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#2 Ryan Giggs
For a Manchester United legend, it is ironic that Ryan Giggs started out at Manchester City. The Welshman played for the City youth team for two years before being prised away by Sir Alex Ferguson.
Ferguson personally met him at his house and offered him a schoolboy contract when he was only 14. On his 17th birthday, Giggs became a professional and has not looked back ever since. He has gone on to become football’s most decorated player, having won trophies aplenty in a glittering 23-year career.
Giggs was the first true superstar of the Premier League era before David Beckham came into the picture. He started on the left wing while still in his teens and emerged as one of the game’s biggest talents.
He was key to United’s historic treble-winning campaign of 1999 while maintaining a crucial role in all of the different teams that Ferguson built at United. He played for United until his retirement at the age of 41. Currently assistant to Louis Van Gaal, it seems Giggs’s love story with United will not end anytime soon.
