Ryan Giggs and Gianluigi Buffon have joined a UEFA initiative aimed at helping children with dictation. The Champions Teachers scheme includes former Manchester United and Wales midfielder Giggs, Juventus stopper Buffon, as well as Bayern Munich goalkeeper Laura Benkarth and former France international Christian Karembeu.
Each star has read an excerpt of text out loud and children have been challenged to transcribing the words to work on their spelling and grammar, with the English, French, German and Italian languages all covered.
Giggs chose to read a passage from The BFG by Roald Dahl, which he mentions as being one of his favourites when he was growing up.