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The Red Devils will mark their famous season with a charity match at Old Trafford, and have recruited their legendary boss for the game.
Manchester United have confirmed that Sir Alex Ferguson will be back in the dugout for a special reunion match marking the 20th anniversary of the club's winning tripling campaign, the club said on its official website.
A Manchester United legends team, led by their legendary Scottish, will face Bayern Munich Legends at Old Trafford on May 26, in the wake of its famous 2-1 victory in the Champions League final that sealed its third trophy major of the 1998-99 season.
Funds raised will go to charities via the Manchester United Foundation.
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Ferguson left United at the end of the 2012-13 season, winning the Premier League – a feat the club has failed to achieve since his retirement.
The Red Devils remain the only English team to have managed to win the Premier League, a national cup and the Champions League, under the leadership of Scotsman.
The three-time winners lost only three times in the 1998-99 Premier League – far ahead of Arsenal and Sheffield on Wednesday and at home against Middlesborough – and were unbeaten after Boxing Day before beating the Gunners under one point. .
United's way to the FA Cup allowed them to face five Premier League rivals Middlesborough, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal, before beating Newcastle United 2-0 in the final thanks to goals from Teddy Sheringham and Paul Scholes .
Fulham was the only opposition from the lower league to be met, and they needed reruns to beat Chelsea and Arsenal, while Ryan Giggs scored the much-needed solo goal to defeat the Gunners after Peter Schmeichel avoided the Dennis penalty. Bergkamp. beyond 90 minutes.
Their Champions League win is probably their most famous triumph in the final, but they are part of the "death group" that included Bayern Munich and Barcelona despite four draws, before beating Italy's Inter and Juventus to reach the highest point against Bayern.
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Sheringham and United's current manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, scored 1-0 after 90 minutes and three minutes of time off. Both teams scored in the first and third minutes of play to seal a historic comeback and seal the triple.
The only disappointment for United in this famous season was their inability to turn the triple into a quad, after being eliminated in the fifth round of the League Cup by future winner, Tottenham Hotspur, after defeating Bury and Nottingham Forest during the two previous rounds.
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