Thursday, November 10, 2011

Silver Jubilee - On the piles of Silverwares!!



An achievement is not an easy package, it is not a pick and walk away objects. To achieve a goal one should enjoys certain qualities. All needed are hard working, dedication, passion, loads patients and bit of luck. Of course, a certain quotients of supports also require from the people around you, without it often all the efforts could ends up in a failure. 

Today I am writing about a man who is sitting on the pile of achievement and he is doing it for last twenty-five years. His job is tougher as he is competing at the highest level. Managing a world famous football club and at the same time he have to manage a bunch of worlds richest, famous and head strong footballer. This page is my tribute to the Sir Alex Ferguson, man who is having all qualities that a man need to achieves the goal, my god I am talking about goals yes scoring goals his first priority and he is having thousands in his kitty.

Sir Alexander Ferguson was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He was a Scottish association football manager and former player too. In 1969, after twenty-four extra-ordinary years when Sir Mat Busby retired, Manchester United struggled to find a proper manager and worst result was that the relegated in 1974 but promoted back within a year. Ron Atkinson was then given the job and after a brief success, he failed to achieve what needed from him. Finally 1986, 6th November Alex Ferguson appointed as Manager of the club.  His tenure has seen the club go through an era of success and dominance both in England and in Europe, giving Ferguson a reputation as one of the most admired and respected managers in the history of the game. Under him, Manchester United's 1998–99 season was the most successful in English club football history as they became the first team to win the Premier League, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League – "The Treble" – in the same season.

Stats
                                                                                               
Team
From
To
Record
G
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Win %
East Stirlingshire
J1974
 1974
17
9
2
6
36
28
+8
52.94
St. Mirren
1974
1978
169
74
41
54
292
222
+70
43.79
Aberdeen
1978
1986
459
272
105
82
914
374
+540
59.26
Scotland
1985
1986
10
3
4
3
8
5
+3
30.00
Manchester United
1986
Present
1,409
836
326
247
2,579
1,262
+1317
59.33
Total
2,064
1,194
478
392
3,829
1,891
+1938
57.85

On 11 October 1999, a special testimonial match was played in honour of Ferguson's contribution to the team. Manchester United played against a team dubbed "Rest of the World XI", managed by Ottmar Hitzfeld, with his team consisting of names such as Henrik Larsson, Gianluca Vialli, Cafu, Paul Gascoigne, George Weah, Peter Schmeichel and Eric Cantona, but with 20 minutes to go there was a mass substitution of their players, who were replaced by a former Manchester United XI; Peter Schmeichel, Paul Parker, Clayton Blackmore, Steve Bruce, Gary Pallister, Darren Ferguson, Mark Hughes, Lee Sharpe, and three number sevens: Bryan Robson, David Beckham and Eric Cantona. The World XI won the game 4–2. On 6th November 2011, when he completed twenty-five years in Old Trafford, the North stand was named after him.

Ferguson lives in Wilmslow, Cheshire, with his wife, Cathy Ferguson, Lady Ferguson. They married in 1966 and have three sons.

Sir Alex also having a fair share of controversies throughout his life but every successful man had a few or more. So, leave that few we awed by the man and his awesome achievements.

!!!Being a diehard MANUTD fan, looking forward to Sir Alex and many more silverwares!!!

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