Portugal football legend Eusebio,
who was top scorer at the 1966
World Cup, has died at the age of
71.
Born in Mozambique in 1942
when it was still a Portuguese
colony, Eusebio da Silva Ferreira
went on to play 64 times for
Portugal, scoring 41 goals.
The Benfica striker's nine goals
at the 1966 World Cup in England
included four against North
Korea.
Widely considered one of the
best players of all-time, he scored
733 times in 745 professional
matches.
Eusebio, the 1965 European
Footballer of the Year, won the
European Cup with Benfica in
1962 and was in the side that
lost to Manchester United in the
1968 Wembley final.
He won 10 league
championships and five
Portuguese cups in his 15 years
at the club and was Portugal's
top league scorer between 1964
and 1973

source:www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25611509
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