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Football Icon is a British television programme shown on Sky One. The programme gives young, unsigned football players between the ages of 16 and 18 a chance to win a contract with the then Premiership champions, Chelsea .
In 1999, France Football voted Pelé as the Football Player of the Century after consulting their former Ballon d'Or recipients. [17] Among the 34 previous winners, 30 cast their votes, while Stanley Matthews , Omar Sívori and George Best refused to vote, and Lev Yashin had died.
An icon in Germany, and one of only three men (Mário Zagallo and Didier Deschamps being the others) to have won the World Cup both as a player and as a manager, Beckenbauer was lauded by former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder for winning the World Cup as a player in 1974, winning as manager in 1990, and for playing a leading role in ...
Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 95 years ago (1930) Current champions Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team(s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship ...
Winner of France Football's World Cup Top-100 1930–1990: 1994 [324] Marca Leyenda: 1997 [325] World Team of the 20th Century: 1998 [326] Football Player of the Century, elected by France Football's Ballon d'Or Winners: 1999 [327] TIME: One of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century: 1999 [328]
He played as a striker in his prolific 18-year professional football career which ended in 2003. Weah is the first African former professional footballer to become a head of state, and the only African Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year winner in history, winning both awards in 1995. He won the African Footballer of the Year 3 times ...
FIFA decided in 2007 to retroactively award winners' medals to all members of the winning squads between 1930 and 1974. [ 1 ] World Cup winning players are among a selected few who are officially allowed to touch the FIFA World Cup Trophy with bare hands, the group also including managers who have won the competition , heads of state, and FIFA ...
UEFA Club Football Awards: Club Footballer of the Year: 2008 Won [157] [158] [159] Club Forward of the Year 2007–08 Won International Federation of Football History & Statistics: UEFA Best Man Player of the Decade (2011–20) 2020 Won Portugal: Quina de Oro Awards Best Portuguese Player of All Time 2015 Won [160] [161] England: PFA Awards