Ryan Giggs

Ryan Joseph Giggs (born Ryan Joseph Wilson on 29 November 1973 in Cardiff) is a Welsh football player, renowned worldwide as being arguably one of the finest wingers in English football.

He was born in Wales to a mixed race father and a white mother, but was brought up in England.

Giggs currently plays for Manchester United for whom he is their longest-serving player. Giggs had played for the England Schoolboys (which all schoolboys in Great Britain are eligible for, regardless of nationality) team, but plays for the Welsh national team as an adult, once holding the record for being the youngest player to ever play for Wales.

Giggs is the most decorated footballer in the history of Manchester United, having won eight FA Premier League championships (a record he shares with Liverpool F.C.'s Alan Hansen, Phil Neal and Kenny Dalglish), one Champions League and four FA Cup titles.

He has also won the PFA Young Player of the Year award twice, making him the first player to win the award in consecutive years - a feat matched only by Robbie Fowler and current team-mate Wayne Rooney - that remains unsurpassed till today. Giggs holds other records, including that of the top all time scorer in the FA Premier League not to play in the position of striker, and, interestingly, holds the record for scoring Manchester United's fastest goal (15 seconds), set in November 1995 against Southampton F.C. Giggs' squad number for both Manchester United and Wales is 11. He became known as The Welsh Wizard, a nickname last applied to David Lloyd George.

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