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Re: RIP Jimmy Springer
« Reply #630 on: March 03, 2016, 10:33:21 AM »
That's a funny story Deeks, true old fashioned Trini style lol

I eh joking, Breds. Guardian and Express should have pix and stories on that. I did see it on one of them.

The story is old news except perhaps to the younger generation.
I remember Reading the odd article about it in  the 80s and 90s.

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Re: The In Memory Of Thread (Foreign)
« Reply #631 on: March 05, 2016, 10:24:21 PM »
DFB mourn the loss of Hannes Löhr
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The German Football Association (DFB) mourn the passing of former Germany international Hannes Löhr. The former player, coach and manager of Bundesliga side 1. FC Köln passed away on Monday at the age of 73, as confirmed by the club.

Löhr played a total of 20 international matches for Germany, and was included in the squad for the European Championship triumph in 1972, as well as the World Cup campaign of 1970. In 1968, he was awarded the Golden Boot in the Bundesliga for his 27-goal season, and made a total of 381 Bundesliga appearances for Köln between 1964 and 1978, scoring 166 goals. He celebrated his greatest success as DFB coach in 1988, when his team clinched the bronze medal at the Seoul Olympic Games.

Löw: "Löhr left his mark on the DFB"

"I am very sad to hear the news that Hannes Löhr has passed away," said Joachim Löw today. "He left his mark not only on Köln, but also on the DFB setup, particularly in the U21 squad and the whole youth development system. Our discussions about football were always a delight, for example at the opening of the German football museum last autumn in Dortmund. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones."

DFB vice-president Rainer Koch added: "The news took us all by surprise, and we are all extremely sad here at the DFB. Hannes Löhr was not only an incredible football expert, but also had a special personality. His bronze medal triumph at the Olympics in 1988 will always be an important chapter in our history, as well as his 20 international caps and involvement in the 1970 World Cup. Football will miss Hannes Löhr, and our thoughts go out to his family and friends."



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Re: The In Memory Of Thread (Foreign)
« Reply #632 on: March 05, 2016, 10:39:13 PM »
Former national football coach Hussein Aljunied dies at 73
By Alvin Chia, The Straits Times




SINGAPORE - Former national football coach Hussein Aljunied died on Saturday. He was 73.

The Football Association of Singapore confirmed news of his passing on its website.

Hussein was the national coach from 1984 to 1986. He led the Lions to the Malaysia League title in 1985 and also to the SEA Games final that same year.

It is believed that he had been critically ill with a serious lung infection and had been warded at the Singapore General Hospital. He left behind his wife, a son, three daughters and 10 grandchildren.

The FAS said it was saddened by his passing, adding: "Our thoughts are with Mr. Hussein's family in this difficult time."

Singapore Athletic Association vice-president (competitions organising) Loh Chan Pew, who was good friends with Hussein, was among the first to pay tribute.

"We were very close. Even though I was in track and he was a footballer, we trained together and became close friends until today. So I'm very sad," said Loh, a veteran athletics coach.

"He was open-minded and mixed around with all the races. We were like family.

"Every year at Hari Raya, he'd invite me to his house. And Chinese New Year, he would ask his grand-daughter to bring cake to my house.

"He was a wonderful parent and grandparent, teaching the right values to the younger generation.

"He was one of the pioneer coaches who did that - develop those values in the young and you can see that in his granddaughter (Amirah Aljunied), who is under me."



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Re: The In Memory Of Thread (Foreign)
« Reply #633 on: March 24, 2016, 08:37:32 AM »
RIP Johan Cruyff  :o  :'(  :'(  :'(  :'(

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Re: The In Memory Of Thread (Foreign)
« Reply #634 on: March 24, 2016, 08:42:20 AM »
RIP Johan Cruyff  :o  :'(  :'(  :'(  :'(

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Re: The In Memory Of Thread (Foreign)
« Reply #635 on: March 24, 2016, 08:55:57 AM »
RIP Johan Cruyff  :o  :'(  :'(  :'(  :'(

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RIP.. Johan Cruyff
« Reply #636 on: March 24, 2016, 10:53:10 AM »

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Re: RIP.. Johan Cruyff
« Reply #637 on: March 24, 2016, 04:28:24 PM »
Oui foote!!!!! RIP General. Pele is meh idol, but when I saw him in 74 actually controlling the game in Germany WC, I was in awe. He did revolutionize the game.  Wow. God Bless!!!!

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Re: RIP.. Johan Cruyff
« Reply #638 on: March 24, 2016, 04:55:52 PM »
wow just this past week i had to youtube the Cruyff turn cuz it on the list of standard moves my kids have to master to get they soccer academy jacket.

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Re: RIP.. Johan Cruyff
« Reply #639 on: March 25, 2016, 01:48:47 AM »
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Re: RIP.. Johan Cruyff
« Reply #640 on: March 25, 2016, 04:03:19 PM »
Wasn't born yet to witness his brilliance first hand in WC 74 and as the 70s wore in general, thanks to YouTube I could get some idea of the legend he was.....so while my love for Duth Footall was really due to the Dutch Teams of the late 80's - 90's, I must recognise the passing of a legend....

RIP Master Cruyff.....Oranje for life!!!

Football's greatest Players - Johan Cruyff Part 1
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Or yuh shoes burst off,
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Old lady, young baby, everybody could dingolay...
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RIP Shadow....The legend will live on in music...

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Re: RIP.. Johan Cruyff
« Reply #641 on: March 27, 2016, 12:53:31 PM »
Definite RIP!!!

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Re: The In Memory Of Thread (Foreign)
« Reply #642 on: March 28, 2016, 12:16:11 AM »
Johan Cruyff obituary: Europe’s first football superstar
By Julie Welch, The Guardian.


Johan (Hendrik Johannes) Cruyff, footballer, born 25 April 1947; died 24 March 2016.

Johan Cruyff, who has died aged 68 of cancer, once said his qualities as a footballer were undetectable by a computer. It was surely true that a computer might have recorded his playing stats – the goals, the assists, the distances covered – but would have been incapable of assessing the wonderment generated by his technique and vision, from the late 1960s to the early 80s, first with Ajax and later with Barcelona and his national team, Holland.

With his anticipation and acceleration, Cruyff seemed to own the entire field of play. Only nominally a centre-forward, he was both orchestrator and predator, at one moment collecting a rolled ball from his keeper to start a move – one arm pointing as he barked orders to his team-mates – and the next materialising at the other end in front of goal for the coup de grace. For opponents it was like trying to pin down air. “Without Cruyff,” said Rinus Michels, his mentor and manager at Ajax, at Barcelona and with the Dutch international side, “I have no team.”

The goals he scored were ones of which no other player was capable – from twisted, one-legged, neck-high karate kicks, and from impossible angles made possible by the way he could shoot with all sides of both feet, the laces, the inside and the outside. No showreel of his talents would be complete, either, without the Cruyff turn, the trademark feint with the dropped shoulder and 180-degree swivel that broke the will of the Sweden defender Jan Olsson in the 1974 World Cup. “He was at the heart of a revolution with his football,” said Eric Cantona. “If he wanted, he could be the best player in any position on the pitch.”

Cruyff’s skills as a player brought him many honours, including nine Dutch championships, three European Cups, a Spanish league title and a World Cup runners-up medal and 48 caps for Holland between 1966 and 1977. As a manager, too, he had a highly rewarding career – winning a European Cup, two European Cup Winners’ Cups and four Spanish league titles. His philosophy and style of play made him one of the most influential figures in the history of the game.

The phrase most associated with him is “total football”, a fluid system in which no player occupies any fixed outfield role. The wider world became aware of it during the 1974 World Cup finals in West Germany. Holland were ultimately beaten in the final by the host nation but, led by Cruyff, they were indisputably the most thrilling national side of the era with, in the words of the journalist Hugh McIlvanney, “an attacking style at once so spirited and so cuttingly precise that the effect is of a cavalry charge of surgeons”. When Cruyff retired from playing and eventually moved to manage Barcelona, he created a revolutionary new style of play that became the envy of the footballing world and has been much copied.

He was born in Amsterdam, where his father, Hermanus, and mother, Nel, ran a greengrocers’ shop. Ajax was his neighbourhood club, and by the age of 10 he was on the books of its youth division, the Ajax Academy. He was 12 when his father died of a heart attack; Nel, unable to cope with running the shop on her own, got a job as a cleaner at the Ajax stadium.

Her son’s maverick intelligence did not sit well with formal learning, and he left school at 13 to become a part-time clerk for the sports clothing store Perry van der Kar, whose connection with the Ajax club allowed Cruyff to train in the mornings before reporting for work after lunch. “Uncle Henk”, the groundsman at Ajax, became his stepfather when Nel remarried. Cruyff would work alongside him in all weathers, painting lines, hoisting nets and operating tractors. Later he always took care to acknowledge a club’s subsidiary staff, the tea ladies, the people who cleaned the boots and swept the dressing rooms, as well as those who were more senior.

As a 15-year-old, Cruyff was selected as a ball boy when Benfica beat Real Madrid in the European Cup final of 1962 in Amsterdam. That day he had an epiphany, witnessing the constant, untracked movement, stamina and vision of the great Argentinian forward Alfredo Di Stéfano. Now he had a template of how the game should be played. Cruyff was given his first team debut at 17 by the then Ajax manager, Vic Buckingham, but when Michels took over he had to prove himself again. Michels, whose training regime included gruelling uphill sprints in the woods, was unimpressed by Cruyff’s chain-smoking.

But Cruyff got his chance when the regular centre-forward was out injured. Once in, he never left, becoming Michels’ trusted lieutenant. When Michels departed to manage Barcelona and the more permissive Stefan Kovács took over, Cruyff began to have an increasing influence on team selection and tactics. Ajax dominated the Eredivisie (the Dutch league) to the extent that Cruyff won six domestic titles between 1965 and 1973. They also became the masters of Europe, bringing home the European Cup for three consecutive years between 1971 and 1973.

By that time Cruyff had become Europe’s first football superstar, indelibly memorable with his personalised Puma boots and No 14 shirt. Managed by his father-in-law, Cor Koster, a diamond and watch merchant whose daughter, Danny, Cruyff had married in 1968, his clout was so great that he was even allowed to sport twin stripes on his Holland shirt rather than the trademark three of Adidas, the Dutch team’s kit sponsor.

In 1973 Cruyff transferred to Barcelona, beginning a long and sometimes stormy relationship with the club. In his first season there, reunited with Michels, he dragged them from the doldrums of La Liga to their first championship for 13 years, via a 27-match unbeaten run that included a 5-0 away win over Real Madrid. Cruyff’s status as “El Salvador” was set in stone when he named his third child Jordi after Catalonia’s patron saint.

Michels’ return to Ajax left Cruyff as the most powerful personality at Barcelona, often bending the will of the club president, José Luis Núñez, to support him rather than the manager, Hennes Weisweiler, even when he was in the wrong. With his legacy established in the form of La Masia, a training academy that was later to nurture Cesc Fàbregas and Lionel Messi, and laid the foundations of Spain’s international dominance between 2008 and 2012, he planned to retire at 31. Instead, fate planted a tripwire when he was conned out of a large part of his fortune by a friend and business associate and was forced to extend his playing career with a peripatetic few years between the US, Spain and the Netherlands. He won two more Eredivisie titles, with Ajax in 1981-82 and 1982-83, and another with Feyenoord, where he spent his final season before retiring in 1984.

Cruyff’s shift into management was inevitable, though in 1985, when Ajax took him on, he had yet to receive his coaching badges and for two years had the job title of technical adviser. Under his leadership Ajax won the Dutch cup twice and beat Lokomotiv Leipzig in the 1987 European Cup Winners’ Cup final. In 1988 he moved to manage Barcelona, establishing a new way of playing that was all about maintaining possession through short passes and movement – the style that came to be known as tiki-taka. He liked to work individually with each player, finding out what made him tick. He converted a young Pep Guardiola from winger to midfield fulcrum, convinced him he could defend as well as spray passes, and fast-tracked him into the first team; Guardiola repaid him by becoming his disciple, following on from him as Barcelona manager.

Not everyone was a convert to tiki-taka, but the team Cruyff constructed, which included Michael Laudrup, Hristo Stoichkov and Ronald Koeman, became the best in Spanish football, winning La Liga four times between 1991 and 1994, as well as the 1992 European Cup. In the middle of all this Cruyff underwent heart surgery, the penalty of several decades of smoking. The 11 trophies he won in all made him, at the time, Barcelona’s most successful manager, but in his final two seasons no more came their way, and in 1996 he was sacked by Núñez.

He went on to create the Johan Cruyff Foundation, which has provided more than 200 pitches in 22 countries for children of all backgrounds to play together, and he received the Uefa Grassroots award in 2009, the same year he took on a two-year spell as manager of the Catalonia national team. By that time he had grown increasingly disappointed with the playing style of Holland’s national side, and spoke in typically forthright terms of what he called “the ugly path” they took in the final of the 2010 World Cup, in which they lost to Spain. Many noted that Spain took the main prize with a kind of football that had been inspired by Cruyff at Barcelona many years before.

He is survived by Danny, by his daughters Chantal and Susila, and by Jordi, who played football for Barcelona and Manchester United.

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Re: The In Memory Of Thread (Foreign)
« Reply #643 on: March 28, 2016, 12:21:53 AM »
LISTEN Johan Cruyff: Tribute to a footballing visionary.

I suggest you download and save. Time sensitive.
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« Reply #644 on: March 28, 2016, 12:26:29 AM »
LISTEN Johan Cruyff: The man who changed football.

I suggest you download and save. Time sensitive.
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Re: The In Memory Of Thread (Foreign)
« Reply #645 on: April 01, 2016, 04:02:05 AM »
Amaury Marreco

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Amaury Epaminondas Junqueira
25 December 1935 -31 March 2016

A lesser known baller, but a known threat on goal in both the Brazilian and Mexican footballing fraternities.

In Brazil he scored more than 100 goals and in Mexico he accomplished the same, winning chmpionships in both countries.

In the book, Os 11 Maiores Centroavantes do Futebol Brasileiro by Milton Leite (2013), "Marreco" receives very honourable mention in the section on Vava (one of the 11 best centreforwards in Brazilian football).

His exploits on the field are remembered with fondness. He passed away yesterday due to renal complications.





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« Reply #646 on: April 02, 2016, 08:34:15 PM »
Argentina Soccer Great Perfumo Dies
Buenos Aires Herald


Roberto Perfumo
3 October 1942 - 10 March 2016

Roberto Perfumo, considered one of the best central defenders in Argentine history, died yesterday at a hospital in Palermo as he was hospitalized after suffering a head injury following a fall down the steps of a restaurant. He was 73.

El Mariscal, who was a soccer analyst for ESPN Latin America and Fútbol para Todos (Soccer for all), fell during the early morning hours and was taken via ambulance to a hospital in La Boca. Alberto Crescenti, director of the emergency medical system SAME, had said Perfumo’s condition was “very serious.” Later yesterday he was taken to Los Arcos hospital with a serious skull injury. He passed away at 7pm.

Born in Sarandí in 1943, Perfumo played in River Plate’s young division until he reached the fifth division, when he had to leave. He went to Racing Club, where he played from 1962 to 1970 and became one of the team idols.

His official debut was in 1964 against Flamengo of Brazil in Santiago, Chile. He was 21. And his first Argentine league match was against Ferro Carril Oeste that same year.

In 1966, Perfumo won his first title as a player: the First Division trophy. But he and his teammates entered into the history soccer books the following year, when Racing won the Libertadores Cup and then the Intercontinental Cup, becoming the first Argentine team to clinch it. Playing with Alfio Coco Basile as his defending partner, Perfumo said that “it was the best team I’ve ever played in.”

“As a player, he was always a step forward from the rest. I would like to say a lot of things, but I can’t now,” said his former teammate Juan Carlos Cárdenas, scorer of the winning goal against Celtic of Glasgow to win the Intercontinental Cup, in Todo Noticias.

Humberto Maschio, also part of the team, said: “He was a great colleague, it was big surprise for everyone because he was fine.”

Juan José Pizzuti, Racing coach in 1967, said: “It’s a shame. You can make plans, but these things happen. He was a fantastic guy, a great collegue. We will remember him with a lot of love.”

After taking Racing to the top of the world, Perfumo left the club and joined Cruzeiro in 1971. With the Brazilian team, the central defender won three Mineiros Championships (1972, 1973 and 1974) and a Taça Minas Gerais league (1973).

In 1975, El Mariscal returned to the Argentine soccer, but he signed for River Plate, where he spent his last years as a professional player.

Perfumo returned to the Monumental, where he played in the youth divisions, and helped the Millonarios to clinch their first league title in 18 years. Apart from the Metropolitano tournament in 1975, River also won the Nacional Tournament that same year and the Metropolitano again in 1977.

His playing career, which included playing two World Cups with Argentina, finished in 1978 when he decided to retire from professional soccer, but he started his coaching career three years later. He took charge of Sarmiento of Junín in 1981, but the team was relegated to the First Division B. Ten years later, he became Racing coach, but his first trophy came in 1992 in Olimpia of Paraguay. Perfumo led the team to Torneo República.

He also was in charge of Gimansia y Esgrima La Plata in 1993 when the Argentine team won the Centenario Cup, which honoured the 100 years of the Argentine Football Association (AFA).

Without much success as a coach, the former defender became a soccer analyst for ESPN and then joined Fútbol para Todos.

A world champion with Racing, a tough and solid defender, Perfumo will be surely remembered as one of the elite players in the Argentine history.
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« Reply #648 on: May 04, 2016, 04:32:56 AM »
Rashidi Yekini

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Nigeria's leading goalscorer. 37 tantos. Four years to the day. #WeRememberYekini

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Panama is in Mourning after the death of an ICON
« Reply #649 on: May 09, 2016, 04:49:55 AM »
Fo those traveling fans , Habanos was burnt to the ground yesterday .... RIP !

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Re: Panama is in Mourning after the death of an ICON
« Reply #650 on: May 09, 2016, 06:09:19 AM »
Who died? Explain.

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« Reply #651 on: May 09, 2016, 07:20:32 AM »
Habanos Cafe
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Re: Panama is in Mourning after the death of an ICON
« Reply #652 on: May 09, 2016, 09:53:29 AM »
False alarm . Seemed to have been untrue ! Apologies and will delete ......

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« Reply #653 on: May 09, 2016, 04:08:18 PM »
wtf?  ???

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Re: Panama is in Mourning after the death of an ICON
« Reply #654 on: May 09, 2016, 04:59:27 PM »
Either I am ignorant of this café or this should be in the jokes thread.
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Re: Panama is in Mourning after the death of an ICON
« Reply #655 on: May 09, 2016, 08:51:18 PM »
That coffee hadda be real good

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« Reply #656 on: May 10, 2016, 02:30:25 AM »


Tribute by Dinamo Bucaresti.

Patrick Claude Ekeng Ekeng
March 26, 1990 - May 6, 2016

Cameroon senior men's national team.

As there are many aspects related to his passing, I will update this post during the course of the day.
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« Reply #657 on: May 10, 2016, 02:38:51 AM »
Jeanine Christelle Djomnang

May 9, 2016

Goalkeeper, Femina Stars, First Division, Cameroon.

Passed away subsequent to falling ill during pre-match warm-up on Sunday.

Her passing marks the second loss of life in Cameroonian football within a matter of days.

To be updated.

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« Reply #658 on: May 13, 2016, 12:23:08 PM »
R.I.P. Rodrigo Espindola. Shot early this morning as he sought to defend his home and family from two robbers.

Espindola played for Nueva Chicago in the second division of Argentine football.

In honor of his passing, the Argentine federation has announced that tomorrow's match, which was to have involved Nueva Chicago, has been cancelled.

Espindola was 26. He leaves to mourn, his wife and a six month old infant.
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« Reply #659 on: May 13, 2016, 03:26:49 PM »
Sad, real sad. RIP!

 

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