Absolutely everyone has heard of such a football player as Ryan Giggs. He is the most titled player in the history of British football, and also the first to win 13 league titles in the English Premier League.
You can talk about him for a long time and a lot. But now only some of the most interesting facts will be affected.
Career
Player Ryan Giggs has been defending the colors of Manchester United for almost his entire life. As a boy, he studied football at FC Deans, and then played for two more years at Manchester City. But at the age of 14, he joined the Red Devils.
Throughout his life, Ryan Giggs played 672 matches and scored 114 goals. He was a great player. At first, Ryan showed himself as a classic left winger. He scored goals, demonstrated technical dribbling and high speed, gave accurate passes.
Over the years, he began to play deeper, playing the roles of central and defensive midfielders, as well as a striker. But still he remained the same fast and technical footballer, able to “read” the game and perform aggravating passes.
In the national team, Ryan showed himself to be the same skillful football player. He played for the Wales team from 1991 to 2007, held 64 meetings and scored 12 goals. And then, in 2012, he also performed at the Olympic Games for Great Britain. Four times he entered the field with a captain’s armband on his shoulder, and even once scored a goal against a team from the UAE.
At the end of his brilliant career, what happened in 2014, Ryan became a coach. First, at Manchester United, he was an acting officer, and then an assistant. Today, he is the head coach of the Wales team.
Trophies
Ryan Giggs has an incredible amount of rewards. He won 34 team trophies, over 20 personal prizes and titles, 3 ranks, as well as 14 different records. These are just phenomenal indicators. Here are just a few of his rewards:
- Championship in the English Premier League (13 times).
- Cup and Super Bowl of the country (4 and 9 times respectively).
- 2 victories in the Champions League.
- Trophy “Bravo”.
- PFA and AFJ awards for services to football.
- Two-time title of the best young football player in England.
- Inclusion in the list of “100 legends of the football league” and in the rating of the greatest players of the twentieth century.
- Place in the English Football Hall of Fame.
He is also the one who has never received a red card in his entire career. In addition, in 2007 he was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of the British Empire. And in 2010, Ryan Giggs became an honorary citizen of Salford. And all of the above is not even a third of the awards he has.
Personal life
Finally, it is worthwhile to touch on this topic. It is interesting to know that the legend of British football is also an exemplary husband. My wife, Ryan Giggs, has been together for a long time. His chosen one is called Stacy Cook, and they got married in 2007, September 7th. They have a son, Zach, and a daughter, Liberty.
Ryan is also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. In general, the athlete leads an active social life, he participated in many advertising campaigns (Reebok, Fuji, Solvil et Titus, etc.).
And in 2009, his portrait, painted by artist Peter Edwards, was purchased for 10,000 pounds (about 900,000 rubles at the current rate). The buyer was the National Library of Wales.