Juan Direction as pop star meets United aces
IT’S already full of illustrious names but one of the world’s most famous pop stars sprinkled a bit more stardust on the Manchester United dressing room. One Direction singer
Niall Horan was a guest of the club at their friendly against Paris Saint Germain in Chicago last night.
And despite slipping to a 2-0 defeat in the showpiece friendly, several of the squad took time out to meet the 21-year-old afterwards.
He was invited in the team dressing room where he chatted to skipper Wayne Rooney and midfielder Juan
Mata. He also met, and posed for pictures with assistant boss Ryan Giggs and Reds legend Bryan
Robson.
That was before being presented with a special shirt with the name of the smash hit band printed on the back.
Niall, from Ireland, has previously indicated he is a Derby County fan but has sported a number of football shirts.
And he seemed delighted with the welcome tweeting: “Went to man Utd and PSG tonight, thanks to the people @ManUtd for really looking after us, appreciate it! Safe trip home.”
He also posted pictures with PSG’s David Luiz calling the former Chelsea defender ‘the funniest man in football’.
One Direction are currently on a tour of the US and Canada playing 23 dates and also caught United’s friendly with Club America in Seattle a fortnight ago. At the time,
Louis Van Gaal hit out at the state of the pitch at the CenturyLink Field in Seattle, after the band played a concert there two days before.
He said: “Old Trafford is used for football only, not One Direction concerts. Here it’s used for entertainment things. The facilities generally are fantastic. They could not be better. But we have to play football on such a pitch. We could not do that and that’s important.”