Paul Scholes is an English football coach and former player. He spent his entire professional playing career with Manchester United. Scholes made 718 appearances for United, the third-highest number of appearances by any player for the club. With United, Scholes won 25 trophies including 11 Premier League titles and two UEFA Champions League titles. He represented the England national team from 1997 to 2004, gaining 66 caps and participating in the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, as well as the UEFA Euro 2000 and Euro 2004 tournaments.
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Paul Scholes is an English football coach and former player. He spent his entire professional playing career with Manchester United. Scholes made 718 appearances for United, the third-highest number of appearances by any player for the club. With United, Scholes won 25 trophies including 11 Premier League titles and two UEFA Champions League titles. In 2008, he was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame. He also served as interim manager of Salford City in October 2020. His first managerial position was at Oldham Athletic, for 31 days in February and March 2019. He played for Manchester United from 1993 to 2013. He represented the England national team from 1997 to 2004, gaining 66 caps and participating in the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, as well as the UEFA Euro 2000 and Euro 2004 tournaments. Regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of his generation, over his career Scholes has received praise from various managers and players, including Xavi, who said in 2014 that Scholes was the best central midfielder he had seen in the previous 15 to 20 years. He is also a co-owner of Manchester United’s Premier League rivals, Manchester City. He has also been a director of Manchester City, Liverpool, Aston Villa, Fulham and West Bromwich Albion, among other clubs. He was named in the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards Domestic & Overall Team of the Decade in 2008, and was named Player of the Year for the 2010-11 season by the Football Writers’ Association of America.
He retired from playing in May 2011 and was appointed as a coach at Manchester United, but returned to playing in January 2012, and went on to play one more season for United before retiring again in May 2013. His last game for United was in the FA Cup final against Everton, which he came on as a substitute in. He came close to scoring twice late in the game, only to be foiled both times by Neville Southall both times. He became the first English team to win the double double twice – Premier League winners in 1996–97 – and Premier League runners-up in 1996-97 – this season. In 1996, he changed his shirt number to 18 – which he held for the next 15 years – and scored 14 goals in all competitions as United won the English Premier League double. He made his debut for United in the 1994–95 season, where he scored both goals in a 2–1 victory over Port Vale in the Football League Cup. His league debut came three days later against Ipswich Town at Portman Road, a game which United lost 3–2 and Scholes scored a consolation goal. In 1995–96, after Mark Hughes moved to Chelsea, he picked up the number 18 – he held the number for 15 years. In January 1995, he got onto the scoresheet at Old Trafford for the first time with the opener in 2–0 league win over Coventry City. He scored once more, in a 3-2 away win over Coventry City, on 1 May 1995.
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