cups and is widely regarded as his country's best player. He has won the England Player of the Year award twice, in 2008 and 2009. As of September 2011, he has won 73 international caps and scored 28 goals. Along with David Beckham, Rooney is the most red carded player for England, having been sent off twice.
Aged nine, Rooney joined the youth team of Everton, for whom he made his professional debut in 2002. He spent two seasons at the Merseyside club, before moving to Manchester United for £25.6 million in the 2004 summer transfer window. The same year, Rooney acquired the nickname "Wazza". Since then, with Rooney in the team, United have won the Premier League four times, the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League and two League Cups. He also holds two runner-up medals from both the Premier League and the Champions League. In April of the 2011–12 season Rooney scored his 180th goal, making him United's fourth highest goal-scorer of all time.
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Welsh people
The Welsh people (Welsh: Cymry) are an ethnic group and nation native to Wales and associated with the Welsh language. Welsh people historically spoke the Welsh language; however, in recent years English has predominated in most of Wales.
John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have been spoken in Wales far longer. The term Welsh people applies to people from Wales and people of Welsh ancestry perceiving themselves or being perceived as sharing a cultural heritage and shared ancestral origins. Today Wales is a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of people living in Wales are British citizens.
An analysis of the geography of Welsh surnames commissioned by the Welsh Government found that 718,000 people, or nearly 35% of the Welsh population, have a family name of Welsh origin, compared with 5.3% in the rest of the United Kingdom, 4.7% in New Zealand, 4.1% in Australia, and 3.8% in the United States, with an estimated 16.3 million people in the countries studied having Welsh ancestry.
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Wes Brown
Wesley Michael "Wes" Brown (born 13 October 1979) is an English footballer who plays as a defender for Sunderland. Before joining Sunderland, Brown had spent his entire career at Old Trafford, having joined the Manchester United youth team in 1996. He made his senior debut in 1998 and became a regular first team player in the 1998–99 season, in which he was part of the club's Treble-winning team. After a year-long hiatus due to injury, Brown became a regular fixture in the first team from 2000 onwards. Over the next eight years he won numerous honours, including four more Premier League titles, an FA Cup, a League Cup, and another Champions League. Manager Alex Ferguson has stated that Brown is "without question the best natural defender this club has had for years." And Gary Pallister has referred to Brown as a player who "reads the game well and has got pace to burn." He joined Sunderland in July 2011.
Brown earned his first England cap in 1999 and was selected to play at the 2002 World Cup. He played in the UEFA Euro 2008 qualifiers but England failed to progress to the final tournament. He scored his first international goal in 2008 against the Czech Republic. Brown announced his retirement from international football on 8 August 2010, just a day after being recalled to the England squad by Fabio Capello.
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Will Keane
William David Keane (born 11 January 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Manchester United. His twin brother, Michael, is a defender also with Manchester United. Keane has also represented England at youth level, unlike his brother, who has represented the Republic of Ireland, but remains eligible for England.
After being named as an unused substitute for a 2–1 defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers in the 2010–11 Premier League on 5 February 2011 and a 3–0 win over Aldershot Town in the fourth round of the 2011–12 Football League Cup on 25 October 2011, Keane made his professional debut on 31 December 2011 in a 3–2 defeat at home to Blackburn Rovers in the Premier League, coming on as a late substitute for Rafael.
Keane made his debut for the England under-16 team in a 3–1 win against Russia in 2009. He scored one goal in three appearances for the side. He was part of the England under-17 team that won the 2010 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship, appearing in the final. He made a total of fifteen appearances and scored three goals for the team. He then progressed to the under-19 side where he made six appearances and scored one goal. He received a call up to the under-21 side managed by Stuart Pearce in November 2011, and received praise from Manchester United reserve team manager Warren Joyce, with Joyce saying Keane deserved the call up after his good form for the reserve team. He made his first appearance during a 5–0 win against Iceland, coming off the bench to replace Chelsea midfielder Josh McEachran in the 78th minute. He appeared in the following game four days later against Belgium, this time coming on as a sub for Marvin Sordell of Bolton Wanderers. On 25 May 2012, he scored twice as England under-19s beat Slovenia 5–0 at Deepdale.
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Zara Phillips
Zara Anne Elizabeth Tindall MBE (née Phillips; born 15 May 1981), known commonly as Zara Phillips, is the second child and only daughter of Anne, Princess Royal and her first husband Captain Mark Phillips and is 14th in the line of succession to the throne. She is married to former England rugby union player Mike Tindall, but has kept her own name for professional purposes, referring to herself otherwise as "Mrs Tindall". She is listed as 14th in the line of succession to the 16 Commonwealth realms as Mrs Michael Tindall.
An equestrian, Phillips won the Eventing World Championship in Aachen in 2006. The same year she was voted 2006 BBC Sports Personality of the Year by the British viewing public (an award her mother won in 1971). She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2007 New Year's Honours List by her grandmother for her services to equestrianism.She has also carried an Olympic flame at Cheltenham Racecourse on her horse Toytown
She is the eldest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the time of her birth she was sixth in line to succeed her grandmother, the Queen. As of the birth of her niece Isla Phillips in 2012, she is 14th in the line of succession to the thrones of 16 independent countries.
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Giggs, Ryan Filmography
- The Greatest Footie Ads Ever (2012)
- The Million Pound Footballers' Giveaway (2007)
- Manchester United: Play Like Champions (2003)
- The Story of Football (2002)
- Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
- Manchester United: The Official History 1878-2002 (2002)
- Manchester United: Premiership Champions 2000-2001 (2001)
- Champions Again (2000)
- Manchester United: Beyond the Promised Land (2000)
- The Treble (1999)
- United in the 90's (1999)
- United in the 90's (1999)
- The Search for the Holy Grail (1998)
- Manchester United: Official Review 1997/98 Season (1998)
- 300 Premiership Goals (1998)
- That Saturday Magic: Ryan Giggs (1997)
- Champions 2: Manchester United Official Review of the 93/94 Season (1994)
- Soccer School (1994)
- Champions: Manchester United 92/93 Season Official Review (1993)
Famous quotes by Ryan Giggs:
"Being captain is great for me personally, not only to captain the country but in such a big game as well, and playing against your team-mates. I'm not a vocal captain, like other people. I just try to lead by example."
"Ten years ago we probably wouldn't have dreamt of this, both of us,"
"Roy Keane is Damien, the devil incarnate. He's evil. Even in training."
"the game of their lives."
"The main thing you want with a keeper is stability and Edwin has certainly given us that,"
"I don't think we've ever taken it [winning the league] for granted. When you win the title, you find it's even harder to defend it; Arsenal have never been able to defend a Championship and we hope Chelsea face that sort of problem this year."
"We think we've got the quality to match Chelsea and Arsenal,"
"Bringing young players through the ranks has always been one of the manager's main priorities,"
"He has settled in really well,"
"A performance like that"
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Ryan Giggs -Top 11 Goals
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Please follow @RyanGiggsStats on Twitter: tiny.cc || 12/7/2011 #62 - Top Rated (All Time) - Sport - Netherlands || Ryan Giggs scored so many great goals for Manchester United. This is my top 11: 11. Coventry City - 28 December 1992 10. Juventus - 1 October 1997 9. Juventus - 25 February 2003 8. Leeds United - 27 April 1994 7. Chelsea - 21 October 1995 6. Coventry City - 18 January 1997 5. Manchester City - 6 April 1996 4. Barnsley - 25 October 1997 3. QPR - 5 February 1994 2. Tottenham Hotspur - 19 September 1992 1. Arsenal- 14 April 1999 Music: The Killers - All These Things I've Done Please watch my latest video: Ryan Giggs, A Perfect Footballer
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Please follow @RyanGiggsStats on Twitter: tiny.cc || 12/7/2011 #62 - Top Rated (All Time) - Sport - Netherlands || Ryan Giggs scored so many great goals for Manchester United. This is my top 11: 11. Coventry City - 28 December 1992 10. Juventus - 1 October 1997 9. Juventus - 25 February 2003 8. Leeds United - 27 April 1994 7. Chelsea - 21 October 1995 6. Coventry City - 18 January 1997 5. Manchester City - 6 April 1996 4. Barnsley - 25 October 1997 3. QPR - 5 February 1994 2. Tottenham Hotspur - 19 September 1992 1. Arsenal- 14 April 1999 Music: The Killers - All These Things I've Done Please watch my latest video: Ryan Giggs, A Perfect Footballer
Legends of the Barclays Premier League - Ryan Giggs
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ESPN UK Documentary
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Ryan Giggs - 'Player at All Time' 'the Living Legend' | Hold Up the Light , Ryan.
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Ryan Giggs Interview (His Top 3 Team mates)
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a small interview from ryan giggs where he talks the top 3 players he has ever played along side
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a small interview from ryan giggs where he talks the top 3 players he has ever played along side
- published: 22 May 2012
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Ryan Giggs - Lift me up
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A compilation of Ryan Giggs greatest goals
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A compilation of Ryan Giggs greatest goals
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Ryan Giggs Tribute by BBC
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Ryan Giggs, BBC Sports Personality of year 2009! good quality and a fantastic player Music: Divenire by Ludovico Einaudi
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Ryan Giggs, BBC Sports Personality of year 2009! good quality and a fantastic player Music: Divenire by Ludovico Einaudi
- published: 23 Jan 2008
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Giggs' Man Utd dream team
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Ryan Giggs made his Manchester United debut in 1990. After more than 900 appearances for the Red Devils, incredibly he will be in Sir Alex Ferguson's squad 22 years on for the derby against City on Sunday. In this special interview recorded in conjunction with Abu Dhabi media, Giggs reveals his idea of the BEST Man Utd team from his time at the club. -------------Schmeichel------------ Neville---Ferdinand---Vidic---Irwin Ronaldo---Keane---Scholes---Giggs ------Rooney-------Cantona------ Bookmark: www.youtube.com Subscribe - www.youtube.com Twitter - twitter.com Facebook Goal UK: www.facebook.com Goal International: www.facebook.com
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Ryan Giggs made his Manchester United debut in 1990. After more than 900 appearances for the Red Devils, incredibly he will be in Sir Alex Ferguson's squad 22 years on for the derby against City on Sunday. In this special interview recorded in conjunction with Abu Dhabi media, Giggs reveals his idea of the BEST Man Utd team from his time at the club. -------------Schmeichel------------ Neville---Ferdinand---Vidic---Irwin Ronaldo---Keane---Scholes---Giggs ------Rooney-------Cantona------ Bookmark: www.youtube.com Subscribe - www.youtube.com Twitter - twitter.com Facebook Goal UK: www.facebook.com Goal International: www.facebook.com
- published: 07 Dec 2012
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Man Utd 2-0 Everton - Ryan Giggs & Rafael (Man Of The Match) Post Match Interview - 1080p
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Man Utd 2-0 Everton - Ryan Giggs & Rafael (Man Of The Match) Post Match Interview - 1080p Don't forget to like!!! Subscribe to see more videos: tinyurl.com Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use
- published: 10 Feb 2013
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Ryan Giggs v Arsenal (FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999)
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Ryan Giggs v Arsenal FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999
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Ryan Giggs v Arsenal FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999
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Ryan Giggs Assists 2001/02-2005/06
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- published: 08 Aug 2012
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Learn Ryan Giggs panna/ nutmeg skill - Manchester United - Football Soccer Skills
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Please Subscribe STEP 1: Roll the ball across your body STEP 2: kick/poke ball with trailing foot Good to get the ball through someones legs! Steve Roberts STR Skill School
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Ronaldo v Kagawa & Ryan Giggs Drools Over Girl | TGFYTCSE
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- Updated: 20 Feb 2013
Ronaldo v Kagawa beatbox battle, Giggs caught drooling over girl in Man United advert & Gareth Bale's amazing golf trick. Subscribe to Copa90: bit.ly Want to watch the very best football clips from the week in one place? Course you do! Well they're here! Watch Chris Cohen in his big astro-turf box as he finds the best YouTube football clips, and puts a Copa90 twist on them. Catch up on all the episodes here: bit.ly Clips featured in this show (14 Nov 2012): Violent Icelandic football (via Gudrun Gunnarsdottir) youtu.be Crazy Russian Football Fan (via DropTvNews) youtu.be Gareth Bale playing golf (via Gareth Bale) youtu.be Sergio Aguero on court with Juan Martin del Potro (via Beanyman62Sports) youtu.be Ivanovic on Friday Night Live (via chelseafc) youtu.be Manchester United Bakcell advert (via redarmyfanclub) youtu.be Emile Heskey rap (via raysipeladygaga) youtu.be Cristiano Ronaldo beatboxing (via NikeFootball) youtu.be Shinji Kagawa beatboxing (via adidasjapan) youtu.be Magnus Wolff Eikrem celebration (via QuickEx0tic) youtu.be Man United fans sing to Man City fans at Braga (via rooneyibk) youtu.be Fire at Volga v Zenit (via staskazavr) youtu.be Goal of the week from Lokeren's Ayanda Patosi - Belgium Pro League youtu.be Welcome to Copa90 | Football Served Fresh. Youtube Channel - bit.ly Facebook - bit.ly Google+ - bit.ly Twitter - bit.ly Leave us a comment below!
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Ronaldo v Kagawa beatbox battle, Giggs caught drooling over girl in Man United advert & Gareth Bale's amazing golf trick. Subscribe to Copa90: bit.ly Want to watch the very best football clips from the week in one place? Course you do! Well they're here! Watch Chris Cohen in his big astro-turf box as he finds the best YouTube football clips, and puts a Copa90 twist on them. Catch up on all the episodes here: bit.ly Clips featured in this show (14 Nov 2012): Violent Icelandic football (via Gudrun Gunnarsdottir) youtu.be Crazy Russian Football Fan (via DropTvNews) youtu.be Gareth Bale playing golf (via Gareth Bale) youtu.be Sergio Aguero on court with Juan Martin del Potro (via Beanyman62Sports) youtu.be Ivanovic on Friday Night Live (via chelseafc) youtu.be Manchester United Bakcell advert (via redarmyfanclub) youtu.be Emile Heskey rap (via raysipeladygaga) youtu.be Cristiano Ronaldo beatboxing (via NikeFootball) youtu.be Shinji Kagawa beatboxing (via adidasjapan) youtu.be Magnus Wolff Eikrem celebration (via QuickEx0tic) youtu.be Man United fans sing to Man City fans at Braga (via rooneyibk) youtu.be Fire at Volga v Zenit (via staskazavr) youtu.be Goal of the week from Lokeren's Ayanda Patosi - Belgium Pro League youtu.be Welcome to Copa90 | Football Served Fresh. Youtube Channel - bit.ly Facebook - bit.ly Google+ - bit.ly Twitter - bit.ly Leave us a comment below!
- published: 14 Nov 2012
- views: 10572
- author: Copa90
RYAN GIGGS VS WEST HAM UNITED - FA CUP 16.01.2013
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- Duration: 4:13
- Updated: 19 Feb 2013
video&music;: Royal Mess
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Ryan Giggs: The Welsh Wizard // Career Tribute // HD //
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- Duration: 4:28
- Updated: 15 Feb 2013
A tribute to one of the best that has ever played the sport. Please subscribe, comment and rate.
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A tribute to one of the best that has ever played the sport. Please subscribe, comment and rate.
- published: 25 May 2011
- views: 5371
- author: footballskill19
Ryan Giggs - True Red HD
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- Duration: 7:00
- Updated: 17 Feb 2013
Ryan Giggs - True Red by Rufat © 2011. Music: 1.Snow Patrol - Open Your Eyes 2.Embrace - Celebrate Ryan Giggs - True Red Tribute 720p skills goals passion injury manchester united man utd Wales barcelona real madrid brasil PSV ronaldo fenomeno R9 freestyle life freestyle skills Zizou goals passion freestyler HDTV emotons free kicks new video 2011 English Premier League 2010 2011 rufat rufattv Spain La Liga Primera Revista Sky Sports Guapa Furia Roja clasico Champions League 2010-2011 Wemley Final Santiago BernabeuCristiano Ronaldo CR7 goals season compilation tricks vs skills 2008 07/08 Manchester United 2009-2010 2010-2011 09-10 10-11 Season Goals Tricks Skills Freestyle Power Ability Manchester United 2007 2008 07 Top 10 Best World Footballers 2009 Sergio Kun Aguero (Atletico Madrid) Samir Nasri (Arsenal) Fernando Torres (Liverpool) Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Inter Milan) Kaka (AC Milan)Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal) Ronaldinho (AC Milan)Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)Lionel Messi (Barcelona) Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus) Iker Casillas (Real Madrid) Petr Cech (Chelsea) Edwin van der Sar (Manchester United) Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid), Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United) Paolo Maldini (AC Milan), Alessandro Nesta (AC Milan) Carles Puyol (Barcelona) John Terry (Chelsea) Thierry Henry (Barcelona) Carlos Tevez (Manchester United) Ruud van Nistelrooy David Villa (Valencia) Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Juninho Pernambucano (Lyon) Frank Lampard (Chelsea ...
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Ryan Giggs - True Red by Rufat © 2011. Music: 1.Snow Patrol - Open Your Eyes 2.Embrace - Celebrate Ryan Giggs - True Red Tribute 720p skills goals passion injury manchester united man utd Wales barcelona real madrid brasil PSV ronaldo fenomeno R9 freestyle life freestyle skills Zizou goals passion freestyler HDTV emotons free kicks new video 2011 English Premier League 2010 2011 rufat rufattv Spain La Liga Primera Revista Sky Sports Guapa Furia Roja clasico Champions League 2010-2011 Wemley Final Santiago BernabeuCristiano Ronaldo CR7 goals season compilation tricks vs skills 2008 07/08 Manchester United 2009-2010 2010-2011 09-10 10-11 Season Goals Tricks Skills Freestyle Power Ability Manchester United 2007 2008 07 Top 10 Best World Footballers 2009 Sergio Kun Aguero (Atletico Madrid) Samir Nasri (Arsenal) Fernando Torres (Liverpool) Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Inter Milan) Kaka (AC Milan)Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal) Ronaldinho (AC Milan)Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)Lionel Messi (Barcelona) Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus) Iker Casillas (Real Madrid) Petr Cech (Chelsea) Edwin van der Sar (Manchester United) Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid), Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United) Paolo Maldini (AC Milan), Alessandro Nesta (AC Milan) Carles Puyol (Barcelona) John Terry (Chelsea) Thierry Henry (Barcelona) Carlos Tevez (Manchester United) Ruud van Nistelrooy David Villa (Valencia) Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Juninho Pernambucano (Lyon) Frank Lampard (Chelsea ...
- published: 20 Mar 2011
- views: 32983
- author: RufatTV
Ryan Giggs Goal - Olympic Mens Great Britain vs United Arab Emirates 1-0 Football 2012
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- Duration: 0:25
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
my filming of the giggsy goal at wembley on 29/07/12 for the olympic football, classy goal!
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my filming of the giggsy goal at wembley on 29/07/12 for the olympic football, classy goal!
- published: 30 Jul 2012
- views: 40773
- author: hutchingzz
Fans Reaction Giggs Run Rooney Penalty Miss Manchester United v West-Ham FA Cup 16.01.13
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- Duration: 1:05
- Updated: 19 Feb 2013
Fans Reaction Giggs Run Rooney Penalty Miss Manchester United v West-Ham FA Cup 16.01.13
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Fans Reaction Giggs Run Rooney Penalty Miss Manchester United v West-Ham FA Cup 16.01.13
- published: 17 Jan 2013
- views: 6207
- author: telandbenjie
What the world was like when Ryan Giggs scored his first goal
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- Duration: 2:21
- Updated: 19 Feb 2013
Ryan Giggs has scored in 23 consecutive seasons for Man United. His first goal for the club came back in 1991 and a lot has changed since then, as you'll see! Check out www.talksport.co.uk for more football entertainment SUBSCRIBE to get more funny videos delivered right to your news feed: bit.ly FOLLOW us on Twitter and tell us what else you want to watch on talkSPORT's YouTube channel: bit.ly LIKE us on Facebook to join the world's most intriguing sporting debates: on.fb.me
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Ryan Giggs has scored in 23 consecutive seasons for Man United. His first goal for the club came back in 1991 and a lot has changed since then, as you'll see! Check out www.talksport.co.uk for more football entertainment SUBSCRIBE to get more funny videos delivered right to your news feed: bit.ly FOLLOW us on Twitter and tell us what else you want to watch on talkSPORT's YouTube channel: bit.ly LIKE us on Facebook to join the world's most intriguing sporting debates: on.fb.me
- published: 12 Feb 2013
- views: 7442
- author: talkSPORTmagazine
Giggs: I almost signed for Manchester City
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- Duration: 3:03
- Updated: 18 Feb 2013
Ahead of the mouthwatering Manchester derby this weekend, Ryan Giggs, with more than 900 United appearances behind him, reveals how the manager of the youth team he played for at 11 was a Manchester City scout, and that it took a personal visit from Alex Ferguson on his 14th birthday for him to join the red half of town. We also hear from Giggs' former team-mate Ole Gunnar Solksjaer with the top-of-the-table Premier League clash fast approaching. Bookmark: www.youtube.com Subscribe - www.youtube.com Twitter - twitter.com Facebook Goal UK: www.facebook.com Goal International: www.facebook.com
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Ahead of the mouthwatering Manchester derby this weekend, Ryan Giggs, with more than 900 United appearances behind him, reveals how the manager of the youth team he played for at 11 was a Manchester City scout, and that it took a personal visit from Alex Ferguson on his 14th birthday for him to join the red half of town. We also hear from Giggs' former team-mate Ole Gunnar Solksjaer with the top-of-the-table Premier League clash fast approaching. Bookmark: www.youtube.com Subscribe - www.youtube.com Twitter - twitter.com Facebook Goal UK: www.facebook.com Goal International: www.facebook.com
- published: 06 Dec 2012
- views: 4544
- author: goal
Jose Mourhino Post Match Interview Real Madrid 1-1 Manchester United
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- Duration: 2:36
- Updated: 21 Feb 2013
Jose Mourhino Post Match Interview Real Madrid 1-1 Manchester United TAGS: "antonio valencia" "sir alex ferguson" "rip banner tevez" "ryan giggs" "paul scholes" "david de gea" -nani - chicharito - "javier hernadez" "wayne rooney" "rio ferdinand" "manchester united" "19 times champions" "michael carrick" "danny welbeck" "player's player of the year" "fan's player of the year" "best goal" "best goal of the year" "ashley young" "david gill" "dimitar berbatov" kiko macheda - Football League Highlights- match highlights - Arsenal Chelsea Goals Liverpool "Manchester United" "OLD TRAFFORD" Soccer Shinji kagawa - nick powell - Jesse lingard - Frederic Veseli - Robbie Brady - Ben Amos - RVP - Robin Van Persie - Darren fletcher - Manchester United Reserves - alexander buttner - angelo henriquez - david de gea - fabio da silva - rafael da-silva - anderson - bebe - sam johnstone - anders lindegaard - ashley young - chris smalling - phil jones - nemanja vidic - nick powell - ryan giggs - soccer - cleverly - ----------------------------------- Referee: Howard Webb - Teams - West Ham United - Jaaskelainen, O'Brien, Collins Spence - McCartney, Reid, Nolan, Jarvis, Benayoun, Noble, Diame O'Neil 77mins Carroll Cole - Unused subs - Spiegel, Maiga, Chambers, and Hall - Bookings: Collins -, Benayoun - McCartney - Manchester City: Hart, Kolo Toure, Kompany, Nastasic, Clichy, Yaya Toure, Nasri, Barry, Tevez (Garcia 83mins), Dzeko, Balotelli (Aguero 69mins) Pantilimon, Zabaleta, Kolarov, Razak ...
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Jose Mourhino Post Match Interview Real Madrid 1-1 Manchester United TAGS: "antonio valencia" "sir alex ferguson" "rip banner tevez" "ryan giggs" "paul scholes" "david de gea" -nani - chicharito - "javier hernadez" "wayne rooney" "rio ferdinand" "manchester united" "19 times champions" "michael carrick" "danny welbeck" "player's player of the year" "fan's player of the year" "best goal" "best goal of the year" "ashley young" "david gill" "dimitar berbatov" kiko macheda - Football League Highlights- match highlights - Arsenal Chelsea Goals Liverpool "Manchester United" "OLD TRAFFORD" Soccer Shinji kagawa - nick powell - Jesse lingard - Frederic Veseli - Robbie Brady - Ben Amos - RVP - Robin Van Persie - Darren fletcher - Manchester United Reserves - alexander buttner - angelo henriquez - david de gea - fabio da silva - rafael da-silva - anderson - bebe - sam johnstone - anders lindegaard - ashley young - chris smalling - phil jones - nemanja vidic - nick powell - ryan giggs - soccer - cleverly - ----------------------------------- Referee: Howard Webb - Teams - West Ham United - Jaaskelainen, O'Brien, Collins Spence - McCartney, Reid, Nolan, Jarvis, Benayoun, Noble, Diame O'Neil 77mins Carroll Cole - Unused subs - Spiegel, Maiga, Chambers, and Hall - Bookings: Collins -, Benayoun - McCartney - Manchester City: Hart, Kolo Toure, Kompany, Nastasic, Clichy, Yaya Toure, Nasri, Barry, Tevez (Garcia 83mins), Dzeko, Balotelli (Aguero 69mins) Pantilimon, Zabaleta, Kolarov, Razak ...
- published: 13 Feb 2013
- views: 7063
- author: SunnyDayz1120
DHL Hangout with Ryan Giggs
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- Duration: 13:59
- Updated: 21 Feb 2013
Like,Subscribe and Comment for more videos Ryan Giggs followed in the footsteps of his Manchester United teammates Wayne Rooney, Jonny Evans and Tom Cleverley as he answered fans' questions LIVE on Google+. Check out Rooney, Evans and Cleverley's answers here: www.youtube.com www.dhl.com twitter.com www.youtube.com Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use
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Like,Subscribe and Comment for more videos Ryan Giggs followed in the footsteps of his Manchester United teammates Wayne Rooney, Jonny Evans and Tom Cleverley as he answered fans' questions LIVE on Google+. Check out Rooney, Evans and Cleverley's answers here: www.youtube.com www.dhl.com twitter.com www.youtube.com Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use
- published: 21 Feb 2013
- author: MUFC0nline
Every Ryan Giggs goal (Part 1)
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- Duration: 12:24
- Updated: 17 Feb 2013
RYAN GIGGS THROUGH THE YEARS Every goal throughout the career of Ryan Giggs, this video is from his first season to 94, part 2 will be the next few years etc.
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RYAN GIGGS THROUGH THE YEARS Every goal throughout the career of Ryan Giggs, this video is from his first season to 94, part 2 will be the next few years etc.
- published: 06 May 2012
- views: 3506
- author: RyanGiggsOBE
Ryan Giggs Panna (Tutorial) :: Football / Soccer Dribble
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- Duration: 1:05
- Updated: 15 Feb 2013
Thank you for SUBSCRIBING! How to perform a panna / numeg trick coined by Welshman, Ryan Giggs who plays for Manchester United in the English Premier League. The trick involves a ball roll. Check out our channel for more tutorials Copyright Attribution: Title: Stop (blue mix) -- Creative Commons | Royalty-Free Music Artist: Ghost_k Copyright: 2007 Ghost_k (Ghost Kollective) Licensed to the public under creativecommons.org Verify at ccmixter.org
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Thank you for SUBSCRIBING! How to perform a panna / numeg trick coined by Welshman, Ryan Giggs who plays for Manchester United in the English Premier League. The trick involves a ball roll. Check out our channel for more tutorials Copyright Attribution: Title: Stop (blue mix) -- Creative Commons | Royalty-Free Music Artist: Ghost_k Copyright: 2007 Ghost_k (Ghost Kollective) Licensed to the public under creativecommons.org Verify at ccmixter.org
- published: 10 Apr 2012
- views: 33922
- author: YourHowToDo
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Ryan Giggs v Arsenal (FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999)
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- Duration: 1:14
- Updated: 20 Feb 2013
Ryan Giggs v Arsenal FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999
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Ryan Giggs v Arsenal FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999
- published: 07 Mar 2008
- views: 1269483
- author: pledjuraa
Norwich vs Manchester United 1-2 - Ryan Giggs (26-02-12)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:57
- Updated: 09 Mar 2012
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit,...
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Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit,...
- published: 26 Feb 2012
- views: 6670
- author: Junaid Nizamani
Ryan Giggs - 'Manchester United's best ever player'
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- Duration: 3:59
- Updated: 23 Jan 2013
Ryan Giggs talks to ESPN's Rebecca Lowe about his career, the retirement of Gary Neville and his future. Watch more videos like this at soccernet.espn.go.com
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Ryan Giggs talks to ESPN's Rebecca Lowe about his career, the retirement of Gary Neville and his future. Watch more videos like this at soccernet.espn.go.com
- published: 05 Feb 2011
- views: 10354
- author: ESPNsoccernet
Manchester United Ryan Giggs Goal vs. Chelsea Community S.
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- Duration: 0:48
- Updated: 10 Jul 2012
Evra smart 1-2 pass to ronaldo, gets it back on the wing and then crosses it for giggs :)
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Evra smart 1-2 pass to ronaldo, gets it back on the wing and then crosses it for giggs :)
- published: 05 Aug 2007
- views: 24442
- author: mounttokyo
Learn Ryan Giggs panna/ nutmeg skill - Manchester United - Football Soccer Skills
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- Duration: 0:48
- Updated: 19 Feb 2013
Please Subscribe STEP 1: Roll the ball across your body STEP 2: kick/poke ball with trailing foot Good to get the ball through someones legs! Steve Roberts STR Skill School
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Please Subscribe STEP 1: Roll the ball across your body STEP 2: kick/poke ball with trailing foot Good to get the ball through someones legs! Steve Roberts STR Skill School
- published: 13 Jun 2010
- views: 488519
- author: STRskillSchool
Ryan Giggs kidnapped and cloned / Reebok Doppelganger
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- Duration: 5:20
- Updated: 19 Feb 2013
A 1997 British commercial for Reebok. Doppelganger. The true story of Ryan Giggs. Manchester United vs. Manchester City. More commercials : www.youtube.com .. All rights reserved. For all inquiries, please mail to culturepub@wizdeo.com
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A 1997 British commercial for Reebok. Doppelganger. The true story of Ryan Giggs. Manchester United vs. Manchester City. More commercials : www.youtube.com .. All rights reserved. For all inquiries, please mail to culturepub@wizdeo.com
- published: 28 Feb 2011
- views: 12469
- author: CulturePub
Manchester United vs Liverpool Nov 2003 Ryan Giggs Goals 2-1
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- Duration: 4:51
- Updated: 30 Jan 2013
Whether dribbling or sprinting Ryan Giggs can leave the best defenders with twisted blood. Match Manchester United against Liverpool in Anfield on November 2003, Giggs score 2 goals for Manchester United and Win the Match. Liverpool vs Manchester United at Anfield 2003.
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Whether dribbling or sprinting Ryan Giggs can leave the best defenders with twisted blood. Match Manchester United against Liverpool in Anfield on November 2003, Giggs score 2 goals for Manchester United and Win the Match. Liverpool vs Manchester United at Anfield 2003.
- published: 09 Nov 2011
- views: 14527
- author: Melvin Gouw
Ryan Giggs N. 11 legend now and forever
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- Duration: 3:23
- Updated: 08 Feb 2013
Ryan Giggs the legend of the Manchester United
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Ryan Giggs the legend of the Manchester United
- published: 31 Dec 2010
- views: 25916
- author: General173
Ryan Giggs • Tribute • Manchester United • By ZiSOK
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- Duration: 1:33
- Updated: 14 Feb 2013
Please like my Facebook page : www.facebook.com Short compilation on Manchester United Legend Ryan Giggs, hope you enjoy the video please comment, rate and subscribe. Spain 1-0 Uruguay, Vlla, Torres, Xavi, Iniesta, Navas, Fabregas, Llorente, Pique, Puqol, Ramos, Casillas, Xabi Alonso, Silva, Klose, Ozil, Podolski, Khedira, Muller, Lahm, Neuer, Schweinsteiger, Low, Germany vs Spain, Spain vs Germany, Germany - Spain 07.07.10 WC 2010 Comment, Favorite, Rate & Enjoy =] IGNORE TAGS : Brazil vs Chile 3:0 Netherlands vs Slovakia 2:1 Argentina vs Mexico 3:1 Germany vs England 4:1 USA vs Ghana 1:2 Uruguay vs South Korea 2:1 Switzerland vs Honduras 0:0 Chile vs Spain 1:2 Portugal vs Brazil 0:0 North Korea vs Cote D'Ivoire 0:3 Danmark vs Japan 1:3 Cameroon vs Netherlands 1:2 Slovakia vs Italy 3:2 Paraguay vs New Zealand 0:0 Ghana vs Germany 0:1 Australia vs Serbia 2:1 Slovenia vs England 0:1 USA vs Algeria 1:0 Greece vs Argentina 0:2 Nigeria vs South Korea 2:2 France vs South Africa 1:2 Mexico vs Uruguay 0:1 Spain vs Honduras 2:0 Chile vs Switzerland 1:0 Portugal vs North Korea 7:0 Brazil vs Cote D'Ivoire 3:1 Italy vs New Zealand 1:1 Slovakia vs Paraguay 0:2 Cameroon vs Danmark 1:2 Ghana vs Australia 1:1 Netherlands vs Japan 1:0 England vs Algeria 0:0 Slovenia vs USA 2:2 Germany vs Serbia 0:1 France vs Mexico 0:2 Greece vs Nigeria 2:1 Argentina vs South Korea 4:1 South Africa vs Uruguay 0:3 Spain vs Switzerland 0:1 Honduras vs Chile 0:1 Brazil vs North Korea 2:1 Portugal vs Cote D ...
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Please like my Facebook page : www.facebook.com Short compilation on Manchester United Legend Ryan Giggs, hope you enjoy the video please comment, rate and subscribe. Spain 1-0 Uruguay, Vlla, Torres, Xavi, Iniesta, Navas, Fabregas, Llorente, Pique, Puqol, Ramos, Casillas, Xabi Alonso, Silva, Klose, Ozil, Podolski, Khedira, Muller, Lahm, Neuer, Schweinsteiger, Low, Germany vs Spain, Spain vs Germany, Germany - Spain 07.07.10 WC 2010 Comment, Favorite, Rate & Enjoy =] IGNORE TAGS : Brazil vs Chile 3:0 Netherlands vs Slovakia 2:1 Argentina vs Mexico 3:1 Germany vs England 4:1 USA vs Ghana 1:2 Uruguay vs South Korea 2:1 Switzerland vs Honduras 0:0 Chile vs Spain 1:2 Portugal vs Brazil 0:0 North Korea vs Cote D'Ivoire 0:3 Danmark vs Japan 1:3 Cameroon vs Netherlands 1:2 Slovakia vs Italy 3:2 Paraguay vs New Zealand 0:0 Ghana vs Germany 0:1 Australia vs Serbia 2:1 Slovenia vs England 0:1 USA vs Algeria 1:0 Greece vs Argentina 0:2 Nigeria vs South Korea 2:2 France vs South Africa 1:2 Mexico vs Uruguay 0:1 Spain vs Honduras 2:0 Chile vs Switzerland 1:0 Portugal vs North Korea 7:0 Brazil vs Cote D'Ivoire 3:1 Italy vs New Zealand 1:1 Slovakia vs Paraguay 0:2 Cameroon vs Danmark 1:2 Ghana vs Australia 1:1 Netherlands vs Japan 1:0 England vs Algeria 0:0 Slovenia vs USA 2:2 Germany vs Serbia 0:1 France vs Mexico 0:2 Greece vs Nigeria 2:1 Argentina vs South Korea 4:1 South Africa vs Uruguay 0:3 Spain vs Switzerland 0:1 Honduras vs Chile 0:1 Brazil vs North Korea 2:1 Portugal vs Cote D ...
- published: 19 Aug 2010
- views: 12386
- author: ZiSOK
Manchester United 2-1 Chelsea - Ryan Giggs and Nemanja Vidic
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- Duration: 3:37
- Updated: 20 Jan 2013
United stand tantalisingly close to a record 19th title after a magnificent 2-1 victory over closest rivals Chelsea at a jubilant Old Trafford. Early goals from Javier Hernandez, inside the first minute, and Nemanja Vidic set Sir Alex Ferguson's side on their way to a famous win and, despite Frank Lampard's second-half effort, the leaders thoroughly deserved the success that leaves the club only a point away from more glory.
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United stand tantalisingly close to a record 19th title after a magnificent 2-1 victory over closest rivals Chelsea at a jubilant Old Trafford. Early goals from Javier Hernandez, inside the first minute, and Nemanja Vidic set Sir Alex Ferguson's side on their way to a famous win and, despite Frank Lampard's second-half effort, the leaders thoroughly deserved the success that leaves the club only a point away from more glory.
- published: 08 May 2011
- views: 13604
- author: wewantglazerout2010
RYAN GIGGS LAUNCHES A REVOLUTION FOR GRASSROOTS FOOTBALL FROM REEBOK
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- Duration: 2:07
- Updated: 03 Dec 2012
Manchester United's Ryan Giggs and Olympic Gold medal sprinter Darren Campbell demonstrate the new Reebok AF1 football range - a revolutionary range of footballs and apparel featuring chip technology to determine whether the ball has hit the 'post' during park kick-abouts. The technological breakthrough is set to put an end to kick-about football disputes for good...
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Manchester United's Ryan Giggs and Olympic Gold medal sprinter Darren Campbell demonstrate the new Reebok AF1 football range - a revolutionary range of footballs and apparel featuring chip technology to determine whether the ball has hit the 'post' during park kick-abouts. The technological breakthrough is set to put an end to kick-about football disputes for good...
- published: 31 Mar 2009
- views: 29953
- author: RSGREENWOOD1977
Ryan Giggs - Manchester United's Finest Servant
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- Duration: 1:47
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
A tribute to Ryan Giggs, Manchester United's most decorated player. Signed in 1987, no one could forsee the contribution he would make to the history of the Red Devils. More league titles than any other footballer in England's history. Two European triumphs and 21 years later he surpassed the appearances record of Bobby Charlton. The video clips are: Ryan Giggs playing for Deans FC. Ryan Giggs playing for Salford Boys. Giggs playing for the reserves. Making his league debut against Everton in 1991 replacing Denis Irwin at Old Trafford. Scoring against Tottenham Hotspurs. Free kick against Blackburn Rovers. Lifting the Premier League trophy for the first time. Solo goal against QPR. Using his strength to score against Chelsea. Lifting the League a few more times. The important morale boosting goal against Juventus in the first leg of the 1999 Champions League semi-final. The goal he will be most remembered for, the 1999 FA Cup semi-final goal against Arsenal at Villa Park, the reaction of Alex Ferguson and staff and the magic celebration. Giggs' contribution to those edge of the cliff moments at the end of the Champions League final in the Nou Camp, the right footed knock on to Teddy Sheringham, breaking Bayern Munich's spirit and ultimately resulting in United completing their historic treble. Peter Schmeichel and Alex Ferguson lifting the European Cup. Wonderful assist against Chelsea. Lifting the Premier League himself. Replacing Scholes in Moscow in 2008 to surpass ...
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A tribute to Ryan Giggs, Manchester United's most decorated player. Signed in 1987, no one could forsee the contribution he would make to the history of the Red Devils. More league titles than any other footballer in England's history. Two European triumphs and 21 years later he surpassed the appearances record of Bobby Charlton. The video clips are: Ryan Giggs playing for Deans FC. Ryan Giggs playing for Salford Boys. Giggs playing for the reserves. Making his league debut against Everton in 1991 replacing Denis Irwin at Old Trafford. Scoring against Tottenham Hotspurs. Free kick against Blackburn Rovers. Lifting the Premier League trophy for the first time. Solo goal against QPR. Using his strength to score against Chelsea. Lifting the League a few more times. The important morale boosting goal against Juventus in the first leg of the 1999 Champions League semi-final. The goal he will be most remembered for, the 1999 FA Cup semi-final goal against Arsenal at Villa Park, the reaction of Alex Ferguson and staff and the magic celebration. Giggs' contribution to those edge of the cliff moments at the end of the Champions League final in the Nou Camp, the right footed knock on to Teddy Sheringham, breaking Bayern Munich's spirit and ultimately resulting in United completing their historic treble. Peter Schmeichel and Alex Ferguson lifting the European Cup. Wonderful assist against Chelsea. Lifting the Premier League himself. Replacing Scholes in Moscow in 2008 to surpass ...
- published: 27 Oct 2010
- views: 31970
- author: fastredrhino
Ryan Giggs - Years of Magic
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- Updated: 14 Feb 2013
Ryan Giggs = Legend
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Reebok - In Giggs' Garden
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- Updated: 20 Feb 2013
A Reebok commercial showing Giggs in his front garden pretending to be in the World Cup 2006 Final. Too bad Wales never made it.
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A Reebok commercial showing Giggs in his front garden pretending to be in the World Cup 2006 Final. Too bad Wales never made it.
- published: 28 Jun 2006
- views: 82241
- author: jonola
Top 20 football misses
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- Updated: 15 Feb 2013
20. Kieron Dyer (Newcastle), 19. Avishay Zano (Maccabi Haifa), 18. ??? (Ajax), 17. Nwankwo Kanu (West Bromwich Albion), 16. Craig Bellamy (Liverpool), 15. Bo Hansen (FC Midtjylland), 14. Tomas Rosicky (Arsenal), 13. ??? (???) 12. Jermaine Jenas (Tottenham), 11. Ivan Helguera (Real Madrid), 10. Eidur Gudjohnsen & Ludovic Giuly (FC Barcelona), 9. Romário & Mazinho (Brazil), 8. Ryan Giggs (Manchester United), 7. John Carew (Valencia), 6. Diego Forlán (Manchester United), 5. Ronny Rosenthal (Liverpool). 4. ??? (???), 3. ??? (???), 2. ??? (???), 1. ??? (???).
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20. Kieron Dyer (Newcastle), 19. Avishay Zano (Maccabi Haifa), 18. ??? (Ajax), 17. Nwankwo Kanu (West Bromwich Albion), 16. Craig Bellamy (Liverpool), 15. Bo Hansen (FC Midtjylland), 14. Tomas Rosicky (Arsenal), 13. ??? (???) 12. Jermaine Jenas (Tottenham), 11. Ivan Helguera (Real Madrid), 10. Eidur Gudjohnsen & Ludovic Giuly (FC Barcelona), 9. Romário & Mazinho (Brazil), 8. Ryan Giggs (Manchester United), 7. John Carew (Valencia), 6. Diego Forlán (Manchester United), 5. Ronny Rosenthal (Liverpool). 4. ??? (???), 3. ??? (???), 2. ??? (???), 1. ??? (???).
- published: 10 Jun 2008
- views: 350391
- author: scimpkrz
Ryan Giggs and Edwin Van Der Sar Interview 8/2/09 HD
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Ryan Giggs and Edwin Van Der Sar Interview 8/2/09 after West Ham v Manchester United. Ryan Giggs scored the winner and Edwin Van der Sar extended the record to 1212 minutes, after the 1-0 win at West Ham, beating the British club record previously held by Chris Woods of 1196 minutes.
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Ryan Giggs and Edwin Van Der Sar Interview 8/2/09 after West Ham v Manchester United. Ryan Giggs scored the winner and Edwin Van der Sar extended the record to 1212 minutes, after the 1-0 win at West Ham, beating the British club record previously held by Chris Woods of 1196 minutes.
- published: 15 Feb 2009
- views: 16518
- author: ronaldointerview
Ryan Giggs -Top 11 Goals
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- Updated: 20 Feb 2013
Please follow @RyanGiggsStats on Twitter: tiny.cc || 12/7/2011 #62 - Top Rated (All Time) - Sport - Netherlands || Ryan Giggs scored so many great goals for Manchester United. This is my top 11: 11. Coventry City - 28 December 1992 10. Juventus - 1 October 1997 9. Juventus - 25 February 2003 8. Leeds United - 27 April 1994 7. Chelsea - 21 October 1995 6. Coventry City - 18 January 1997 5. Manchester City - 6 April 1996 4. Barnsley - 25 October 1997 3. QPR - 5 February 1994 2. Tottenham Hotspur - 19 September 1992 1. Arsenal- 14 April 1999 Music: The Killers - All These Things I've Done Please watch my latest video: Ryan Giggs, A Perfect Footballer
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Please follow @RyanGiggsStats on Twitter: tiny.cc || 12/7/2011 #62 - Top Rated (All Time) - Sport - Netherlands || Ryan Giggs scored so many great goals for Manchester United. This is my top 11: 11. Coventry City - 28 December 1992 10. Juventus - 1 October 1997 9. Juventus - 25 February 2003 8. Leeds United - 27 April 1994 7. Chelsea - 21 October 1995 6. Coventry City - 18 January 1997 5. Manchester City - 6 April 1996 4. Barnsley - 25 October 1997 3. QPR - 5 February 1994 2. Tottenham Hotspur - 19 September 1992 1. Arsenal- 14 April 1999 Music: The Killers - All These Things I've Done Please watch my latest video: Ryan Giggs, A Perfect Footballer
- published: 18 Aug 2008
- views: 1265883
- author: stevenjvd
Ryan Giggs Wonder Goal Vs Arsenal FA Cup Semi Final Replay 1999
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- Duration: 1:14
- Updated: 23 Jan 2013
14-4-1999-FA Cup Semifinal Replay the score was 1-1 between Man Utd and Arsenal David Beckham scored in min 17 and Dennis Bergkamp for Arsenal in min 69.The match went into extra-time and Ryan Giggs scored this beautiful goal in min 109 which which sent United in the final.Manchester United were to win the FA Cup on 22nd of May in a match against Newcastle United with goals from Teddy Sheringham and Paul Scholes .
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14-4-1999-FA Cup Semifinal Replay the score was 1-1 between Man Utd and Arsenal David Beckham scored in min 17 and Dennis Bergkamp for Arsenal in min 69.The match went into extra-time and Ryan Giggs scored this beautiful goal in min 109 which which sent United in the final.Manchester United were to win the FA Cup on 22nd of May in a match against Newcastle United with goals from Teddy Sheringham and Paul Scholes .
- published: 03 Mar 2012
- views: 7984
- author: MrAntonioGheorghe
Million Dollar Challenge - Manchester United - Unicef - 22.07.10
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- Duration: 10:04
- Updated: 14 Feb 2013
Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, Darren Fletcher and Edwin van der Sar are taking part in the Hublot Million Dollar Challenge, in which they'll try to hit a target masked as a giant Hublot watch from 51 feet, hoping to raise valuable funds for a great cause. United are currently on tour in the US and Canada, but will make a stop in the Big Apple for the event, which is open to the public and takes place between the iconic Flatiron and Empire State buildings on 23rd Street and Broadway. The United players will be wearing their shooting boots, but regardless of whether the men in red can hit a bullseye, Hublot has promised to make a significant contribution to the excellent work carried out by the Reds' charity partner UNICEF. "Our relationship with Manchester United is very special," says Hublot CEO Jean-Claude Biver. "We love getting creative to organise unique experiences, such as the Million Dollar Challenge, to support United for UNICEF." "We are very excited to participate in the Hublot Million Dollar Challenge," says Manchester United Foundation chief executive John Shiels. "The event will be a unique opportunity to bring people together to raise funds for United for UNICEF, while also having a great time."
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Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, Darren Fletcher and Edwin van der Sar are taking part in the Hublot Million Dollar Challenge, in which they'll try to hit a target masked as a giant Hublot watch from 51 feet, hoping to raise valuable funds for a great cause. United are currently on tour in the US and Canada, but will make a stop in the Big Apple for the event, which is open to the public and takes place between the iconic Flatiron and Empire State buildings on 23rd Street and Broadway. The United players will be wearing their shooting boots, but regardless of whether the men in red can hit a bullseye, Hublot has promised to make a significant contribution to the excellent work carried out by the Reds' charity partner UNICEF. "Our relationship with Manchester United is very special," says Hublot CEO Jean-Claude Biver. "We love getting creative to organise unique experiences, such as the Million Dollar Challenge, to support United for UNICEF." "We are very excited to participate in the Hublot Million Dollar Challenge," says Manchester United Foundation chief executive John Shiels. "The event will be a unique opportunity to bring people together to raise funds for United for UNICEF, while also having a great time."
- published: 22 Jul 2010
- views: 69571
- author: SkySportsNewsHD
Man Utd 2-0 Everton - Ryan Giggs & Rafael (Man Of The Match) Post Match Interview - 1080p
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- Duration: 2:19
- Updated: 18 Feb 2013
Man Utd 2-0 Everton - Ryan Giggs & Rafael (Man Of The Match) Post Match Interview - 1080p Don't forget to like!!! Subscribe to see more videos: tinyurl.com Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use
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Man Utd 2-0 Everton - Ryan Giggs & Rafael (Man Of The Match) Post Match Interview - 1080p Don't forget to like!!! Subscribe to see more videos: tinyurl.com Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use
- published: 10 Feb 2013
- views: 4278
- author: Beanyman62Sports
Ryan Giggs Wonder Goal vs Arsenal 1999 Fa Cup Semi Final
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- Duration: 0:21
- Updated: 29 Nov 2012
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Manchester United Players Forecast - Ryan Giggs
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- Duration: 2:21
- Updated: 17 Feb 2013
We talk to Manchester United veteran Ryan Giggs about who he considers to be the greatest player in Champions League history, what it takes to mount a successful European campaign and which team surprised him most in the group stage of this year's competition. To bet on this season's Champions League, click here: bit.ly
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We talk to Manchester United veteran Ryan Giggs about who he considers to be the greatest player in Champions League history, what it takes to mount a successful European campaign and which team surprised him most in the group stage of this year's competition. To bet on this season's Champions League, click here: bit.ly
- published: 20 Dec 2012
- views: 22846
- author: bwin
Hughes goal vs Chelsea '92
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- Duration: 0:28
- Updated: 06 Jan 2013
United 1-1 Chelsea - Feb '92 From a quick Schmeichel throw out Giggs bursts clear, those wer the days, and sets Hughes up.
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United 1-1 Chelsea - Feb '92 From a quick Schmeichel throw out Giggs bursts clear, those wer the days, and sets Hughes up.
- published: 11 Feb 2009
- views: 22917
- author: unitedtube2009
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Ryan Giggs finally plays in Wales
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- Duration: 1:30
- Updated: 12 Oct 2012
Manchester United midfielder pleased with players' efforts following the two-week international break. Watch more videos like this at soccernet.espn.go.com
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Manchester United midfielder pleased with players' efforts following the two-week international break. Watch more videos like this at soccernet.espn.go.com
- published: 19 Nov 2011
- views: 3504
- author: ESPNsoccernet
ryan giggs wales v england
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- Duration: 0:53
- Updated: 15 Mar 2012
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Ryan Giggs: The Welsh Wizard // Career Tribute // HD //
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- Duration: 4:28
- Updated: 15 Feb 2013
A tribute to one of the best that has ever played the sport. Please subscribe, comment and rate.
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A tribute to one of the best that has ever played the sport. Please subscribe, comment and rate.
- published: 25 May 2011
- views: 5371
- author: footballskill19
Ryan Giggs The Welsh Wizard Tribute hd
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- Duration: 5:53
- Updated: 30 Jan 2013
Ryan Joseph Giggs (born Ryan Joseph Wilson on 29 November 1973) is a Welsh professional footballer who plays for Manchester United. Giggs made his first appearance for the club during the 1990--91 season and has been a regular player since the 1991--92 season. He established himself as a left winger during the 1990s, and continuing in this position well into the 2000s, though he has been increasingly used in a deeper playmaking role in his latter years. He holds the club record for competitive appearances.
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Ryan Joseph Giggs (born Ryan Joseph Wilson on 29 November 1973) is a Welsh professional footballer who plays for Manchester United. Giggs made his first appearance for the club during the 1990--91 season and has been a regular player since the 1991--92 season. He established himself as a left winger during the 1990s, and continuing in this position well into the 2000s, though he has been increasingly used in a deeper playmaking role in his latter years. He holds the club record for competitive appearances.
- published: 01 Sep 2011
- views: 9042
- author: twistedsoccer
Ryan Giggs Free Kick vs. Czech Republic
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- Duration: 0:07
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Ryan Giggs strikes a free kick wide in his final match for Wales vs. Czech Republic
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Ryan Giggs strikes a free kick wide in his final match for Wales vs. Czech Republic
- published: 02 Jun 2007
- views: 17784
- author: davies711
Reebok - In Giggs' Garden
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- Duration: 0:52
- Updated: 20 Feb 2013
A Reebok commercial showing Giggs in his front garden pretending to be in the World Cup 2006 Final. Too bad Wales never made it.
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A Reebok commercial showing Giggs in his front garden pretending to be in the World Cup 2006 Final. Too bad Wales never made it.
- published: 28 Jun 2006
- views: 82241
- author: jonola
Ryan Giggs wins BBC Sports Personality 2009
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- Duration: 3:12
- Updated: 19 Feb 2013
Ryan Giggs...
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Ryan Giggs Assists 1999/2000
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- Duration: 3:16
- Updated: 04 Feb 2013
Song: Ya Mama by Fatboy Slim
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Ryan Giggs - 'Manchester United's best ever player'
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- Duration: 3:59
- Updated: 23 Jan 2013
Ryan Giggs talks to ESPN's Rebecca Lowe about his career, the retirement of Gary Neville and his future. Watch more videos like this at soccernet.espn.go.com
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Ryan Giggs talks to ESPN's Rebecca Lowe about his career, the retirement of Gary Neville and his future. Watch more videos like this at soccernet.espn.go.com
- published: 05 Feb 2011
- views: 10354
- author: ESPNsoccernet
Ryan Giggs Brilliant Free Kick vs Bolton
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- Duration: 0:25
- Updated: 19 Feb 2013
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ryan giggs
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- Updated: 26 Jan 2013
some of the best moments from the welsh player of the man united
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some of the best moments from the welsh player of the man united
- published: 14 Mar 2007
- views: 28646
- author: gansopatola
Charlie Adam vs Wales
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- Duration: 6:23
- Updated: 25 Jan 2013
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- published: 29 May 2011
- views: 15671
- author: Alexg733
Ryan Giggs Season 2009/10 review
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- Duration: 6:07
- Updated: 08 Jan 2013
I hope you enjoy this editing piece. After Manchester United's 2008/09 campaign that saw their most loyal player in a central midfield role, collect his eleventh premier league title and win, as a senior for the first time, the PFA player of the year, Ryan Giggs followed his performance by returning to the left wing for his United team. The Reds, with a make shift back four for some part of the season and covering keepers for the many games, came to just a point of winning their fourth consecutive title. Ryan Giggs was rested for a month at the age 36 before a crucial game with Aston Villa saw him sidelined for a further month. However, with the Reds missing out on some top trophies, Ryan Giggs was a great joy to watch. This video includes as much footage sourced from the campaign and includes Ryan Giggs' passes, flicks, assists, goals, dribbles during the 2009/2010 season. After watching him since the age of 8, I hope he can be regarded as a player in the same breathe as the other footballing giants.
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I hope you enjoy this editing piece. After Manchester United's 2008/09 campaign that saw their most loyal player in a central midfield role, collect his eleventh premier league title and win, as a senior for the first time, the PFA player of the year, Ryan Giggs followed his performance by returning to the left wing for his United team. The Reds, with a make shift back four for some part of the season and covering keepers for the many games, came to just a point of winning their fourth consecutive title. Ryan Giggs was rested for a month at the age 36 before a crucial game with Aston Villa saw him sidelined for a further month. However, with the Reds missing out on some top trophies, Ryan Giggs was a great joy to watch. This video includes as much footage sourced from the campaign and includes Ryan Giggs' passes, flicks, assists, goals, dribbles during the 2009/2010 season. After watching him since the age of 8, I hope he can be regarded as a player in the same breathe as the other footballing giants.
- published: 01 Aug 2010
- views: 21260
- author: chilzsta
Ryan Giggs - Absolute Legend | HD
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- Duration: 2:52
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
"He was the boy who played like a man and now he is a man who plays like a boy." My new video about the best player in history of football Ryan Giggs. Truly a Manchester United Legend. The Welsh Wizard has played for Manchester United for his entire professional career. This video will show all the greatest moments of Giggs throughout his incredible career in United. Even if you dislike Manchester United, this video will show you that this man is truly a Legend. Thanks to SuperPaulBoy for requesting this video. www.youtube.com
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"He was the boy who played like a man and now he is a man who plays like a boy." My new video about the best player in history of football Ryan Giggs. Truly a Manchester United Legend. The Welsh Wizard has played for Manchester United for his entire professional career. This video will show all the greatest moments of Giggs throughout his incredible career in United. Even if you dislike Manchester United, this video will show you that this man is truly a Legend. Thanks to SuperPaulBoy for requesting this video. www.youtube.com
- published: 09 Apr 2010
- views: 20876
- author: FaroukdabashPresents
Imogen Thomas Ryan Giggs Superinjunction
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- Duration: 1:18
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
The cat is out of the bag - Ryan Giggs was Mr SuperInjunction trying to keep his affair with Imogen Thomas model, Big Brother contestant and ex Miss Wales out of the papers. After weeks of speculation Ryan Giggs has finally been caught out by an MP revealing it was Giggsy superinjunction and Twitter. Big Brother's Imogen Thomas and Ryan Giggs affair is now public. Will she kiss and tell? Will OK Magazine pay for a spill the beans interview? Will she mention the Imogen Thomas sex tape? Anyway, Ryan Giggs scores - what a love rat! Talking of love rats there are loads of them at www.lovehonourandbetray.com All copyright holders of the images and soundtrack acknowledged
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The cat is out of the bag - Ryan Giggs was Mr SuperInjunction trying to keep his affair with Imogen Thomas model, Big Brother contestant and ex Miss Wales out of the papers. After weeks of speculation Ryan Giggs has finally been caught out by an MP revealing it was Giggsy superinjunction and Twitter. Big Brother's Imogen Thomas and Ryan Giggs affair is now public. Will she kiss and tell? Will OK Magazine pay for a spill the beans interview? Will she mention the Imogen Thomas sex tape? Anyway, Ryan Giggs scores - what a love rat! Talking of love rats there are loads of them at www.lovehonourandbetray.com All copyright holders of the images and soundtrack acknowledged
- published: 24 May 2011
- views: 39562
- author: mrtoptips
Ryan Giggs wins BBC Sports Personality 2009 Award
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Manchester United star Ryan Giggs was crowned 2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year in Sunday's award ceremony. The Welsh winger, 36, is the most decorated player in English football with a record 11th Premier League winners' medal secured this year. Formula 1 champion Jenson Button was second with world heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis securing third spot. Giggs said: "I grew up watching this programme. To see the people that have won it and to be here is unbelievable." He is the first footballer to claim the prestigious trophy since England midfielder David Beckham in 2001, with Michael Owen (1998), Paul Gascoigne (1990) and Bobby Moore (1966) the only other football winners. Giggs reflects on his prestigious career With the public choosing their favourite from the shortlist of 10 by phone on the night, Giggs received 29.4% of the vote (151842 votes) ahead of Button (18.74% - 96770) and Ennis (15.58% - 80469) with a total of 516473 votes cast. This year has seen Giggs win the Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year award for the first time in April and the Wales Sports Personality of the Year award, and in a United shirt he has made his 800th appearance, scored his 150th goal and helping them reach the Champions League final. The Cardiff-born star added: "I am playing for the greatest manager that has ever lived and I'm playing for the greatest club. Perhaps I've become more appreciated as I have got older. "It's unusual for a 36-year-old to be ...
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Manchester United star Ryan Giggs was crowned 2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year in Sunday's award ceremony. The Welsh winger, 36, is the most decorated player in English football with a record 11th Premier League winners' medal secured this year. Formula 1 champion Jenson Button was second with world heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis securing third spot. Giggs said: "I grew up watching this programme. To see the people that have won it and to be here is unbelievable." He is the first footballer to claim the prestigious trophy since England midfielder David Beckham in 2001, with Michael Owen (1998), Paul Gascoigne (1990) and Bobby Moore (1966) the only other football winners. Giggs reflects on his prestigious career With the public choosing their favourite from the shortlist of 10 by phone on the night, Giggs received 29.4% of the vote (151842 votes) ahead of Button (18.74% - 96770) and Ennis (15.58% - 80469) with a total of 516473 votes cast. This year has seen Giggs win the Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year award for the first time in April and the Wales Sports Personality of the Year award, and in a United shirt he has made his 800th appearance, scored his 150th goal and helping them reach the Champions League final. The Cardiff-born star added: "I am playing for the greatest manager that has ever lived and I'm playing for the greatest club. Perhaps I've become more appreciated as I have got older. "It's unusual for a 36-year-old to be ...
- published: 17 Dec 2009
- views: 27876
- author: Steven Tan
#WhenSnoopsInEurope: Ryan Giggs
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- Updated: 06 Feb 2013
Snoop Dogg is launching his world tour starting in the UK & hitting Cardiff, Wales on October 8th!! Make sure you get your tickets here: snoopdogg.com
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Snoop Dogg is launching his world tour starting in the UK & hitting Cardiff, Wales on October 8th!! Make sure you get your tickets here: snoopdogg.com
- published: 28 Sep 2011
- views: 30322
- author: westfesttv
Ryan Giggs on 20 years at Man U
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- Duration: 2:17
- Updated: 18 Sep 2012
The iconic former Wales international has played in Manchester United colours for the last 20 years. And here the Red Devils' legend talks about the club's chase for trophies and how he maintains his enthusiasm for football.
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The iconic former Wales international has played in Manchester United colours for the last 20 years. And here the Red Devils' legend talks about the club's chase for trophies and how he maintains his enthusiasm for football.
- published: 21 Jan 2011
- views: 13560
- author: newsxlive
Ryan Giggs - Lift me up
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- Duration: 3:58
- Updated: 20 Feb 2013
A compilation of Ryan Giggs greatest goals
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A compilation of Ryan Giggs greatest goals
- published: 15 Nov 2006
- views: 662335
- author: sunindian2001
Ryan Giggs Interview (His Top 3 Team mates)
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- Updated: 06 Feb 2013
a small interview from ryan giggs where he talks the top 3 players he has ever played along side
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a small interview from ryan giggs where he talks the top 3 players he has ever played along side
- published: 22 May 2012
- views: 15590
- author: RyanGiggsOBE
Ryan Giggs Tribute HD
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- Updated: 29 Jan 2013
A personal tribute to Manchester Uniteds Most Legendary player, Ryan Giggs, a Gentleman & a fabulous player, even at 36... Music: Daughtry - What About Now Ryan Giggs Tribute Manchester United Compilation Goals Skills Dribble Tricks Semi Final Arsenal FA Cup Champions League Free Kick Freekick David Beckham Alex Ferguson Wayne Rooney Cristiano Ronaldo Spurs Tottenham Daughtry McDancer Run Wondeful Sir Wales World Cup 2010
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A personal tribute to Manchester Uniteds Most Legendary player, Ryan Giggs, a Gentleman & a fabulous player, even at 36... Music: Daughtry - What About Now Ryan Giggs Tribute Manchester United Compilation Goals Skills Dribble Tricks Semi Final Arsenal FA Cup Champions League Free Kick Freekick David Beckham Alex Ferguson Wayne Rooney Cristiano Ronaldo Spurs Tottenham Daughtry McDancer Run Wondeful Sir Wales World Cup 2010
- published: 07 Apr 2010
- views: 20881
- author: McDancer26
Ryan Giggs - Absolute Legend
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- Duration: 5:11
- Updated: 18 Feb 2013
Ryan Giggs, BBC Sports Personality of year 2009! Ryan Giggs, one of the best players ever Watch at High Quality Ryan Giggs is one of very few players to have spent their entire career at the same club, he is the most decorated player in the history of Manchester United FC with more than 750 appearances for the club, Welsh winger Ryan Giggs's main strengths are his speed and his ability to manipulate the ball while running at full pace. Giggs is Manchester United's longest-serving current player, having made his first appearance for the club during the 1990-91 season and been a regular player since the 1991-92 season. He has played the highest number of competitive games for the club (more than Sir Bobby Charlton, the previous recordman), and holds the club record of team trophies won by a player (24). As well as being a fine dribbler, Giggs is also a regular goalscorer: it is very famous a magnificent solo score to win the 1999 FA Cup semi-final replay against Arsenal FC, from which point the club went on to secure an unprecedented treble of league, cup and UEFA Champions League, later adding the Intercontinental Cup. He has claimed nine other English titles (his overall tally of ten is a joint English record), two more FA Cups and a League Cup, one more Champions League (2008) and is the only player to win the Professional Footballers Association Young Player of the Year award on two occasions in a row (1992 and 1993). As Welsh international Giggs has been a regular in ...
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Ryan Giggs, BBC Sports Personality of year 2009! Ryan Giggs, one of the best players ever Watch at High Quality Ryan Giggs is one of very few players to have spent their entire career at the same club, he is the most decorated player in the history of Manchester United FC with more than 750 appearances for the club, Welsh winger Ryan Giggs's main strengths are his speed and his ability to manipulate the ball while running at full pace. Giggs is Manchester United's longest-serving current player, having made his first appearance for the club during the 1990-91 season and been a regular player since the 1991-92 season. He has played the highest number of competitive games for the club (more than Sir Bobby Charlton, the previous recordman), and holds the club record of team trophies won by a player (24). As well as being a fine dribbler, Giggs is also a regular goalscorer: it is very famous a magnificent solo score to win the 1999 FA Cup semi-final replay against Arsenal FC, from which point the club went on to secure an unprecedented treble of league, cup and UEFA Champions League, later adding the Intercontinental Cup. He has claimed nine other English titles (his overall tally of ten is a joint English record), two more FA Cups and a League Cup, one more Champions League (2008) and is the only player to win the Professional Footballers Association Young Player of the Year award on two occasions in a row (1992 and 1993). As Welsh international Giggs has been a regular in ...
- published: 14 Jun 2008
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Ryan Giggs - The True Red - Ultimate Professional -
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A short tribute to one of the greatest and most professional footballer of the last two decades Ryan Giggs
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A short tribute to one of the greatest and most professional footballer of the last two decades Ryan Giggs
- published: 14 Jan 2010
- views: 2549
- author: zakdingle2000
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Ryan Giggs -Top 11 Goals
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- Updated: 20 Feb 2013
Please follow @RyanGiggsStats on Twitter: tiny.cc || 12/7/2011 #62 - Top Rated (All Time) - Sport - Netherlands || Ryan Giggs scored so many great goals for Manchester United. This is my top 11: 11. Coventry City - 28 December 1992 10. Juventus - 1 October 1997 9. Juventus - 25 February 2003 8. Leeds United - 27 April 1994 7. Chelsea - 21 October 1995 6. Coventry City - 18 January 1997 5. Manchester City - 6 April 1996 4. Barnsley - 25 October 1997 3. QPR - 5 February 1994 2. Tottenham Hotspur - 19 September 1992 1. Arsenal- 14 April 1999 Music: The Killers - All These Things I've Done Please watch my latest video: Ryan Giggs, A Perfect Footballer
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Please follow @RyanGiggsStats on Twitter: tiny.cc || 12/7/2011 #62 - Top Rated (All Time) - Sport - Netherlands || Ryan Giggs scored so many great goals for Manchester United. This is my top 11: 11. Coventry City - 28 December 1992 10. Juventus - 1 October 1997 9. Juventus - 25 February 2003 8. Leeds United - 27 April 1994 7. Chelsea - 21 October 1995 6. Coventry City - 18 January 1997 5. Manchester City - 6 April 1996 4. Barnsley - 25 October 1997 3. QPR - 5 February 1994 2. Tottenham Hotspur - 19 September 1992 1. Arsenal- 14 April 1999 Music: The Killers - All These Things I've Done Please watch my latest video: Ryan Giggs, A Perfect Footballer
- published: 18 Aug 2008
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Every Ryan Giggs goal (Part 1)
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- Duration: 12:24
- Updated: 17 Feb 2013
RYAN GIGGS THROUGH THE YEARS Every goal throughout the career of Ryan Giggs, this video is from his first season to 94, part 2 will be the next few years etc.
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RYAN GIGGS THROUGH THE YEARS Every goal throughout the career of Ryan Giggs, this video is from his first season to 94, part 2 will be the next few years etc.
- published: 06 May 2012
- views: 3506
- author: RyanGiggsOBE
Ryan Giggs - 10 Best Goal
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- Duration: 6:10
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
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Ryan Giggs ||| Skills,Tricks and Goals by StonyUnited
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- Duration: 8:35
- Updated: 15 Feb 2013
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- published: 13 Nov 2010
- views: 64669
- author: StonyUnited
Ryan Giggs v Arsenal (FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999)
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Ryan Giggs v Arsenal FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999
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Ryan Giggs v Arsenal FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999
- published: 07 Mar 2008
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Ryan Giggs Goal- FA CUP Semifinal vs Arsenal '99
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- Duration: 0:20
- Updated: 21 Feb 2013
Ryan Giggs dribbles many Arsenal Defenders en route to a beautiful goal. this goal was in the 109th minute of the 1999 FA Cup Semi Final (replay) , it gave Manchester United the lead 2-1. voted goal of the century by the FA (football Association)
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Ryan Giggs dribbles many Arsenal Defenders en route to a beautiful goal. this goal was in the 109th minute of the 1999 FA Cup Semi Final (replay) , it gave Manchester United the lead 2-1. voted goal of the century by the FA (football Association)
- published: 11 Feb 2006
- views: 604002
- author: jlo8720
Ryan Giggs Solo Goal Vs. Arsenal (Watch in HD)
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- Duration: 0:21
- Updated: 26 Jan 2013
Ryan Giggs he run.........................................and he shot and it go in the Goal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ryan Giggs he run.........................................and he shot and it go in the Goal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- published: 16 Feb 2009
- views: 43178
- author: XOzkarZ
Ryan Giggs goal v Oldham FA Cup semi 1994
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Ryan Giggs goal v Oldham FA Cup semi 1994 Maine Road
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Ryan Giggs goal v Oldham FA Cup semi 1994 Maine Road
- published: 01 Jun 2006
- views: 55760
- author: Zorg2006
Amazing Goal by Ryan Giggs ( vs. Arsenal )
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Ryan Giggs scores a fantastic goal after dribbling nearly 3/4 of the feild. FA Cup Semi-Final 98-99.
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Ryan Giggs scores a fantastic goal after dribbling nearly 3/4 of the feild. FA Cup Semi-Final 98-99.
- published: 22 Apr 2006
- views: 32952
- author: vnmu
Manchester United Ryan Giggs Goal vs. Chelsea Community S.
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- Updated: 10 Jul 2012
Evra smart 1-2 pass to ronaldo, gets it back on the wing and then crosses it for giggs :)
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Evra smart 1-2 pass to ronaldo, gets it back on the wing and then crosses it for giggs :)
- published: 05 Aug 2007
- views: 24442
- author: mounttokyo
Ryan Giggs Semi Final Replay Goal
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Ryan Gigg's Goal Vs Arsenal 14th April 1999
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Ryan Gigg's Goal Vs Arsenal 14th April 1999
- published: 24 Aug 2006
- views: 79393
- author: treble1999couk
Manchester United vs Liverpool Nov 2003 Ryan Giggs Goals 2-1
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Whether dribbling or sprinting Ryan Giggs can leave the best defenders with twisted blood. Match Manchester United against Liverpool in Anfield on November 2003, Giggs score 2 goals for Manchester United and Win the Match. Liverpool vs Manchester United at Anfield 2003.
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Whether dribbling or sprinting Ryan Giggs can leave the best defenders with twisted blood. Match Manchester United against Liverpool in Anfield on November 2003, Giggs score 2 goals for Manchester United and Win the Match. Liverpool vs Manchester United at Anfield 2003.
- published: 09 Nov 2011
- views: 14527
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Ryan Giggs best goals skills football soccer amazing goal Manchester United
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- Updated: 15 Feb 2013
Ryan Giggs best goals skills football soccer amazing goal Manchester United football soccer league amazing goal manchester united champions chelsea cool goals arsenal highlights liverpool cup "champions league" rooney ronaldo city england match fifa
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Ryan Giggs best goals skills football soccer amazing goal Manchester United football soccer league amazing goal manchester united champions chelsea cool goals arsenal highlights liverpool cup "champions league" rooney ronaldo city england match fifa
- published: 24 May 2011
- views: 8523
- author: Mir Hassan
Giggs goal & Manchester United 2-1 Arsenal - FA Cup semi final replay 1999 | FATV
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- Duration: 3:59
- Updated: 20 Feb 2013
FATV presents an FA Cup preview, ahead of this weekend's semi-final clashes, featuring Alex Ferguson, Ryan Giggs and Ray Parlour from what was a classic clash of the titans featuring one of the all time greatest FA Cup goals. The Budweiser FA Cup Liverpool v Everton - Saturday 14 April 2012 at Wembley Highlights and more available on www.youtube.com/thefacup from Sunday midnight Tottenham Hotspur vs Chelsea - Sunday 15 April 2012 at Wembley Highlights and more available on www.youtube.com/thefacup from monday 10pm Subscribe to the only Official source of highlights on the web. The official Youtube channel of the FA Cup - the world's largest and oldest football competition. With exclusive news, match highlights, player interviews and more. To find out more about the The FA Cup visit: thefa.com The FA Cup on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com tags Giggs goal Manchester United 2-1 Arsenal FA Cup semi final replay 1999 "Giggs goal" "Giggs goal v Arsenal" "man u" "ryan giggs" "roy keane" "bergkamp goal" "beckham goal" "david beckham" becks highlights best amazing funny classic "man u 2-1 arsenal" "fa cup semi final"
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FATV presents an FA Cup preview, ahead of this weekend's semi-final clashes, featuring Alex Ferguson, Ryan Giggs and Ray Parlour from what was a classic clash of the titans featuring one of the all time greatest FA Cup goals. The Budweiser FA Cup Liverpool v Everton - Saturday 14 April 2012 at Wembley Highlights and more available on www.youtube.com/thefacup from Sunday midnight Tottenham Hotspur vs Chelsea - Sunday 15 April 2012 at Wembley Highlights and more available on www.youtube.com/thefacup from monday 10pm Subscribe to the only Official source of highlights on the web. The official Youtube channel of the FA Cup - the world's largest and oldest football competition. With exclusive news, match highlights, player interviews and more. To find out more about the The FA Cup visit: thefa.com The FA Cup on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com tags Giggs goal Manchester United 2-1 Arsenal FA Cup semi final replay 1999 "Giggs goal" "Giggs goal v Arsenal" "man u" "ryan giggs" "roy keane" "bergkamp goal" "beckham goal" "david beckham" becks highlights best amazing funny classic "man u 2-1 arsenal" "fa cup semi final"
- published: 11 Apr 2012
- views: 44730
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Ryan Giggs Wonder Goal Vs Arsenal FA Cup Semi Final Replay 1999
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- Duration: 1:14
- Updated: 23 Jan 2013
14-4-1999-FA Cup Semifinal Replay the score was 1-1 between Man Utd and Arsenal David Beckham scored in min 17 and Dennis Bergkamp for Arsenal in min 69.The match went into extra-time and Ryan Giggs scored this beautiful goal in min 109 which which sent United in the final.Manchester United were to win the FA Cup on 22nd of May in a match against Newcastle United with goals from Teddy Sheringham and Paul Scholes .
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14-4-1999-FA Cup Semifinal Replay the score was 1-1 between Man Utd and Arsenal David Beckham scored in min 17 and Dennis Bergkamp for Arsenal in min 69.The match went into extra-time and Ryan Giggs scored this beautiful goal in min 109 which which sent United in the final.Manchester United were to win the FA Cup on 22nd of May in a match against Newcastle United with goals from Teddy Sheringham and Paul Scholes .
- published: 03 Mar 2012
- views: 7984
- author: MrAntonioGheorghe
Ryan Giggs - Lift me up
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- Duration: 3:58
- Updated: 20 Feb 2013
A compilation of Ryan Giggs greatest goals
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A compilation of Ryan Giggs greatest goals
- published: 15 Nov 2006
- views: 662335
- author: sunindian2001
Ryan Giggs Wonder Goal vs Arsenal 1999 Fa Cup Semi Final
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- Duration: 0:21
- Updated: 29 Nov 2012
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Hughes goal vs Chelsea '92
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- Duration: 0:28
- Updated: 06 Jan 2013
United 1-1 Chelsea - Feb '92 From a quick Schmeichel throw out Giggs bursts clear, those wer the days, and sets Hughes up.
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United 1-1 Chelsea - Feb '92 From a quick Schmeichel throw out Giggs bursts clear, those wer the days, and sets Hughes up.
- published: 11 Feb 2009
- views: 22917
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Learn Ryan Giggs panna/ nutmeg skill - Manchester United - Football Soccer Skills
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- Duration: 0:48
- Updated: 19 Feb 2013
Please Subscribe STEP 1: Roll the ball across your body STEP 2: kick/poke ball with trailing foot Good to get the ball through someones legs! Steve Roberts STR Skill School
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Please Subscribe STEP 1: Roll the ball across your body STEP 2: kick/poke ball with trailing foot Good to get the ball through someones legs! Steve Roberts STR Skill School
- published: 13 Jun 2010
- views: 488519
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What the world was like when Ryan Giggs scored his first goal
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Ryan Giggs has scored in 23 consecutive seasons for Man United. His first goal for the club came back in 1991 and a lot has changed since then, as you'll see! Check out www.talksport.co.uk for more football entertainment SUBSCRIBE to get more funny videos delivered right to your news feed: bit.ly FOLLOW us on Twitter and tell us what else you want to watch on talkSPORT's YouTube channel: bit.ly LIKE us on Facebook to join the world's most intriguing sporting debates: on.fb.me
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Ryan Giggs has scored in 23 consecutive seasons for Man United. His first goal for the club came back in 1991 and a lot has changed since then, as you'll see! Check out www.talksport.co.uk for more football entertainment SUBSCRIBE to get more funny videos delivered right to your news feed: bit.ly FOLLOW us on Twitter and tell us what else you want to watch on talkSPORT's YouTube channel: bit.ly LIKE us on Facebook to join the world's most intriguing sporting debates: on.fb.me
- published: 12 Feb 2013
- views: 7442
- author: talkSPORTmagazine
Ryan Giggs Goal - Olympic Mens Great Britain vs United Arab Emirates 1-0 Football 2012
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my filming of the giggsy goal at wembley on 29/07/12 for the olympic football, classy goal!
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my filming of the giggsy goal at wembley on 29/07/12 for the olympic football, classy goal!
- published: 30 Jul 2012
- views: 40773
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Ryan Giggs Marvelous Dribble goal in fa cup
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- Updated: 27 Jul 2012
Man Utd vs Arsenal Ryan Giggs Marvelous Dribble goal in fa cup
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Man Utd vs Arsenal Ryan Giggs Marvelous Dribble goal in fa cup
- published: 30 Sep 2006
- views: 11852
- author: iergun
Ryan Giggs the true legend
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- Duration: 10:08
- Updated: 20 Feb 2013
My new compalion of Ryan Giggs which contains exclusive clips from the record breaking season 07/08 including skills,assists ,goals...
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My new compalion of Ryan Giggs which contains exclusive clips from the record breaking season 07/08 including skills,assists ,goals...
- published: 09 Oct 2008
- views: 196360
- author: SirRyanGiggs
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Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville Interview Inside Sport gitan reel
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- Duration: 8:27
- Updated: 17 Feb 2013
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Legends of the Barclays Premier League - Ryan Giggs
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- Duration: 23:19
- Updated: 21 Feb 2013
ESPN UK Documentary
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Ryan Giggs Interview (His Top 3 Team mates)
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- Duration: 3:35
- Updated: 06 Feb 2013
a small interview from ryan giggs where he talks the top 3 players he has ever played along side
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a small interview from ryan giggs where he talks the top 3 players he has ever played along side
- published: 22 May 2012
- views: 15590
- author: RyanGiggsOBE
Ryan Giggs -Top 11 Goals
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- Duration: 4:37
- Updated: 20 Feb 2013
Please follow @RyanGiggsStats on Twitter: tiny.cc || 12/7/2011 #62 - Top Rated (All Time) - Sport - Netherlands || Ryan Giggs scored so many great goals for Manchester United. This is my top 11: 11. Coventry City - 28 December 1992 10. Juventus - 1 October 1997 9. Juventus - 25 February 2003 8. Leeds United - 27 April 1994 7. Chelsea - 21 October 1995 6. Coventry City - 18 January 1997 5. Manchester City - 6 April 1996 4. Barnsley - 25 October 1997 3. QPR - 5 February 1994 2. Tottenham Hotspur - 19 September 1992 1. Arsenal- 14 April 1999 Music: The Killers - All These Things I've Done Please watch my latest video: Ryan Giggs, A Perfect Footballer
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Please follow @RyanGiggsStats on Twitter: tiny.cc || 12/7/2011 #62 - Top Rated (All Time) - Sport - Netherlands || Ryan Giggs scored so many great goals for Manchester United. This is my top 11: 11. Coventry City - 28 December 1992 10. Juventus - 1 October 1997 9. Juventus - 25 February 2003 8. Leeds United - 27 April 1994 7. Chelsea - 21 October 1995 6. Coventry City - 18 January 1997 5. Manchester City - 6 April 1996 4. Barnsley - 25 October 1997 3. QPR - 5 February 1994 2. Tottenham Hotspur - 19 September 1992 1. Arsenal- 14 April 1999 Music: The Killers - All These Things I've Done Please watch my latest video: Ryan Giggs, A Perfect Footballer
- published: 18 Aug 2008
- views: 1265883
- author: stevenjvd
Ryan Giggs Tribute by BBC
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- Duration: 2:13
- Updated: 18 Feb 2013
Ryan Giggs, BBC Sports Personality of year 2009! good quality and a fantastic player Music: Divenire by Ludovico Einaudi
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Ryan Giggs, BBC Sports Personality of year 2009! good quality and a fantastic player Music: Divenire by Ludovico Einaudi
- published: 23 Jan 2008
- views: 409542
- author: stevenjvd
Ryan Giggs - 'Player at All Time' 'the Living Legend' | Hold Up the Light , Ryan.
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- Duration: 5:19
- Updated: 20 Feb 2013
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- published: 06 Feb 2012
- views: 114900
- author: theMysticalTS
Man Utd 2-0 Everton - Ryan Giggs & Rafael (Man Of The Match) Post Match Interview - 1080p
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- Duration: 2:19
- Updated: 18 Feb 2013
Man Utd 2-0 Everton - Ryan Giggs & Rafael (Man Of The Match) Post Match Interview - 1080p Don't forget to like!!! Subscribe to see more videos: tinyurl.com Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use
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- published: 10 Feb 2013
- views: 4278
- author: Beanyman62Sports
Giggs' Man Utd dream team
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- Duration: 3:28
- Updated: 20 Feb 2013
Ryan Giggs made his Manchester United debut in 1990. After more than 900 appearances for the Red Devils, incredibly he will be in Sir Alex Ferguson's squad 22 years on for the derby against City on Sunday. In this special interview recorded in conjunction with Abu Dhabi media, Giggs reveals his idea of the BEST Man Utd team from his time at the club. -------------Schmeichel------------ Neville---Ferdinand---Vidic---Irwin Ronaldo---Keane---Scholes---Giggs ------Rooney-------Cantona------ Bookmark: www.youtube.com Subscribe - www.youtube.com Twitter - twitter.com Facebook Goal UK: www.facebook.com Goal International: www.facebook.com
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Ryan Giggs made his Manchester United debut in 1990. After more than 900 appearances for the Red Devils, incredibly he will be in Sir Alex Ferguson's squad 22 years on for the derby against City on Sunday. In this special interview recorded in conjunction with Abu Dhabi media, Giggs reveals his idea of the BEST Man Utd team from his time at the club. -------------Schmeichel------------ Neville---Ferdinand---Vidic---Irwin Ronaldo---Keane---Scholes---Giggs ------Rooney-------Cantona------ Bookmark: www.youtube.com Subscribe - www.youtube.com Twitter - twitter.com Facebook Goal UK: www.facebook.com Goal International: www.facebook.com
- published: 07 Dec 2012
- views: 30403
- author: goal
Ryan Giggs interview
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- Duration: 3:36
- Updated: 08 Nov 2012
Sportsnet.ca speaks with Ryan Giggs in advance of Friday's match between Manchester United and Celtic at Rogers Centre.
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Sportsnet.ca speaks with Ryan Giggs in advance of Friday's match between Manchester United and Celtic at Rogers Centre.
- published: 15 Jul 2010
- views: 17508
- author: SPORTSNETCANADA
Ryan Giggs - Lift me up
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- Duration: 3:58
- Updated: 20 Feb 2013
A compilation of Ryan Giggs greatest goals
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A compilation of Ryan Giggs greatest goals
- published: 15 Nov 2006
- views: 662335
- author: sunindian2001
Ryan Giggs exclusive - first TV interview at Manchester United in 1993
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- Duration: 3:45
- Updated: 28 Jan 2013
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Ryan Giggs v Arsenal (FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999)
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- Duration: 1:14
- Updated: 20 Feb 2013
Ryan Giggs v Arsenal FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999
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Ryan Giggs v Arsenal FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999
- published: 07 Mar 2008
- views: 1270102
- author: pledjuraa
Ryan Giggs Assists 2001/02-2005/06
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- Duration: 13:27
- Updated: 17 Feb 2013
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- published: 08 Aug 2012
- views: 4037
- author: ProductionsWazza
Ryan Giggs first 2 TV interviews
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- Duration: 1:01
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
Giggsy interviewed as a schoolboy and then his first TV interview as a Man Utd player.
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Giggsy interviewed as a schoolboy and then his first TV interview as a Man Utd player.
- published: 20 Feb 2007
- views: 120573
- author: russsmiff1
West Ham 2-4 Manchester United - Wayne Rooney and Ryan Giggs Interview
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- Duration: 2:28
- Updated: 20 Jan 2013
Wayne Rooney struck a stunning second half hat-trick as United roared back from two goals down to register a pulsating victory over West Ham at Upton Park. Mark Noble converted a pair of first-half penalties for Avram Grant's Hammers to seemingly deal the Reds' title hopes an untimely setback. United had bossed the match despite Noble's double, however, and deservedly overturned an unjust scoreline in the second period. Rooney curled home a magnificent long-range free-kick, thundered in a superb leveller and converted a penalty in a breathless 15 minutes spell, before substitute Javier Hernandez turned home a late clincher and cap another rousing fightback from the Reds.
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Wayne Rooney struck a stunning second half hat-trick as United roared back from two goals down to register a pulsating victory over West Ham at Upton Park. Mark Noble converted a pair of first-half penalties for Avram Grant's Hammers to seemingly deal the Reds' title hopes an untimely setback. United had bossed the match despite Noble's double, however, and deservedly overturned an unjust scoreline in the second period. Rooney curled home a magnificent long-range free-kick, thundered in a superb leveller and converted a penalty in a breathless 15 minutes spell, before substitute Javier Hernandez turned home a late clincher and cap another rousing fightback from the Reds.
- published: 02 Apr 2011
- views: 103432
- author: wewantglazerout2010
Ryan Giggs - Absolute Legend
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- Duration: 5:11
- Updated: 18 Feb 2013
Ryan Giggs, BBC Sports Personality of year 2009! Ryan Giggs, one of the best players ever Watch at High Quality Ryan Giggs is one of very few players to have spent their entire career at the same club, he is the most decorated player in the history of Manchester United FC with more than 750 appearances for the club, Welsh winger Ryan Giggs's main strengths are his speed and his ability to manipulate the ball while running at full pace. Giggs is Manchester United's longest-serving current player, having made his first appearance for the club during the 1990-91 season and been a regular player since the 1991-92 season. He has played the highest number of competitive games for the club (more than Sir Bobby Charlton, the previous recordman), and holds the club record of team trophies won by a player (24). As well as being a fine dribbler, Giggs is also a regular goalscorer: it is very famous a magnificent solo score to win the 1999 FA Cup semi-final replay against Arsenal FC, from which point the club went on to secure an unprecedented treble of league, cup and UEFA Champions League, later adding the Intercontinental Cup. He has claimed nine other English titles (his overall tally of ten is a joint English record), two more FA Cups and a League Cup, one more Champions League (2008) and is the only player to win the Professional Footballers Association Young Player of the Year award on two occasions in a row (1992 and 1993). As Welsh international Giggs has been a regular in ...
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Ryan Giggs, BBC Sports Personality of year 2009! Ryan Giggs, one of the best players ever Watch at High Quality Ryan Giggs is one of very few players to have spent their entire career at the same club, he is the most decorated player in the history of Manchester United FC with more than 750 appearances for the club, Welsh winger Ryan Giggs's main strengths are his speed and his ability to manipulate the ball while running at full pace. Giggs is Manchester United's longest-serving current player, having made his first appearance for the club during the 1990-91 season and been a regular player since the 1991-92 season. He has played the highest number of competitive games for the club (more than Sir Bobby Charlton, the previous recordman), and holds the club record of team trophies won by a player (24). As well as being a fine dribbler, Giggs is also a regular goalscorer: it is very famous a magnificent solo score to win the 1999 FA Cup semi-final replay against Arsenal FC, from which point the club went on to secure an unprecedented treble of league, cup and UEFA Champions League, later adding the Intercontinental Cup. He has claimed nine other English titles (his overall tally of ten is a joint English record), two more FA Cups and a League Cup, one more Champions League (2008) and is the only player to win the Professional Footballers Association Young Player of the Year award on two occasions in a row (1992 and 1993). As Welsh international Giggs has been a regular in ...
- published: 14 Jun 2008
- views: 420909
- author: stevenjvd
Ryan Giggs - True Red HD
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- Duration: 7:00
- Updated: 17 Feb 2013
Ryan Giggs - True Red by Rufat © 2011. Music: 1.Snow Patrol - Open Your Eyes 2.Embrace - Celebrate Ryan Giggs - True Red Tribute 720p skills goals passion injury manchester united man utd Wales barcelona real madrid brasil PSV ronaldo fenomeno R9 freestyle life freestyle skills Zizou goals passion freestyler HDTV emotons free kicks new video 2011 English Premier League 2010 2011 rufat rufattv Spain La Liga Primera Revista Sky Sports Guapa Furia Roja clasico Champions League 2010-2011 Wemley Final Santiago BernabeuCristiano Ronaldo CR7 goals season compilation tricks vs skills 2008 07/08 Manchester United 2009-2010 2010-2011 09-10 10-11 Season Goals Tricks Skills Freestyle Power Ability Manchester United 2007 2008 07 Top 10 Best World Footballers 2009 Sergio Kun Aguero (Atletico Madrid) Samir Nasri (Arsenal) Fernando Torres (Liverpool) Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Inter Milan) Kaka (AC Milan)Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal) Ronaldinho (AC Milan)Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)Lionel Messi (Barcelona) Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus) Iker Casillas (Real Madrid) Petr Cech (Chelsea) Edwin van der Sar (Manchester United) Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid), Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United) Paolo Maldini (AC Milan), Alessandro Nesta (AC Milan) Carles Puyol (Barcelona) John Terry (Chelsea) Thierry Henry (Barcelona) Carlos Tevez (Manchester United) Ruud van Nistelrooy David Villa (Valencia) Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Juninho Pernambucano (Lyon) Frank Lampard (Chelsea ...
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Ryan Giggs - True Red by Rufat © 2011. Music: 1.Snow Patrol - Open Your Eyes 2.Embrace - Celebrate Ryan Giggs - True Red Tribute 720p skills goals passion injury manchester united man utd Wales barcelona real madrid brasil PSV ronaldo fenomeno R9 freestyle life freestyle skills Zizou goals passion freestyler HDTV emotons free kicks new video 2011 English Premier League 2010 2011 rufat rufattv Spain La Liga Primera Revista Sky Sports Guapa Furia Roja clasico Champions League 2010-2011 Wemley Final Santiago BernabeuCristiano Ronaldo CR7 goals season compilation tricks vs skills 2008 07/08 Manchester United 2009-2010 2010-2011 09-10 10-11 Season Goals Tricks Skills Freestyle Power Ability Manchester United 2007 2008 07 Top 10 Best World Footballers 2009 Sergio Kun Aguero (Atletico Madrid) Samir Nasri (Arsenal) Fernando Torres (Liverpool) Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Inter Milan) Kaka (AC Milan)Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal) Ronaldinho (AC Milan)Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)Lionel Messi (Barcelona) Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus) Iker Casillas (Real Madrid) Petr Cech (Chelsea) Edwin van der Sar (Manchester United) Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid), Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United) Paolo Maldini (AC Milan), Alessandro Nesta (AC Milan) Carles Puyol (Barcelona) John Terry (Chelsea) Thierry Henry (Barcelona) Carlos Tevez (Manchester United) Ruud van Nistelrooy David Villa (Valencia) Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Juninho Pernambucano (Lyon) Frank Lampard (Chelsea ...
- published: 20 Mar 2011
- views: 32983
- author: RufatTV
11 Reasons Why Ryan Giggs Deserves A Knighthood
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- Duration: 5:20
- Updated: 07 Feb 2013
This video is a product of www.MustBeRed.com. Please watch it and then sign up to our campaign to get a knighthood for the Welsh Wizard of Old Trafford.
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This video is a product of www.MustBeRed.com. Please watch it and then sign up to our campaign to get a knighthood for the Welsh Wizard of Old Trafford.
- published: 18 Apr 2009
- views: 16305
- author: MustBeRedDotCom
Ryan Giggs - The best from the best
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- Duration: 3:38
- Updated: 18 Feb 2013
A Ryan Giggs compilation with some off his best tricks, goals, runs, celebratings and moments on the football field.
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A Ryan Giggs compilation with some off his best tricks, goals, runs, celebratings and moments on the football field.
- published: 28 Oct 2008
- views: 59827
- author: Jan Olsen
Ryan Giggs the true legend
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:08
- Updated: 20 Feb 2013
My new compalion of Ryan Giggs which contains exclusive clips from the record breaking season 07/08 including skills,assists ,goals...
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My new compalion of Ryan Giggs which contains exclusive clips from the record breaking season 07/08 including skills,assists ,goals...
- published: 09 Oct 2008
- views: 196360
- author: SirRyanGiggs
Tubes at the Ryan Giggs: True Red premiere
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- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 15 Nov 2012
Tubes visits the premiere for Ryan Giggs' DVD, 'Ryan Giggs: True Red' and spits some sick lyrics.
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Tubes visits the premiere for Ryan Giggs' DVD, 'Ryan Giggs: True Red' and spits some sick lyrics.
- published: 21 Sep 2008
- views: 65921
- author: tingtomtastic
Ryan Giggs - Absolute Legend | HD
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- Duration: 2:52
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
"He was the boy who played like a man and now he is a man who plays like a boy." My new video about the best player in history of football Ryan Giggs. Truly a Manchester United Legend. The Welsh Wizard has played for Manchester United for his entire professional career. This video will show all the greatest moments of Giggs throughout his incredible career in United. Even if you dislike Manchester United, this video will show you that this man is truly a Legend. Thanks to SuperPaulBoy for requesting this video. www.youtube.com
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"He was the boy who played like a man and now he is a man who plays like a boy." My new video about the best player in history of football Ryan Giggs. Truly a Manchester United Legend. The Welsh Wizard has played for Manchester United for his entire professional career. This video will show all the greatest moments of Giggs throughout his incredible career in United. Even if you dislike Manchester United, this video will show you that this man is truly a Legend. Thanks to SuperPaulBoy for requesting this video. www.youtube.com
- published: 09 Apr 2010
- views: 20876
- author: FaroukdabashPresents
Ryan Giggs - Years of Magic
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- Duration: 6:13
- Updated: 14 Feb 2013
Ryan Giggs = Legend
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Ryan Giggs v Arsenal (FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999)
Ryan Giggs v Arsenal FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999...
published: 07 Mar 2008
author: pledjuraa
Ryan Giggs v Arsenal (FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999)
Ryan Giggs v Arsenal FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999
- published: 07 Mar 2008
- views: 1269483
- author: pledjuraa
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Norwich vs Manchester United 1-2 - Ryan Giggs (26-02-12)
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "f...
published: 26 Feb 2012
author: Junaid Nizamani
Norwich vs Manchester United 1-2 - Ryan Giggs (26-02-12)
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit,...
- published: 26 Feb 2012
- views: 6670
- author: Junaid Nizamani
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Ryan Giggs - 'Manchester United's best ever player'
Ryan Giggs talks to ESPN's Rebecca Lowe about his career, the retirement of Gary Neville a...
published: 05 Feb 2011
author: ESPNsoccernet
Ryan Giggs - 'Manchester United's best ever player'
Ryan Giggs talks to ESPN's Rebecca Lowe about his career, the retirement of Gary Neville and his future. Watch more videos like this at soccernet.espn.go.com
- published: 05 Feb 2011
- views: 10354
- author: ESPNsoccernet
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Manchester United Ryan Giggs Goal vs. Chelsea Community S.
Evra smart 1-2 pass to ronaldo, gets it back on the wing and then crosses it for giggs :)...
published: 05 Aug 2007
author: mounttokyo
Manchester United Ryan Giggs Goal vs. Chelsea Community S.
Evra smart 1-2 pass to ronaldo, gets it back on the wing and then crosses it for giggs :)
- published: 05 Aug 2007
- views: 24442
- author: mounttokyo
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Learn Ryan Giggs panna/ nutmeg skill - Manchester United - Football Soccer Skills
Please Subscribe STEP 1: Roll the ball across your body STEP 2: kick/poke ball with traili...
published: 13 Jun 2010
author: STRskillSchool
Learn Ryan Giggs panna/ nutmeg skill - Manchester United - Football Soccer Skills
Please Subscribe STEP 1: Roll the ball across your body STEP 2: kick/poke ball with trailing foot Good to get the ball through someones legs! Steve Roberts STR Skill School
- published: 13 Jun 2010
- views: 488519
- author: STRskillSchool
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Ryan Giggs kidnapped and cloned / Reebok Doppelganger
A 1997 British commercial for Reebok. Doppelganger. The true story of Ryan Giggs. Manchest...
published: 28 Feb 2011
author: CulturePub
Ryan Giggs kidnapped and cloned / Reebok Doppelganger
A 1997 British commercial for Reebok. Doppelganger. The true story of Ryan Giggs. Manchester United vs. Manchester City. More commercials : www.youtube.com .. All rights reserved. For all inquiries, please mail to culturepub@wizdeo.com
- published: 28 Feb 2011
- views: 12469
- author: CulturePub
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Manchester United vs Liverpool Nov 2003 Ryan Giggs Goals 2-1
Whether dribbling or sprinting Ryan Giggs can leave the best defenders with twisted blood....
published: 09 Nov 2011
author: Melvin Gouw
Manchester United vs Liverpool Nov 2003 Ryan Giggs Goals 2-1
Whether dribbling or sprinting Ryan Giggs can leave the best defenders with twisted blood. Match Manchester United against Liverpool in Anfield on November 2003, Giggs score 2 goals for Manchester United and Win the Match. Liverpool vs Manchester United at Anfield 2003.
- published: 09 Nov 2011
- views: 14527
- author: Melvin Gouw
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Ryan Giggs N. 11 legend now and forever
Ryan Giggs the legend of the Manchester United...
published: 31 Dec 2010
author: General173
Ryan Giggs N. 11 legend now and forever
Ryan Giggs the legend of the Manchester United
- published: 31 Dec 2010
- views: 25916
- author: General173
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Ryan Giggs • Tribute • Manchester United • By ZiSOK
Please like my Facebook page : www.facebook.com Short compilation on Manchester United Leg...
published: 19 Aug 2010
author: ZiSOK
Ryan Giggs • Tribute • Manchester United • By ZiSOK
Please like my Facebook page : www.facebook.com Short compilation on Manchester United Legend Ryan Giggs, hope you enjoy the video please comment, rate and subscribe. Spain 1-0 Uruguay, Vlla, Torres, Xavi, Iniesta, Navas, Fabregas, Llorente, Pique, Puqol, Ramos, Casillas, Xabi Alonso, Silva, Klose, Ozil, Podolski, Khedira, Muller, Lahm, Neuer, Schweinsteiger, Low, Germany vs Spain, Spain vs Germany, Germany - Spain 07.07.10 WC 2010 Comment, Favorite, Rate & Enjoy =] IGNORE TAGS : Brazil vs Chile 3:0 Netherlands vs Slovakia 2:1 Argentina vs Mexico 3:1 Germany vs England 4:1 USA vs Ghana 1:2 Uruguay vs South Korea 2:1 Switzerland vs Honduras 0:0 Chile vs Spain 1:2 Portugal vs Brazil 0:0 North Korea vs Cote D'Ivoire 0:3 Danmark vs Japan 1:3 Cameroon vs Netherlands 1:2 Slovakia vs Italy 3:2 Paraguay vs New Zealand 0:0 Ghana vs Germany 0:1 Australia vs Serbia 2:1 Slovenia vs England 0:1 USA vs Algeria 1:0 Greece vs Argentina 0:2 Nigeria vs South Korea 2:2 France vs South Africa 1:2 Mexico vs Uruguay 0:1 Spain vs Honduras 2:0 Chile vs Switzerland 1:0 Portugal vs North Korea 7:0 Brazil vs Cote D'Ivoire 3:1 Italy vs New Zealand 1:1 Slovakia vs Paraguay 0:2 Cameroon vs Danmark 1:2 Ghana vs Australia 1:1 Netherlands vs Japan 1:0 England vs Algeria 0:0 Slovenia vs USA 2:2 Germany vs Serbia 0:1 France vs Mexico 0:2 Greece vs Nigeria 2:1 Argentina vs South Korea 4:1 South Africa vs Uruguay 0:3 Spain vs Switzerland 0:1 Honduras vs Chile 0:1 Brazil vs North Korea 2:1 Portugal vs Cote D ...
- published: 19 Aug 2010
- views: 12386
- author: ZiSOK
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Manchester United 2-1 Chelsea - Ryan Giggs and Nemanja Vidic
United stand tantalisingly close to a record 19th title after a magnificent 2-1 victory ov...
published: 08 May 2011
author: wewantglazerout2010
Manchester United 2-1 Chelsea - Ryan Giggs and Nemanja Vidic
United stand tantalisingly close to a record 19th title after a magnificent 2-1 victory over closest rivals Chelsea at a jubilant Old Trafford. Early goals from Javier Hernandez, inside the first minute, and Nemanja Vidic set Sir Alex Ferguson's side on their way to a famous win and, despite Frank Lampard's second-half effort, the leaders thoroughly deserved the success that leaves the club only a point away from more glory.
- published: 08 May 2011
- views: 13604
- author: wewantglazerout2010
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RYAN GIGGS LAUNCHES A REVOLUTION FOR GRASSROOTS FOOTBALL FROM REEBOK
Manchester United's Ryan Giggs and Olympic Gold medal sprinter Darren Campbell demonstrate...
published: 31 Mar 2009
author: RSGREENWOOD1977
RYAN GIGGS LAUNCHES A REVOLUTION FOR GRASSROOTS FOOTBALL FROM REEBOK
Manchester United's Ryan Giggs and Olympic Gold medal sprinter Darren Campbell demonstrate the new Reebok AF1 football range - a revolutionary range of footballs and apparel featuring chip technology to determine whether the ball has hit the 'post' during park kick-abouts. The technological breakthrough is set to put an end to kick-about football disputes for good...
- published: 31 Mar 2009
- views: 29953
- author: RSGREENWOOD1977
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Ryan Giggs - Manchester United's Finest Servant
A tribute to Ryan Giggs, Manchester United's most decorated player. Signed in 1987, no one...
published: 27 Oct 2010
author: fastredrhino
Ryan Giggs - Manchester United's Finest Servant
A tribute to Ryan Giggs, Manchester United's most decorated player. Signed in 1987, no one could forsee the contribution he would make to the history of the Red Devils. More league titles than any other footballer in England's history. Two European triumphs and 21 years later he surpassed the appearances record of Bobby Charlton. The video clips are: Ryan Giggs playing for Deans FC. Ryan Giggs playing for Salford Boys. Giggs playing for the reserves. Making his league debut against Everton in 1991 replacing Denis Irwin at Old Trafford. Scoring against Tottenham Hotspurs. Free kick against Blackburn Rovers. Lifting the Premier League trophy for the first time. Solo goal against QPR. Using his strength to score against Chelsea. Lifting the League a few more times. The important morale boosting goal against Juventus in the first leg of the 1999 Champions League semi-final. The goal he will be most remembered for, the 1999 FA Cup semi-final goal against Arsenal at Villa Park, the reaction of Alex Ferguson and staff and the magic celebration. Giggs' contribution to those edge of the cliff moments at the end of the Champions League final in the Nou Camp, the right footed knock on to Teddy Sheringham, breaking Bayern Munich's spirit and ultimately resulting in United completing their historic treble. Peter Schmeichel and Alex Ferguson lifting the European Cup. Wonderful assist against Chelsea. Lifting the Premier League himself. Replacing Scholes in Moscow in 2008 to surpass ...
- published: 27 Oct 2010
- views: 31970
- author: fastredrhino
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Ryan Giggs - Years of Magic
Ryan Giggs = Legend...
published: 30 Sep 2009
author: pRodCantona
Ryan Giggs - Years of Magic
Ryan Giggs = Legend
- published: 30 Sep 2009
- views: 37167
- author: pRodCantona
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Reebok - In Giggs' Garden
A Reebok commercial showing Giggs in his front garden pretending to be in the World Cup 20...
published: 28 Jun 2006
author: jonola
Reebok - In Giggs' Garden
A Reebok commercial showing Giggs in his front garden pretending to be in the World Cup 2006 Final. Too bad Wales never made it.
- published: 28 Jun 2006
- views: 82241
- author: jonola
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Ryan Giggs - LEGEND #Respect
Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, running down the wing,
Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, running down the w...
published: 30 Apr 2012
author: Jayadev.P.Menon
Ryan Giggs - LEGEND #Respect
Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, running down the wing,
Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, running down the wing -
Loved by the reds, feared by the blues...
Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs...
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Ryan Giggs Tribute (BBC)
"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976,
allowance is made for "...
published: 01 Jul 2011
author: Futbol Britanico
Ryan Giggs Tribute (BBC)
"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976,
allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism,
comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might
otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal
use tips the balance in favor of fair use."
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Top 20 football misses
20. Kieron Dyer (Newcastle), 19. Avishay Zano (Maccabi Haifa), 18. ??? (Ajax), 17. Nwankwo...
published: 10 Jun 2008
author: scimpkrz
Top 20 football misses
20. Kieron Dyer (Newcastle), 19. Avishay Zano (Maccabi Haifa), 18. ??? (Ajax), 17. Nwankwo Kanu (West Bromwich Albion), 16. Craig Bellamy (Liverpool), 15. Bo Hansen (FC Midtjylland), 14. Tomas Rosicky (Arsenal), 13. ??? (???) 12. Jermaine Jenas (Tottenham), 11. Ivan Helguera (Real Madrid), 10. Eidur Gudjohnsen & Ludovic Giuly (FC Barcelona), 9. Romário & Mazinho (Brazil), 8. Ryan Giggs (Manchester United), 7. John Carew (Valencia), 6. Diego Forlán (Manchester United), 5. Ronny Rosenthal (Liverpool). 4. ??? (???), 3. ??? (???), 2. ??? (???), 1. ??? (???).
- published: 10 Jun 2008
- views: 350391
- author: scimpkrz
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Ryan Giggs and Edwin Van Der Sar Interview 8/2/09 HD
Ryan Giggs and Edwin Van Der Sar Interview 8/2/09 after West Ham v Manchester United. Ryan...
published: 15 Feb 2009
author: ronaldointerview
Ryan Giggs and Edwin Van Der Sar Interview 8/2/09 HD
Ryan Giggs and Edwin Van Der Sar Interview 8/2/09 after West Ham v Manchester United. Ryan Giggs scored the winner and Edwin Van der Sar extended the record to 1212 minutes, after the 1-0 win at West Ham, beating the British club record previously held by Chris Woods of 1196 minutes.
- published: 15 Feb 2009
- views: 16518
- author: ronaldointerview
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Ryan Giggs -Top 11 Goals
Please follow @RyanGiggsStats on Twitter: tiny.cc || 12/7/2011 #62 - Top Rated (All Time) ...
published: 18 Aug 2008
author: stevenjvd
Ryan Giggs -Top 11 Goals
Please follow @RyanGiggsStats on Twitter: tiny.cc || 12/7/2011 #62 - Top Rated (All Time) - Sport - Netherlands || Ryan Giggs scored so many great goals for Manchester United. This is my top 11: 11. Coventry City - 28 December 1992 10. Juventus - 1 October 1997 9. Juventus - 25 February 2003 8. Leeds United - 27 April 1994 7. Chelsea - 21 October 1995 6. Coventry City - 18 January 1997 5. Manchester City - 6 April 1996 4. Barnsley - 25 October 1997 3. QPR - 5 February 1994 2. Tottenham Hotspur - 19 September 1992 1. Arsenal- 14 April 1999 Music: The Killers - All These Things I've Done Please watch my latest video: Ryan Giggs, A Perfect Footballer
- published: 18 Aug 2008
- views: 1265883
- author: stevenjvd
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Ryan Giggs Wonder Goal Vs Arsenal FA Cup Semi Final Replay 1999
14-4-1999-FA Cup Semifinal Replay the score was 1-1 between Man Utd and Arsenal David Beck...
published: 03 Mar 2012
author: MrAntonioGheorghe
Ryan Giggs Wonder Goal Vs Arsenal FA Cup Semi Final Replay 1999
14-4-1999-FA Cup Semifinal Replay the score was 1-1 between Man Utd and Arsenal David Beckham scored in min 17 and Dennis Bergkamp for Arsenal in min 69.The match went into extra-time and Ryan Giggs scored this beautiful goal in min 109 which which sent United in the final.Manchester United were to win the FA Cup on 22nd of May in a match against Newcastle United with goals from Teddy Sheringham and Paul Scholes .
- published: 03 Mar 2012
- views: 7984
- author: MrAntonioGheorghe
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Ryan Giggs finally plays in Wales
Manchester United midfielder pleased with players' efforts following the two-week internat...
published: 19 Nov 2011
author: ESPNsoccernet
Ryan Giggs finally plays in Wales
Manchester United midfielder pleased with players' efforts following the two-week international break. Watch more videos like this at soccernet.espn.go.com
- published: 19 Nov 2011
- views: 3504
- author: ESPNsoccernet
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ryan giggs wales v england
tv ad ryan giggs garden...
published: 04 Aug 2007
author: HOODEDHOOLI
ryan giggs wales v england
tv ad ryan giggs garden
- published: 04 Aug 2007
- views: 3497
- author: HOODEDHOOLI
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Ryan Giggs: The Welsh Wizard // Career Tribute // HD //
A tribute to one of the best that has ever played the sport. Please subscribe, comment and...
published: 25 May 2011
author: footballskill19
Ryan Giggs: The Welsh Wizard // Career Tribute // HD //
A tribute to one of the best that has ever played the sport. Please subscribe, comment and rate.
- published: 25 May 2011
- views: 5371
- author: footballskill19
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Ryan Giggs The Welsh Wizard Tribute hd
Ryan Joseph Giggs (born Ryan Joseph Wilson on 29 November 1973) is a Welsh professional fo...
published: 01 Sep 2011
author: twistedsoccer
Ryan Giggs The Welsh Wizard Tribute hd
Ryan Joseph Giggs (born Ryan Joseph Wilson on 29 November 1973) is a Welsh professional footballer who plays for Manchester United. Giggs made his first appearance for the club during the 1990--91 season and has been a regular player since the 1991--92 season. He established himself as a left winger during the 1990s, and continuing in this position well into the 2000s, though he has been increasingly used in a deeper playmaking role in his latter years. He holds the club record for competitive appearances.
- published: 01 Sep 2011
- views: 9042
- author: twistedsoccer
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Ryan Giggs Free Kick vs. Czech Republic
Ryan Giggs strikes a free kick wide in his final match for Wales vs. Czech Republic...
published: 02 Jun 2007
author: davies711
Ryan Giggs Free Kick vs. Czech Republic
Ryan Giggs strikes a free kick wide in his final match for Wales vs. Czech Republic
- published: 02 Jun 2007
- views: 17784
- author: davies711
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Reebok - In Giggs' Garden
A Reebok commercial showing Giggs in his front garden pretending to be in the World Cup 20...
published: 28 Jun 2006
author: jonola
Reebok - In Giggs' Garden
A Reebok commercial showing Giggs in his front garden pretending to be in the World Cup 2006 Final. Too bad Wales never made it.
- published: 28 Jun 2006
- views: 82241
- author: jonola
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Ryan Giggs - 'Manchester United's best ever player'
Ryan Giggs talks to ESPN's Rebecca Lowe about his career, the retirement of Gary Neville a...
published: 05 Feb 2011
author: ESPNsoccernet
Ryan Giggs - 'Manchester United's best ever player'
Ryan Giggs talks to ESPN's Rebecca Lowe about his career, the retirement of Gary Neville and his future. Watch more videos like this at soccernet.espn.go.com
- published: 05 Feb 2011
- views: 10354
- author: ESPNsoccernet
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ryan giggs
some of the best moments from the welsh player of the man united...
published: 14 Mar 2007
author: gansopatola
ryan giggs
some of the best moments from the welsh player of the man united
- published: 14 Mar 2007
- views: 28646
- author: gansopatola
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Ryan Giggs Season 2009/10 review
I hope you enjoy this editing piece. After Manchester United's 2008/09 campaign that saw t...
published: 01 Aug 2010
author: chilzsta
Ryan Giggs Season 2009/10 review
I hope you enjoy this editing piece. After Manchester United's 2008/09 campaign that saw their most loyal player in a central midfield role, collect his eleventh premier league title and win, as a senior for the first time, the PFA player of the year, Ryan Giggs followed his performance by returning to the left wing for his United team. The Reds, with a make shift back four for some part of the season and covering keepers for the many games, came to just a point of winning their fourth consecutive title. Ryan Giggs was rested for a month at the age 36 before a crucial game with Aston Villa saw him sidelined for a further month. However, with the Reds missing out on some top trophies, Ryan Giggs was a great joy to watch. This video includes as much footage sourced from the campaign and includes Ryan Giggs' passes, flicks, assists, goals, dribbles during the 2009/2010 season. After watching him since the age of 8, I hope he can be regarded as a player in the same breathe as the other footballing giants.
- published: 01 Aug 2010
- views: 21260
- author: chilzsta
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Ryan Giggs - Absolute Legend | HD
"He was the boy who played like a man and now he is a man who plays like a boy." My new vi...
published: 09 Apr 2010
author: FaroukdabashPresents
Ryan Giggs - Absolute Legend | HD
"He was the boy who played like a man and now he is a man who plays like a boy." My new video about the best player in history of football Ryan Giggs. Truly a Manchester United Legend. The Welsh Wizard has played for Manchester United for his entire professional career. This video will show all the greatest moments of Giggs throughout his incredible career in United. Even if you dislike Manchester United, this video will show you that this man is truly a Legend. Thanks to SuperPaulBoy for requesting this video. www.youtube.com
- published: 09 Apr 2010
- views: 20876
- author: FaroukdabashPresents
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Ryan Giggs - LEGEND #Respect
Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, running down the wing,
Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, running down the w...
published: 30 Apr 2012
author: Jayadev.P.Menon
Ryan Giggs - LEGEND #Respect
Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, running down the wing,
Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, running down the wing -
Loved by the reds, feared by the blues...
Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs...
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Ryan Giggs Tribute (BBC)
"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976,
allowance is made for "...
published: 01 Jul 2011
author: Futbol Britanico
Ryan Giggs Tribute (BBC)
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Imogen Thomas Ryan Giggs Superinjunction
The cat is out of the bag - Ryan Giggs was Mr SuperInjunction trying to keep his affair wi...
published: 24 May 2011
author: mrtoptips
Imogen Thomas Ryan Giggs Superinjunction
The cat is out of the bag - Ryan Giggs was Mr SuperInjunction trying to keep his affair with Imogen Thomas model, Big Brother contestant and ex Miss Wales out of the papers. After weeks of speculation Ryan Giggs has finally been caught out by an MP revealing it was Giggsy superinjunction and Twitter. Big Brother's Imogen Thomas and Ryan Giggs affair is now public. Will she kiss and tell? Will OK Magazine pay for a spill the beans interview? Will she mention the Imogen Thomas sex tape? Anyway, Ryan Giggs scores - what a love rat! Talking of love rats there are loads of them at www.lovehonourandbetray.com All copyright holders of the images and soundtrack acknowledged
- published: 24 May 2011
- views: 39562
- author: mrtoptips
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Ryan Giggs wins BBC Sports Personality 2009 Award
Manchester United star Ryan Giggs was crowned 2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year in S...
published: 17 Dec 2009
author: Steven Tan
Ryan Giggs wins BBC Sports Personality 2009 Award
Manchester United star Ryan Giggs was crowned 2009 BBC Sports Personality of the Year in Sunday's award ceremony. The Welsh winger, 36, is the most decorated player in English football with a record 11th Premier League winners' medal secured this year. Formula 1 champion Jenson Button was second with world heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis securing third spot. Giggs said: "I grew up watching this programme. To see the people that have won it and to be here is unbelievable." He is the first footballer to claim the prestigious trophy since England midfielder David Beckham in 2001, with Michael Owen (1998), Paul Gascoigne (1990) and Bobby Moore (1966) the only other football winners. Giggs reflects on his prestigious career With the public choosing their favourite from the shortlist of 10 by phone on the night, Giggs received 29.4% of the vote (151842 votes) ahead of Button (18.74% - 96770) and Ennis (15.58% - 80469) with a total of 516473 votes cast. This year has seen Giggs win the Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year award for the first time in April and the Wales Sports Personality of the Year award, and in a United shirt he has made his 800th appearance, scored his 150th goal and helping them reach the Champions League final. The Cardiff-born star added: "I am playing for the greatest manager that has ever lived and I'm playing for the greatest club. Perhaps I've become more appreciated as I have got older. "It's unusual for a 36-year-old to be ...
- published: 17 Dec 2009
- views: 27876
- author: Steven Tan
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#WhenSnoopsInEurope: Ryan Giggs
Snoop Dogg is launching his world tour starting in the UK & hitting Cardiff, Wales on Octo...
published: 28 Sep 2011
author: westfesttv
#WhenSnoopsInEurope: Ryan Giggs
Snoop Dogg is launching his world tour starting in the UK & hitting Cardiff, Wales on October 8th!! Make sure you get your tickets here: snoopdogg.com
- published: 28 Sep 2011
- views: 30322
- author: westfesttv
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Ryan Giggs on 20 years at Man U
The iconic former Wales international has played in Manchester United colours for the last...
published: 21 Jan 2011
author: newsxlive
Ryan Giggs on 20 years at Man U
The iconic former Wales international has played in Manchester United colours for the last 20 years. And here the Red Devils' legend talks about the club's chase for trophies and how he maintains his enthusiasm for football.
- published: 21 Jan 2011
- views: 13560
- author: newsxlive
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Ryan Giggs -Top 11 Goals
Please follow @RyanGiggsStats on Twitter: tiny.cc || 12/7/2011 #62 - Top Rated (All Time) ...
published: 18 Aug 2008
author: stevenjvd
Ryan Giggs -Top 11 Goals
Please follow @RyanGiggsStats on Twitter: tiny.cc || 12/7/2011 #62 - Top Rated (All Time) - Sport - Netherlands || Ryan Giggs scored so many great goals for Manchester United. This is my top 11: 11. Coventry City - 28 December 1992 10. Juventus - 1 October 1997 9. Juventus - 25 February 2003 8. Leeds United - 27 April 1994 7. Chelsea - 21 October 1995 6. Coventry City - 18 January 1997 5. Manchester City - 6 April 1996 4. Barnsley - 25 October 1997 3. QPR - 5 February 1994 2. Tottenham Hotspur - 19 September 1992 1. Arsenal- 14 April 1999 Music: The Killers - All These Things I've Done Please watch my latest video: Ryan Giggs, A Perfect Footballer
- published: 18 Aug 2008
- views: 1265883
- author: stevenjvd
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Every Ryan Giggs goal (Part 1)
RYAN GIGGS THROUGH THE YEARS Every goal throughout the career of Ryan Giggs, this video is...
published: 06 May 2012
author: RyanGiggsOBE
Every Ryan Giggs goal (Part 1)
RYAN GIGGS THROUGH THE YEARS Every goal throughout the career of Ryan Giggs, this video is from his first season to 94, part 2 will be the next few years etc.
- published: 06 May 2012
- views: 3506
- author: RyanGiggsOBE
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Ryan Giggs - 10 Best Goal
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published: 05 Sep 2008
author: appledotnet
Ryan Giggs - 10 Best Goal
mutdnews.blogspot.com click here for more
- published: 05 Sep 2008
- views: 56500
- author: appledotnet
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Ryan Giggs ||| Skills,Tricks and Goals by StonyUnited
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published: 13 Nov 2010
author: StonyUnited
Ryan Giggs ||| Skills,Tricks and Goals by StonyUnited
Join in Facebook www.facebook.com "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."
- published: 13 Nov 2010
- views: 64669
- author: StonyUnited
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Ryan Giggs v Arsenal (FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999)
Ryan Giggs v Arsenal FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999...
published: 07 Mar 2008
author: pledjuraa
Ryan Giggs v Arsenal (FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999)
Ryan Giggs v Arsenal FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999
- published: 07 Mar 2008
- views: 1270102
- author: pledjuraa
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Ryan Giggs Goal- FA CUP Semifinal vs Arsenal '99
Ryan Giggs dribbles many Arsenal Defenders en route to a beautiful goal. this goal was in ...
published: 11 Feb 2006
author: jlo8720
Ryan Giggs Goal- FA CUP Semifinal vs Arsenal '99
Ryan Giggs dribbles many Arsenal Defenders en route to a beautiful goal. this goal was in the 109th minute of the 1999 FA Cup Semi Final (replay) , it gave Manchester United the lead 2-1. voted goal of the century by the FA (football Association)
- published: 11 Feb 2006
- views: 604002
- author: jlo8720
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Ryan Giggs Solo Goal Vs. Arsenal (Watch in HD)
Ryan Giggs he run.........................................and he shot and it go in the Goa...
published: 16 Feb 2009
author: XOzkarZ
Ryan Giggs Solo Goal Vs. Arsenal (Watch in HD)
Ryan Giggs he run.........................................and he shot and it go in the Goal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- published: 16 Feb 2009
- views: 43178
- author: XOzkarZ
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Amazing Goal by Ryan Giggs ( vs. Arsenal )
Ryan Giggs scores a fantastic goal after dribbling nearly 3/4 of the feild. FA Cup Semi-Fi...
published: 22 Apr 2006
author: vnmu
Amazing Goal by Ryan Giggs ( vs. Arsenal )
Ryan Giggs scores a fantastic goal after dribbling nearly 3/4 of the feild. FA Cup Semi-Final 98-99.
- published: 22 Apr 2006
- views: 32952
- author: vnmu
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Manchester United Ryan Giggs Goal vs. Chelsea Community S.
Evra smart 1-2 pass to ronaldo, gets it back on the wing and then crosses it for giggs :)...
published: 05 Aug 2007
author: mounttokyo
Manchester United Ryan Giggs Goal vs. Chelsea Community S.
Evra smart 1-2 pass to ronaldo, gets it back on the wing and then crosses it for giggs :)
- published: 05 Aug 2007
- views: 24442
- author: mounttokyo
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Ryan Giggs Semi Final Replay Goal
Ryan Gigg's Goal Vs Arsenal 14th April 1999...
published: 24 Aug 2006
author: treble1999couk
Ryan Giggs Semi Final Replay Goal
Ryan Gigg's Goal Vs Arsenal 14th April 1999
- published: 24 Aug 2006
- views: 79393
- author: treble1999couk
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Manchester United vs Liverpool Nov 2003 Ryan Giggs Goals 2-1
Whether dribbling or sprinting Ryan Giggs can leave the best defenders with twisted blood....
published: 09 Nov 2011
author: Melvin Gouw
Manchester United vs Liverpool Nov 2003 Ryan Giggs Goals 2-1
Whether dribbling or sprinting Ryan Giggs can leave the best defenders with twisted blood. Match Manchester United against Liverpool in Anfield on November 2003, Giggs score 2 goals for Manchester United and Win the Match. Liverpool vs Manchester United at Anfield 2003.
- published: 09 Nov 2011
- views: 14527
- author: Melvin Gouw
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Ryan Giggs best goals skills football soccer amazing goal Manchester United
Ryan Giggs best goals skills football soccer amazing goal Manchester United football socce...
published: 24 May 2011
author: Mir Hassan
Ryan Giggs best goals skills football soccer amazing goal Manchester United
Ryan Giggs best goals skills football soccer amazing goal Manchester United football soccer league amazing goal manchester united champions chelsea cool goals arsenal highlights liverpool cup "champions league" rooney ronaldo city england match fifa
- published: 24 May 2011
- views: 8523
- author: Mir Hassan
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Giggs goal & Manchester United 2-1 Arsenal - FA Cup semi final replay 1999 | FATV
FATV presents an FA Cup preview, ahead of this weekend's semi-final clashes, featuring Ale...
published: 11 Apr 2012
author: thefacup
Giggs goal & Manchester United 2-1 Arsenal - FA Cup semi final replay 1999 | FATV
FATV presents an FA Cup preview, ahead of this weekend's semi-final clashes, featuring Alex Ferguson, Ryan Giggs and Ray Parlour from what was a classic clash of the titans featuring one of the all time greatest FA Cup goals. The Budweiser FA Cup Liverpool v Everton - Saturday 14 April 2012 at Wembley Highlights and more available on www.youtube.com/thefacup from Sunday midnight Tottenham Hotspur vs Chelsea - Sunday 15 April 2012 at Wembley Highlights and more available on www.youtube.com/thefacup from monday 10pm Subscribe to the only Official source of highlights on the web. The official Youtube channel of the FA Cup - the world's largest and oldest football competition. With exclusive news, match highlights, player interviews and more. To find out more about the The FA Cup visit: thefa.com The FA Cup on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com tags Giggs goal Manchester United 2-1 Arsenal FA Cup semi final replay 1999 "Giggs goal" "Giggs goal v Arsenal" "man u" "ryan giggs" "roy keane" "bergkamp goal" "beckham goal" "david beckham" becks highlights best amazing funny classic "man u 2-1 arsenal" "fa cup semi final"
- published: 11 Apr 2012
- views: 44730
- author: thefacup
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Ryan Giggs - LEGEND #Respect
Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, running down the wing,
Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, running down the w...
published: 30 Apr 2012
author: Jayadev.P.Menon
Ryan Giggs - LEGEND #Respect
Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, running down the wing,
Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, running down the wing -
Loved by the reds, feared by the blues...
Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs...
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Ryan Giggs Tribute (BBC)
"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976,
allowance is made for "...
published: 01 Jul 2011
author: Futbol Britanico
Ryan Giggs Tribute (BBC)
"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976,
allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism,
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Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might
otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal
use tips the balance in favor of fair use."
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Ryan Giggs Wonder Goal Vs Arsenal FA Cup Semi Final Replay 1999
14-4-1999-FA Cup Semifinal Replay the score was 1-1 between Man Utd and Arsenal David Beck...
published: 03 Mar 2012
author: MrAntonioGheorghe
Ryan Giggs Wonder Goal Vs Arsenal FA Cup Semi Final Replay 1999
14-4-1999-FA Cup Semifinal Replay the score was 1-1 between Man Utd and Arsenal David Beckham scored in min 17 and Dennis Bergkamp for Arsenal in min 69.The match went into extra-time and Ryan Giggs scored this beautiful goal in min 109 which which sent United in the final.Manchester United were to win the FA Cup on 22nd of May in a match against Newcastle United with goals from Teddy Sheringham and Paul Scholes .
- published: 03 Mar 2012
- views: 7984
- author: MrAntonioGheorghe
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Ryan Giggs - Lift me up
A compilation of Ryan Giggs greatest goals...
published: 15 Nov 2006
author: sunindian2001
Ryan Giggs - Lift me up
A compilation of Ryan Giggs greatest goals
- published: 15 Nov 2006
- views: 662335
- author: sunindian2001
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Ryan Giggs Wonder Goal vs Arsenal 1999 Fa Cup Semi Final
topsoccertips.com...
published: 25 Aug 2010
author: topsoccertips
Ryan Giggs Wonder Goal vs Arsenal 1999 Fa Cup Semi Final
topsoccertips.com
- published: 25 Aug 2010
- views: 14485
- author: topsoccertips
0:28
Hughes goal vs Chelsea '92
United 1-1 Chelsea - Feb '92 From a quick Schmeichel throw out Giggs bursts clear, those w...
published: 11 Feb 2009
author: unitedtube2009
Hughes goal vs Chelsea '92
United 1-1 Chelsea - Feb '92 From a quick Schmeichel throw out Giggs bursts clear, those wer the days, and sets Hughes up.
- published: 11 Feb 2009
- views: 22917
- author: unitedtube2009
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Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville Interview Inside Sport gitan reel
...
published: 09 Apr 2009
author: rooneyscholesy83
Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville Interview Inside Sport gitan reel
- published: 09 Apr 2009
- views: 51871
- author: rooneyscholesy83
23:19
Legends of the Barclays Premier League - Ryan Giggs
ESPN UK Documentary...
published: 04 Aug 2012
author: Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima
Legends of the Barclays Premier League - Ryan Giggs
ESPN UK Documentary
- published: 04 Aug 2012
- views: 39504
- author: Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima
3:35
Ryan Giggs Interview (His Top 3 Team mates)
a small interview from ryan giggs where he talks the top 3 players he has ever played alon...
published: 22 May 2012
author: RyanGiggsOBE
Ryan Giggs Interview (His Top 3 Team mates)
a small interview from ryan giggs where he talks the top 3 players he has ever played along side
- published: 22 May 2012
- views: 15590
- author: RyanGiggsOBE
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Ryan Giggs -Top 11 Goals
Please follow @RyanGiggsStats on Twitter: tiny.cc || 12/7/2011 #62 - Top Rated (All Time) ...
published: 18 Aug 2008
author: stevenjvd
Ryan Giggs -Top 11 Goals
Please follow @RyanGiggsStats on Twitter: tiny.cc || 12/7/2011 #62 - Top Rated (All Time) - Sport - Netherlands || Ryan Giggs scored so many great goals for Manchester United. This is my top 11: 11. Coventry City - 28 December 1992 10. Juventus - 1 October 1997 9. Juventus - 25 February 2003 8. Leeds United - 27 April 1994 7. Chelsea - 21 October 1995 6. Coventry City - 18 January 1997 5. Manchester City - 6 April 1996 4. Barnsley - 25 October 1997 3. QPR - 5 February 1994 2. Tottenham Hotspur - 19 September 1992 1. Arsenal- 14 April 1999 Music: The Killers - All These Things I've Done Please watch my latest video: Ryan Giggs, A Perfect Footballer
- published: 18 Aug 2008
- views: 1265883
- author: stevenjvd
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Ryan Giggs Tribute by BBC
Ryan Giggs, BBC Sports Personality of year 2009! good quality and a fantastic player Music...
published: 23 Jan 2008
author: stevenjvd
Ryan Giggs Tribute by BBC
Ryan Giggs, BBC Sports Personality of year 2009! good quality and a fantastic player Music: Divenire by Ludovico Einaudi
- published: 23 Jan 2008
- views: 409542
- author: stevenjvd
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Ryan Giggs - 'Player at All Time' 'the Living Legend' | Hold Up the Light , Ryan.
'TS Video © | №46 • Made by Timur Sharafeev (theMysticalTS) • Special thanks to Lena Postn...
published: 06 Feb 2012
author: theMysticalTS
Ryan Giggs - 'Player at All Time' 'the Living Legend' | Hold Up the Light , Ryan.
'TS Video © | №46 • Made by Timur Sharafeev (theMysticalTS) • Special thanks to Lena Postnikova • Vkontakte - vkontakte.ru • YouTube - www.youtube.com • Facebook - www.facebook.com
- published: 06 Feb 2012
- views: 114900
- author: theMysticalTS
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Man Utd 2-0 Everton - Ryan Giggs & Rafael (Man Of The Match) Post Match Interview - 1080p
Man Utd 2-0 Everton - Ryan Giggs & Rafael (Man Of The Match) Post Match Interview - 1080p ...
published: 10 Feb 2013
author: Beanyman62Sports
Man Utd 2-0 Everton - Ryan Giggs & Rafael (Man Of The Match) Post Match Interview - 1080p
Man Utd 2-0 Everton - Ryan Giggs & Rafael (Man Of The Match) Post Match Interview - 1080p Don't forget to like!!! Subscribe to see more videos: tinyurl.com Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use
- published: 10 Feb 2013
- views: 4278
- author: Beanyman62Sports
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Giggs' Man Utd dream team
Ryan Giggs made his Manchester United debut in 1990. After more than 900 appearances for t...
published: 07 Dec 2012
author: goal
Giggs' Man Utd dream team
Ryan Giggs made his Manchester United debut in 1990. After more than 900 appearances for the Red Devils, incredibly he will be in Sir Alex Ferguson's squad 22 years on for the derby against City on Sunday. In this special interview recorded in conjunction with Abu Dhabi media, Giggs reveals his idea of the BEST Man Utd team from his time at the club. -------------Schmeichel------------ Neville---Ferdinand---Vidic---Irwin Ronaldo---Keane---Scholes---Giggs ------Rooney-------Cantona------ Bookmark: www.youtube.com Subscribe - www.youtube.com Twitter - twitter.com Facebook Goal UK: www.facebook.com Goal International: www.facebook.com
- published: 07 Dec 2012
- views: 30403
- author: goal
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Ryan Giggs interview
Sportsnet.ca speaks with Ryan Giggs in advance of Friday's match between Manchester United...
published: 15 Jul 2010
author: SPORTSNETCANADA
Ryan Giggs interview
Sportsnet.ca speaks with Ryan Giggs in advance of Friday's match between Manchester United and Celtic at Rogers Centre.
- published: 15 Jul 2010
- views: 17508
- author: SPORTSNETCANADA
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Ryan Giggs - Lift me up
A compilation of Ryan Giggs greatest goals...
published: 15 Nov 2006
author: sunindian2001
Ryan Giggs - Lift me up
A compilation of Ryan Giggs greatest goals
- published: 15 Nov 2006
- views: 662335
- author: sunindian2001
3:45
Ryan Giggs exclusive - first TV interview at Manchester United in 1993
www.visionsport.co.uk...
published: 26 Apr 2011
author: visionsportTV
Ryan Giggs exclusive - first TV interview at Manchester United in 1993
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- published: 26 Apr 2011
- views: 10922
- author: visionsportTV
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Ryan Giggs v Arsenal (FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999)
Ryan Giggs v Arsenal FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999...
published: 07 Mar 2008
author: pledjuraa
Ryan Giggs v Arsenal (FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999)
Ryan Giggs v Arsenal FA Cup Semi-Final Replay 1999
- published: 07 Mar 2008
- views: 1270102
- author: pledjuraa
13:27
Ryan Giggs Assists 2001/02-2005/06
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "f...
published: 08 Aug 2012
author: ProductionsWazza
Ryan Giggs Assists 2001/02-2005/06
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. It is not to be used for copying and selling. No copyright infringement intended.
- published: 08 Aug 2012
- views: 4037
- author: ProductionsWazza
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Ryan Giggs first 2 TV interviews
Giggsy interviewed as a schoolboy and then his first TV interview as a Man Utd player....
published: 20 Feb 2007
author: russsmiff1
Ryan Giggs first 2 TV interviews
Giggsy interviewed as a schoolboy and then his first TV interview as a Man Utd player.
- published: 20 Feb 2007
- views: 120573
- author: russsmiff1
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Ryan Giggs - LEGEND #Respect
Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, running down the wing,
Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, running down the w...
published: 30 Apr 2012
author: Jayadev.P.Menon
Ryan Giggs - LEGEND #Respect
Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, running down the wing,
Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, running down the wing -
Loved by the reds, feared by the blues...
Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs, Ryan Giggs...
2:24
Ryan Giggs Tribute (BBC)
"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976,
allowance is made for "...
published: 01 Jul 2011
author: Futbol Britanico
Ryan Giggs Tribute (BBC)
"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976,
allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism,
comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might
otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal
use tips the balance in favor of fair use."
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2:28
West Ham 2-4 Manchester United - Wayne Rooney and Ryan Giggs Interview
Wayne Rooney struck a stunning second half hat-trick as United roared back from two goals ...
published: 02 Apr 2011
author: wewantglazerout2010
West Ham 2-4 Manchester United - Wayne Rooney and Ryan Giggs Interview
Wayne Rooney struck a stunning second half hat-trick as United roared back from two goals down to register a pulsating victory over West Ham at Upton Park. Mark Noble converted a pair of first-half penalties for Avram Grant's Hammers to seemingly deal the Reds' title hopes an untimely setback. United had bossed the match despite Noble's double, however, and deservedly overturned an unjust scoreline in the second period. Rooney curled home a magnificent long-range free-kick, thundered in a superb leveller and converted a penalty in a breathless 15 minutes spell, before substitute Javier Hernandez turned home a late clincher and cap another rousing fightback from the Reds.
- published: 02 Apr 2011
- views: 103432
- author: wewantglazerout2010
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Ryan Giggs - Absolute Legend
Ryan Giggs, BBC Sports Personality of year 2009! Ryan Giggs, one of the best players ever ...
published: 14 Jun 2008
author: stevenjvd
Ryan Giggs - Absolute Legend
Ryan Giggs, BBC Sports Personality of year 2009! Ryan Giggs, one of the best players ever Watch at High Quality Ryan Giggs is one of very few players to have spent their entire career at the same club, he is the most decorated player in the history of Manchester United FC with more than 750 appearances for the club, Welsh winger Ryan Giggs's main strengths are his speed and his ability to manipulate the ball while running at full pace. Giggs is Manchester United's longest-serving current player, having made his first appearance for the club during the 1990-91 season and been a regular player since the 1991-92 season. He has played the highest number of competitive games for the club (more than Sir Bobby Charlton, the previous recordman), and holds the club record of team trophies won by a player (24). As well as being a fine dribbler, Giggs is also a regular goalscorer: it is very famous a magnificent solo score to win the 1999 FA Cup semi-final replay against Arsenal FC, from which point the club went on to secure an unprecedented treble of league, cup and UEFA Champions League, later adding the Intercontinental Cup. He has claimed nine other English titles (his overall tally of ten is a joint English record), two more FA Cups and a League Cup, one more Champions League (2008) and is the only player to win the Professional Footballers Association Young Player of the Year award on two occasions in a row (1992 and 1993). As Welsh international Giggs has been a regular in ...
- published: 14 Jun 2008
- views: 420909
- author: stevenjvd
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Ryan Giggs - True Red HD
Ryan Giggs - True Red by Rufat © 2011. Music: 1.Snow Patrol - Open Your Eyes 2.Embrace - C...
published: 20 Mar 2011
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Ryan Giggs - True Red HD
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ryan Joseph Giggs[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1973-11-29) 29 November 1973 (age 38) | ||
| Place of birth | Cardiff, Wales | ||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[2] | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Manchester United | ||
| Number | 11 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1985–1987 | Manchester City | ||
| 1987–1991 | Manchester United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1991– | Manchester United | 638 | (112) |
| National team | |||
| 1989 | England U16 | 1 | (1) |
| 1989 | Wales U18 | 3 | (0) |
| 1990 | Wales U21 | 2 | (0) |
| 1991–2007 | Wales | 64 | (12) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22:26, 13 May 2012. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Ryan Joseph Giggs OBE[3] (born Ryan Joseph Wilson on 29 November 1973) is a Welsh footballer who plays for Manchester United. Giggs made his first appearance for the club during the 1990–91 season and has been a regular player since the 1991–92 season. He established himself as a left winger during the 1990s, and continuing in this position well into the 2000s, though he has been increasingly used in a deeper playmaking role in his latter years. Giggs is known for his tireless running, ball possession and ability to create goalscoring opportunities for those around him.[4]
Giggs is the most decorated player in English football history.[5] He also holds the club record for competitive appearances.[6] During his time at United, he has won 12 Premier League winner's medals, four FA Cup winner's medals, three League Cup winner's medals and two Champions League winner's medals. He has two runner-up medals from the Champions League, three FA Cup finals and two League Cup finals, as well as being part of the team five times when it finished second in the Premier League. In recent years, Giggs has captained the team on numerous occasions, particularly in the 2007–08 season when regular captain Gary Neville was ruled out with various injuries.
Giggs has a number of personal achievements. He was the first player in history to win two consecutive PFA Young Player of the Year awards (1992 and 1993), though he did not win the PFA Player of the Year award until 2009. He is the only player to have played and scored in every season of the Premier League.[7][8] He has been elected into the PFA Team of the Century in 2007,[9] the Premier League Team of the Decade, in 2003, as well as the FA Cup Team of the Century. Giggs holds the record for the most assists in Premier League history, with 271.[10]
At international level, Giggs played for the Welsh national team prior to his retirement from international football on 2 June 2007, and was once the youngest player to ever represent his country.
In addition to the many honours Giggs has received within football such as being named in the Football League 100 Legends (the last active player in the list), he was appointed an OBE in the Queen's 2007 Birthday Honours List, and was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2005, for his services to English Football. He was named as BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2009.[11] On 31 January 2011, Giggs was named Manchester United's greatest ever player by a worldwide poll conducted by United's official magazine and website.[12] On 10 October 2011, Giggs was honoured with the 2011 Golden Foot Award.
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Born as Ryan Joseph Wilson[13] (he later adopted his mother's maiden name as his professional surname) at St David's Hospital in Canton, Cardiff, to Danny Wilson, at the time a rugby union player for Cardiff RFC who would go on to become a Wales international representative in rugby league, and Lynne Giggs (now Lynne Johnson). As a child Giggs grew up in Ely, a suburb of western Cardiff. His younger brother, Rhodri, manages non-league Salford City.
He spent much time with his mother's parents and playing football on the roads outside their house in Pentrebane. In 1980, when Giggs was six years old, his father switched rugby codes and signed for Swinton RLFC, forcing the whole family to move north to Swinton, a town in Salford, Greater Manchester. The move was a traumatic one, as Giggs was very close to his grandparents in Cardiff, but he would often return there with his family at weekends or on school holidays. Giggs is mixed race – his paternal grandfather is from Sierra Leone – and has spoken of the racism he faced as a child.[14]
After moving to Salford, Giggs appeared for the local team, Deans FC, who were coached by Manchester City scout Dennis Schofield. Schofield recommended Giggs to Manchester City, and he was signed up to their School of Excellence. Meanwhile, Giggs continued to play for Salford Boys, who went on to reach the final of the Granada Schools Cup competition at Anfield in 1987. Giggs captained the Salford team to victory over their Blackburn counterparts, and the trophy was presented to him by Liverpool chief scout Ron Yeats.
While playing for Deans, Giggs was observed regularly by local newsagent and Old Trafford steward Harold Wood. Wood spoke personally to Alex Ferguson who sent a scout, and Giggs was eventually offered a trial over the 1986 Christmas period. Giggs played in a match for Salford Boys against a United Under-15s side at The Cliff and scored a hat trick, with Ferguson watching from his office window. On 29 November 1987 (his 14th birthday), Ferguson turned up at Giggs's house with United scout Joe Brown and offered him two years on associate schoolboy forms. They offered to waive YTS forms, and persuaded Giggs to sign by offering the opportunity to turn professional in three years. Using the name Ryan Wilson, Giggs captained England at schoolboy level, playing at Wembley Stadium against Germany in 1989.[15] He changed his surname at the age of 16, when his mother remarried. His parents had separated two years earlier.[16]
Manchester United first team[link]
1990-1995: Debut and early career[link]
Giggs was offered his first professional contract on 29 November 1990 (his 17th birthday). He accepted the contract and became a professional two days later (1 December 1990).
At this time, United had recently won the FA Cup – their first major trophy since the appointment of Alex Ferguson as manager in November 1986. After two seasons in the league where they had finished mid table, they were finally starting to threaten the dominance of Liverpool and Arsenal, though they only managed to finish sixth that season. Ferguson's quest for a successful left winger had not been an easy one since the departure of Jesper Olsen two years earlier; he had initially signed Ralph Milne, but the player was not a success at United and lasted just one season in the first team before Ferguson secured the Southampton winger Danny Wallace in September 1989. Wallace had failed to shine at Old Trafford, and by the time Giggs turned professional Wallace was contending with 19-year-old Lee Sharpe for the role of first choice left winger.[citation needed]
Giggs made his League debut against Everton at Old Trafford on 2 March 1991, as a substitute for the injured full-back Denis Irwin in a 2–0 defeat. In his first full start, Giggs was credited with his first ever goal in a 1–0 win in the Manchester derby on 4 May 1991, though it appeared to be a Colin Hendry own goal. However, he was not included in the squad of 16 that defeated Barcelona in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final 11 days later. Lee Sharpe, who had won the race to displace Danny Wallace, took to the field as United's left winger, while Wallace was selected as a substitute. Giggs became a first-team regular early in the 1991–92 season, yet remained active with the youth system and captained the team, made up of many of "Fergie's Fledglings", to an FA Youth Cup triumph in 1992.[citation needed]
Giggs broke into the first team even though he was still aged only 17, and paved the way as the first of many Manchester United youth players to rise into the first team under Ferguson. As the youngest member of the United first team squad, Giggs looked to the older players such as Bryan Robson for advice. Robson recommended that Giggs sign up with Harry Swales, the agent that he himself had inherited from Kevin Keegan.[17]
That season, Giggs played in the team that finished as runners-up to Leeds United in the final year of the old First Division before the advent of the Premier League. United had led the table for much of the season before a run of dismal results in April saw them overtaken by the West Yorkshire side. Giggs collected his first piece of silverware on 12 April 1992 as United defeated Nottingham Forest in the League Cup Final, after Giggs had set up Brian McClair to score the only goal of the game. At the end of the season, he was voted PFA Young Player of the Year – the award which had been credited to his colleague Lee Sharpe a year earlier.[citation needed]
By the start of the 1992–93 season, the first season of the newly formed Premier League, Giggs had ousted Sharpe to become United's first-choice left winger. He was recognised one of English football's two best emerging young wingers, alongside Steve McManaman,[18] who were notable for being a throwback to the Stanley Matthews era of the 1950s' wingers.[19] Giggs helped United to their first top division title win for 26 years.
His emergence and the arrival of Eric Cantona heralded the dominance of United in the Premier League. Ferguson was protective of him, refusing to allow Giggs to be interviewed until he turned 20, eventually granting the first interview to the BBC's Des Lynam for Match of the Day in the 1993–94 season. United won the double that season, and Giggs was one of their key players alongside the likes of Eric Cantona, Paul Ince and Mark Hughes. Giggs also played for United in the Football League Cup final, where they lost 3–1 to Aston Villa.
Off the pitch, newspapers claimed Giggs had "single-handedly revolutionised football's image" when he appeared as teenager "with pace to burn, a bramble patch of black hair bouncing around his puppy popstar face, and a dazzling, gluey relationship between his impossibly fleet left foot and a football."[20] As a result of this, he was afforded many opportunities not normally offered to footballers at his young age, such as hosting his own television show, Ryan Giggs' Soccer Skills, which aired in 1994, and also had a book based on the series. Giggs was part of the Premier League's attempt to market itself globally, and he featured on countless football and lad mag covers, becoming a household name and fuelling the era where footballers started to become celebrity idols on a par with pop stars,[21] in and around the mid to late 1990s. Despite his aversion to attention, Giggs also became a teenage pin-up and was once described as the "Premiership's First Poster Boy",[22] and the "boy wonder",.[23] He was hailed as the first football star to capture the public imagination in a way unseen since the days of George Best;[24] the irony was that Best and Bobby Charlton used to describe Giggs as their favourite young player, turning up at The Cliff training ground just to watch him. Best once quipped, "One day they might even say that I was another Ryan Giggs."[24]
At the end of the 1993–94 season, Giggs won a second title in a row, and became the first player in history to win two consecutive PFA Young Player of the Year awards, a feat equalled by Robbie Fowler and Wayne Rooney.[25]
Giggs proved to be a scorer of great goals, with many of them being shortlisted for various Goal of the Season awards. Widely regarded as among his best were those against Queens Park Rangers in 1993, Tottenham in 1994, Everton in 1995, Coventry in 1996, and his solo-goal against Arsenal in the replay of the 1999 FA Cup semi-final. During extra time, Giggs picked up possession after Patrick Vieira gave the ball away, then ran from the half-way line, dribbled past the whole Arsenal back line, including Tony Adams, Lee Dixon and Martin Keown before launching his left-footed strike just under David Seaman's bar and beyond his reach. He famously whipped off his shirt as he ran to celebrate with his teammates. It also has the distinction of being the last ever goal scored in an FA Cup semi-final replay as, from the following season, the FA Cup semi-finals are decided in a single game, with extra time and a penalty shootout if required.[citation needed]
1995-2000[link]
1994–95 saw Giggs restricted through injury to 29 Premier League games and only 1 goal. Later in the season he recovered his form and fitness, though it was too late to help United to any major trophies. A failure to beat West Ham United on the final day of the season saw them lose the Premier League title to Blackburn Rovers. A week later, Giggs came on as a substitute in the FA Cup final against Everton, but United lost 1–0.
On a more positive side in the 1994–95 season, Giggs did get on the scoresheet twice in the opening Champions League game against IFK Gothenburg (a 4–2 win, although United ultimately failed to progress to the quarter-finals) and also managed a goal in the FA Cup fourth around victory over Wrexham, meaning that he had managed four goals in all competitions that season.
In 1995–96 Giggs returned to full form and played a vital part in United's unique second double, with his goal against Everton at Goodison Park on 9 September 1995 being shortlisted for the "goal of the season" award, though it was eventually beaten by a goal by Manchester City's Georgi Kinkladze. In November that season, Giggs scored two goals in a Premier League match against Southampton, where United won 4–1 to keep up the pressure on a Newcastle United side who actually went 10 points clear on 23 December but were finally overhauled by United in mid March. Giggs was also in the side for United's FA Cup final win over Liverpool on 11 May 1996, though Eric Cantona scored the only goal of the game. By now, Giggs had several new key colleagues in youngsters Gary Neville, Phil Neville, Nicky Butt, David Beckham and Paul Scholes. Beckham took over from Andrei Kanchelskis on the right wing and Butt succeeded Paul Ince in central midfield to complete a new look United midfield along with Giggs and Roy Keane.[citation needed]
The following season, Giggs had his first real chance to shine in Europe. Having played a key role in United winning their third league title in four seasons, he helped them reach the UEFA Champions League semi-finals, the first United side in 28 years to achieve this. However, their hopes of European glory were ended by Borussia Dortmund, who edged them out by winning each leg of the semi-final 1–0. At the end of this season, Juventus' Alessandro Del Piero told Italian media that Giggs was one of his two favourite players, and gave the following memorable quote:"This is embarrassing to say but I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Roberto Baggio and the second was Ryan Giggs."[26]
In 1997–98, United were pipped to the Premier League title by Arsenal, following a dismal run of form in March and early April, leaving them without a trophy for only the second time since 1989. The following season, Giggs missed a lot of games through injury, but when he was fit his form was excellent and he played in both of United's cup finals that season. Memorable moments were his extra-time goal in the FA Cup semi-final against arch-rivals Arsenal giving United a 2–1 win, and his 90th minute equaliser in the home leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-final against Juventus.
The highpoint in the 1998–99 season was when Giggs set up the equalising goal scored by Teddy Sheringham in the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final that set United on their way to the Treble.
Giggs was also the Man of the Match as United beat Palmeiras 1–0 to claim the Intercontinental Cup later that year.[27]
2000–2005[link]
Giggs became United's longest serving player when Denis Irwin left in May 2002, and he became a pivotal part of the club, despite still being in his twenties. Giggs continued to excel in the four years that followed the Treble triumph of 1999. United were Premier League champions in three of the four seasons following the treble, as well as reaching the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals three times and the semi-finals once. He celebrated his 10-year anniversary at Old Trafford with a testimonial match against Celtic at the start of the 2001–02 campaign. However, this was one of the most disappointing seasons United had endured since Giggs made his debut for them, as a dismal run of form in early winter ultimately cost them the league title and they were surprisingly knocked out of the Champions League on away goals in the semi finals by German underdogs Bayer Leverkusen. A year later, in the autumn of 2002, he bagged his 100th career goal in a draw with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.[citation needed]
He played in his fourth FA Cup triumph on 22 May 2004, making him one of only two players (the other being Roy Keane) to have won the trophy four times while playing for Manchester United. He has also finished with a runners-up medal three times (1995, 2005 and 2007). His participation in the victory over Liverpool in September 2004 made him the third player to play 600 games for United, alongside Sir Bobby Charlton and Bill Foulkes. He was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2005 in recognition of his contribution to the English game.
2005-present[link]
Giggs signed a two-year contract extension with United when chief executive David Gill relented on his normal policy of not signing players over 30 to contracts longer than one year. Giggs benefited from being largely injury-free aside from a series of hamstring problems.
On 6 May 2007, with Chelsea only able to manage a 1–1 draw with London rivals Arsenal, Manchester United became the champions of England. In doing so, Giggs set a new record of nine league titles, beating the previous record of eight he shared with Alan Hansen and Phil Neal (who won all of their titles with Liverpool). Giggs played a starring role in United's 2007 Charity Shield victory after netting in the first half to bring the game to a 1–1 draw, which led to penalty triumph for the Red Devils after keeper Edwin van der Sar saved all of Chelsea's first three penalties.
In the 2007–08 season, Alex Ferguson adopted a rotation system between Giggs and newcomers Nani and Anderson.
Giggs scored his 100th league goal for United against Derby County on 8 December 2007, which United won 4–1.[28] More landmarks have been achieved: on 20 February 2008 he made his 100th appearance in the UEFA Champions League in a game against Lyon[29] and on 11 May 2008 he came on as a substitute for Park Ji-Sung to equal Sir Bobby Charlton's record of 758 appearances for United.[30] Giggs scored the second goal in that match, sealing his, and United's, tenth Premier League title. Ten days later, on 21 May 2008, Giggs broke Bobby Charlton's appearance record for United when coming on as an 87th minute substitute for Paul Scholes in the Champions League Final against Chelsea. United won the final, defeating Chelsea 6–5 on penalties after a 1–1 draw after extra time, with Giggs converting the winning penalty in sudden-death.
At the start of Manchester United's 2008–09 campaign, Sir Alex Ferguson began placing Giggs at central midfield, behind the forwards, instead of his favoured wing position. Sir Alex Ferguson said in an interview, "(Giggs) is a very valuable player, he will be 35 this November but at 35, he can be United's key player. At 25, Ryan would shatter defenders with his run down the flank, but at 35, he will play deeper."[31] Giggs has begun taking his coaching badges and Ferguson has hinted that he would like Giggs to serve as his coaching staff after retirement like Ole Gunnar Solskjær did.[32]
Following speculation earlier in the year,[33] in February 2009, Giggs signed a one-year extension to his current contract – which was due to expire in June 2009.[34] After a successful season, Giggs was short-listed along with four other Manchester United team mates for the PFA Player of the Year.[35] On 26 April 2009, Giggs received the award, despite having started just twelve games throughout the 08/09 season (at the time of receiving the trophy). This was the first time in his career that Giggs had received the award.[36] Prior to the awards ceremony, Alex Ferguson had given his backing for Giggs to win the award and stated that it would be fitting, given Giggs' long term contribution to the game.[37] Giggs made his 800th appearance for Manchester United on 29 April 2009, in the 1–0 semi-final win over Arsenal in the UEFA Champions League.[38] On 16 May 2009, Manchester United won the Premier League after a 0–0 draw against Arsenal, both United's and Giggs' 11th Premier League titles.
Giggs scored his first Manchester United hat-trick in a pre-season friendly against Hangzhou Greentown after coming on as a second-half substitute.[39]
On 12 September 2009, Giggs made his 700th start for United.[40] Giggs scored his 150th goal for United, only the ninth player to do so for the club, against Wolfsburg in his first Champions League game of the season. On 28 November 2009, the eve of his 36th birthday, Giggs scored his 100th Premier League goal – all for Manchester United – scoring the final goal in a 4–1 victory over Portsmouth at Fratton Park, and becoming only the 17th player to reach the milestone in the Premier League.[41]
On 30 November 2009, the day after his 36th birthday, it was reported that Giggs would be offered an additional one-year contract which would run until the end of the 2010–11 season and see him past the 20th anniversary of his first game and first goal for United.[42] On the same day, Giggs was nominated for BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2009, which he subsequently won.[43] On 12 December 2009, Giggs' surpassed countryman Gary Speed's outfield record of 535 Premier League games. On 18 December 2009, Giggs signed a one-year contract extension with United, keeping him at the club until June 2011, taking him past the 20th anniversary of his first professional contract and that of his first team debut – a rare occurrence of a player reaching the 20-year mark with the same club and with unbroken service.[44] On 31 December 2009, Giggs was named the Manchester United Player of the Decade.[45] On 24 April 2010, Giggs scored the first ever league penalties of his career, netting two penalties in a 3–1 home win over Tottenham Hotspur.[46][47]
On 16 August 2010, Giggs kept up his record of scoring in every Premier League season since its inception as he netted United's third in their 3–0 home victory over Newcastle United in their opening fixture of the new campaign. As he found the net in the final two seasons of the old Football League First Division, he has now scored in 21 successive top division campaigns.[48] On 17 January 2011, Giggs reached 600 league appearances (all for Manchester United), as he played in their goalless draw against Tottenham at White Hart Lane.[49] Giggs signed a one-year contract extension with Manchester United on 18 February, keeping him at the club until June 2012.[50] On 6 March 2011, Giggs surpassed the Manchester United league appearance record of Bobby Charlton by playing his 607th game against Liverpool. On 26 April, against Schalke 04 in the Champions League Semi-Final First Leg, Giggs scored the first goal from a Wayne Rooney pass, also making himself the oldest goalscorer in Champions League history to date.[51] Giggs also played in the 2011 Champions League final, where Manchester United were defeated 3–1 by Barcelona.[52]
Giggs made his first start of the 2011–12 season in the UEFA Champions League away at Benfica. He scored United's equalising goal in a 1–1 draw at the Estádio da Luz, in the process breaking his own record for the oldest goalscorer in Champions League history. He also became the first man ever to score in 16 different Champions League campaigns, moving clear of Raúl who was tied with Giggs on 15 seasons.Raúl though holds the record for scoring in 14 consecutive Champions league seasons. On 19 November, Giggs played in a league game in his home country of Wales for the first time in his distinguished career against Swansea City at the Liberty Stadium in a United 1–0 win. Giggs maintained his record of scoring in each of the past 22 top-flight seasons by scoring United's third goal against Fulham at Craven Cottage in a 5-0 win on 21 December, his first of the season in the league. On 10 February 2012, Giggs signed a one-year contract extension with Manchester United.[53]
On 26 February 2012, Giggs made his 900th appearance for Manchester United, in a 2-1 away win against Norwich City. He marked the occasion by scoring the winning goal in the 90th minute, scoring from a cross by Ashley Young.[54] After the match, Alex Ferguson told BBC Sport he believed that a player playing in 900 games for one club "won't be done again".[55] Ryan Giggs has since played with 140 different players in the first team.[56]
International career[link]
Born in Cardiff to Welsh parents, Giggs represented Wales at international level. As a youngster, Giggs captained England Schoolboys. Contrary to popular belief, he was never eligible for the full England team (eligibility at the schoolboy level depends solely upon the location of the school, in Giggs' case Moorside High School in Salford).[57] He has stated that he would have chosen to play for Wales anyway.
When Giggs made his international debut in 1991, he broke the record as the youngest debutant for Wales and held it for some seven years when it was broken by Ryan Green in June 1998.[58] He went on to win 64 caps, and scored twelve goals for the Welsh national team between 1991 and 2007. He was appointed captain of Wales in 2004.
His first senior goal for Wales came on 31 March 1993 in a 3–0 win over Belgium in Cardiff in a World Cup qualifying game, the same game in which Ian Rush scored for Wales for a record 24th time.[59]
After his international debut in 1991 against Germany, Giggs did not attend a friendly international until some nine years later, after which he missed a further 18 consecutive friendly games. Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson had a policy of refusing to release the player for friendly games.[60]
In a qualifier against England for the 2006 FIFA World Cup at Old Trafford where Wales lost 2-0, Giggs played against some present and former Manchester United teammates including David Beckham, Gary Neville, and Wayne Rooney.[61][62][63] During a 2006 World Cup qualifier against Azerbaijan on 12 October 2005, Giggs scored a rare double in a 2–0 win but Wales failed to reach the play-offs.[64]
In September 2006, he played in a friendly against Brazil at White Hart Lane where Wales lost 2-0. Brazil coach Dunga complimented Gigg's performance by stating he would not look out of place playing for the five-time world champions alongside stars such as Kaká and Ronaldinho.[65]
Giggs announced his retirement from international football on Wednesday, 30 May 2007, at a press conference held at The Vale of Glamorgan Hotel, drawing the curtain on a 16-year international career.[32] He cited concentrating on his United career as the main reason for stepping down. His final game for Wales, and as captain, was the Euro 2008 qualifier against the Czech Republic on 2 June at Cardiff. He earned his 64th cap in this game and won the Man of the Match award as Wales drew 0–0.[66] In November, he was one of three players in the final nomination by the FAW for the Wales Player of the Year award, which was ultimately won by Craig Bellamy.[67]
In an interview with the Western Mail on 26 March 2010, Giggs hinted that he might be tempted to come out of international retirement for his country's UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying campaign, in order to cover for the injured Aaron Ramsey.[68] He later clarified his position to BBC Radio Manchester, saying that he would only return to Wales duty in an emergency.[69]
International goals[link]
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 31 March 1993 | Cardiff, Wales |  Belgium |
2–0 | Win | 1994 FIFA World Cup Qual. |
| 2 | 8 September 1993 | Cardiff, Wales |  Czech Republic |
2–2 | Draw | 1994 FIFA World Cup Qual. |
| 3 | 7 September 1994 | Cardiff, Wales |  Albania |
2–0 | Win | UEFA Euro 1996 Qual. |
| 4 | 2 June 1996 | Serravalle, San Marino |  San Marino |
5–0 | Win | 1998 FIFA World Cup Qual. |
| 5 | 11 November 1997 | Brussels, Belgium | Belgium |
2–3 | Loss | 1998 FIFA World Cup Qual. |
| 6 | 4 September 1999 | Minsk, Belarus |  Belarus |
2–1 | Win | UEFA Euro 2000 Qual. |
| 7 | 29 March 2000 | Cardiff, Wales |  Finland |
1–2 | Loss | Friendly |
| 8 | 29 March 2003 | Cardiff, Wales |  Azerbaijan |
4–0 | Win | UEFA Euro 2004 Qual. |
| 9 | 8 October 2005 | Belfast, Northern Ireland |  Northern Ireland |
3–2 | Win | 2006 FIFA World Cup Qual. |
| 10 | 12 October 2005 | Cardiff, Wales | Azerbaijan |
2–0 | Win | 2006 FIFA World Cup Qual. |
| 11 | ||||||
| 12 | 21 May 2006 | Bilbao, Spain |  Basque Country |
1–0 | Win | Non-FIFA representative friendly |
| 13 | 28 March 2007 | Cardiff, Wales | San Marino |
3–0 | Win | UEFA Euro 2008 Qual. |
Discipline[link]
Giggs has never been sent off when playing for Manchester United and only once when playing for Wales, on 5 September 2001 in a World Cup qualifier against Norway;[70] Giggs received a second yellow card in the 86th minute.[71] In November 2003, he was found guilty of improper conduct by the FA due to his behaviour during the Battle of Old Trafford game against Arsenal (one of two United and six Arsenal players charged over the incident);[72] Giggs received a £7,500 fine but avoided suspension.[73] In the same week, Giggs received a two-match suspension from international football for deliberately elbowing Russian player Vadim Evseev in the face during the first leg of the Euro 2004 play-offs.[74] The offence was missed by referee Lucílio Batista, but Giggs was later charged using video evidence.[74]
Career statistics[link]
Club[link]
| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Europe | Other[nb 1] | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Manchester United | 1990–91 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 1991–92 | 38 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 51 | 7 | |
| 1992–93 | 41 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 11 | |
| 1993–94 | 38 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 58 | 17 | |
| 1994–95 | 29 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 4 | |
| 1995–96 | 33 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 12 | |
| 1996–97 | 26 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 5 | |
| 1997–98 | 29 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 9 | |
| 1998–99 | 24 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 41 | 10 | |
| 1999–2000 | 30 | 6 | – | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 44 | 7 | ||
| 2000–01 | 31 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 45 | 7 | |
| 2001–02 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 9 | |
| 2002–03 | 36 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 14 | |
| 2003–04 | 33 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 47 | 8 | |
| 2004–05 | 32 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 44 | 8 | |
| 2005–06 | 27 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 5 | |
| 2006–07 | 30 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 6 | |
| 2007–08 | 31 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 43 | 4 | |
| 2008–09 | 28 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 47 | 4 | |
| 2009–10 | 25 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 7 | |
| 2010–11 | 25 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 38 | 4 | |
| 2011–12 | 25 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 4 | |
| Total | 638 | 112 | 70 | 11 | 38 | 10 | 145 | 29 | 18 | 1 | 909 | 163 | |
- As of 22:26, 13 May 2012.[75]
International[link]
| Wales national team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Apps | Goals |
| 1991 | 2 | 0 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
| 1993 | 6 | 2 |
| 1994 | 1 | 1 |
| 1995 | 3 | 0 |
| 1996 | 3 | 1 |
| 1997 | 3 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 3 | 1 |
| 2000 | 4 | 1 |
| 2001 | 4 | 0 |
| 2002 | 5 | 0 |
| 2003 | 7 | 1 |
| 2004 | 3 | 0 |
| 2005 | 6 | 3 |
| 2006 | 5 | 0 |
| 2007 | 4 | 1 |
| Total | 64 | 12 |
Honours[link]
Club[link]
- Manchester United
- Premier League (12): 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11
- FA Cup (4): 1993–94, 1995–96, 1998–99, 2003–04
- Football League Cup (4): 1991–92, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2009–10
- FA Community Shield (8): 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010
- UEFA Champions League (2): 1998–99, 2007–08
- UEFA Super Cup (1): 1991
- Intercontinental Cup (1): 1999
- FIFA Club World Cup (1): 2008
Individual[link]
- PFA Young Player of the Year (2): 1991–92, 1992–93
- PFA Team of the Year (6): 1992–93, 1997–98, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2006–07, 2008–09
- PFA Team of the Century (1): 1997–2007[77]
- PFA Players' Player of the Year (1): 2008–09
- FWA Tribute Award: 2007
- Bravo Award (1): 1993
- BBC Sports Personality of the Year (1): 2009
- BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year (2): 1996, 2009
- GQ Sportsman of the Year (1): 2010[78]
- Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year (1): 1997–98
- Jimmy Murphy Young Player of the Year (2): 1990–91, 1991–92
- Premier League 10 Seasons Awards (1992–93 to 2001–02): Overall Team of the Decade
- Premier League 20 Seasons Awards (1992–93 to 2011–12): Most Player Appearances (596)
- UEFA Champions League 10 Seasons Dream Team (1992 to 2002): 2002
- Wales Player of the Year Award (2): 1996, 2006
- Premier League Player of the Month (3): September 1993, August 2006, February 2007
- Goal of the Season (1): 1998–99
- English Football Hall of Fame Inductee: 2005
- Golden Foot: 2011
Orders and special awards[link]
- OBE for services to football: 2007[3]
- Honorary Master of Arts degree from Salford University for contributions to football and charity work in developing countries: 2008[79]
- Freedom of the City of Salford: 7 January 2010.[80] He is the 22nd person to receive the Freedom of the City of Salford.[80]
Records[link]
- Has won a record 12 top division English league titles as a player, and only Manchester United player to have winner's medals from all 12 Premier League title wins.
- Most Premier League appearances for a player, with 588.[81]
- Most Premier League assists (accurate records are only available from 2002 onwards).[82]
- Only player to have played and scored in every Premier League campaign.
- Only player to have scored in sixteen different Champions League tournaments. (Includes eleven consecutive tournaments, 1996–97 to 2006–07; only Raúl has a better record with 14.)
- Most goals by a British player in the Champions League/European Cup proper history, and 14th overall (not including preliminary rounds).[83]
- Most appearances by a Manchester United player.
- Most starts by a Manchester United player, started in 757 games.
- First player to score 100 Premier League goals for Manchester United.
- Second midfielder to have scored 100 goals in the Premier League for a single club (first being Matt Le Tissier).
- One of four Manchester United players to win two Champions League Medals (others are Paul Scholes, Gary Neville and Wes Brown).
- Oldest (37 years, 289 days) player to score in the Champions League, when he scored against Benfica on 14 September 2011.[51]
- One of two Manchester United Players to win at least 10 Top division medals (the other one is Paul Scholes.)
Endorsements and public image[link]
Giggs has been featured in adverts for Reebok, Sovil Titus, Citizen Watches, Givenchy, Fuji, Patek Phillipe, Quorn Burgers, ITV Digital and Celcom.[citation needed]
According to an article by BBC Sport: "In the early 1990s, Giggs was David Beckham before Beckham was even holding down a place in the United first team. If you put his face on the cover of a football magazine, it guaranteed you the biggest sales of the year. Why? Men would buy it to read about 'the new Best' and girls bought it because they wanted his face all over their bedroom walls. Giggs had the million-pound boot deal (Reebok), the lucrative sponsorship deals in the Far East (Fuji) and the celebrity girlfriends (Dani Behr, Davinia Taylor) at a time when Beckham was being sent on loan to Preston North End."[84]
Personal life[link]
Family[link]
Giggs married his longtime partner, Stacey Cooke, in a private ceremony on 7 September 2007.[85] They have two children, both born in Salford: Liberty Beau (known as Libby, born 2003) and Zachary Joseph (known as Zach, born 2006),[86][87] and live in Worsley, Salford, Greater Manchester.[88]
Activism[link]
In August 2006 Giggs became an Ambassador for UNICEF UK, in recognition for his work with Manchester United's 'United for UNICEF' partnership with the children's organisation.[89] Giggs visited UNICEF projects in Thailand and told the BBC: "As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine."[90]
Post-playing career[link]
In October 2010, Giggs said he would "probably finish [his] career here [Old Trafford]", and that he could not see himself "dropping down leagues and playing at a lesser level." He said he wanted to go into coaching, calling managing Manchester United or Wales "the two ultimate jobs", and that he was halfway through his UEFA 'A' coaching licence.[91]
Gagging order[link]
In May 2011, it was reported in non-UK media sources that Giggs was the identity of CTB in CTB v News Group Newspapers,[92] a footballer who had obtained an anonymised gagging order in relation to an alleged extra-marital affair with model Imogen Thomas. Giggs took legal action against the social networking site Twitter after he was named by a user in a list of identities of individuals who had allegedly taken out so-called "super-injunctions".[93] A blogger for Forbes magazine remarked that Giggs had "not heard of the Streisand effect", observing that mentions of his name had increased significantly after the case against Twitter had been reported.[94]
On 22 May 2011, the Sunday Herald, a Scottish newspaper, published a thinly disguised photograph of Giggs on its front page, with the word "CENSORED" covering his eyes.[95][96] Sunday Herald editor Richard Walker stated that the London High Court ruling had no force in Scotland, unless copies of the paper were sold in England or Wales.[97]
On 23 May 2011, the gagging order set off a political controversy, with Prime Minister David Cameron commenting that the law should be reviewed to "catch up with how people consume media today".[98] On the same day, Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming used parliamentary privilege to name Giggs as CTB.[99]
Notes[link]
- ^ Includes other competitive competitions, including the FA Community Shield, UEFA Super Cup, Intercontinental Cup, FIFA Club World Cup
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| Full name | Edwin van der Sar[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1970-10-29) 29 October 1970 (age 41)[2] | ||
| Place of birth | Voorhout, Netherlands[3] | ||
| Height | 6 ft 5.5 in (1.97 m)[4] | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1980–1985 | Foreholte | ||
| 1985–1990 | VV Noordwijk | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1990–1999 | Ajax | 226 | (1) |
| 1999–2001 | Juventus | 66 | (0) |
| 2001–2005 | Fulham | 127 | (0) |
| 2005–2011 | Manchester United | 186 | (0) |
| Total | 685 | (1) | |
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| 1994–2008 | Netherlands | 130 | (0) |
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Edwin van der Sar OON (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɛtʋɪn vɑn dɛr ˈsɑr]) (born 29 October 1970) is a Dutch former footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Ajax, Juventus, Fulham and Manchester United. He is the most capped player in the Netherlands national team's history. He currently works as an analyst and has stated an interest in coaching in the near future.[5][6]
He started his senior career at Ajax and is considered to be a member of a golden generation of players at the club. He remained there for nine years before moving to Italian club Juventus and then to England, first to Fulham and then to Manchester United. He is one of the few footballers to have won the UEFA Champions League with two different teams – with Ajax in 1995 and Manchester United in 2008; in the latter, he was also named UEFA Man of the Match. Van der Sar also won the UEFA Cup with Ajax in 1992.
Throughout a long and successful career, Van der Sar achieved and set numerous records. In the 2008–09 season he set the world league clean sheet record by not conceding a single goal for 1,311 minutes. Along with being the most capped player for the Netherlands national team, with 130 caps, he is also the oldest player to win the Premier League, at 40 years and 205 days old. Individually Van der Sar has won several honours, including Best European Goalkeeper in 1995 and 2009, and UEFA Club Goalkeeper of the Year in 2009. He is considered, by critics and fellow players, as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time.
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Club career[link]
Ajax[link]
Born in Voorhout, Van der Sar began his career at his hometown club, Foreholte, and then VV Noordwijk. At a relatively late age, he was brought to the attention of Louis van Gaal, and subsequently signed for Ajax. Even though he joined late he went into the reserve team and bided his time before getting his first team call up by Louis van Gaal. He enjoyed a long and successful stint in their senior side, winning the 1991–92 UEFA Cup and the 1994–95 UEFA Champions League, as well as the 1995 Best European Goalkeeper award. He was in goal for Ajax in the 1996 UEFA Champions League Final, but had to make do with a runner-up medal as they lost the penalty shootout against Juventus. He made a total of 226 appearances for Ajax and scored a penalty for Ajax to complete an 9–1 victory over De Graafschap in the 1997–98 season. In his first full season as Ajax No. 1 he won the Dutch Football Goalkeeper of the Year, he would then go on to retain the award for the next 3 consecutive years
Juventus[link]
In 1999 Van der Sar's stature of being one of Europe's top goalkeepers drew attention from Manchester United after the departure of Peter Schmeichel, however Van der Sar moved to Italian club Juventus for a fee believed to be worth around £5 million. He made his debut for The Old Lady in the 1–1 draw with Reggina at the Stadio Delle Alpi.[7] He became the first non-Italian to keep goal for the Turin club[citation needed].
He was the first choice goalkeeper during his first two seasons in Italy, making 66 Serie A appearances as Juventus finished runners up in the league twice under Carlo Ancelotti. On the final day of the 1999–2000 season, Juventus lost to Perugia Calcio, allowing Lazio to win the title. The following season, Van der Sar helped Juventus finish 2 points behind eventual champions A.S. Roma.
Van der Sar lost his place in the summer of 2001, after the Bianconeri purchased Italian international 'keeper Gianluigi Buffon from Parma for a reported fee of £32.6 million, a world-record fee for a goalkeeper. Unwilling to remain as second choice behind Buffon, Van der Sar made it clear he wished to move on after 2 years in Serie A. Despite the attention of huge clubs all around Europe, Van der Sar eventually opted to move to the English Premier League, joining newly promoted London club Fulham for a reported £7.1 million.
Fulham[link]
On 1 August 2001, Van der Sar signed a four-year contract with Fulham for £7 million.[8][9] The following day, Van der Sar was officially unveiled by Fulham, and upon his arrival, he described the move as a "nice friendly atmosphere" and that he felt "appreciated".[10] He made his league debut on 18 August 2001 in a 2–3 away defeat against Manchester United.[11] In total, he notched up 127 league appearances while at Fulham. His performances for the Cottagers caught the eye of Manchester United and the attention of Sir Alex Ferguson.[12][13]
Manchester United[link]
Van der Sar signed for Manchester United on 10 June 2005[14] for a reported fee of £2 million, although the exact transfer fee was undisclosed.[15] Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson considers him the best goalkeeper to have played for the club since Peter Schmeichel.[16]
On 5 May 2007, his penalty save helped assure a 1–0 triumph over Manchester City in the Manchester derby. The following day, Chelsea's failure to beat Arsenal at the Emirates ensured Manchester United's ninth Premier League trophy and Van der Sar's first. He was also named in the 2006–07 PFA Team of the Year.[17] Three months later, he was a catalyst in Manchester United's 16th FA Community Shield victory, as he saved three consecutive penalties in a shootout after Manchester United and Chelsea played to a 1–1 draw at the end of regular time.[18]
The 2007–08 season was Van der Sar's best season since his arrival; he had several great performances despite a niggling groin injury. He would help United secure their second successive Premier League title on the final day and win the Champions League by saving the final penalty of the shoot-out from Nicolas Anelka gaining him the nickname "Van der Save".[19]
Van der Sar signed a one-year extension to his current contract with Manchester United on 12 December 2008, keeping him at the club until at least the end of the 2009–10 season.[20]
On 27 January 2009, Van der Sar helped Manchester United set a new club and Premier League record for consecutive clean sheets – the club's 5–0 win over West Bromwich Albion meant that they had gone 11 games and 1,032 minutes without conceding a goal, beating the previous record of 10 matches and 1,025 minutes set by Petr Čech in the 2004–05 season. He then broke the overall English league record in the club's following game four days later, beating the previous record of 1,103 minutes, set by Steve Death of Reading in 1979.[21] Another clean sheet, against West Ham on 8 February 2009, extended the record to 1,212 minutes, beating the British top-flight record of 1,155 minutes previously set by Aberdeen's Bobby Clark in 1971.[22] Finally, on 18 February 2009, Van der Sar further extended the record to 1,302 minutes, and in doing so, he broke José María Buljubasich's single-season world record of 1,289 minutes, set in the Chilean Clausura in 2005.[23][24] His clean sheet record ended on 4 March, when he made an error allowing Peter Løvenkrands of Newcastle United to score after 9 minutes.[25] In total, Van der Sar had gone 1,311 minutes without conceding in the league.[19] These clean sheets were a major factor in United clinching their 11th Premiership title as United won a lot of games 1–0 to clinch the title ahead of Liverpool. With a total of 21 clean sheets he also won the Barclays Golden Glove for 2008–09. However, he missed out on winning his third Champions League winners medal as United succumbed to a 2–0 defeat at the hands of Barcelona on 27 May 2009. Nevertheless, he won Best European Goalkeeper award from UEFA for the second time, 14 years after he first won it at Ajax. He was one of the five United players shortlisted for the PFA Players' Player of the Year award but it went to United teammate Ryan Giggs instead, however he was included into the PFA Team of the Year.[26]
Van der Sar sustained a finger injury during the Audi Cup pre-season tournament, forcing him to miss the first 12 matches of Manchester United's 2009–10 season.[27] On 6 October 2009, Van der Sar returned to action for United, playing 90 minutes in the reserves against Everton.[28] On 17 October 2009, he returned to action in the first team, playing in United's 2–1 victory over Bolton Wanderers.[29] On 21 November 2009, Van der Sar would suffer injury again and be kept out of action for 12 games, with the combination of the Dutchman’s wife suffering a brain haemorrhage just before Christmas. On 16 January 2010, Van der Sar returned to action in a 3–0 win over Burnley.[30]
Van der Sar signed a one-year extension to his current contract with Manchester United on 26 February 2010, keeping him at the club until at least the end of the 2010–11 season.[31]
On 23 December 2010, British press reported that Sir Alex Ferguson had confirmed Van der Sar would retire at the end of the 2010–11 Premier League season.[32] Although he denied the reports at the time,[32] Van der Sar confirmed on 27 January 2011 it now was his intention.[33] On 12 March, Van der Sar was named Man of the Match against Arsenal in the FA Cup after making several fine saves. United won the match 2–0 with goals from Wayne Rooney and Fábio. He was included in the PFA Team of the Year, making his third appearance there, others in 2007 and 2008.
On 22 May 2011, he played his final game at Old Trafford in a 4–2 victory over Blackpool resulting in Blackpool's relegation from the Premier League. He captained United as a farewell treat. His last game for the United was against Barcelona in the 2011 UEFA Champions League Final, which United lost 3–1.
On 28 May 2011, Van der Sar retired from active football.[34]
International career[link]
Van der Sar was included in the Netherlands's 1994 World Cup squad but did not play. He had to wait until 7 June 1995 for his international debut, against Belarus. He was in goal for three successive eliminations from major competitions by penalties: Euro 96, the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000. The Netherlands failed to qualify for the 2002 World Cup after failing to compete with Portugal and the Republic of Ireland and so during all of his career with the Netherlands, he had missed one tournament.
Euro 2004[link]
During the penalty shootout at the Euro 2004 quarter-final against Sweden, Van der Sar saved a penalty from Olof Mellberg, as the Netherlands won the shootout 5–4 and advanced to the semifinals,[35] where they lost to Portugal.[36]
2006 World Cup[link]
Prior to the 2006 World Cup group match against Ivory Coast, Van der Sar had not conceded a goal in nine consecutive competitive matches.[37] As captain of the Netherlands, he broke Frank de Boer's record of all-time caps for his country in the 2006 World Cup second round match against Portugal.[38]
Euro 2008[link]
On his 37th birthday, Van der Sar was interviewed by Radio 538 and stated that he intended to retire from international football after Euro 2008.[39] Prior to the tournament, he was instrumental in bringing an end to a long-time dispute between veteran striker Ruud van Nistelrooy and manager Marco van Basten.[40] He was the captain in their impressive 3–0 victory over Italy on 9 June 2008, and also on 13 June for the 4–1 victory over France. On 21 June, he played in the 3–1 quarter-final loss against Russia, which was believed to be his final international.[41] This was his 16th appearance on a European Championship finals match, with which he equalled the record set by Lilian Thuram a few days earlier. Along with 22 other players Van der Sar was named in the team of the tournament.[19] Following Euro 2008, Van der Sar had the distinction of playing more minutes at the European Football Championship than any other player.[42]
2010 FIFA World Cup qualification[link]
On 3 October 2008, at the urging of new coach Bert van Marwijk, Van der Sar agreed to come out of international retirement for the Netherlands' 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Iceland and Norway after injuries to Maarten Stekelenburg and Henk Timmer made both unavailable for the two games.[43] Van der Sar kept a clean sheet in both matches, which were won by the Dutch 2–0 and 1–0 respectively. In Oslo, the Dutch defeated Norway 1–0 courtesy of a Mark van Bommel goal, thus ensuring a fitting send-off for Van der Sar who earned his record 130th cap during that match.[44]
Van der Sar represented the Dutch national team 130 times, which makes him the country's most capped player. This puts him in the top forty most capped players of all time.
Personal life[link]
Van der Sar is married to Annemarie van Kesteren,[45] the couple's wedding ceremony took place at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam, on 20 May 2006.[46] The couple have two children: a son, Joe, and a daughter, Lynn.[47] Joe was on the pitch celebrating when his father saved a penalty in the Netherlands' 5–4 shoot-out victory over Sweden in the Euro 2004 quarter-finals.[45] In December 2009, Van Kesteren was admitted to hospital just two days before Christmas,[48] reports said she had suffered a suspected brain haemorrhage and was in a "very poor" condition.[49] Van der Sar was granted indefinite leave following his wife's collapse and it is understood that she has made a good recovery with no long term effects.[50]
Career statistics[link]
Club[link]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | League Cup | Europe | Other[nb 1] | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Ajax | 1990–91 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |
| 1991–92 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1992–93 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0 | ||
| 1993–94 | 32 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 43 | 0 | ||
| 1994–95 | 33 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 48 | 0 | ||
| 1995–96 | 33 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 11 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 50 | 0 | ||
| 1996–97 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 45 | 0 | ||
| 1997–98 | 33 | 1 | 5 | 0 | – | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 1 | ||
| 1998–99 | 34 | 0 | 5 | 0 | – | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 46 | 0 | ||
| Total | 226 | 1 | 23 | 0 | – | 55 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 312 | 1 | ||
| Juventus | 1999–2000 | 32 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 0 | |
| 2000–01 | 34 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 0 | ||
| Total | 66 | 0 | 5 | 0 | – | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 0 | ||
| Fulham | 2001–02 | 37 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 0 |
| 2002–03 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 | |
| 2003–04 | 37 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 0 | |
| 2004–05 | 34 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 0 | |
| Total | 127 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 154 | 0 | |
| Manchester United | 2005–06 | 38 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 0 |
| 2006–07 | 32 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 0 | |
| 2007–08 | 29 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 44 | 0 | |
| 2008–09 | 33 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 49 | 0 | |
| 2009–10 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 0 | |
| 2010–11 | 33 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 45 | 0 | |
| Total | 186 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 56 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 266 | 0 | |
| Career total | 605 | 1 | 56 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 139 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 820 | 1 | |
Statistics accurate as of match played 28 May 2011[51]
International[link]
| Netherlands national team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Apps | Goals |
| 1995 | 5 | 0 |
| 1996 | 10 | 0 |
| 1997 | 6 | 0 |
| 1998 | 14 | 0 |
| 1999 | 8 | 0 |
| 2000 | 12 | 0 |
| 2001 | 9 | 0 |
| 2002 | 6 | 0 |
| 2003 | 8 | 0 |
| 2004 | 17 | 0 |
| 2005 | 11 | 0 |
| 2006 | 12 | 0 |
| 2007 | 4 | 0 |
| 2008 | 8 | 0 |
| Total | 130 | 0 |
Honours and awards[link]
Club[link]
- Ajax
- Eredivisie (4): 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1997–98
- KNVB Cup (3): 1992–93, 1997–98, 1998–99
- Johan Cruijff Shield (3): 1993, 1994, 1995
- UEFA Champions League (1): 1994–95
- UEFA Cup (1): 1991–92
- UEFA Super Cup (1): 1995
- Intercontinental Cup (1): 1995
- Juventus
- UEFA Intertoto Cup (1): 1999
- Fulham
- UEFA Intertoto Cup (1): 2002
- Manchester United
- Premier League (4): 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11
- Football League Cup (2): 2005–06, 2008–09
- FA Community Shield (3): 2007, 2008, 2010
- UEFA Champions League (1): 2007–08
- FIFA Club World Cup (1): 2008
Individual[link]
- Best European Goalkeeper (2): 1995, 2009
- Dutch Football Goalkeeper of the Year (4): 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
- Dutch Golden Shoe (1): 1998
- PFA Premier League Team of the Year (3): 2006–07, 2008–09, 2010–11
- UEFA Euro 2008 Team of the Tournament
- Barclays Merit Award (1): 2008–09
- Barclays Golden Glove (1): 2008–09
- UEFA Club Goalkeeper of the Year (1): 2009
- Non-football related awards
- Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau: 5 June 2010
- JFK Greatest Man Award: 29 October 2011[54]
Records[link]
- Oldest player to appear in the UEFA Champions League Final (40 years and 211 days)
- Oldest player to win the Premier League (40 years and 205 days)
- Most caps for Netherlands national football team (130)
- Worldwide league record keeping clean sheet (1,311 minutes, set in 2008–09 Premier League)
- First non-British player to be active in the Premier League beyond the age of 40[55]
- First goalkeeper to keep 50 clean sheets in the UEFA Champions League
Post-playing career[link]
On 3 August 2011, a testimonial match was played at the Amsterdam Arena in honour of Van der Sar. The match featured the goalkeeper's "dream team", consisting of Wayne Rooney, John Heitinga, Louis Saha, Rio Ferdinand, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Nemanja Vidić, André Ooijer, Dirk Kuyt, Gary Neville, Michael Carrick, Edgar Davids, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Boudewijn Zenden and Dennis Bergkamp with Alex Ferguson as manager. They faced the current AFC Ajax first team, led by Frank de Boer.
Prior to this match two shorter matches took place. One featured the AFC Ajax and Manchester United youth team and another one featuring Ajax's 1995 squad vs. the Netherlands national team from 1998. The Ajax squad featured among others Finidi George, Nwankwo Kanu, Frank de Boer, Winston Bogarde, Nordin Wooter, Ronald de Boer, Danny Blind, Patrick Kluivert, Marc Overmars and Frank Rijkaard with it being managed by Louis van Gaal. The Netherlands squad featured among others Wim Jonk, Dennis Bergkamp, Roy Makaay, Ruud Hesp, Aron Winter, Richard Witschge and Pierre van Hooijdonk with it being managed by Guus Hiddink.
Dutch viewers following the testimonial on television peaked at two million and it had a 26% total market share.[56] The income generated by the match was to be donated to two charities (Make a Wish Foundation and Laureaus[57]), it generated so much money however that Van der Sar announced afterwards he would be starting his own charitable foundation to help spend the money.[58]
It was made clear at the event that Van der Sar would be working as an analyst for the Netherlands Broadcasting Foundation covering the 2011-12 UEFA Champions League.[6] Van der Sar's son, Joe van der Sar, made written comments stating his father would be working as a goalkeepers coach at AFC Ajax within five years. Van der Sar himself said he did not want to make a full commitment to this, but confirmed it was likely and he was interested in building up his coaching career slowly, starting at the lower levels.[5]
On the 27th May 2012, he participated in the Soccer Aid 2012 Match; playing for the Rest of the World side in the first half, then replaced at half time by comedian Patrick Kielty.
Notes[link]
- ^ Includes other competitive competitions, including the Johan Cruijff Shield, FA Community Shield, UEFA Super Cup, Intercontinental Cup, FIFA Club World Cup
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- ^ "Man Utd suffer Van der Sar blow". BBC Sport. 5 August 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/8184742.stm. Retrieved 5 August 2009.
- ^ Ornstein, David (17 October 2009). "Man Utd 2–1 Bolton". BBC Sport (British Broadcasting Corporation). http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/8305403.stm. Retrieved 17 October 2009.
- ^ "Van der Sar returns after injury". BBC Sport (British Broadcasting Corporation). 6 October 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/8293144.stm. Retrieved 6 October 2009.
- ^ "Man Utd 3–0 Burnley". BBC Sport (British Broadcasting Corporation). 16 January 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/8454646.stm. Retrieved 16 January 2010.
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- ^ a b "Manchester United's Edwin van der Sar to retire after this season". guardian.co.uk (London: The Guardian). 23 December 2010. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/dec/23/edwin-van-der-sar-retire-season. Retrieved 25 December 2010.
- ^ It is reported by Mark Ogden that he'll retire after the 2010–11 season.Van der Sar to retire
- ^ "Edwin on retirement". ManUtd.com (Manchester United). 28 May 2011. http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Features/Football-News/2011/May/van-der-sar-on-retirement.aspx. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
- ^ "Holland end Swede dream". BBC Sport (British Broadcasting Corporation). 26 June 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/euro_2004/3831335.stm. Retrieved 13 August 2008.
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- ^ (Dutch) [1]
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| Date of birth | 1970-10-29 |
| Place of birth | Voorhout, Netherlands |
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Charles Graham Adam | ||
| Date of birth | (1985-12-10) 10 December 1985 (age 26) | ||
| Place of birth | Dundee, Scotland | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1] | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Liverpool | ||
| Number | 26 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1999–2000 | Dundee | ||
| 2000–2004 | Rangers | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2004–2009 | Rangers | 61 | (13) |
| 2004–2005 | → Ross County (loan) | 11 | (2) |
| 2005–2006 | → St. Mirren (loan) | 29 | (5) |
| 2009 | → Blackpool (loan) | 13 | (2) |
| 2009–2011 | Blackpool | 78 | (28) |
| 2011– | Liverpool | 28 | (2) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2006 | Scotland U21 | 3 | (0) |
| 2006–2007 | Scotland B[2] | 3 | (0) |
| 2007– | Scotland | 16 | (1) |
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Charles Graham "Charlie" Adam (born 10 December 1985) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liverpool and the Scotland national football team.
Before having a youth career at Rangers, Adam was part of the Dundee youth set up between 1999 and 2000.[3] He signed for Alex McLeish's Rangers in December 2000, and became a product of their youth system. He spent much of his early senior career on loan to other clubs. While on loan to St. Mirren during season 2005–06, Adam was part of the team that won both the Scottish Challenge Cup and First Division, playing in over thirty matches for the Saints. Upon returning to Rangers at the end of the 2006 season, he became a regular under managers Paul Le Guen and Walter Smith. Adam was also part of the Rangers team that reached the 2008 UEFA Cup Final.
After falling out of favour at Rangers during season 2008–09, Adam was loaned out to English Championship side Blackpool. The loan was made permanent at the start of the 2009–10 season, and Adam became an integral part of the Blackpool side, captaining the team to a play off victory over Cardiff City which resulted in their promotion to the Premier League. Adam shone in his first season in the English Premier League, his performances being recognised with a nomination for the PFA Players' Player of the Year in April 2011. However, Blackpool were relegated and consequently he transferred to Liverpool in July 2011. He has played at B and full international levels for Scotland.
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Background[link]
Adam is the son of former professional player Charles Adam, a midfielder who played for various Scottish clubs in the 1980s and 1990s.[4] Adam's brother, Grant, is a goalkeeper and plays for Rangers' under-19s team.[5]
He attended Dundee's Braeview Academy, alongside fellow future footballers Garry Kenneth and Scott Robertson.[6]
Club career[link]
Rangers[link]
Early career at Rangers[link]
Dundee-born Adam joined Rangers on his fifteenth birthday, 15 December 2000.[6][7] He made his debut appearance on 14 April 2004 against Livingston[8] and played sporadically thereafter but did not become a first-team regular until the management of Paul Le Guen.
He made an appearance at the start of the 2004–05 season,[9] and then joined First Division club Ross County on loan for the rest of that campaign.[9] While in Dingwall, Adam made fifteen appearances, scoring twice, against Raith Rovers and St. Mirren.[10] He also played in the 2004 Scottish Challenge Cup Final against Falkirk. County were ahead courtesy of David Winters 56th minute goal. Adam was substituted in the 60th minute as was team mate Sean Higgins six minutes later. Neil Scally and Darryl Duffy then scored in 70 and 75 minutes respectfully for Falkirk to come back to lift the trophy/[11]
Loan to St Mirren[link]
Adam then joined First Division side St. Mirren on loan for the 2005/06 season.[9] During his spell in Paisley, he again appeared in the 2005 Scottish Challenge Cup Final, however this time he was on the winning side as St. Mirren defeated Hamilton Academical 2–1.[12] He was also part of the team that won the First Division title in May 2006.[9] In total he made thirty-seven appearances and scored nine goals for the Buddies during a very successful stint in Paisley. Charlie became attached to the club and still comes to St Mirren Park to take in games and support the players in his free time.
Rangers first team[link]
After playing for Rangers during a July 2006 pre-season trip to South Africa, including scoring a hat-trick against a Jomo Select side,[13] Adam began the 2006–07 season with the club, and he started in their first league match against Motherwell.[14] He continued to be a regular for Rangers as the season progressed, and scored his first goal for the club in a 3–2 UEFA Cup win over Livorno on 19 October.[15] This was one of fourteen goals Adam scored that season, including strikes against Israeli sides Hapoel Tel Aviv[16] and Maccabi Haifa,[17] as well as a goal in an end-of-season Old Firm match from a free-kick.[18] On 16 April 2007, at the end of his first season in the first team, Adam was voted by Rangers fans as the club's Young Player of the Year at an award ceremony.[19]
On 28 June 2007, it was announced that Adam had signed a new five-year contract with Rangers.[20] Adam had scored his first UEFA Champions League goal on 19 September against VfB Stuttgart, and his second in the return fixture.[21] Adam played against Panathinaikos and Werder Bremen in Rangers run to the 2008 UEFA Cup Final where he was an unused substitute. Rangers lost 2-0 to Zenit St Petersburg.
Loan to Blackpool[link]
On 2 February 2009, Adam signed on loan with English Championship club Blackpool until the end of the 2008–09 season.[9] Five days later, he was sent off on his debut for the Seasiders during a 3–2 defeat by Doncaster Rovers at Bloomfield Road.[22]
On 25 February, after serving a three-match suspension, Adam scored twice, including a goal from just inside the halfway line, for the club's reserve team as they beat Accrington Stanley 4–2.[23][24] Adam scored his first Football League goal for Tony Parkes's men in a 2–0 victory over Norwich City at Bloomfield Road on 7 March.[25] Two days later he was named in the Football League's "Championship Team of the Week".[26] His second goal for Blackpool came on 11 April in their 1–0 West Lancashire derby win over Preston North End at Deepdale. Blackpool's then-caretaker manager Tony Parkes publicly admitted he was keen to sign Adam permanently. He said, "I have spoken to our club secretary and we will be in touch with Rangers to see if we can do a deal for Charlie".[27] At the end of the season, after two goals in 13 appearances, he returned to Rangers.
On 6 July 2009, Rangers confirmed that they had accepted a bid of £500,000 from Blackpool and that he was set to sign for the Seasiders the following day, subject to personal terms being agreed.[28] The following day, Blackpool manager Ian Holloway confirmed a deal had been agreed with the Ibrox club, but stressed that talks with Adam would take place on 9 July, once Adam had spoken with Rangers manager Walter Smith.[29] Four weeks later on 2 August, with Adam still a Rangers player and having been on their pre-season trip to Germany, Smith confirmed that the player was in talks with Blackpool, saying, "Adam is talking to Blackpool at the moment. The clubs have agreed a fee and it will be up to Charlie and his representative."[30] The following day, the Daily Mail reported that Adam had signed for Blackpool on a three-year contract with an option for a further 12 months.[31]
Blackpool[link]
In August 2009 Adam signed a two-year contract with Blackpool with the option of a further year, in a club-record transfer fee of £500,000.[32] His competitive debut as a permanent Blackpool player was in a 1–1 draw with Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road later that month.[33] His first goal came on 26 August in a 4–1 home win over Wigan Athletic in the League Cup.[34]
In January 2010 he was named in the Press Association's Championship "Team of the Week", along with team-mate Neal Eardley following his performance two days before in the 3–2 home victory over Watford.[35][36] That same month Adam won the Championship Player of the Month award[37] and was voted the PFA Championship Fans’ Player of the Month for January 2010. In March, Adam scored in his 50th league appearance for Blackpool, a 2–0 win at Plymouth Argyle. Just under a month later, Adam was named in the PFA "Championship Team of the Year".[38]
Blackpool qualified for that season's play-offs. Adam scored a match-winning penalty against Nottingham Forest in the semi-final first leg,[39] and Blackpool won the tie on aggregate. In the play-off final Adam scored a free-kick as Blackpool beat Cardiff City 3–2 at Wembley Stadium and gained promotion to the Premier League.[40]
In the fourth week of the 2010–11 Premier League season, Adam was named in the official Team of the Week.[41] He was named again in week seven, alongside teammate Luke Varney.[42] In early December, a tribunal ruled in favour of Adam in a dispute over unpaid bonuses from the previous season. They found that Blackpool were required to pay the player £25,000 for successfully avoiding relegation to League 1. The club had argued that the promotion bonus (which had been stipulated in Adam's contract) superseded the 'survival bonus.' The panel upheld Adam's complaint, but did not agree with his second argument that the failure to pay the amount constituted a breach of contract on the club's part. As a result, both parties were responsible for their own legal fees - leaving Adam with a very small net gain from the venture.[43]
In January 2011, Blackpool rejected a £4.5 million bid to buy Adam from Liverpool, an amount described by manager Ian Holloway as "disgraceful".[44] Blackpool then rejected a transfer request that Adam had made to the club.[45] He was one of seven nominees for the 2010–11 PFA Players' Player of the Year.[46] However, Adam and his Blackpool team mates were relegated at the season's end.
In May 2011, Blackpool activated an option to increase Adam's contract by a further twelve months.[47]
Liverpool[link]
In July 2011 Liverpool signed Adam from Blackpool for a fee of £7 million after having their initial bid rejected.[48] He played the second half of Liverpool's friendly against Guangdong Sunray Cave in a 4–3 win on 13 July.[49] On 13 August 2011, Adam made his full debut in Liverpool's first game of the 2011–12 Premier League, playing the full 90 minutes in a 1-1 draw against Sunderland at Anfield.[50] There, he assisted the opening goal from Luis Suárez from a free kick outside the area. On Saturday 20 August 2011, he started and played the full 90 minutes against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium in a 2-0 away victory. On 24 August 2011, Adam started Liverpool's Carling Cup 2nd round tie with Exeter which finished 3-1 to the Reds. On 27 August 2011, Adam scored his first Premier League goal for Liverpool in a match against Bolton Wanderers which Liverpool went on to win 3-1.[51] On 18 September 2011, Adam was shown a second yellow card for a challenge on Scott Parker in a 4-0 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur.[52] As a result, Adam was suspended for the Carling Cup match against Brighton, which Liverpool won 2-1. Adam has since become a regular in the Liverpool starting eleven. On 26 February 2012, he helped Liverpool to win their first trophy since 2006 as they won the 2012 Carling Cup Final.
Club career statistics[link]
- As of 23 March 2012
| Club performance | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Scotland | League | Scottish Cup | League Cup | Europe | Total | |||||||
| 2003–04 | Rangers | Scottish Premier League | 2 | 0 | - | 2 | 0 | |||||
| 2004–05 | 1 | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | |||||||
| 2004–05 | Ross County (loan) | First Division | 11 | 2 | - | 15 | 2 | |||||
| 2005–06 | Rangers | Scottish Premier League | 1 | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 2005–06 | St Mirren (loan) | First Division | 29 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | - | 37 | 9 | |
| 2006–07 | Rangers | Scottish Premier League | 32 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 42 | 14 |
| 2007–08 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 32 | 4 | ||
| 2008–09 | 9 | 0 | - | 9 | 0 | |||||||
| England | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Europe | Total | |||||||
| 2008–09 | Blackpool (loan) | Championship | 13 | 2 | - | 13 | 2 | |||||
| 2009–10 | Blackpool | 43 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | 46 | 192 | ||
| 2010–11 | Premier League | 35 | 12 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 36 | 13 | |||
| 2011–12 | Liverpool | 28 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | 35 | 2 | ||
| Total | Scotland | 101 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 139 | 29 | |
| England | 114 | 32 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 125 | 36 | ||
| Career total | 215 | 52 | 11 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 18 | 5 | 257 | 65 | ||
- Notes
1 Scottish League Challenge Cup results included in totals 2 Included in 2009–10 stats: 3 Football League play-off appearances, 2 goals
International career[link]
Adam was called up by national manager Alex McLeish to the Scotland squad for the first time on 11 May 2007 for a friendly against Austria and a Euro 2008 qualifying Group B match against the Faroe Islands.[53] He made his debut at the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium in Vienna on 30 May as a 67th-minute substitute, in a 1–0 victory.[54] He then made his competitive debut as a 77th-minute substitute in a 2–0 win over the Faroe Islands at the Svangaskarð stadium in Toftir on 6 June.[55]
Adam was recalled to the Scotland squad by manager George Burley for a friendly against Japan on 10 October 2009 at the Nissan Stadium, Yokohama, Japan.[56][57] Scotland lost the game 0–2, with Adam earning his third cap, and in doing so became the first Blackpool player to represent Scotland since Tony Green in 1971.[citation needed]
On 10 November 2009, Adam was drafted into the Scotland squad for the friendly against Wales four days later.[58] He replaced his former Rangers teammate Kevin Thomson, who pulled out due to illness. George Burley said of Adam: "He scored a cracking goal for Blackpool last weekend. He is a very good replacement. He has been playing consistently, is a quality player, and is getting a real benefit from playing regularly."[59]
International goals[link]
| Charlie Adam's International Goals | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
| 1 | 10 August 2011 | Hampden Park, Glasgow |  Denmark |
1–0 | 2–1 | Friendly match |
Honours[link]
Club[link]
- St. Mirren
- Blackpool
- Liverpool
Individual[link]
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External links[link]
- Charlie Adam's profile at Liverpool F.C.'s official website
- Charlie Adam at scottishfa.co.uk
- Charlie Adam (debut) career stats at Soccerbase
- Charlie Adam career stats at Soccerbase
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| Short description | Scottish footballer |
| Date of birth | 10 December 1985 |
| Place of birth | Dundee, Scotland |
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| Imogen Thomas | |
|---|---|
| Born | Imogen Mary Thomas (1982-11-29)29 November 1982 (aged 29) Gorseinon, Wales |
| Residence | London, England[1] |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Citizenship | British |
| Occupation | Model, television personality |
| Television | Big Brother |
| Website | |
| www.imogenthomasofficial.com | |
Imogen Mary Thomas (born 29 November 1982) is a Welsh glamour model, beauty queen and television personality. She rose to fame in 2003, after winning Miss Wales, and achieved further note in 2006, when she lasted three months on the seventh series of reality TV series Big Brother.
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Early life[link]
Imogen was born to Charles Thomas, an education welfare officer, and his wife Janette in Gorseinon, near Swansea, South Wales. Her parents separated when she was two years old, and, after her mother remarried when she was six, she was brought up by her mother and step-father in Llanelli, South Wales. She speaks Welsh fluently. Thomas has a sister, Alana.[2] Thomas developed alopecia when she was six, losing chunks of her hair.
Thomas started working as a model at age 13, and at the age of 17 moved to London to become a professional model. Working in bars to pay for her living costs, she was rejected by many modelling agencies due to her height.[citation needed]
She reluctantly returned to her studies, and gained a degree in Health studies and Psychology at the University of Worcester. During this period she entered beauty contests, and was crowned Miss Wales in 2003, beating future Big Brother 9 winner Rachel Rice, who came third. She went on to represent Wales at Miss World in China. This prompted her to return to London to try glamour modelling, and also working as a bar hostess at London's Sanderson Hotel.
[edit] Big Brother
Selected as a housemate in the seventh series of the Channel 4 TV series, Big Brother, up to week 5, Thomas was not allowed to participate in nominations. In week 1 she was in the Big Brotherhood, and there were no nominations. In weeks 2 and 3, she was banned from nominating for discussing nominations. In week 4, only Susie was permitted to nominate, and in week 5, as punishment for yet again discussing nominations she was forced (along with 4 other rule breakers) to nominate one fellow rule breaker in front of the group. On Day 84, Imogen moved with fellow nominee Richard into the House Next Door, where she remained until she was evicted on Day 86 with 62% of the public vote.
Modelling[link]
Since her time on the Big Brother series ended, Thomas has become a glamour model. She has had covergirl shoots with Zoo and Maxim magazines, while she had long running contracts with the Daily Star newspaper. Thomas was in the running for FHM Sexiest Woman in the World, coming in 58th.[3] In 2008, she was included in the list of Playboy Bunnies on Playboy's website. In 2010 she shot her first calendar.
In November 2006, Thomas was voted the Sexiest Woman in Wales, ahead of both Catherine Zeta Jones and Charlotte Church. Thomas has also been voted the sexiest Big Brother housemate.
Television work[link]
Like other contestants, Thomas has taken part in many Big Brother spin-off programmes, including BBLB and Big Brother's Big Mouth. She also co-presented with other housemates for T4.
She has also made numerous personal appearances in various programmes, including: E4's horror Dead Set, written by Charlie Brooker; the BBC Three programme Wags, Kids and World Cup Dreams, and Celebrity Coach Trip partnered with friend Bianca Gascoigne.
A fluent Welsh language speaker, she has appeared on various S4C programmes, including Uned 5, Wedi 3, Wedi 7, Jonathan Show and Bwrw Bar. She had her own show along with Glyn from Big Brother called Glyn and Imogen: A Year On. She also had a cameo role in the famous Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm. An S4C documentary series called Salon Imogen followed her setting up a nail bar in Cardiff. She closed the shop months later after wanting to pursue her career as a model.
In July 2011 she had got a job as a presenter during a spot on This Morning.
Personal life[link]
Thomas had a relationship with American model Tyson Beckford, whom she first met at the Sanderson Hotel.[4] Since her appearance on Big Brother she has dated Russell Brand,[5] polo player Jamie Morrisson,[6] and footballers Matthew Collins of Swansea City, Nery Castillo of Aris FC and Tottenham Hotspur's Jermain Defoe.[7]
In July 2009, it was reported that Thomas was diagnosed with swine flu following a holiday in Marbella. On return to the UK, she was quarantined in her flat.[8]
Thomas actively supports the children's hospice, and will be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in June 2011 for them.[9]
In April 2011, Thomas was reported in The Sun to have had a six month relationship with an unnamed and married Premier League footballer.[10] A gagging order, known as CTB v News Group Newspapers,[11] was granted in the High Court of England and Wales by Mr Justice Eady, preventing the footballer from being named in the media;[12] it was reported in non-UK media sources that the footballer in question was Ryan Giggs.[13][14] Thomas subsequently took advice from publicist Max Clifford, who commented: “Imogen never had any desire nor intention to sell her story, however if she had and was able to name the footballer she could easily command £250,000".[1][15]
On 22 May 2011, the Sunday Herald, a Scottish newspaper, published a thinly disguised photograph of Ryan Giggs on its front page, effectively ending the anonymous court order CTB v News Group Newspapers involving Imogen Thomas.[16][17] The paper added in its editorial column, "Today we identify the footballer whose name has been linked to a court superinjunction by thousands of postings on Twitter. Why? Because we believe it is unsustainable that the law can be used to prevent newspapers from publishing information that readers can access on the internet at the click of a mouse."[18] On 23 May 2011, Giggs was identified in the House of Commons as the footballer concerned.[19]
On 15 December 2011, Mr Justice Eady accepted that Thomas had not attempted to blackmail the footballer Ryan Giggs, and suggested "There is no longer any point in maintaining the anonymity." The injunction preventing the naming of Ryan Giggs remained in place. Thomas stated after the court hearing: "I'm just relieved that the parties and the court now accept that I'm no blackmailer. I have been vindicated and that's all I wanted. I have nothing to add – it's all behind me now."[20] On 21st February 2012 Ryan Giggs agreed to his name being revealed, and admitted Ms Thomas did not try to blackmail him. [21]
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ a b "Imogen Thomas shows strain as scandal over Premier League star's super-injunction rumbles on". Daily Mail (UK). 20 April 2011. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1378495/Imogen-Thomas-shows-strain-scandal-Premier-League-stars-super-injunction-rumbles-on.html. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
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