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Draลพen Petroviฤ‡
Sports & Athletics
6
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 3,780

Draลพen Petroviฤ‡

Draลพen Petroviฤ‡
๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท Croatia
22 October 1964 โ€“ 7 June 1993 (28 years old)

Draลพen Petroviฤ‡, 'The Mozart of Basketball', was a virtuoso Croatian shooting guard who conquered European basketball with Cibona Zagreb and Real Madrid before breaking open the NBA for European stars with the New Jersey Nets. Renowned for his obsessive shooting drills, fiery competitive spirit, and Olympic heroics for Yugoslavia and independent Croatia, his brilliant career was tragically cut short in a car crash at age twenty-eight.

Denkendorf, Bavaria, Germany
Ernst Happel
Sports & Athletics
6
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,820

Ernst Happel

Ernst Franz Hermann Happel
๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Austria
29 November 1925 โ€“ 14 November 1992 (66 years old)

Ernst Happel was an Austrian tactical mastermind and one of the most successful football managers in European history. He was the first manager to win the European Cup with two different clubs (Feyenoord in 1970 and Hamburger SV in 1983) and won league championships across four European nations, as well as taking the Netherlands to the 1978 World Cup Final.

Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
Larbi Benbarek
Sports & Athletics
2
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Larbi Benbarek

ุงู„ุนุฑุจูŠ ุจู† ู…ุจุงุฑูƒ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1917 โ€“ 1992 (75 years old)

Legendary Moroccan-French football pioneer acclaimed as the original 'Black Pearl' (La Perle Noire), whose dazzling dribbling genius inspired Pelรฉ, starring for Olympique de Marseille and Atlรฉtico Madrid.

Casablanca, Morocco
Lev Yashin
Sports & Athletics
7
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 2,640

Lev Yashin

ะ›ะตะฒ ะ˜ะฒะฐะฝะพะฒะธั‡ ะฏัˆะธะฝ
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
22 October 1929 โ€“ 20 March 1990 (60 years old)

Lev Yashin is widely considered the greatest goalkeeper in the history of association football and remains the only goalkeeper ever to be awarded the prestigious Ballon d'Or (1963). Renowned for his imposing all-black attire, lightning reflexes, revolutionary rushing-out technique, and over 150 penalty saves, he led the USSR to Olympic Gold in 1956 and the inaugural European Championship in 1960.

Moscow, Russia
Sugar Ray Robinson
Sports & Athletics
6
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 3,050

Sugar Ray Robinson

Walker Smith Jr.
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
3 May 1921 โ€“ 12 April 1989 (67 years old)

Sugar Ray Robinson is widely considered by boxing historians and fellow fighters to be the greatest all-around boxer of all time, for whom the concept of 'pound-for-pound' was originally coined. Over a 25-year career spanning 200 professional fights (174 wins, 109 knockouts), he compiled a staggering 91-fight unbeaten streak and became the first boxer in history to win a divisional world championship five times.

Los Angeles, California, United States
Kid Chocolate
Sports & Athletics
6
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 1,950

Kid Chocolate

Eligio Sardiรฑas Montalvo
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡บ Cuba
6 January 1910 โ€“ 8 August 1988 (78 years old)

Eligio Sardiรฑas Montalvo, universally celebrated as Kid Chocolate, was Cuba's first-ever world boxing champion and one of the most stylish, graceful, and dazzling pugilists of the twentieth century. Reining as World Junior Lightweight and Featherweight Champion in the 1930s, his sublime footwork, feints, and hand speed inspired Sugar Ray Robinson, who openly adopted Chocolate's rhythmic boxing style.

Havana, Cuba
Pete Maravich
Sports & Athletics
6
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 2,950

Pete Maravich

Peter Press Maravich
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
22 June 1947 โ€“ 5 January 1988 (40 years old)

Peter Press 'Pistol Pete' Maravich was a visionary American basketball showman whose dazzling between-the-legs dribbling, no-look behind-the-back passes, and unlimited shooting range revolutionized offensive basketball decades ahead of his time. Playing for his father Press Maravich at LSU, he scored 3,667 points, maintaining an unbreakable all-time NCAA record of 44.2 points per game without the three-point line.

Pasadena, California, United States
Didier Pironi
Sports & Athletics
1
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Didier Pironi

Didier Joseph-Louis Pironi
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1952 โ€“ 1987 (35 years old)

French racing driver who won the 1978 24 Hours of Le Mans for Renault, three Formula One Grands Prix for Tyrrell, Ligier, and Ferrari, and was on the brink of the 1982 World Championship before a career-ending crash.

Grimaud (Var), France
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