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Chelsea defender John Terry has worked hard on his fitness in the last few years and wants to have a long playing career like former Manchester United midfielder Ryan Giggs, the former England captain said. Giggs called time on a remarkable 23-year, trophy-laden United career at the age of 40 to take on the role of assistant manager to Louis van Gaal last year. The 34-year-old Terry played a big role in Chelsea’s title run last season and has no plans to stop anytime soon.
“In the last four or five years I’ve done a lot of extra work, not just at the training ground,” Terry told Sky Sports News.
“Putting the effort in the gym, training ground, off the pitch and eat the right food, I’m hoping to carry on as a long as possible. There’s an opportunity you see with players like Giggs of playing until a very big age.”
Terry quit international football in 2012 after the Football Association banned him for four matches when he was accused of making a racist remark to Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand. He was cleared of the allegation in a London court.  
The central defender believes quitting international football helped keep his fitness at a level where he was able to play every minute of the London club’s triumphant league season. Only four players, three of them goalkeepers, had previously featured in every game of a Premier League title-winning campaign before Terry.

Vietnam sponsor suffers big losses on Man City fixture
Vietnam suffered an 8-1 hammering at the hands of English outfit Manchester City last week but the sponsor of the glamour fixture suffered far bigger losses. Do Quang Hien, chairman of SHB Bank, said he spent “about 40 billion Vietnam dong” ($1.83 million) bringing the four-times English champions to Southeast Asia with much more going on security, medical and organisation of the game in Hanoi.
“Man City mentioned strict conditions in the contract, especially ‘force majeure’, which said that the match would be cancelled if any of their footballers were injured or sick,” Hien was quoted as saying by Vietnamnet.vn.
“They proposed that we should buy insurance for the match and my assistant was struggling to find an insurance partner in Asia, but failed.”
Despite the losses, Hien declared himself happy with the near sell-out fixture and believed it would help Vietnam in their World Cup qualifying bid.