‘My kids needed me’, says Rio Ferdinand as Man Utd icon shares heartbreaking reason for turning back on management dream [Video]

RIO FERDINAND has revealed the heartbreaking reason he could not pursue his management dream.

The Manchester United and England legend retired in 2015 and began taking his coaching badges.

He even did so alongside the likes of Wayne Rooney, Michael Carrick and John O’Shea, all ex-United stars who have gone on to coach.

But, in the same year Ferdinand hung up his boots, his wife Rebecca sadly passed away following a battle with breast cancer at the age of just 34.

She left behind the couple’s three young children Lorenz, Tate, and Tia.

And Ferdinand admits it was for that reason that he could not commit to management.

He said on The Overlap podcast: “I was doing my badges. I wanted to be a coach, manager 100 per cent.

“Me, Wayne, Michael, Sheasy, they’ve all done management now, I was on the same course as them.

“But obviously, …