"In light of this decision, the FAW can confirm that Robert Page will assume the role of men’s national team manager for this summer’s Euro 2020 tournament and will be assisted by Albert Stuivenberg. "The Football Association of Wales has noted the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service to proceed with charging Ryan Giggs, the men’s national team manager," the FAW affirmed in a statement released shortly after the CPS announced its intent to charge the former United star. Officers were called by two women, one of who received treatment for injuries. The charges relate to an incident to which police were called towards the end of 2020 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Giggs, 47, was also charged with a single count of coercive and controlling behaviour. He became the most successful manager in Welsh football history when he guided the country to the semi-finals of Euro 2016 - Wales’s first major tournament for 58 years - only to suffer the heartache of missing out on the World Cup.Wales have confirmed that their manager, ex-Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs, will not be in charge of the national team at Euro 2020 after being charged with assault and actual bodily harm on Friday. That ended a long association with the club where he made a record 963 appearances as a player, scoring 168 goals.Ĭoleman spent nearly six years as Wales manager before leaving to take over relegation-threatened Sunderland in November. He spent two seasons as Louis van Gaal’s assistant coach, but he left Old Trafford in the summer of 2016 following Jose Mourinho’s appointment as manager. Giggs, who won 64 Wales caps between 19, has been out of football for 18 months since leaving the coaching staff at Manchester United. The FAW was keen to make the appointment before the UEFA Nations League draw, which takes place in Switzerland on January 24. Giggs’s contract, which will reportedly take him up to the 2022 World Cup, was tied up over the weekend. Giggs was interviewed last week along with former international team-mate Craig Bellamy and Osian Roberts, Coleman’s former assistant who is also the FAW’s technical director.įormer Wales defender Mark Bowen was also interviewed after leaving his role as Stoke’s assistant manager a few days earlier. (Read | Luis Suarez scripts Barcelona fightback versus Real Sociedad in La Liga) Giggs, 44, has been the clear favourite for the Wales job since he declared his interest last month, saying: “I’ve played for Wales and I’ve said that I want to go back into coaching. This will be Giggs’s first full-time job as a manager, although he was in caretaker charge of United for four games at the end of the 2013/14 season after David Moyes was sacked. (Read | Former England footballer Cyrille Regis dies aged 59) Giggs’ first fixture in charge of Wales will be in the 2018 China Cup against the hosts in Nanning on March 22. “I can’t wait to start working with the players as we prepare for those crucial games later in the year.” “The challenges that we have ahead of us with the Nations League and qualification for UEFA EURO 2020 excite me a great deal. (Read | Premier League strugglers Stoke City appoint Paul Lambert as manager) “I am so proud to have been given the honour of managing the National Team,” said Giggs in a FAW statement. It will be Giggs’s first permanent managerial post and he succeeds fellow former Wales international Chris Coleman, who bowed out after the national side failed to qualify for this year’s World Cup finals in Russia and now manages English Championship side Sunderland. (Read | French referee provisionally suspended for kicking out at Nantes’ Diego Carlos) The FAW confirmed Giggs’ appointment via its official Twitter feed with a short film of a Wales shirt having the name ‘Giggs’ pressed into it, with an accompanying caption of #CroesoGiggsy (Welcome Giggsy). Manchester United great Ryan Giggs has been named as the manager of the Wales football team following Chris Coleman’s resignation.(AFP) Former Manchester United great Ryan Giggs has been appointed as the new manager of Wales, the Football Association of Wales announced Monday.
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