Valencia Handed Number Seven Shirt

Ant­o­nio Valencia

Manchester United flank­man Ant­o­nio Valen­cia has been handed the legendary num­ber seven shirt by Old Traf­ford boss Sir Alex Fer­guson ahead of the 2012–13 sea­son. The iconic num­ber seven jer­sey has pre­vi­ously been worn by foot­balling greats like George Best, Eric Can­tona, David Beck­ham and Cris­ti­ano Ron­aldo over the years.

The Manchester United speed mer­chant has revealed to the press that he is both grate­ful and humbled by the Old Traf­ford club´s con­fid­ence in him after he was offered the num­ber seven jer­sey by man­ager Sir Alex Fer­guson. Ant­o­nio Valencia´s old num­ber 25 shirt, by the way, was given to Nick Pow­ell who arrived from Crewe Alex­an­dra just a few weeks ago. Ant­o­nio Valen­cia: “I am excited to be wear­ing the num­ber seven shirt in the com­ing sea­son. It is a num­ber I really respect because so many great play­ers have worn the shirt and made his­tory for Manchester United in it. Now I hope I can write my own. It is a new adven­ture but it is some­thing I am very relaxed about and also humbled by.”

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