Manchester United is an English Premier League Football club that was founded in 1878.It is the second most successful team in the history of English Football. Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, arrived in November 1986 and since then he won 20 important cups. Manchester United has won the Premier League 18 times and shares this record with Liverpool FC. Manchester United has over 449 million fans worldwide and this is by far more than any other football club.
The Manchester United colors are red-white-black. In 2005 the American business man Malcolm Glazer bought Manchester United for the impressive sum of 800 million pounds and he owns 75% of the shares now. The youth training program is recognized as one of the best in the world and the Manchester United youth team is one of the few that achieved a high European result. Manchester United is partner of UNICEF and ambassador of the UN Children’s Fund.
Manchester Stadium at Old Trafford
Manchester United plays their home games at Old Trafford in the Greater Manchester area. This stadium has a seat capacity of 76,212 and is the best visited stadium in the Premier League. The last capacity extension was to make the corners of the stadium higher, which resulted in an addition of 7,900 seats.
Plane crash disaster
The year 1958 is the black page in the history of Manchester United and English Football. Manchester United was returning from the match against Red Star Belgrade, when the plane crashed on the airfield of Munich. In total 22 people died and one of them was the biggest talent that Manchester had, Duncan Edwards. No one believed that Manchester would recover from this tragedy, but now the team seems stronger than ever.
You can still find a clock at Old Trafford that stands still at the date of the 6th of February 1958 as a remembrance of that dreadful day.
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