Giggs not finished yet

Manchester United star Ryan Giggs admits he would love to win the Champions League once more before finally hanging up his playing boots (United 17/2 – Champions League outright).

The 36-year-old has won 11 Premier League titles, four FA Cups, three League Cups and two Champions League titles with the Red Devils, and is still going strong after two decades of top-flight football (United 11/2 – FA Cup outright).

The talented winger shows no signs of slowing down and is very much part of Sir Alex Ferguson’s plans at Old Trafford for the current season, with United trying to hang onto the coat tails of high-flying Chelsea at the top of the Premier League table.

Whether or not the former Wales international midfielder opts to carry on playing after the conclusion of the current season is open to question as he has talked openly about wanting to go into management.

He was linked with the vacant Wales manger’s position but immediately ruled himself out citing a lack of experience and the fact that he was keen to continue playing at the highest level.

Giggs has won everything possible at domestic level but, even as father time catches up with one of the best players ever to grace the Premier League, the Cardiff-born star admits he is still hungry for more silverware.

“You want to win everything before you call it quits,” he said. “You want to win every game that you enter, every trophy that you compete in, you want to win. You can’t always do it but you’ve just got to try your best to win.

“If I’m only allowed one more, I would say Champions League, but it changes. Tomorrow, I could say the League. But the League and Champions League are obviously massive.”

The pinnacle of Giggs’ career must be United’s treble-winning season of 1999, when his winning goal in the FA Cup semi-final victory over Arsenal will live long in the memory.

No English side has completed the feat before or since but Chelsea star Didier Drogba believes that the Blues could win the treble this term as they have begun the season in superb fashion.

Giggs acknowledges that it could happen again as long as lady luck shines for the team gunning for glory on three fronts.

“It’s possible but it’s difficult,” Giggs added to CNN. “I don’t know if it’s harder than 1999 because it was hard then. You just need everything to go for you.”

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