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Regarded by many as the greatest German footballer of all time, sweeper Franz Beckenbauer won the 1974 World Cup as a player, and the 1990 World Cup as a coach, both times with West Germany.

Who was the first Chinese player to appear for England?

Frank Soo was the first player of Chinese extraction to play for England. He was born in Buxton, Derbyshire, in 1914 and was the son of a Chinese father and an English mother.

One of the best inside forwards of the immediate pre-war era, he formed part of a legendary team that included players such as Sir Stanley Matthews and Neil Franklin.

Who holds the record for most goals in a career?

Josef “Pepi” Bican was a Czech-Austrian football forward. Records are not entirely complete, but it has been estimated by soccer statisticians that Bican scored 800 goals in all of his competitive matches, not including friendly games. For this, the International Federation of Football Historians and Statisticians awarded Bican the “Golden Ball” as the greatest goal scorer of the last century.