Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney expresses desire to become a manager

Ambitions: Wayne Rooney wants to manage once he retires from playing football
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Vaishali Bhardwaj25 July 2016

Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney has revealed his desire to become a football manager once he retires from playing the game.

The 30-year-old admitted during a Facebook live Q&A session on Sunday that he wants to ply his trade as a coach once he hangs up his football boots, and revealed he has already begun taking his coaching badges.

"I would like to be manager when I finish playing," Rooney told his teammate Ashley Young, who was conducting the interview on Facebook.

"Football is what I've done my whole life. I'm currently in the process of taking my coaching badges so hopefully when I finish playing I'll have that complete."

"Hopefully one day a club will give me an opportunity to manage."

After then turning to Young, Rooney said: "If you get going with your badges you can come in and be one of my coaches."

"I might try that. Hear that? He just offered me a job," Young replied.

Rooney and his Manchester United teammates are currently in China where they played Borussia Dortmund in a pre-season friendly in Shanghai last week, but lost 4-1.

The Red Devils were scheduled to play rivals Manchester City at Beijing's National Stadium today but the match was cancelled following "extreme weather" conditions in the city, which saw heavy rain fall over two days.

The club will now turn their attentions to their next pre-season friendly against Turkish giants Galatasaray on 30 July in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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