Pontio have announced a special evening with Wales football manager and former Manchester United player Ryan Giggs on Tuesday 21 January.

 

 

Ian Gwyn Hughes, Head of Communications at the Football Association of Wales, will be in conversation with Ryan Giggs to discuss is illustrious career and transition into management.

Ryan will look back over the Euro 2020 qualification campaign, securing a qualification spot in the last match of the group and leading the country to a major finals tournament for only the third time in over 60 years. With five months until the opening Euro 2020 game in Baku, Ryan will discuss his preparations and hopes to replicate the success of the summer of 2016.

It promises to be a thoroughly entertaining evening looking back at Ryan’s fondest memories of his career so far.

In addition to the conversation between the two, audience members will get an opportunity to pose questions to the Wales manager during the evening.

During his time at Manchester United, Ryan Giggs won 13 Premier League winner’s medals, four FA Cup winner’s medals, three League Cup winner’s medals, two UEFA Champions League winner’s medals.

Giggs captained United on numerous occasions, particularly in the 2007–08 season when regular captain Gary Neville was ruled out with various injuries.

Ryan Giggs also has a number of personal achievements. He was the first player in history to win two consecutive PFA Young Player of the Year awards (1992 and 1993), though he did not win the PFA Player of the Year award until 2009. He was the only player to play in each of the first 22 seasons of the Premier League, as well as the only player to score in each of the first 21 seasons.

He was named as BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2009. In addition to the many honours Giggs has received within football, he was appointed an OBE in the Queen’s 2007 Birthday Honours List for his services to football.

At international level, Giggs played for the Wales national team 64 times between 1991 and 2007, and was named as the captain of the Great Britain team that competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He is one of only 28 players to have made over 1,000 career appearances.

Giggs was appointed manager of the Wales national team on 15 January 2018, succeeding Chris Coleman, who had left the role to take up the manager’s position at Sunderland the previous November. Giggs successfully led Wales to qualify for Euro 2020, following a 2–0 win over Hungary in their final encounter on 19 November 2019.

An evening with Ryan Giggs
Tuesday 21 January 7pm
Theatr Bryn Terfel

Tickets go on sale on Thursday 9 January at 10am via the Pontio Website
Adults £10 / Under 16s £5

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