Article: Football: Giggs is planning Italian conquest

RYAN GIGGS is aiming to create another miracle to end an incredible season. He is in Italy, planning to reproduce some of the skill that helped Manchester United to the treble - and, in doing so, nail the theory that playing for Wales is way down his list of priorities.

Giggs arrived in Bologna yesterday unheralded and virtually ignored with the rest of the Welsh squad who play Italy on Saturday in a Euro 2000 Group One match vital to both sides' chances of qualification. But, so preoccupied are the Italian press with their own team, that not one of them chose to attend a Wales media day at Bobby Gould's training camp in Riccione.

It will be Giggs' first international for Wales since ...

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