Friday, 28th June, 2013
Manchester United veteran Ryan Giggs has maintained it would be "stupid" for him not to follow in the footsteps of his long-time mentor and manager Sir Alex Ferguson, although he has admitted he is still unsure of his future.
Giggs, 39, has been a one-team player for all of his professional football career, having made his senior team debut with the Red Devils in 1990. Since then, he has not shown signs of stopping, stretching his career to an awe-inspiring twenty-three years and counting.
During his time with the Old Trafford outfit, Giggs has made more than 1,000 appearances in all competitions, playing an active role in the club’s first team squad and claiming accolades left and right, yielding no less than 25 major honours.
But of course, Giggs admits such runs will soon come to an end, especially at his age, telling the club’s official site: "It’s quite tough. I am sort of an intense person so when I am still playing I’m concentrating on that.
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"But also, I have got to start thinking that it is near the end. I have to start thinking about what I am going to do afterwards", Giggs further explained.
The evergreen midfielder was also keen on taking a football overseeing role in the future, but admits he is still unsure of what path he will take. "Obviously, I’d be stupid not to pick up on the stuff I’ve learnt from Sir Alex.
"I don’t know whether I am going to be a coach or a manager, if I decide to go into coaching, but it is obviously exciting for me. I have been playing for 20-odd years and it is a new chapter in my life.
"I want to do well and I want to make a success of it like I did as a player. It will be like starting all over again, like being an apprentice again.
"It will be learning new things and making mistakes as you go along, just trying to better yourself as much as you can", Giggs concluded.
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