Legends Undented Limited Career

In the best football career is a short time, maybe run for 20 years for the lucky few but the many pressures placed on their bodies to show their dismantling past so they would like. For a minority of luck, this decision is taken out of their hands altogether.

However, a truncated career, not necessarily a dead letter, with an excellent example of some stars brighter than the burning of another legendary striker Marco van Basten.

Van Basten was a player with an extensive technical documentation of all major Dutch talent, and with his clinical eye for goal, he became one of the most feared strikers in Europe in the late 1980s and early 90. He was also a man with shoulders broad enough to withstand the pressure to perform, even in the biggest games, no more than EURO 88 final.

He inferred a late winner in the semi-final against West Germany, he scored the goal that would define his career against the USSR, a fierce dipping volley struck by a bold corner to tie the Netherlands the first international title. He was also top scorer and player of the tournament.

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The former FIFA World Player of the Year three times and the Ballon d'Or has won two European Cups and three league titles and an impressive team of Milan in the early '90s, before an ankle injury forced him to retire in 1930 after a long fitness battle. One of his doctors, René Martin, shows: "Mark's been playing football as a dancer, but his ankle finally able to take a stand."

While Van Basten is one of the most talented player to have his career cut short, it certainly can not be greater influence for a single club Uli Hoeness. Having made his debut for Bayern Munich at a young age of 18, the midfielder helped the club to its third-Bundesliga title in his second season - the first of three victories in the league back-to-back.

This was the beginning of the domination of German football for Bayern, and Hoeness was crucial to the creation of the Bavarian giants grip, both on and off the field. His influence on the ground was no better demonstrated than in its first European Cup victory, scoring twice in the 4-0 in 1974 final replay victory over Atletico Madrid, his second a superb race Mazy breakaway. Two successive European titles followed before Bayern first Intercontinental Cup in 1976.

There was also an important member of the European Championship and FIFA World Cup ™ in Germany winning side of 1972 and 1974. But a knee injury suffered during the 1975 European Cup final against Leeds United following his career from there, forcing him to leave the game on 27

However, Hoeness was an immediate course of treatment that the Bayern manager, and was elected club president in November 2009. Over the past three decades, Bayern has become the giant, amassing 48 trophies since his debut, before they had only seven. Reflecting on his role as leader, said: "Today, no one can survive in this industry for over 30 years That period is over, I am the last of its kind.."

Another man who has found success after being forced to leave the ground before he would coach the legendary Brian Clough, but certainly impressed during his time with his boots. A score of self-center-forward for the town club Middlesbrough, and fellow club Sunderland in northeast England, took 251 goals in 274 games in the second division.

A knee injury has actually seen a pension at 27 but at 30 he had bagged his first managerial job in the area of ​​Hartlepool. In 40 years, he had a first division title in his name at Derby County and Nottingham Forest had joining rivals. At 43, he had just completed back-to-back European Cup wins with the forest, the first English manager to win the title and the last British club to keep the cup in two successive years.

Lucky Number 13

Europe may have been the crowning Clough, but the world has been a lot of players to record some of their best moments in what turned out to be a short career. Only one of the FIFA World Cup, a man went to goal record book as the remaining shreds today. He's Just Fontaine.

Cast, France, Sweden 58, he almost single-handedly won the bronze medal Les Bleus in the tournament, scoring 13 goals in only six games - feat no one has come close to improving. Unfortunately, no medical advances that we see today, was forced to retire in 1928 after suffering a leg a few years earlier.

Four of his album release came in the third game set in Germany, something that can not forget. "I give ten letters a week from German fans are wondering why this happened, I can not understand how anyone could score four goals against a German defense."

Brazilian legend Tostao always be remembered for his exploits in the FIFA World Cup. Unfortunately, a recurring eye injury finally forced to retire at the age of 26 in 1973, almost kept him from the sacred side Seleção 1970.

Arguably its best with this team of extraordinary talent was in the 1970 final itself, recovering the ball and play the first step to the legendary Carlos Alberto, who scored a 4-1 victory over Italy. After his retirement, Tostao intelligence was landing on his feet, training to become a doctor before returning to football and recently becoming a famous journalist.

Four years before the triumph Tostao was a second national legend, England full back George Cohen, just to see the peak of his career short. Play all six games the three lions on the way to win the FIFA World Cup in 1966 as part of a defense that has conceded only four goals, the report back was an essential cog in the machine Sir Alf Ramsey.

England coach was full of praise for Cohen, who spent his entire career at Fulham, clocking up 459 appearances, a record exceeded by only four others. "George has all the qualities required of an international player, especially on defense. His injury cost the player a great player when he was still at its peak." In this case, it was Cohen's knee that forced him to quit football at 29

Money can not buy is the longevity of a doctor. Two former owners of the world record transfer fee had to call once a career in the past so that they would have liked. Dynamic Dane Harald Nielsen, who is known as the Gold-Harald made a big money move to Inter Milan Bologna £ 300,000, with an average lead of the goal-per-game rossoblu their recent success in Serie A 1963-1964. However, a recurring back injury saw him fall, and finally retired in 1929, although he continued to play an important professionalization of Danish football.

However, before becoming Bernabé Ferreyra, who was forced out of the game in 1930 after a series of injuries. Rufino called the mortar is "his powerful shot, the Argentine goal machine had already been accused of being a big club River Plate, when he left He joined the side of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 32 000 pesos for a fee (€ 23,000) in 1932, a sum that has remained a world record of 20 years -. It records the payment has remained unsurpassed for longer - and some of the free-spending period, which gave birth to a river, nicknamed Los Millonarios.

His lightning reactions and a mixture of speed and power, Ferreyra finished his career 187 goals in 185 games. His skill is such that the local newspaper Critica medals offered at each port that could stop scoring. Only two succeeded.

Throughout the city during the same period in La Bombonera, Boca Juniors has a forward who will suffer their own fate very similar. Almost exactly a year younger, Francisco Varallo retired at 30 from a knee injury, but not before writing his name in the record books of the Xeneizes. The small cannon, small cannons, has accumulated 185 goals in the capital, a statement which was a record of 69 years before being broken in 2009 by the modern day club legend Martin Palermo. And all this after having played in the first FIFA World Cup final in 1930.