Archive for March, 2010

Franz Beckenbauer

Franz Beckenbauer is the only man to have won the World Cup both as a player and as a manager. His roll of honour is unique. Captain of West Germany when they won the World Cup and the European Championship, he also led his club, Bayern Munich, to three successive European Cups and also to [...]

Category: Legend,Player, posted at: Mar 30th 2010, Comments: No Comments
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Giuseppe Meazza

Giuseppe “Peppino” Meazza (23 August 1910 – 21 August 1979) also known as il “Balilla”, Peppin in the Milanese dialect, and sometimes just Pepp, was an Italian footballer playing mainly for Inter in the 1930s, scoring 243 goals in 361 games for the club. He is still considered by many to be one of the [...]

Category: Legend,Player, posted at: Mar 25th 2010, Comments: No Comments
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Bobby Carlton

Sir Robert “Bobby” Charlton CBE (born 11 October 1937 in Ashington, Northumberland) is an English former professional football player who won the World Cup and was named the European Footballer of the Year in 1966. He played almost all of his club football at Manchester United, where he became renowned for his attacking instincts from [...]

Category: Legend,Player, posted at: Mar 22nd 2010, Comments: No Comments
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Lev Yashin

Lev Ivanovich Yashin (Russian: Лев Ива́нович Я́шин) (22 October 1929 – 20 March 1990) was a Russian-Soviet football goalkeeper, considered by many to be the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the game.[2] He was known for his superior athleticism in goal, imposing stature, amazing reflex saves and inventing the idea of goalkeeper sweeping[citation needed]. [...]

Category: Legend,Player, posted at: Mar 16th 2010, Comments: No Comments
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Real Madrid C.F.

Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (Spanish pronunciation: [reˈal maˈðɾið ˈkluβ ðe ˈfuðβol]), commonly known as Real Madrid (and in Spain, in football circles, simply as el Madrid), is a professional association football club based in Madrid, Spain.

Category: Club, posted at: Mar 16th 2010, Comments: No Comments
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Pele

Edison Arantes do Nascimento,[6] KBE (born 23 October 1940, Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil), best known by his nickname Pelé (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [peˈlɛ], usual English pronunciation: /ˈpɛleɪ/) is a retired Brazilian football player. While his birth certificate shows his first name as Edison, and he prefers to call himself Edson[citation needed], it is as [...]

Category: Legend,Player, posted at: Mar 15th 2010, Comments: No Comments
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