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10 footballers who own a fancy restaurant – including Rio Ferdinand and Ryan Giggs
restaurants dotted all over the globe.It can be difficult to divide your time between top-flight football and making a go of it in the hospitality sector, and while some footballers have managed it, others have failed miserably.But if successful, the restaurants can turn into the town's hotspot attracting both famous and non-famous clientele.Though the game's top talent are paid handsomely for their efforts, the physical demands of the job means their shelf-life is significantly smaller than your average career - as a result, most footballers tend to put plans in place for what they can do once they hang their boots up - many opt to run a restaurant.Here are just ten footballers who have gone on to own restaurants either during or after