Sporty Towers! Giggs & Nev kick off posh hotel and cafe venture



Posted Saturday, July 06, 2013 by The Sun

Sporty Towers! Giggs & Nev kick off posh hotel and cafe venture
Soccer stars ... Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville

MANCHESTER United legends Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville are launching their own footie-themed hotels and cafes.

The ex-teammates open Café Football in London later this year — with Hotel Football launching in Manchester in 2014.

Giggs, 39 — made Red Devils player-coach yesterday — said: “We’ve stayed in lots of hotels as footballers and often felt that we could do a better job.

“We have lived and breathed every element of this for a considerable time now and have been involved in every detail, every step of the way.”

Café Football will open in November in Westfield Stratford, East London, next to the Olympic Park.

Sporty Towers! Giggs & Nev kick off posh hotel and cafe venture
Venture ... the Café Football will open in Westfield Stratford

And their £20million hotel will even have a 5-a-side pitch on the roof.

The 139-bedroom site is due to open in October 2014 near Old Trafford in a bid to attract fans.

Its website boasts: “Located on the doorstep of Old Trafford football stadium and the home of Manchester United, Hotel Football provides a relaxed, friendly and welcoming environment where people can come together to share a memorable and vibrant experience with football at its heart.”

There are plans to open cafes in other popular football cities such as Newcastle and Birmingham - and expand into the lucrative Far East hotel market.

Sporty Towers! Giggs & Nev kick off posh hotel and cafe venture
Fans ... the £20m hotel is due to open in October 2014 near Old Trafford

Neville, 38, who quit playing two years ago to turn pundit and coach, said the pair were “working with some of the best people in the business”.

He revealed the pair first planned branching out into hospitality five years ago - ahead of retiring from footie.

They have been backed in their new venture GG Hospitality by friends and other players, as well as wealthy businessmen from Singapore



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