Former Manchester United star and Wales manager Ryan Giggs has been charged with assaulting 2 women

• British soccer legend Ryan Giggs has been charged with assaulting two women, the BBC reports.
• Prosecutors accuse Giggs of causing bodily harm to a woman in her 30s and assaulting a woman in her 20s.
• Giggs is one of British football's greatest ever players, having played 963 times for Manchester United.

Wales manager and former Manchester United star Ryan Giggs has been charged with assaulting two women, according to the BBC.

Prosecutors accuse Giggs of causing bodily harm to a woman in her 30s and assaulting a woman in her 20s at an address in Salford, UK, on November 1, 2020.

The soccer legend was also charged with coercive or controlling behavior between December 2017 and last November.

He has been granted bail and will appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court on 28 April.

In a brief statement Friday afternoon, Giggs said he will plead not guilty to the charges. "I look forward to clearing my name," he said, according to UK new agency, the Press Association.

Giggs played his entire professional career with Manchester United and is one of the winningest footballers of his generation, securing over a dozen Premier League titles, four FA Cup championships and two Champions League titles.

He also holds the record for the most assists in Premier League history with 162, and is second in terms of overall appearances in the league. He played 963 times for Manchester United, the most games of any player in club history by more than 200.

He retired in 2014 and was appointed manager of the Wales international team in 2018.