Ryan Giggs: My 20 years with Manchester United

[Supernan]

Ga kerasa sejak debut musim 91 saat ini Giggs udh berada di United hampir 20 thn lamanya. Pencapaian luar biasa dr Giggs bs menjaga performanya tetap di level terbaik. :hail:

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Guardian.

Ryan Giggs: My 20 years with Manchester United's first team

Ryan Giggs talks candidly about early-day partying, media intrusion and asking Ferguson for a new car

The first game: 2 March 1991. You look at the photos now and so much has changed. Old Trafford, back then, was an unsophisticated place, desperately in need of investment, much in line with a city struggling from the effects of post-industrialisation. "Madchester" might have been booming but Manchester was far from the metropolis of stylish apartment blocks, Calatrava bridges and glass condominium towers we see now.

Ryan Giggs was 17, wearing a shirt that seemed slightly too large for his skinny frame. Manchester United 0 Everton 2. The team were on a run of seven league games without a win, almost a quarter of a century since their last title. It was an inauspicious debut. "The thing that sticks out is Dave Watson coming through the back of me," Giggs says. "It was 'welcome to the big boys' league'. I had a big cut on my knee for ages after that." Otherwise, he cannot remember too much apart from Ferguson shouting at everyone in the dressing room.

The anniversary is on Wednesday. "Twenty years of tramping up and down that bloody wing," as Ferguson puts it. Though, Giggs being Giggs, he doesn't want too much fuss. He cringes when it is put to him there might be a statue for him outside Old Trafford one day. "A statue? I really don't know about that …" He is 37 now, flecks of grey hair appearing around his ears. Retirement is on the horizon – maybe only 15 months away – and there is the odd moment of insecurity. "I wasn't worried about it three or four years ago but I am now," he confesses. "I'm wondering what I'm going to do."

Coaching is one option. An ambassadorial role is open to him at United if he wants it. Giggs, one senses, will remain part of the Old Trafford furniture. There have been many super-talented kids come and go at this club. None has lasted 20 years. Nobody has played so many games. Or with such continued excellence. It has been an epic and anachronistic run. "Twenty years, I do feel proud," says a man who increasingly possesses the universal appeal of Sir Bobby Charlton. "You're talking about a player coming into a successful team at the age of 17 and staying there for 20 years. It's not impossible, but it's tough to think it will happen again."

The question he gets asked most these days is simple: what's the secret of his longevity? But there are many different factors. "First of all, it's what you're born with; your genetics." After that, it's about "trying to live your life the right way."

The younger Giggs – that wiry kid with the mop of curly hair – was on first-name terms with Manchester's nightclub doormen, but that had its drawbacks. "Coming into the first-team, a lot of hype, celebrity girlfriends, it meant photographers following me all over the place." Giggs felt as though his privacy was being invaded. In his first full season he remembers the now-defunct Today newspaper "ran a week-long feature delving into my family, my dad's family, the rift between my mum and dad. It was just … I just didn't like it."

Giggs has had his fair share of lost nights, but he's virtually teetotal now and just wants "to keep a low profile". He finds it amusing that Rio Ferdinand should tell almost 600,000 followers on Twitter what he has eaten for breakfast or what cartoons he likes best. "Yeah, I don't get that ... I really just don't get that."

He turns up for this interview in a simple top, jeans and a £40 pair of Converse pumps. That kid of 1991, the boy who played football like a man, has become the man who plays football like a boy. Tuesday night, against Chelsea, Giggs will equal Charlton's record of 606 league appearances for United. In all competitions, Giggs has played for the club 861 times, overtaking Charlton (on 758) on the night of the 2008 European Cup final.

"At the beginning it's just desire to get in the first team and stay there," he explains. "Some players might lose their drive, but not the ones I've been friends with. You get older, but the desire is still there, and you actually enjoy it more." Plus he makes another point: "I've played for Wales, remember, and playing for Wales and playing for United, I know the difference. It's a lot easier when you have quality around you, believe me. I might have been finished three or four years ago otherwise."

Giggs has never been one for pumping his fists or long, impassioned dressing-room sermons, but in that quiet, understated way, he also has a fierce determination to keep on winning. It is his fix, he says, the only true form of job satisfaction. Plus there is the fear of failure that so many top sportsmen use as motivation. "Last year, for example, when Chelsea won the double. It winds you up. You don't want it to happen again. You don't want to feel like you did last summer. You want to feel like the year before when you won the league. You think about those moments just as much as you think about the things you've won. Probably more, in fact."

This is a common theme among Giggs's generation at United: remember the bad times, make sure they are the exception rather than the norm. "It stays with you. You go away on holiday, you're lying on the beach trying to enjoy yourself with the kids, and you do. But then you have a quiet moment, it comes back to you and you can't help it, you're pissed off. You're on holiday, and you're just pissed off."

The worst time? "My first full season, when we lost the league to Leeds. That awful feeling of emptiness." The European Cup final in 2009, losing to Barcelona, was a close second. "On the coach outside the stadium, you know you haven't played well personally, and you haven't played well as a team. It's the last game of the season, you'll never get it back and you're just gutted. We didn't perform. That was the worst thing. We just didn't perform. At United you always pride yourself that when you lose a goal you react – but we didn't that night."

Giggs, lest it be forgotten, already has two Champions League winner's medals. He was rummaging through his drawers the other week and found them under some clothes, along with his OBE and a couple of league winner's medals. "Oh, here they are," he thought. Most of his collection has been donated to the club museum, though he does treasure some possessions. "The night of the European Cup final in Moscow, Bobby presented me with a watch . . ." His eyes sparkle.

In 20 years he has had 131 different team-mates – good, bad, indifferent and, in a few cases, exceptional. A few weeks ago, Giggs nominated Paul Scholes as the best ("I've never seen anyone make the game look so easy"). This time he chooses differently. "Probably Roy [Keane]. If Bryan Robson was playing you never thought you were going to lose. Then Robbo left, Roy took over that mantle and you felt invincible with him around." Did Giggs escape the Irishman's furies? "No one got away with it. But I was here before him, remember. I didn't get it too bad."

As for Ferguson, Giggs seems convinced his manager will outlast him. He tells a story of Ferguson contracting the virus that went around the club before the Manchester derby last November. Ferguson was feverish, looking like death. Then it came to match-day and he was there in the dugout. "He loves the challenge. I just can't see the gaffer leaving in the near future. He'll be around a lot longer than me." Ferguson turns 70 at the end of the year, but Giggs shrugs. "Maybe not another 10 years, but four or five definitely."

Ferguson, he says, is a "lot more mellow these days, a lot less scary than when I was 13," though Giggs has lost count of the number of times his eyebrows have been singed by the "Hairdryer". One of his favourite stories remembers how, a few weeks after his debut, Steve Bruce and Robson told him that now he was established as a first-team player he should ask Ferguson if he qualified for a club car. An emboldened Giggs duly knocked on the manager's door. "He went absolutely nuts," he recalls. It was only later that the teenager realised he had been set up.

Older, wiser, Giggs has become the popular face of Manchester United, revered throughout the game. His medal count is staggering (forty-eight and counting, if you count the times he has been a runners-up). Giggs did not invent the art of dribbling but there have been times over the last 20 years when it felt as though he had taken it to its highest level.

He is also well qualified to respond to Didier Deschamps's observation last week that United no longer play with the "fantasy" of old. "Since losing Cristiano [Ronaldo] and Carlos [Tevez], losing great players, I know why people might say that, but we're still in a really strong position. We're top of the league, we're still in the Champions League, still in the FA Cup."

And the mind goes back to that game against Everton 20 years ago. "It was thoroughly colourless stuff," the Guardian reported at the time. "Manchester United's championship hopes, for the 24th consecutive season, had long gone cold." Giggs's appearance, as a 35th-minute substitute for the injured Denis Irwin, does not warrant a mention. "It felt like a wake," Giggs remembers. But the skinny kid with the gashed knee has not done too badly.

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Ryan Giggs' career in numbers

0 Red cards

1 Goal of the season, his matchwinner in the FA Cup semi-final against Arsenal in 1999

1 PFA Player of the year award, for the 2008-09 season

1 OBE for services to football, awarded in 2007

1 Honorary degree, a Master of Arts from Salford University for contributions to football and charity work in developing countries

2 Champions Leagues winner's medals, in 1999 and 2008

2 PFA young player of the year awards

3 BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards, including two from BBC Wales

4 FA Cups, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2004

4 League Cups, 1992, 2006, 2009, 2010

9 Times included in the PFA team of the year

11 English league titles, a record

11 The number of consecutive Champions League tournaments in which he has scored, a record

12 Goals for Wales

19 The only player to have scored in every Premier League campaign since its conception

22 The 22nd person to receive the Freedom of the City of Salford in January 2010

64 Caps for Wales

158 Manchester United goals

605 League appearances, one short of Bobby Charlton's record

862 Manchester United appearances, the most in the club's history

[Supernan]

Ryan Giggs' 131 team-mates at Manchester United since 1991

From Anderson to Dwight Yorke, here are the Manchester United players who have played in the first team with Ryan Giggs

A

Anderson
B

Phil Bardsley, Fabien Barthez, Russell Beardsmore, Bébé, David Beckham, David Bellion, Dimitar Berbatov, Henning Berg, Clayton Blackmore, Laurent Blanc, Jesper Blomqvist, Mark Bosnich, Wes Brown, Steve Bruce, Nicky Butt
C

Fraizer Campbell, Eric Cantona, Michael Carrick, Chris Casper, Roy Carroll, Luke Chadwick, Michael Clegg, Andy Cole, Terry Cooke, Jordi Cruyff, Nick Culkin, John Curtis
D

Simon Davies, Fabio da Silva, Rafael da Silva, Ritchie De Laet, Mame Biram Diouf, Eric Djemba-Djemba, Bojan Djordjic, Mal Donaghy, Dion Dublin
E

Chris Eagles, Richard Eckersley, Jonny Evans, Patrice Evra
F

Rio Ferdinand, Darren Ferguson, Darren Fletcher, Diego Forlán, Quinton Fortune, Ben Foster
G

Darron Gibson, Keith Gillespie, Andy Goram, Jonathan Greening
H

Owen Hargreaves, David Healy, Gabriel Heinze, Javier Hernández, Danny Higginbotham, Tim Howard, Mark Hughes
I

Paul Ince, Denis Irwin
J

Ronny Johnsen
K

Andrei Kanchelskis, Roy Keane, Kleberson, Tomasz Kuszczak
L

Henrik Larsson
M

Federico Macheda, Lee Martin (90s), Lee Martin (00s), Manucho, David May, Brian McClair, Liam Miller, Philip Mulryne
N

Nani, Gary Neville, Phil Neville, Erik Nevland
O

Gabriel Obertan, John O'Kane, John O'Shea, Michael Owen
P

Gary Pallister, Park Ji-sung, Paul Parker, Mike Phelan, Kevin Pilkington, Gerard Piqué, Karel Poborsky, Rodrigo Possebon, William Prunier, Danny Pugh
R

Felipe Ricardo, Kieran Richardson, Mark Robins, Bryan Robson, Lee Roche, Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Giuseppe Rossi
S

Louis Saha, Peter Schmeichel, Lee Sharpe, Teddy Sheringham, Paul Scholes, Les Sealey, Alan Smith, Mikaël Silvestre, Danny Simpson, Chris Smalling, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Jonathan Spector, Jaap Stam, Michael Stewart
T

Massimo Taibi, Carlos Tevez, Zoran Tosic
V

Antonio Valencia, Raimond van der Gouw, Nemanja Vidic Edwin van der Sar, Ruud van Nilstelrooy, Juan Sebastián Verón,
W

Danny Wallace, Ronnie Wallwork, Gary Walsh, Neil Webb, Danny Welbeck, Ian Wilkinson, Mark Wilson
Y

Dwight Yorke

[Supernan]

[R.amaly27]

oh ryan,..
pemain yg menrut ane paling konsisten dan loyal
sampai saat ini dia masih bisa mengimbangi pemain muda,.
ane fans berat bgt ma giggy
n rela ngrogoh kocek ane demi
baju bernama giggs thn kemaren,..
ane salut,..
ane ga pernah liat GIGGS kena kartu merah

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Rekor Baru Milik Giggs

Ryan Giggs masih saja memesona. Di usia yang terbilang senja untuk pemain sepakbola, si pemain veteran Manchester United sukses membuat rekor-rekor baru berkat satu golnya ke gawang Benfica.

Giggs berhasil mengamankan satu poin untuk MU saat melawat ke markas Benfica di matchday I fase grup Liga Champions, Kamis (15/9/2011) dinihari WIB. Ketinggalan lebih dulu, 'Setan Merah' memaksakan hasil imbang 1-1 berkat gol Giggs.

Dengan sebiji gol tersebut, pemain Wales kelahiran 29 November 1973 itu resmi menjadi satu-satunya pemain yang bisa mencetak gol di 16 musim berbeda Liga Champions.

Bukan hanya itu, pemain yang seluruh karirnya dibaktikan untuk 'Setan Merah' tersebut juga mencatatkan rekor lain. Seiring dengan sebiji golnya ke gawang Benfica, Giggs menjadi pemain tertua yang bisa bikin gol di Liga Champions.

Sebagai catatan, usia Giggs saat menjebol gawang Benfica di Estadio da Luz adalah 37 tahun dan 289 hari.

"Itulah mengapa Giggs adalah seorang legenda, mengapa dirinya bisa menjadi salah satu pemain terbaik United selama bertahun-tahun," puji rekannya di MU, Patrice Evra, seperti dilansir Reuters.

Dua rekor itu menambah panjang rekor-rekor lain yang sudah dikantongi Giggs, di samping capaian-capaian lain berupa gelar juara bersama MU.

[ncut_lgx]

emang sasuga ni banget dah daisenpai yg satu ini
terutama di perolehan kartu merahnya lhoo~ beda banget ama pacarnya scholessy
semoga bisa jadi contoh buat senpai-senpai dan kohai-kohai lain
smalem aje masih sempet-sempetnya cetak kue gol
>_____< *hail giggsy*

Giggs still feels fresh
14/09/2011 19:44, Report by Adam Marshall



es in training, when you're feeling a bit down or a bit slow, they are nipping at your heels and just dragging you on. They're making you feel sharp and train that much harder.

"Of course, with the manager and all of your other team-mates, you don't want to let them down. You constantly want to keep the quality you've had during your career, although my game's changed, I've still got to try and contribute to the team which, hopefully, I will carry on doing.

"I've not got any targets at all. If I pass these milestones then it's great but I've never set myself any targets. I try and enjoy it and try to win things. It's what I'm doing. Every moment, every week, every season is a bonus to me now.

"I was getting ready to finish two or three years ago but I'm still enjoying it. It's why I'm carrying on. If I start not enjoying it or feel I'm not contributing to the team, I'll call it a day.

In terms of a future beyond his playing days, Giggs still has no firm plans in place.

"I don't think any players are really ready for retirement," he explained. "Ask a player what he misses and most players don't miss training, nor games. What they miss is going in to training and having the banter, seeing the team spirit. So it's tough to say you are going to miss it.

"The buzz of going out at Old Trafford for big league games and big Champions League games and the feeling you get when you win a game - I'm going to miss all that.

"You just try and prepare yourself to look for the next best thing, whether it'll be TV, coaching or other business interests, you try and prepare yourself. At the moment, I just want to get my badges done and take it from there. I'm really not saying 'no' to anything in football.

"You just prepare yourself as much as you can, but there's just so much concentration on playing, it's difficult to do that - especially at the start of a season. Maybe at the turn of the year, if I know I'm going to finish or am feeling I'm going to finish, I'll just start trying to prepare myself a little bit more."

[Sheyro_07Seven]

Si Welsh Wizard ini Sulit di Percaya Menurut Ane,...

Cs dengan Umur 37 Tahun Lebih,..Beliau Masih Konsisten PenampilanNya,... Terutama Menjaga Fisik dengan Umur yang Dah Uzur,...

Cs BiasaNya dengan Umur Segitu,... Fisik Pemain Dah Gak Proposional Lagi,....

salut Dah Buat Giggsy,.....

[arief rachman]

MANCHESTER, KOMPAS.com - Umurnya boleh jadi tua, tapi permainannya tetap berbahaya di lapangan. Siapa yang tak kenal Ryan Giggs? Gelandang anyar Manchester United ini masih menjadi andalan manajer MU Sir Alex Ferguson di lapangan sampai hari ini, Kamis (15/9/2011) dini hari, saat MU bertandang ke kandang Benfica di Lisbon, Portugal, untuk laga Grup C Liga Champions 2011.

Gol yang dicetak Giggs merupakan satu-satunya gol The Red Devils dalam pertandingan ini setelah sempat tertinggal 0-1 dari Benfica karena gol yang dicetak Oscar Cardoza pada menit ke-24. Pria berusia 37 tahun ini kemudian mencetak gol yang dipuji banyak pihak pada menit ke 42. Dari luar kotak penalti, dia menembakkan umpan Antonio Valencia masuk sudut kiri atas gawang Benfica. Ferguson pun menyebut golnya sebagai gol yang sangat fantastik.

Gol ini pun mengantarkan dirinya menjadi pemecah rekor dalam sejarah sepak bola Eropa. Giggs berhasil memecahkan rekor yang selama ini dipegang oleh Raul Gonzales, penyerang legendaris asal Real Madrid. Dia menjadi pemain pertama yang selalu mampu mencetak gol selama 16 musim kompetisi Liga Champions, melampaui rekor Raul yang sebelumnya tercatat selalu mencetak gol di 15 musim kompetisi.

Giggs merupakan salah satu pemain MU yang tak pernah pindah klub sejak bergabung pada tahun 1990. Jika David Beckham, pemain asal Inggris yang pernah menjadi pasangan legendarisnya di MU sudah beberapa kali pindah klub sejak bergabung dengan MU pada tahun 1993-2003, Giggs masih betah bermain untuk MU.

Setelah memecahkan rekor Sir Bobby Charlton, pemain legendaris MU yang bermain sebanyak 758 kali untuk MU, Giggs didaulat sebagai pemain yang paling banyak tampil bersama MU. Sampai 14 September 2011, situs resmi Manchester United mencatat Giggs sudah bertanding bersama MU sebanyak 880 kali dengan total 160 gol.

Ayah dua anak ini pun telah mengantarkan MU merebut gelar di berbagai liga, dua di antaranya adalah kemenangan di Liga Champions pada tahun 1999 dan 2008. Sementara itu, dengan pertandingan dini hari tadi, Giggs mencatat 500 kali bermain bersama MU di Liga Champions sejak tahun 1993.

Tahun ini adalah tahun ke-18 Giggs bermain di Liga Champions bersama MU. Selama bermain di liga ini, minimal 24 gol dicetaknya. Itu pun pada Liga Champions 1998-99. Pada Liga Champions tahun lalu saja, L'Equipe mencatat Giggs mampu mencetak 25 gol. Tak ada liga dilewatkannya tanpa produktivitas mencetak gol.

Kini, Giggs pun mengawali perjalanan MU dalam Liga Champions 2011-12 dengan golnya. Itu pun dicetaknya sambil terus berlari. Stamina pria yang doyan musik hip-hop ini seperti tak pernah habis. Mungkin Giggs sesuai dengan peribahasa berikut ini: tua-tua keladi, makin tua makin menjadi. Umur tak menghalanginya untuk terus berlari dan mencetak gol. Giggs masih berbahaya!


Data Ryan Giggs (diolah dari berbagai sumber)
Nama Lengkap: Ryan Joseph Giggs
Lahir: Cardiff, Wales, 29 November 1973
Posisi: Gelandang
Klub: Manchester United (1990-sekarang)
Tinggi: 179.4cm
Berat: 71.9kg
Istri: Stacey Cooke
Anak: Liberty Beau dan Zachary Joseph

Prestasi bersama Manchester United (dari L'Equipe)
Premier League (12): 1992-93, 1993-94, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1998-99, 1999-00, 2000-01, 2002-03, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2010-11
UEFA Champions League (2): 1998-99, 2007-08
Piala Interkontinental (1): 1999
FIFA Club World Cup (1): 2008
FA Cup (4): 1994, 1996, 1999, 2004
FA Community Shield (2): 2008, 2010
Liga Inggris/Piala Carling (2): 2005-06, 2008-09

[bimbim]

Disaat giggs udah mulai debut si de gea justru baru lahir,jd ga kebayang betapa legend nya dia,ntah sampai kpn dia kuat maen,tinggal nunggu gol di EPL yg akan membuat rekor tiap musim cetak gol

[fey777]

Giggs Legend,
waktu ga kerasa, msh inget bgt waktu saya SD, koleksi poster2 Class of 92.
skrg giggs udah mulai tua.
bener2 legenda, loyalitas + prestasi