Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Manchester United

                         Manchester United is an English professional football club , based in Old Trafford. The club is also Known as Red Devils. Earlier the club was known in the name as Newton Heath LYR football club at its beginning in 1878. The club changed its name to Manchester in 1902.
                        There were about 20 manager who serves for Manchester united, from which Alex Ferguson is the long served and most honorable Manager in the history of the club. The manager of the club from 1986 up to today was Sir Alex Ferguson and now onwards it will be David Moyes.
                         And it is believed that there have been  45 Captains who served for Manchester United,from which E. Thomas was the first Known Captain and  Bryan Robson was the Captain who had served the club more than any other Captains(From 1982 to 1994). Also Under Roy Keane's(1997-2005) Captaincy, United had won Many Trophies than any other Captains of United, this includes 4 premier league titles, 2 FA cups, one UEFA Champions league, One Community Shield and One intercontinental Cup. The current Captain of the club is Nemanja Vidic from 2011.
                         Manchester United has Rivalries with Leeds, Liverpool, Arsenal , and Manchester United, against whom they contest the Manchester Derby match.
                          There are about 1000 of players who had worn the Manchester United jersey. Bobby Charlton was the player with most goal attained in Manchester United with 249 goals in his career(1956-1973) with an appearance of 756. Ryan Giggs made the most appearance in United with 941 appearances.
                          Manchester United have won many trophies. This includes a record of 20 league title, 11 FA cups, 4 league Cups and 19 FA Community Shields. club has also won 3 European Cups, one UEFA super cup , one intercontinental cup and one FIFA club World cup.


Manchester United Squad as of 24 January 2013

  1        GK         David de Gea                              15         DF      Nemanja Vidic(Captain)
  2        DF          Rafeal                                          16          MF     Micheal Carrick
  3        DF          Patrice Evra(vice captain)      17          MF     Nani
  4        DF          Phil Jones                                    18          FW     Ashley Young
  5        DF          Rio Ferdinand                            19          FW     Danny Welback
  6        DF          Jonny Evans                                 20          FW     Robin Van Persie
  7        MF         Antonio Valencia                       22          MF      Paul Scholes
  8        MF         Anderson                                     23          MF     Tom Cleverley
10        FW        Wayne Rooney                            24          MF      Darren Fletcher
11        MF         Ryan Giggs                                  25           MF     Nick Powell
12        DF         Chris Smalling                             26           MF     Shinji Kagama
13        GK        Anders Lindegaard                     28           DF      Alexander Buttner
14        FW        Javier Hernandez                        40           GK     Ben Amos

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