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Manchester United Football Club,some call it The Red Devils, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath L YR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910. Manchester United’s home, Old Trafford is called Theatre of Dreams. It can hold 75,635 people watching the game at the same time.Manchester United's first trophy was the Manchester Cup. Manchester United won the most trophies in the 1990s. Manchester United have won 20 league titles, the most of any English club,a joint-record 11 FA Cups, four League Cups, and a record 20 FA Community Shields. The club has also won three European Cups, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, one UEFA Super Cup, one Intercontinental Cup, and one FIFA Club World Cup. In 1998–1999, the club achieved a treble of the Premier League, the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League.The 1958 Munich air disaster claimed the lives of eight players. In 1968, under the management of Matt Busby, Manchester United was the first English football club to win the European Cup. Alex Ferguson won 28 major honours between 1986 and 2013, when he announced his retirement.Louis van Gaal was appointed as the club's new manager after Ferguson's successor David Moyes was sacked after only 10 months in charge.Manchester United is the second-richest football club in the world for 2013–2014 in terms of revenue, with an annual revenue of €518 million, and the world's second most valuable sports team in 2013, valued at $3.165 billion.It is one of the most widely supported football teams in the world.The 1998–1999 season was the most successful season in the history of Manchester United Football Club.After finishing the previous season without winning any titles, United won a treble of trophies (the Premier League, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League), the first side in English football to achieve such a feat.记忆犹新Process is tortuous.Group stage,United were drawn in Group D, quickly labelled the competition's "group of death", along with Spanish club Barcelona, German champions Bayern Munich and Danish side Brøndby.United was defeated by Bayern Munich twice, home and away. Results in the other groups meant that a second-place finish was enough for United to progress into the quarter-finals.Exactly, MU won the second place.In the knockout stage ,MU beat 2 Italian club:Internazionale and Juventus.A free kick after six minutes opened the scoring for Bayern Munich. The score of 1:0 lasted almost 90 minutes.In reaction to going a goal down, Ferguson substituted in Solskjær and Sheringham. As the game went to injury time, the referee indicated that three minutes would be played. In almost the last attack of the game, United won a corner, which Beckham took and goalkeeper Schmeichel went up front for. The ball was partially cleared by the Bayern defence before being played back to Giggs, who sent a low volley into the path of Sheringham, whose scuffed shot squeezed low inside the post.Almost immediately after the equaliser United won another corner, again taken by Beckham. He landed the ball on the head of Sheringham who nodded it to Solskjær who in turn toe-poked it into the roof of the net. United had completed the come-back. Bayern barely had time to restart the game, which referee brought to a close just a few seconds later.Manchester United became the first English team to win the European Cup (first in its Champions League format), since Liverpool took the title in 1984 defeating Roma on penalties.人物Sir Alexander Ferguson, born 31 December 1941, is a Scottish former football manager and player who managed Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. His time at the club has led to Ferguson being regarded as one of the most successful, admired and respected managers in the history of the game.He was knighted in the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honours list, for his services to the game.In 2008, he became the third British manager to win the European Cup on more than one occasion.On 8 May 2013, Ferguson announced his retirement as manager of Manchester United. During his 26 years at the club, he won 38 trophies, including 13 Premier League and two UEFA Champions League titles.数字Number 7 is a special number for Manchester United.It has a special historic significance for the club because it represents the soul of the team.A couple of famous and successful players have worn it.For example 1990's "The King" Cantona, David Beckham, Cristiano Ronaldo who breaks the world transfer fee record of £80 million moving to Real Madrid before the 2009/10 season.Their presence makes No. 7 become a legend. Now, Argentina winger Ángel Di María has become the new owner of the No. 7.地方Old Trafford is a football stadium in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, and the home of Manchester United. With a capacity of 75,635, it is the second-largest football stadium in the United Kingdom after Wembley Stadium in London,and the ninth-largest in Europe. It is about 0.5 miles (800 m) from Old Trafford Cricket Ground and the adjacent tram station.It was broke ground in 1909, and it opeded 19 February 1910. It cost £90,000. It was designed by Archibald Leitch.It was called the Theatre of Dreams by Bobby Charlton.The team's never-say-die attitude, instilled in previous seasons, was key to their success as the players often thrived in difficult situations. The highlight was United's dramatic comeback in the Champions League final, when Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjær each scored in injury time to overturn Bayern Munich's first-half lead.。
