Gary Neville: footballer and coach

English defender Gary Neville is one of six graduates of the academy of Manchester United, who have achieved the most exorbitant heights in a professional career. Together with David Beckham, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, Nicky Bat and his own brother Phil, he is a member of the legendary "Class-92". It is noteworthy that for his sports career, the footballer defended the colors of only one club, and this of all six graduates was able to only three.

Leadership

Gary Neville admits that, unlike his partners, he did not have the special talent and skill. The athlete compensated for the lack of well-defined strikes, high-speed qualities, dribbling and breathtaking feints with iron will, efficiency and irrepressible diligence. His partners said that when the next training session of Manchester United was over, he and his brother Phil continued to work out punches and combinations.

In addition, Gary Neville has always been a leader in the field and in the locker room. He had a colossal influence on the partners, and sometimes even forced to work up to the seventh sweat. As a defender, it was easy for him to observe the placement on the football field. So he learned to calculate combinations, to anticipate events, and, if necessary, always insured his partners.

The most outstanding achievements

The hero of our today's publication is Neville Gary. Footballer for his sports career was able to win 20 trophies, including 8 titles of the champion of the Premier League and 2 Champions League Cups. The happiest moment in his career as a former defender is the victory in the UEFA Champions League in 1999. The final in Barcelona, where Manchester United met and Bayern Munich, is recognized by many experts as one of the most dizzying moviebacks in the history of football. Then the mankunians managed to recoup, and then wrest victory in the compensated three minutes of the meeting.

Six years with a captain's armband in a great club

As we have already said, Gary Neville was a leader and had an influence on his partners. However, the captain in the club, he did not immediately. The "Red Devils" have always had many charismatic and odious leaders. Take, for example, Roy Keane, who left the club in 2005 because of a conflict with the manager, Alex Ferguson.

From now until the end of his career in 2011, the captain's armband in the great club was rightfully owned by Gary. It is worth noting that indefatigable diligence helped the football player to become what he had become. Sir Alex Ferguson in his memoirs admitted that he considers his ward the best right-back among footballers of his generation.

End of career, coaching license

In recent years, the sports career of a football player has been traumatized. Therefore, he decided not to waste time and received a coaching license. Asked if he would like to get up at the helm of his own club, Neville usually answered in the negative. Most likely, he represented the entire degree of responsibility that could lie on his shoulders. Soon, Roy Hodgson, the coach of the England national team, invited the ex-football player to his headquarters as an assistant. At the moment, despite the existence of another work (Gary Neville - coach of the Spanish "Valencia"), he remains an ally in the English national team.

Scandalous work on television and participation in a business project

Sharp on the language and well versed in all the intricacies of football, Gary liked the management of the Sky Sport channel. They invited him as an expert and promised a multimillion-dollar contract. Neville did not regret the rebuke of the club Manchester United, which was under construction after the departure of Sir Alex Ferguson. It was on the nuts and other clubs, experiencing bad times.

In parallel, he, along with other members of the "Class-92" Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes, made an unprecedented decision to buy out the Manchester team "Salford City", floundering in the lower leagues of the championship. The plans of outstanding football players are grandiose: they want to bring the team to a higher level and make the whole country talk about a modest club. One of the shareholders of the project was Singaporean entrepreneur Peter Lim, who also owns the Spanish "Valencia".

From football experts to head coaches

That's why, when Peter Lim invited to head the Spanish club, not a minute did not think about Gary Neville. "Valencia" in the 2015-2016 season is going through bad times. For a long time forgotten ambitious plans for getting into the zone of the Champions League. The team can not find its own game. Many experts argue that Neville's decision to leave work on television and to lead such a large club was hasty.

The beginning coach has practically no independent experience, hence the disappointing results so far. However, his contract is only for the period until May 2016. How to know, maybe, then Gary Neville will return to television again? And then vindictive colleagues will remember the sharp-tongued expert with his own coaching failures.