This year produced two ballon d'Or winners, which may not be the most prolific winners. They both popped up in the 70's which was heavily dominated by Franz Beckenbauer, Johan Cruyff and Gerd Müller. Blokhin won in 1975 where he won the Cup Winners Cup and the Soviet championship with Dynamo Kiev. Simonsen won it in 1977 where he won the Bundesliga with Gladbach and scored in the European Cup final against Liverpool. Read all player desciptions under the graphic.
GK: Senol Gunes; is a Trabzonspor legend playing 424 games for the club, winning 6 turkish championships and holding the record for the longest clean sheet period (1110 minutes) in turkish football history (13rd best record overall in european football*). Gunes may be more known for his managerial career, he is current Turkey manager. In 2002 he led his country to a 3rd place at the World Cup.
RB: Rainer Bonhof; was part of the great Mönchengladbach team in the 70's under Hennes Weisweiler and Udo Lattek, winning the Bundesliga 4 times before moving on to Valencia. He was a key player when Germany won the 1974 World Cup and came second in the 1976 Euros, injuries kept him out of winning the 1980 Euros. He was widely recognized for having one of the game's hardest free-kicks.
CB: Gordon McQueen; a scottish centreback with and eye for a goal. McQueen was a key player when Leeds won the english championship in 1974 and he scored 3 goals in the European Cup campaign in 1975 where Leeds reach the final but lost to Barcelona, where McQueen was suspended. In 1978 he moved to Leeds' rivals Manchester United, where he won the FA Cup in 1983.
CB: Wim Rijsbergen; emerged at Feyenoord under Ernst Happel and won the dutch championship end the UEFA cup in 1974. Rijsbergen was a key player for Holland in the 1974 and 1978 World Cups the latter with Happel as the coach.
LB: Konstantinos Iosifidis; was a one-club man, representing PAOK from 1971 to 1985 playing 397 games, 2nd most appearences in his clubs history. He won two Greek championships.
RM: Uli Hoeness; was a key player for Bayern and Germany in their great era in the 70's. He won 3 Bundesliga titles and 3 European Cups. He also won the 1974 World Cup and the 1972 Euros. Hoeness was forced to retire at the age of 27 because of a knee injury. He was only active as a player for 8 years, he immedeately became general manager of Bayern Munich, holding this position for more than 40 years, before he was stepped down in 2019.
CM: Alain Giresse; played most part of his career in Bordeaux enjoying a lot of succes in the mid-80's where he won two french championships and the 1984 Euros. He came 2nd in 1982 Ballon d'Or and won three french player of the year. He was known as a great passer of the ball, a quick dribbler and a goal treath from midfield.
CM: Osvaldo Ardiles; was a skilled playmaker known for his tenure at Spurs from 1978-88, where he won the FA Cup in 1981 and the UEFA Cup in 1984. He came to the London club after the 1978 World Cup victory with Argentina. Ardiles played at the 1982 World Cup with number 1 on the shirt, because the Argentina players got their numbers i alfabethical order (except a certain Maradona #10) His friend Ricky Villa is on the bench.
LM: Allan Simonsen; is the only scandinavian player to ever win the Ballon d'Or, (1977). Simonsen made his name as a forward at Mönchengladbach winning the UEFA Cup two times and the Bundesliga three times. He was sold to Barcelona where he won the Cup Winners Cup in a period where Barca did not dominate Spain and Europe. He came 3rd in the 1983 ballon d'Or and was a big part the danish national teams rise in the early 80's forming a partnership with Preben Elkjær. But a broken leg at the 84 Euros and the introduction of Michael Laudrup, ment that the aging Simonsen missed out being a real part of the "Danish Dynamite" team at the 1986 World Cup.
Simonsen is the only footballer to have scored in the European Cup, UEFA Cup, and Cup Winners' Cup finals.
FW: Oleg Blokhin; is the most decorated player in the history of Soviet Union football. He holds the all-time top goalscorer record for both Dynamo Kyiv (266 goals) and the Soviet Union national team (42 goals), as well as being the overall top goalscorer in the history of the Soviet Top League (211 goals). He is also the only player to have been capped over 100 times for the Soviet Union and holds Dynamo's appearance record with 582 appearances during his 18-year spell at the club. With Dynamo, Blokhin won eight Soviet league titles, five national cups and two European Cup Winners' Cups. He played in both the 1982 and the1986 World Cups. He won the Soviet Footballer of the Year award three times and the Ukrainian Footballer of the Year award nine times, which both is records. In 1975 he won the Ballon d'Or.
FW: Roger Milla; He achieved international stardom at 38 years old, an age at which most forwards have retired, by scoring four goals at the 1990 FIFA World Cup and thus becoming the oldest goalscorer in World Cup history. He helped Cameroon become the first African team to reach the World Cup quarter-finals. Four years later, at the age of 42, Milla broke his own record as the oldest goalscorer in World Cup by scoring against Russia in the 1994 FIFA World Cup. At club level he played ten years in France at Monaco, Bastia, St. Etienne and Montpellier.
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