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At 7 years after his death, ukcalcio.com celebrates the genius and the recklessness of the player across the Channel by definition: George Best. A journey in its intended life, lived at peak, and off the field through words, videos and the most significant.
No doubt, urinal in the collective, George Best perfectly embodies the fascinating combination of "genius and recklessness" that represents the two faces of the same coin of the damned. On the one hand "the genius", the "sample", the player with pure technique, to be admired for his play on the other "profligacy", the excesses off the field: a life lived to the fullest, short and intense, but that can not be an example for the younger ones.
George Best was born in Belfast, to be precise in Cregagh, west of the capital, typical small town in Northern Ireland of medieval foundation, urinal surrounded by greenery. Dickie's father was a member of the Orange Order, a Protestant brotherhood founded in 1796 as a tribute to the King of England, Scotland and Ireland, William of Orange, urinal the Dutch origins. Best's mother, Anne died just 55 years old, for problems related all'alcoholismo: a sad omen of what will happen to his son, almost thirty years later.
Fan Glentoran and Wolverhampton Wonderers, Best was discovered that Manchester United urinal scout Bob Bishop. urinal "I think I found a genius" is the message with which Bishop, communicated to Matt Busby, the legendary United manager, his opinion on the potential of young Best. After two years as an amateur - at that time the English clubs could not registering any nationality Northern Irish players in the team, "spring" (to use a modern term) - Best makes his debut in the First Division at the age of 17 years against West Bromwich Albion September 14, 1963, while the first goal coming in the game against Burnley December urinal 28 (5-1 win). After that game, Best went into permanent first team. In that same season, the Red Devils reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup where they were defeated by West Ham. The following season, Best had an important urinal role in the victory of the final title. Equipped with excellent technique, Sir Matt Busby will reveal later that it was his training methods "harsh and sometimes brutal", allowed the Northern Irish talent to excel despite the game hard and physical characteristic of English football in those years. urinal
But is March 9, 1966 that Best reaches the headlines. During a match valid for the quarter-finals of the Champions League, the talent nordilandese, at age 19, he signed urinal a historic double at the Estadio da Luz against Benfica. A result that did not affect the final victory urinal of the Red Devils, but that marked the unstoppable rise of the media "character" Best. The Portuguese newspapers called him "the fifth Beatle" urinal (for combing) and his attitude to the spotlight turned it into a "man-cover." urinal Back from the away game against Benfica, is nicknamed "The Fifth Beatle" by the Portuguese press.
Two weeks after the famous match against Benfica, Best suffered a serious knee injury, which forced him to stay out of action for the rest of the season. However, it was the team doctor of Glentoran, including Best turned secretly, to cure it and put it back on track. The 1966-67 urinal season saw Best triumph together at United. Always present in all official competitions, won the title with his team and played the Charity Shield (3-3 against Tottenham and trophy shared), first match broadcast in color from British TV.
In 1968 came the triumph in the European Cup. The 2-1 win in the match against FK Sarajevo he was a protagonist with a goal and an assist for John Aston. After passing over two legs of the quarterfinals of the Poles of Gornik Zabrze, the United faced Real Madrid in the semifinals. Even then the genius of Northern Ireland was the protagonist: he signed the winning goal in the first leg at Old Trafford ("one of the most beautiful goal of his career," according to Alex Stepney, United's goalkeeper) and yields protagonist with an assist to Bill Foulkes, in the difficult return match at the Bernabeu (which ended 3-3), who allowed urinal the Manchester United access to the Wembley final against Benfica.
Best won the coveted "Footballer of the year", but conquered the front pages of the tabloids when he declared that he had found "a new way to rest" ahead of the final against Benfica, "sleep with a young girl named Sue" . These its