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Forlan
Pablo Forlan represented Uruguay 17 times. He won 7 league championships with 3 different clubs: Peñarol (1964, 1965, 1967, 1968), Nacional (1978) and Defensor (1980, 1982) With Peñarol he also won the 1966 Copa Libertadores and Intercontinental Cup.
9.3.14
Chirola
3 of his 10 Argentina caps came at the 1974 World Cup, where he scored his only international goals, 2 versus Haiti.
8.3.14
In the names written in gold in the history of our sport there is a special place for Alfredo Di Stefano
In the seasons 1955-56 to 1959-60 Alfredo Di Stefano won 5 European Cups with Real Madrid. He scored in each of the 5 finals (3 goals in 1960) and during the 5 campaigns scored a total of 36 goals.
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6.3.14
George Best in Division 4...
When George Best was a young star with Manchester United he would often go to Edgeley Park to watch Stockport County (Friday Night is County Night! went the slogan).
Best probably didn't expect to ever appear for County.
After much controversy he eventually left United in 1974. His career thereafter was a strange succession of brief affiliations with clubs as diverse as Los Angeles Aztecs and Nuneaton Borough.
Stockport County were 16th in Division 4 when George Best joined them in November 1975. He played 3 games for County, during which they dropped one place in the league.
Best probably didn't expect to ever appear for County.
After much controversy he eventually left United in 1974. His career thereafter was a strange succession of brief affiliations with clubs as diverse as Los Angeles Aztecs and Nuneaton Borough.
Stockport County were 16th in Division 4 when George Best joined them in November 1975. He played 3 games for County, during which they dropped one place in the league.
Best's debut came on 28.11.75- a Friday of course, 9,000 people present to see County beat visitors Swansea City (including current assistant manger Alan Curtis) 3-2. Best scored the opener.
Only 4,755 saw Best's next game- a 2-2 draw at home to Watford. Best scored County's second goal.
Boxing day saw County win 1-0 at home to Southport, 6,321 on hand to see Mick Hollis get the winner in Best's final appearance at Edgeley Park.
28.2.14
Ballon D'Or 1970-1989
1970- Gerd Müller Bayern Munich & West Germany
1971- Johan Cruyff Ajax & Netherlands
1972- Franz Beckenbauer Bayern Munich & West Germany
1973- Johan Cruyff Barcelona & Netherlands
1974- Johan Cruyff Barcelona & Netherlands
1975- Oleg Blokhin Dynamo Kiev & USSR
1976- Franz Beckenbauer Bayern Munich & West Germany
1977- Allan Simonsen Borussia Mönchengladbach & Denmark
1978- Kevin Keegan Hamburg SV & England
1979- Kevin Keegan Hamburg SV & England
1980- Karl-Heinz Rummenigge Bayern Munich & West Germany
1981- Karl-Heinz Rummenigge Bayern Munich & West Germany
1982- Paolo Rossi Juventus & Italy
1983- Michel Platini Juventus & France
1984- Michel Platini Juventus & France
1985- Michel Platini Juventus & France
1986- Igor Belanov Dynamo Kiev & USSR
1987- Ruud Gullit Milan & Netherlands
1988- Marco van Basten Milan & Netherlands
1989- Marco van Basten Milan & Netherlands
23.2.14
Glasses
Italy's Annibale Frossi won an Olympic Gold medal in 1936 wearing glasses and JF Mitchell wore his specs in an FA Cup Final. In the modern era, however, the wearers of spectacles have been, it seems, confined to Netherlands and Belgium.
Rinus Israël-Israël played most of his career with Feyenoord and then PEC Zwolle. He represented the Netherlands 47 times (1964–1974). He was known as IJzeren Rinus.
In a career lasting from 1967- 81 Joop van Daele played in the main for Feyenoord and Fortuna Sittard. He Famously got his glasses broken playing against Estudiantes in the Intercontinental Cup final.
22.2.14
Ballon d'Or- 1950s & 1960s
1956- Stanley Matthews Blackpool & England
1957- Alfredo di Stefano Real Madrid & Spain
1958- Raymond Kopa Real Madrid & France
1959- Alfredo di Stefano Real Madrid & Spain
1960- Luis Suarez Barcelona & Spain
1961- Omar Sivori Juventus & Italy
1962- Josef Masopust Dukla Prague & Czechoslovakia
1963- Lev Yashin Dinamo Moscow & USSR
1964-Denis Law Manchester United & Scotland
1965- Eusebio Benfica & Portugal
1966- Bobby Charlton Manchester United & England
1967- Florian Albert Ferencvaros & Hungary
1968- George Best Manchester United & Northern Ireland
1969- Gianni Rivera AC Milan & Italy
15.2.14
Dragan Džajić
During his career with FK Crvena Zvezda Džajić won 5 league Championships, 4 National Cups and the Mitropa Cup. He played more than 600 games for Crvena Zvezda, scoring 370 goals (playing wide on the left!) and represented Yugoslavia 85 times.
The double- achieved 3 times.
14.2.14
Sir Bobby Robson
Sir Bobby was treated appallingly by the English press during his tenure as England manager, during which they reached the quarter finals and semi finals of successive World Cups.
13.2.14
World Cup Finals...
08.07.90 Straight red 65 min
08.07.90 Second yellow 87 min
12.07.98 Second
yellow 67 min
09.07.06 Straight red 110 min
11.07.10 Second yellow 109 min
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