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The Manchester United Football Club is an English football club, from the city of Manchester. It is one of the most successful of the country has even seen as the most popular in the world to have about 330 million followers (equivalent to almost 5% of the population). [1] [2] He has also had the highest average attendance in English football over the past 50 years. [3] Among its main achievements is to have won the Premier League 17 times, FA Cup at 11, League Cup and Champions League UEFA 3 each, and the Cup Winners Cup once. Furthermore, it is the only English club to become world club champions, winning the Intercontinental Cup in 1999, defeating then-champion of America, Palmeiras.
Although it was founded as a member of the Premier League in 1992, while from 1975 he began playing in the top flight of English football, the club was originally born as Newton Heath (L & YR) FC in 1878, equipment the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway depot, located in Newton Heath. After being close to bankruptcy in 1902, JH Davies took over the club and changed the name, calling Manchester United. Its headquarters, the Old Trafford stadium was bombed during the Second World War by prompting the club to seek charity from their neighbors, then famous, Manchester City, who allowed them to play at Maine Road for a while. The United appointed Sir Matt Busby as coach after the Second World War and its policy, then unheard-of promotion most of the players of the club's youth team was very successful, winning the League in 1956 1957. This success was a stop on the way to the Munich air disaster of 1958, in which eight players on the team were killed and two other players abandoraron the team due to their injuries in the accident. It was thought that this would be the end of the club, but instead were able to recover from the tragic accident winning the league in 1965 and 1967 and the European Cup in 1968.
The club again had no success until the 90's, when Alex Ferguson guided the team to victory in eight league championships in eleven years, most recently in the UEFA Champions League and FA Premier League season 2007-08. In 1999, Manchester United became the only team to win the UEFA Champions League, the FA Premier League and FA Cup in the same season.
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