Wayne Rooney’s glittering spell at Manchester United produced 5 Premier League titles, a Champions League crown and a haul of unforgettable targets.
However based on the membership’s report scorer, the key ingredient behind Sir Alex Ferguson’s dominant facet wasn’t ways or coaching – it was taking part in on the PlayStation.
Talking on his BBC podcast The Wayne Rooney Present, the 38-year-old revealed that a lot of the workforce’s bond was cast not on the pitch, however on the street. The gamers usually performed SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs on the PlayStation Transportable, turning lengthy journeys into fierce five-versus-five battles.
“I actually consider a giant a part of our success was taking part in on the PSP,” Rooney mentioned. “It acquired us speaking extra.
“We used to play it on the airplane, on the workforce bus,” he defined. “It might be me, Rio [Ferdinand], Michael Carrick, John O’Shea, Wes Brown. You must speak, it’s a must to tactically be proper, go and revive individuals once they get killed, and it was an enormous a part of our success. Ask any of these gamers – it was good.”
Rooney added that his teammates’ types within the sport typically mirrored their personalities on the pitch.
“Michael Carrick was just a little sneaky, calm one. You’d be mendacity down hiding and all of the sudden hear a grenade bounce close by – he’d thrown it,” he mentioned. “I used to be simply all in, frontline of the trenches, straight in there.”
So whereas Ferguson’s legendary management and the squad’s high quality stay undisputed, Rooney insists that SOCOM and the PlayStation could have performed an underrated function in creating one in all soccer’s most dominant dynasties.
Who’d have thought?
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