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UK police to charge former football star Ryan Giggs with assault

Former Manchester United manager Louis Van Gaal (R) and his former assistant Ryan Giggs react during their English Premier League soccer match against Leicester City at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, northern England September 21, 2014. [REUTERS/Darren Staples]

British police have been authorised to charge former Manchester United soccer star Ryan Giggs, who is also the current manager of the Wales national soccer team, with charges of assault against two women, prosecutors said in a statement on Friday.

Giggs faces charges of engaging in behaviour which was controlling or coercive and of assault occasioning actual bodily harm against one woman, as well as another charge of assault by beating relating to a second woman.

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