What is there to say about Giggs but he’s simply the greatest premiership player of all time, having been discovered playing for his local side Deans FC he signed up to Manchester Citys school of Excellence. While playing for Deans he was watched regularly by local newsagent and Old Trafford steward Harold Wood who personally spoke to Sir Alex Ferguson about this young lad who duely sent a scout to have a look, the scout was impressed enough to offer Giggs a trail, The following November on Ryan’s 14th Birthday he signed schoolboy forms.
Giggs made his league debut in the 1991/92 season against Everton in March, the following season (also the first Premier League season) Giggs was firmly established as United’s first choice Left winger. He was afforded many opportunities which were not normally offered to footballers at his young age, such as hosting his own television show, Ryan Giggs’ Soccer Skills, which aired in 1994. A book based on the series was also released. Giggs was part of the league’s attempt to market itself globally, re-forging its image after the hooliganism-blighted years of the 1980’s and was featured in countless football and lad mags covers, becoming a household name. Despite his aversion to attention, Giggs had also become a teenage pin-up at the time and was once described as the “Premiership’s First Poster Boy”, and the “boy wonder”- where he was arguably the original footballer who catapaulted the term into the public lexicon. He was hailed as the first football star to capture the public imagination in such a popular way, unseen since the days of George Best, and the irony was that Best and Bobby Charlton used to describe Giggs as their favourite young player, specially turning up at The Cliff training ground to watch him, where Best once quipped, “One day they might even say that I was another Ryan Giggs.”
With his career coming to an end and age catching up on Giggs, he again started to shine in a new role within United, starring in central midfield, putting in some dazzling performances, defying people who were saying he should think of hanging up the boots. And there’s no saying Giggs is ready to stop with United pushing on another three trophies this season having already secured the Club World Cup and Carling Cup this season.
With all his achievements Giggs has become the most successful player in English Football, winning countless team and individual honours.
HONOURS
Manchester United
* Premier League (10): 92/93, 93/94, 95/96, 96/97, 98/99, 99/00, 00/01, 02/03, 06/07, 07/08
* FA Cup (4): 93/94, 95/96, 98/99, 03/04
* Football League Cup (3): 91/91, 05/06, 08/09
* FA Community Shield (7): 93, 94, 96, 97, 03, 07, 08
* Uefa Champions League(2): 98/99, 07/08
* Uefa Super Cup (1): 91
* Intercontinental Cup (1): 99
* FIFA Club World Cup (1): 08
Individual
* PFA Young Player of the Year: 1992, 1993
* Bravo Award: 1993
* BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year: 1996
* Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year Award: 1997–98
* Intercontinental Cup
* MOTM: 1999
* Premier League Team of the Decade: 2003
* English Football Hall of Fame: 2005
* Wales Player of the Year Award: 1996, 2006
* FA Premier League Player of the Month: September 1993, August 2006, February 2007
* PFA Team Of The Century: 2007
* PFA Team of the Year: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2007
* Only Manchester United player to have played in all ten Premier League-winning teams and only player to win 10 league titles
* Only Manchester United player to have played in all three League Cup-winning teams
* Only player to have scored in eleven consecutive Champions League tournaments
* Only player to have scored in thirteen different Champions League tournaments
* Only player to have scored in every Premier League campaign since its inception
Orders and special awards
* OBE for services to football.
* Awarded an honorary Masters of Art degree from Salford University on 15 July 2008 for contributions to football and charity work in developing countries
Author: RED till i DIE
Article Source : manutd talk
Giggs made his league debut in the 1991/92 season against Everton in March, the following season (also the first Premier League season) Giggs was firmly established as United’s first choice Left winger. He was afforded many opportunities which were not normally offered to footballers at his young age, such as hosting his own television show, Ryan Giggs’ Soccer Skills, which aired in 1994. A book based on the series was also released. Giggs was part of the league’s attempt to market itself globally, re-forging its image after the hooliganism-blighted years of the 1980’s and was featured in countless football and lad mags covers, becoming a household name. Despite his aversion to attention, Giggs had also become a teenage pin-up at the time and was once described as the “Premiership’s First Poster Boy”, and the “boy wonder”- where he was arguably the original footballer who catapaulted the term into the public lexicon. He was hailed as the first football star to capture the public imagination in such a popular way, unseen since the days of George Best, and the irony was that Best and Bobby Charlton used to describe Giggs as their favourite young player, specially turning up at The Cliff training ground to watch him, where Best once quipped, “One day they might even say that I was another Ryan Giggs.”
With his career coming to an end and age catching up on Giggs, he again started to shine in a new role within United, starring in central midfield, putting in some dazzling performances, defying people who were saying he should think of hanging up the boots. And there’s no saying Giggs is ready to stop with United pushing on another three trophies this season having already secured the Club World Cup and Carling Cup this season.
With all his achievements Giggs has become the most successful player in English Football, winning countless team and individual honours.
HONOURS
Manchester United
* Premier League (10): 92/93, 93/94, 95/96, 96/97, 98/99, 99/00, 00/01, 02/03, 06/07, 07/08
* FA Cup (4): 93/94, 95/96, 98/99, 03/04
* Football League Cup (3): 91/91, 05/06, 08/09
* FA Community Shield (7): 93, 94, 96, 97, 03, 07, 08
* Uefa Champions League(2): 98/99, 07/08
* Uefa Super Cup (1): 91
* Intercontinental Cup (1): 99
* FIFA Club World Cup (1): 08
Individual
* PFA Young Player of the Year: 1992, 1993
* Bravo Award: 1993
* BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year: 1996
* Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year Award: 1997–98
* Intercontinental Cup
* MOTM: 1999
* Premier League Team of the Decade: 2003
* English Football Hall of Fame: 2005
* Wales Player of the Year Award: 1996, 2006
* FA Premier League Player of the Month: September 1993, August 2006, February 2007
* PFA Team Of The Century: 2007
* PFA Team of the Year: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2007
* Only Manchester United player to have played in all ten Premier League-winning teams and only player to win 10 league titles
* Only Manchester United player to have played in all three League Cup-winning teams
* Only player to have scored in eleven consecutive Champions League tournaments
* Only player to have scored in thirteen different Champions League tournaments
* Only player to have scored in every Premier League campaign since its inception
Orders and special awards
* OBE for services to football.
* Awarded an honorary Masters of Art degree from Salford University on 15 July 2008 for contributions to football and charity work in developing countries
Author: RED till i DIE
Article Source : manutd talk
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