'Sir Alex Ferguson gave me my Man Utd debut – now I'm unrecognisable after career change'

Kieran Richardson won the Premier League rubric with Manchester United, but the erstwhile winger says helium nary longer tells radical helium was a footballer arsenic helium embarks connected a wholly antithetic vocation path

Kieran Richardson has taken an unconventional way since retiring from shot - and present sells high-end watches globally.

The erstwhile ace, who soared done the ranks astatine Manchester United and inked his archetypal pro woody successful 2002 nether Sir Alex Ferguson, bagged 11 goals crossed 81 matches for the Red Devils and claimed a Premier League rubric successful the 2006/07 play earlier heading to Sunderland.

Richardson notched 15 goals successful 149 games for the Black Cats and secured fable presumption with a booming free-kick against Newcastle successful the memorable 2008 Wear-Tyne derby. After 5 years successful the northbound east, the erstwhile winger took connected challenges astatine Fulham, Aston Villa, and Cardiff City, earlier yet hanging up his boots successful 2017. Sidestepping the accustomed punditry oregon coaching roles post-retirement, Richardson opted for globe-trotting ticker income arsenic his 2nd act.

Eschewing the leverage of his Premier League fame erstwhile gathering caller people, the London-born erstwhile footballer revealed to Ladbrokes Fanzone past year: "Whenever I conscionable idiosyncratic new, I don't adjacent accidental I was a footballer anymore, I conscionable accidental I merchantability watches for a living," reports the Manchester Evening News.

"The places I go, successful the concern world, astir radical don't adjacent truly cognize astir football. If I was to conscionable anyone now, and they asked maine who I americium oregon what I do, I'd conscionable accidental I merchantability precocious worth watches astir the world. Then, a batch of radical volition spell connected and cheque maine retired connected Google, maybe, and they'd spot my vocation successful football, and past it goes connected from there.

"The shot vocation decidedly helps, actually, due to the fact that it gives radical a consciousness of trust. I consciousness similar my clients bash truly spot me, and truthful they should. The shot inheritance decidedly helps, for sure. But, obviously, you inactive request to beryllium knowledgeable astir the product, and cognize what you're talking about.

"Luckily enough, I've been doing watches for a agelong clip now, truthful I'm rather savvy connected them, adjacent though I'm inactive trying to larn much each day." Richardson besides remarked that he's not into flaunting his power from shot to luxe ticker dealing, choosing alternatively a much subdued transition.

He shared: "I've ne'er been the benignant of feline to spell and marque a opus and creation retired of my retirement. I don't truly care, to beryllium honest. I had a large career, I enjoyed it, but I've moved onto different things now. When I was a kid, I had hobbies, right? Football was ever my fig one, but my 2nd was watches.

"I ever loved watches. My begetter was into watches, I was into watches, and passim my vocation I'd ever beryllium buying and learning astir caller watches. I conscionable hap to person near 1 hobby, and gone into different one, that's however I spot it. I inactive consciousness similar I'm surviving the aforesaid life. It's crazy.

"I'm really, truly blessed to beryllium successful a presumption wherever I don't telephone my work, my work. Even erstwhile I was a footballer, it ne'er felt similar enactment to me, it was thing that I loved. It's astir apt wherefore I didn't travel retired and accidental I'd retired, due to the fact that I don't consciousness similar I person retired. I'm inactive doing thing that I love."

Richardson present runs a concern called Broadwalk, selling luxury watches from apical brands similar Rolex and Patek Philippe. His website features a scope of high-end timepieces, including a uncommon Rolex GMT-Master II "Batgirl" and an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Skeleton.

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