A history in the Champions League was created in the 67th minute the match between Shakhtar Donetsk vs Manchester United on Thursday (3/10/2013) early morning hrs. Aging midfielder Manchester United , Ryan Giggs, made history by being the player who recorded the most appearances in the Champions League when he came on for Marouane Fellaini.
Giggs, who is now 39 years old, has played as many as 145 times in the prestigious tournament between European clubs. The record surpassing the previous record in the name of Raul Gonzalez with the amount of 144 matches.Raul himself could not regain gold record it because now he plays for Qatari club Al-Sadd.
Interestingly, Giggs claimed to not know that he has carved the gold ink. Giggs just grateful to win the Champions League twice and got a lot of special moments from this tournament.
"Really? Wow, I do not know about that record. This is a great tournament and I was lucky to win it two times and played in many memorable games, "said Giggs."There are a lot of great players in the history of this tournament and Raul stood there as one of the best. He has a great goalscoring record and won the tournament three times. If I can get past his record, then this is a matter of pride for me. "
Giggs himself a chance to carve figures 156 times in the Champions League with two conditions, namely United can reach the final round of the season and Giggs played in every game that traversed United.
Meanwhile, in the list of 10 players who had the most caps in the Champions League there are other names under Giggs and Raul, like Paolo Maldini (140), Xavi Hernandez (137), Clarence Seedorf (131), Paul Scholes (130), Iker Casillas (130), Roberto Carlos (128), Carles Puyol (118), and Andriy Shevchenko (116).
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