The tragic Munich Air Catastrophe of 1958 devastated that nice workforce, however United’s growth of younger gamers continued. By the Nineteen Sixties, George Greatest, Nobby Stiles, David Sadler and extra emerged, and when United turned the primary English workforce to carry the European Cup in 1968, all 4 targets in opposition to Benfica had been netted by homegrown gamers.
By way of the many years, United’s repute for youth soccer has endured. Within the ’70s, got here Sammy McIlroy and Arthur Albiston; within the Eighties, Mark Hughes and Norman Whiteside; within the ’90s, the well-known Class of ’92, which included three of our all-time prime 10 look makers, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Gary Neville. Many others additionally broke via and, whereas they may not be family names like Giggs, Scholes and Neville, they achieved the dream of thousands and thousands: pulling on the purple shirt in a aggressive first-team fixture.
Lately, Marcus Rashford and Scott McTominay have helped to proceed the run. And solely final season, we lifted a record-extending eleventh FA Youth Cup title by beating Nottingham Forest. Two members of that workforce, Alejandro Garnacho and Charlie McNeill, have already featured for our first XI, with the previous incomes the Man of the Match award Sheriff Tiraspol on Thursday, in our closing sport earlier than the landmark.
