Manchester United
Manchester United is an English soccer club and its home stadium is in Trafford, Manchester in England. It is also one of the most popular soccer clubs in the world. This club became a member club of the F.A Premier League in 1992. They have played in the English soccer since 1938 except for the 1974-1975 season. They have remained top in the soccer history and almost the whole world knows of their achievements.
Their most recent achievement was to win the 2008-2009 UEFA Champions League. Manchester United has won up to 22 major cups since Alex Ferguson became manager in November 1986. In 1968, they became the first English club to win the European cup, with a crushing 4-1 win against Benfica. They won another European cup in 1999. And in 2008, brought the third European cup home. In 2009, they tried for another European cup, but ended up in a 2-0 defeat against Barcelona in the Finals. The club is still known for its popularity. This club also has Cristiano Ronaldo, the best soccer player of 2009, in the starting eleven team.
Since the late 1990’s, Manchester United has been one of the world’s richest clubs and is currently ranked as the richest and most valuable club in any sport, with the value of about $1.8 billion. Man utd is also known as The Red Devils because of their team logo. The starting eleven players are ; Van der Sar, O’Shea, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Anderson, Carrick, Giggs; Park, Ronaldo and Rooney. Man utd has always had star players in the squad and an English captain. Manchester’s current captain is Gary Neville and he has shown great team responsibility. It is also in Man United’s history that they had David Beckham in their squad who is also one of the best soccer player and he is currently playing for a Spanish club, AC Milan. The reason i started playing soccer was that it is my dream to play for the Manchester United starting team. I hope Manchester United gets even better and become the world’s best soccer club.
