Ryan Giggs...

Ryan Giggs was a Welsh footballer who had played for Manchester United throughout his entire career. He started out in a left winger position in the 1990s and remained there far into the 2000s however,recently he played in a more in depth role in playmaking.

Giggs holds several records, even as the most honored player in the English football history.  He was the first to collect the 11 English league medals. Giggs was even the very first to win 2 PFA Young Player of the Year awards consecutively and is also the only one to have both scored and played in every season of Premier League since its creation.

Giggs has a long continental and domestic career and is the very first player within the UEFA Champions League to score in 12 seasons back to back, as well as being elected to the PFA Team of the Century back in 2007, the English Premier League Team of the Decade back in 2003, also the FA Cup Team of the Century. Ryan is the only Man United player to play in all 11 Premier League teams that won and all 3 League Cup teams that won. In the UEFA Champions League Final of 2008, Giggs beat Bobby Charlton’s record of over 757 appearances in the Manchester United and became the all time club leader.

Internationally, Giggs played on the national Welsh team before he retired from football on, and he was the youngest player to epitomize his country. As well as many honors Giggs has gotten in football, he was appointed OBE for the Queen’s 2007 Birthday Honors List, and inducted to the English Football Hall of Fame.

Ian Rush Media Career...

At 43 years old in 2005, Ian Rush thought about re-entering the game in order to play for The New Saints, just after the Welsh side was drawn tight against Liverpool for the opening Champions League qualifying match. Ian Rush has also been deeply involved with media work in the game since November of 2005, including a spell as an analyst with Entertainment Sports Programming Network (ESPN). Also, he appears as a reporter for the Sky Sports News and the Sky Sports. Also he has done work on Liverpool Football Club Television.

Rush was also involved with the Marina Dalglish charity match that took place on April 27th, 2006, which pitted the FA Cup final teams of Liverpool and the Everton against each other in 1986 to aid Breast Cancer Research. Marina, Kenny Dalglish’s wife, suffered from breast cancer. So the proceeds were given to the charity. In 2006 Rush was inducted to the English Football Hall of Fame due to all of his achievements in the game and in life.

Regularly appearing for the Masters five a side team, it’s not uncommon to see Ian dawning the red colour of Liverpool since he’s one of Liverpool’s ‘old boys’ for public relations tours intended for the club. The media announced that Ian Rush had been appointed as the Elite Performance Director for the Welsh Football Trust on September 7th, 2007, a role that is part time and  that he’ll help to develop the next generation of players for Wales’ national teams.