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Schalke 04 striker, Raul Gonzalez, has hailed the Manchester United duo of Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes and regards them as one of the best midfielders of the present decade. The former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Spain-c3011 international was talking ahead of the first leg of Schalke’s UEFA
Champions League semi-final clash against Manchester United. The match is to take place on Tuesday, April 26 at Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen.
Raul claimed that both the footballers are real professionals and hard workers and he admired the efforts of the pair, who are still as active as an eighteen-year-old. Ryan Giggs is currently 37 and Paul Scholes is 36.
He further added, "[Ryan] Giggs and [Paul] Scholes are players for whom I have an enormous admiration. What we have in common is that we love this profession. Football is our lives. They are great professionals who look after themselves and who train properly.
For Giggs to still be playing at this level at 37 years of age is incredible. I would love to swap shirts with Giggs after the game. It would be a great honour to have that shirt."
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Gonzalez-c15099 further commented that he is more than happy at Schalke and doesn’t have to bear the amount of pressure which he had to do in his Madrid days. Raul came through the youth ranks of Real Madrid and made his debut for the senior side in 1994 against
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ivan-c17215 Zamorano and impressed one and all with his performance.
The Spaniard added that his life at Madrid was not very simple and he was always under pressure to perform because of the bench strength that Real had. He seemed delighted with his stay in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Germany-c2904 and admitted that his work load over here is nearly half
of that which he had to go through in Madrid. He also added that this has allowed him to concentrate on his game and play freely and in an attacking manner.
He concluded by saying, "My life has always been about playing and all the rest of it did not really interest me. I came to realise that when you don't do those other things, you save your energy for what counts and what you really love to do, which is playing.
Then your career goes that bit longer."
Schalke 04 are currently 10th in the Bundesliga with 40 points and only look good to finish somewhere in the top half of the table.
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