***** Ferenc Puskás *****
The Top 3 Greatest Ballplayer Of All-Time
***** The 'Total-Team' Rocket Creator Atlas *****
***** The Soleil Idol Of The Offense *****
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The Greatest Goal Cannoneers Of All-Time Source: https://xtraimmortal.blogspot.com/2013/04/Total-Skill.html |
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| All-Time Rank | Superstar |
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| No. 1 Gold | Ferenc Puskás | 9.85 |
| No. 2 Silver | Gabriel Bastituta | 9.72 |
| No. 3. Bronze | Pelé | 9.66 |
| No. 4 Semifinalist | Eusébio | 9.61 |
'Öcsi' (Little Kid Brother) | 'The Galloping Major' | 'Little Booming Cannon' | 'Pancho'
1943 - 1949 Budapest Kispest -----> 1950 - 1956 Budapest Honvéd (The Best Herald Pioneering World Club Side Before The 1955 'UEFA Champions League') -----> 1945 - 1956 Hungary (The Topmost Ranked All-Time National Team) -----> 1958 - 1966 Real Madrid (The All-Time Greatest Ever Franchise Team)
Soccer's Folkoric Great Legend Giant Passer Extraordinaire, Scoring 'Bambino', Tournament Extraordinaire, Horatio Alger & Journeyman Coaching Ulysses
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***** The Grandmasters ***** Annual World Top-Rated Star Players At Key Positions, 1948-1960 source: http://xtraimmortal.blogspot.com/2013/12/Annual-Best-Player.html |
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Year |
Striker |
Forward |
Offensive Midfielder |
Offensive Lateral |
Midfielder |
Central Defender |
Defender of the Year |
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1948 |
Gunnar Nordahl |
Ferenc Puskás |
Valentino Mazzola |
Felix Loustau |
Danilo Alvim |
Billy Wright |
Branko Stankovic |
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1949 |
Ferenc Déak |
Ferenc Puskás |
Zizinho |
Karl Aage Praest |
Ernst Ocwirk |
Neil Franklin |
Branko Stankovic |
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1950 |
Ademir de Menezes |
Ferenc Puskás |
Zizinho |
Alcides Ghiggia |
Obdulio Varela |
John Charles |
Erik Nilsson |
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1951 |
Gunnar Nordahl |
Alfredo Di Stéfano |
Nils Liedholm |
Tom Finney |
Nestor Rossi |
Cor Van Der Hart |
Victor Andrade |
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1952 |
Sándor Kocsis |
Ferenc Puskás |
Juan Schiaffino |
Estanislao Basora |
József Boszik |
Billy Wright |
Billy Wright |
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1953 |
Nat Lofthouse |
Ferenc Puskás |
Raymond Kopa |
Zoltán Czibor |
Ernst Ocwirk |
Robert Jonquet |
Nilton Santos |
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1954 |
Sándor Kocsis |
Nándor Hidegkuti |
Fritz Walter |
Zoltán Czibor |
József Boszik |
José Santamaría |
José Santamaría |
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1955 |
Eduard Streltsov |
Alfredo Di Stéfano |
Raymond Kopa |
Bernard Vukas |
Igor Netto |
Robert Jonquet |
Robert Jonquet |
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1956 |
Nat Lofthouse |
Alfredo Di Stéfano |
Raymond Kopa |
Julinho |
József Boszik |
José Santamaría |
Nilton Santos |
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1957 |
John Charles |
Alfredo Di Stéfano |
Didi |
Raymond Kopa |
Duncan Edwards |
Billy Wright |
Billy Wright |
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1958 |
Just Fontaine |
Pelé |
Didi |
Garrincha |
Danny Blanchflower |
Billy Wright |
Nilton Santos |
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1959 |
John Charles |
Pelé |
Alfredo Di Stéfano |
Francisco Gento |
Dino Sani |
José Santamaría |
Djalma Santos |
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1960 |
Uwe Seeler |
Ferenc Puskás |
Luis Suarez |
Garrincha |
Danny Blanchflower |
José Santamaría |
José Santamaría |
... And while stalwart and stout in ball-possession keyed and anchored to Puskás' spright spontaneity who was singularly tenacious and very tough to singly dispossess because he was also elusively deft with sometimes uncatchable zooming fast shuttling leg switch maneuvers on-the-ball that turns bypassing to evade and round and to bore through the best premier bustling layered defenses like a wily idyllic artful dodger bronzed with peerless-like experience of a real legitimate crafty ace scoring plays-making crackerjack of 'new era' Renaissance dreams in all new horizons and vistas who could glide unstoppable and slalom through all the field with a high diligent master work rate like a thunder-thighs mercurial mover and shaker always duly attracting some guarding at distance thus opening most field settings who could uncork it like no one could in the game's history with a 20 yard stunning snapshot line drive that bounces off the turf once and dances in the bulging net from a somewhat harrowing steep angle not dared or endeavored by most adventuresome players because as Puskás' offensive prowess may attest and suggest it is in goals and assists as two statistical domains catalogued of first and second commanding importance but beyond and astride outside those two key known pillar realms by extension of shuttling plays there is a third domain uncharted beyond discerned written statistics that he also excelled at as also perhaps unmatched in to be one of the very greatest game marshalling extraordinary passers who had ever lived.
This mostly when not hampered by not aggressively bumptiously doubly or triply contested by dedicated coverages who could also thread the needle in moving transits on the trot or find the right equation way and means and new methods to re-solve and thus re-master to re-practice at genuine prepared final game time the oft-recurring accustomed revisit of the last quarter end zone of the pitch usually positionally arrived at and by off-kilter paths to the prime accosting rendezvous spots amid an encircling besetting new much fancied vogue proved innovative in better buttressing to zonally seal the goal quarter with checkerboard-type overlaps and prelude backlines separating advanced alluring decoys set to upshot motional team overloads where the usually gummed-up booted ball clearance for last-ditch defenders led to more frequent take-away turnovers in restarted ongoing that helped cut through and buckle most traditional schemes to gain big scorelines In a wide pressing array done more flexibly, more mobile and more keenly right in formational trying situations that cascades in by streaking angling robust tireless men and jetting all-hustles by the famous and renowned sports hero outfielders and newsworthy appraised of impossible to slow down pass-run-pass fully throttled débâcle haymaking hard knocking élite offenses redoubled with real buffeting and chastening and individual player-vs-player talent skillset mismatches that interrogates constantly sped motoring with ageless superstars of Puskás, Ferenc 'Bamba' Deák, Nándor Hidegkuti, Sándor Kocsis, József Bozsik, Zoltán Czibor, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Francisco Gento, Amacio and outstanding defender José Santamaría that brings tedious and exhaustive unhinging belaboring toils for backed up retreating congregating hastily bristling defenses throughout a match that imposes and permeates for their side sweltering anxiety-laden testing disadvantages with long wearing game discourses by unrelenting marquee team pieces' impressionable rigorous team onset inquisitions at majority held times in the hardest to score sport piano-carrying forward ball symphonies of heavy sustained segmented and economic stamina in timed outgoing dashing blitzes or more methodist buildup choreographed concertos in thrusted kaleidoscopic and panoramic near limitless avenues and lanes of jazzed approached piloted possessional onslaught tides and waves edging toward and into goal with short, medium, long and deep ball pinpointed flighted and aired arrowings to the foremost choicest outlets and splitting spaces that simply could not be done by any other player before or after quite the same way to teamwise posit around a dozen good efforts on goal.
| Ferenc Puskás was awarded the 1954 FIFA World Cup 'Golden Ball' as the M.V.P. |
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| Captain Puskás' legitimate on-side racing 87th minute scoring situation viewed and judged by two match photos as genuinely good and merited but unfairly ruled off-side after a very contentious near one-minute linesman and referee discussion and debate that decided the match. |
He was one greatest ever playmaking point man who doled out the fine and nice vector whistling tight window zipping pass to unlock and open a virgin promising new area of chances, the nifty no-look intuitive backheel brush to renew momentums with a layoff to another player 10 yards midway behind rearing to sprint on down the flank, the merry setup groundball assist that breached through slower leaden late weary legs with the through ball, the ringing aplomb plump rainmaking hot-shot flown goal too fast to be scented minted of diamond-cutting lighting bolt fastball crispness that catches the team very savory and too well connected and too well-aimed beyond other teams' reaches that looks amazingly visually fleet and palatable and so sweet-like in skills when interplayed very pleasing and sightly or any other unremarkable or unpredictable way it rolls or goes into the net anyhow with karma or serendipity or due strokes of luck to grab a valuable goal and for audiences to see it live from some far height from the terraces or better seen yet on high fidelity televised large formats and re-meeting the always welcomed experience of being celebrant moving veteran masterpieces superstar eminent avatars hugging in fondly praised huddled good work and jog elevated back to the center-circle bathed alongside erupting grandiose thrilling roaring high decibel lavishing cheers and profusive applauding sounds that showers all alighting from huge electrified stadiums in celebratory invigorating greatly felt sensational ovations of never worn galvanizing uplifts of reaffirming popular mass reapproving affections and loves of large crowds of peoples to much better decide matters and far influence game outlooks at hand and be at the same time curiously self-entertained till the final whistle like all insightful great team players to see in what exact breakthrough way it was done and how it was performed well exultant again that day on another completely unique unrepeatable winning occasion against solid good competition because no two won matches are ever alike and ever the same in played out sequential textures and match formed sculpturing that brings the effusive cognizant master-solver self-delights that it was done again irreproducible in full breadth and width in all moving mosaic varieties with the replete all-upholding enduring star team trade excellences that held steadfast and put out again by the greats that spreads joys, happiness, very good positive excitements, confidences and delights, smiling familiar gratifications, commonly-held special bond merriment with close colleagues, earned friendship comraderies that stand for life that are broader and age vintage like fine wine may and outvie and stand in a highly celebrated auroral wonderful laurelled Olympian circle that surmounted all challenges and tries by competing well trained platoons and undergone to prevailed top champions victors' ambiance and strong esteems amid proved again superb experts' unrivalled sports trade paradises of masterful re-earnings in sterling proofs achieved again that spreads to and among all players and to all members and staffs of the team and to the entire glad organization and goes and meets with winning affections the always everlasting endeared to boosting, enjoyable casual to hardcore enjoying entertained fanbases where ever they may be like an unforgettable enchanting magical warm exilir aura mood glow that has electric zestful vibrant crescendos that lasts seasonally long and bestowed in good sentimental great awesome memories undimmed to be eternal, resonating and re-echoing when needed summoned on an overcast rainy day and always perpetually re-felt very fine for a fuller blessed more personal compassed completion and graced fortuned lifetime afterwards and to finally come off at last from the emerald exercised well tread field at age 39 as a consummate professional with the greatest franchise in the world after it was first begun on tour in December 1943 during a halycon winter match in Nagyvárad Transylvania unaffected by the violent tempest world conflict storm farther east as a tender teenager aged all of 16 in all official 719 top level encounters ever played by the greatest offensive Titan career to accomplish a near herculean unattainable feat to open an unbelievable match average scoreline difference for those priviledged to play in his company that yielded +1.76 goals in winning match favors by preponderance of his magnificent presence that grants in his unprecedented person on average 3.1 team goals to any participated day when he was dressed and ready to play because when he came and first he saw and how he acted and actioned supernatural in 'the beautiful game' in all scaled, weighed and measured overall outputs he was more than half of the offensive side of the ball team in 22 exhilarating groundbreaking first to peak big major league seasons in top tier modern world championship era ball that he began and started it all on 2 1/2 'G.O.A.T.' (Greatest Of All-Time) teams that it's rightly said he was the very greatest top player of the century.
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"The World's Greatest Goalscorer" The 2015 Exhibition Of Ferenc Puskás At The National Football Museum. Puskás & Three Of His Great Playing Teammate Partners In Nándor Hidegkuti (1945 - 1956), Sándor Kocsis (1948 - 1956) And Alfredo Di Stéfano (1958 - 1964) As Weighed By Official Goal-Match Ratios.
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All-Time Greatest Goalscorers In Top Tier Careers In Official Contests Past 760 Matches |
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| All-Time Rank | Top Tier World Goalscorer | Goals Per Match | Total Goals | Official Matches | |
| No. 1 Gold | Ferenc Puskás | 1.01 | 802 | 792 | |
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Tie Silver |
Abe Lenstra | 0.93 | +789 | 850 | |
| Tie Silver | Gerd Müller | 0.93 | 735 | 793 | |
| Tie Bronze | Ronnie Rooke | 0.91 | +934 | 1030 | |
| Tie Bronze | Pelé | 0.91 | 778 | 851 | |
| No. 44 | Sándor Kocsis | 1.04 | 556 | 537 | |
| No. 57 | Nándor Hidegkuti | 0.78 | 523 | 674 | |
| No. 56 | Alfredo Di Stéfano | 0.73 | 524 | 720 | |
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Ferenc Puskás Overall Career According To Source In 719 Official Matches: ***** 1.60 Goals + Assists Per 90 Mins. ***** ***** All Team Scoring Play Engagement % In All Career Contests: 51.59% ***** ***** All Team Scores Average In All Career Contests: 3.11 Team Goals *****
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Puskás' Full Career At The Top Franchise 'G.O.A.T.' Team From Age 31 To 39 At Real Madrid
242 Total Goals + 136 Opta Assists ***** 1.44 Goals + Assists Per Match ***** 'The Very Best That Has Ever Been' Twice Winner/Hero Of "The Match Of The Century" | The Inspiring Co-Captain Of The Top Rank 'Champions League' Establishment in 1955 With 1954 Honvéd Vs. Wolverhampton The Only Man In History To Have Scored In A: Olympic Final (1952), Central European Championship Final (1953), World Cup Final (1954), Champions League Final (1960, 1962), Intercontinental Final (1960) & Spanish Cup Final (1960, 1961, 1962) 16-Times Career Top Scorer With 17 Team Titles 10 Major League National Championships 6-Time Champions League Team Finalist As Player Or Manager (3-Time European Cup Team Winner: 1959, 1960, 1966) |
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| Total Official Matches | Total Official Assists |
National Hungary (1945-56) |
Top National, Kispest-Honvéd (1943-56) |
Top National, Real Madrid (1958-66) |
Top National, Real Madrid (1958-66) |
UEFA Champions League | UEFA Champions League |
Hungarian Cup |
Spanish Cup |
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792 total matches 802 goals 1.01 goals/game |
404 assists |
83 matches 83 goals 1.00 goals/game |
367 total team matches 383 goals 1.04 goals/game |
262 total team matches 242 goals 0.92 goals/match |
242 total goals + 136 Opta assists 1.44 goals + assists / match |
41 matches 36 goals
0.88 goals/game |
36 goals + 21 assists 1.39 goals + assists / match |
11 matches 20 goals 1.82 goals/game |
41 matches 49 goals 1.20 goals/game |
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Phenom +800 Career Goal Mark |
Sport All-Time High |
World Record Holder (1953-1980) |
All-Time Franchise Goal Record Holder |
Franchise 20th Century Peak For Major Player |
All-Time Franchise Record Holder |
All-Time High (min. 35 scores) |
All-Time High (min. 35 scores) | A Very High Goal Ratio Attainment |
All-Time High (min. 46 scores) |
 
Greatest Ever Top Offensive Players In Top Tier Major Sports The Top Pillar All-Time Offensive Giants |
Soccer's Greatest Ever Most Accurate Powerful Scorers Source: https://x.com/defence2attack |
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Criteria & Source & Top 4 Rankings
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Top Tier World Modern Championship Ball |
Major League Baseball | The Top Gridiron Game | Top League Ice Hockey | ||
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Career Goals + Assists / 90 Minutes source: Recent Data From August 2021 |
Career On-Base + Slugging %
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Career Quarterback Passer Rating Minimum: 35,000 Aerial Passing Yards source: NFL Career Passer Rating Leaders | The Football Database (footballdb.com) |
Career Points Per Game source: NHL & WHA Career Leaders and Records for Points Per Game | Hockey-Reference.com |
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| No. 1 Gold |
***** Ferenc Puskás 'Galloping Major' | 'Pancho' ***** 1.48 G + A / 90 |
***** Babe Ruth 'The Bambino' ***** 1.16 OPS |
***** Aaron Rodgers 'A-Rod' ***** 103.6 Rating |
***** Wayne Gretzky 'The Great One' ***** 1.92 Points / Game |
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| No. 2 Silver |
Pelé 1.40 G + A / 90 |
Ted Williams 1.12 OPS |
Russell Wilson 100.2 Rating |
Mario Lemieux 1.88 Points / Game |
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| No. 3 Bronze |
Lionel Messi 1.26 G + A / 90 |
Lou Gehrig 1.08 OPS |
Drew Brees 98.7 Rating |
Mike Bossy 1.50 Points / Game |
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| The Semifinalist |
Eusébio 1.22 G + A / 90 |
Barry Bonds 1.05 OPS |
Kirk Cousins 97.8 Rating |
Connor McDavid 1.49 Points / Game |
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***** The Modern Sport's 15 Milestone Touchstone Pillars And All-Time World Records *****
 
***** The 'Total-Team' Rocket Creator Atlas ***** The Providential Grandmaster Ace Fortissimo Virtuoso Top Tier Offensive 'G.O.A.T.' As The Olympian Scores-Making Apollo Of The World Proving Ground Sport Who Started It All The Unsurpassed Ballplayer Who Exceeded And Rewrote All Offensive Categories And Carried 2 'G.O.A.T.' ('Greatest Of All-Time') Teams To Peak Rating Benchmark Indexes Of All-Time Highs And Charms Peerlessly The Greatest Ever Top Tier Modern Pass-Score-Assist Career Offensive Player Of All-Time & The Greatest Top Tournament Goalscorer Of All-Time The Most Dominant Burgeoning Majestic Giant Upscaling Builder Of 2 1/2 'G.O.A.T.' Teams At 3 Dynasties The Most Encouraging And Powerful Piloting Driving Arch-Player Who Upcasted All His Total 719 Official Contests To An Incredible 3.1 Team Goals Average Leading To An Astounding +1.76 Team Goals Career Match Win Average The Upholding Atlas Leading Rocket Creator First 'Golden Boy Olympian' Of 15 Touchstone Milestone Paramount Pillars And All-Time World Records The Reinventing Confident Resilient Renaissance Man Of Handsome Ingratiating Super Talent Imbued With Magical Ageless Athletic Marvel Of Youthful Tonic Karma Ambrosia And Midas-Type Exilir At 3 Famous Golden Careers The Pioneering Refounding Game-Changing Prophetic Herald Oracle Of The Sport's Modern Championship Times As The Main Star Who Featured In 5 Epic All-Time Colossal And Immense Canonical Super Matches Of Monumental Wide Fames, Renown And Macro Historical Significance The Titan Of 2 Unrepeatable Magics And All-Time Precedence Who Once Famously Outvied The Greatest Everlasting Original 'Hallowed Turf' Home-Field Advantage Of All-Time Standing Invincible For Ninety Years Since The Birth Of The Game In 1953 And Who Fantastically Redoubled With A Second Iconic Record Setting To Help Produce The Greatest Unsurpassed Top Tier Major Franchise League Home-Field Advantage Of All-Time In 1965 ***** The Soleil Idol Of The Offense ***** Ferenc Puskás Was The Sport's Most Encouraging Complete Colossus Piloting Driving 'Total Team' Arch-Player Whose Ballgame And Concerto Teams Crackled Like Long Destiny Fireworks That Were Lit And Ascended And Graced By The Midas-Type Incandescent 'Golden Boy Olympian' As The Most Dominant Extending And Assailing Spectral Exemplar Offensive Player Of All-Time Who First Inhabited And Helped Establish The Modern Championship Top Tier In The Sport With Such Fortissimo Rocketing Prowess Of Pass-Score-Assisting Rainmaking Grandiosity And Commanding Largeness Of Frame And Upscale Who Exceeded To Rewrite All Offensive Categories And Likewise Peaked 2 Teams In Power Benchmark Rating Indexes Of All-Time Highs In Unexampled Deliverance Of Fitness And Finesse With Supernatural Au Naturale Evergreen Sprightly Lively Vitalities Of Perhaps The Greatest Intangible Comprehends With Game Complexion In Stride Readings, Earnest Bearings And Navigations To Fleetingly Gain Into Open Areas To Pivoting Quicknesses To A Spot-On Élan With All-Dazzling Lightning Bolt Left Leg Ball-Driving Vectors With The Greatest Most Exquisite Acuities Ever Seen And Ever Possessed With A Never Seen Before Sweet Spot Ranging Event Horizon Wide Radius Outside Of Goal Of The Highest Standards And Practices To Be The Remastering Jack Of All Trades Scoring Point Man In Burgeoning Buildout Majesties In 2 1/2 'G.O.A.T' ('Greatest Of All-Time') Teams In 719 Official Contests Where An Astounding 3.1 Team Goals Were Averaged Throughout A Full Modern Career In All Classed Encounters. That Puskás Pronounced Into The Historic Annals Of Sport A Preponderance Of A Ponderous Accomplishment On-Field Like No Other Player Ever Had Or Has In The Top Tier World Championship Ball Of Modern Times Who Began It All Because Puskás, As The 'Galloping Major' Captain And His Team Imparted New Inaugural Knowledge And Showed The Way Forward To New Groundbreaking Sets Of Reforming Skills And Approaches In More Superbly Totalled Team Tactical Cohesively Flexible Mobile Multi-Sided Strengths In A Remodeling Of The Game From Individual Talent Elegances Housed In The Forerunner Of Considerable Resonating Imports Up To Around 1978 When The Game Was Renewed Fully Modern As It Can Be After Five FIFA World Cup Final Gold-Silver Title Matches That Inherited The Unbeatable Mode And Befitting Vogue Of The Puskás-Led 'Magical Magyars' In 1954, 1958, 1970, 1974 And 1978. Puskás Was The 'Total Football' Helmsman Transported By Awesome Visionary Insights Who Featured Such Magnificent Decisive Outpassing Acumens With The First Rate Impeccable Long Ball, Fast Superb In-Game Situational Maneuvering, Unrivalled Unerring Pinpoint Accuracy With The Zooming Ball Of Thunderstone Propelling Legwork Who Swiftly Raced With Enlivening Converse With The Other Greats Of The Game With Boosting Confidence Of All Win Opportunities And Mercurial Ageless Timeless Youthful Ambiance In Such Powerful Playmaking In Consummate Handling, Crafts And Techniques So Singular And Special To Muster The Double Towering Of All-Time Top League And National Scoring And The All-Time Assisting To Completely Engage The Premier World Sport With The High Flourish Individual Ace Scoring And Teamwork Enabling Scores-Passing Furtherance To Go Where No Player Has Or Had Ever Gone Before To Be The Transforming Reestablishing Wonderful Virtuoso Grandmaster Who Was Blessed With The Ingenious Midas Touch Where Everything He Touched On The Field Turned To Gold With Enjoyable Fruitions Who Had The Clairvoyant Intuitions, The Volitions And Beautiful Senses For The Game Within All Team Running Concords And Heaving Scores-Making That He Wielded The Top Rankings On Two 'G.O.A.T.' Teams And Was Decorated With All The Top Records In Longevity That He Was Titular Monumental.
1.) A Greatest Ever All-Time Top Ballplayer As A Mover And Shaker Extraordinary Passer 2.) The Greatest Scorer And Goal Cannoneer In History 3.) The Greatest Top Pass-Score-Assist Modern Offensive Player In History 4.) The Greatest Tournament Scorer And Offensive Player In History 5.) The Greatest Team Piloting Driving Arch Player Upcasting To A Career 3.1 Team Goals Average 6.) The Top Ranked National Team In History 7.) The Top National League Team In History 8.) The Most National Top Division Goals In History 9.) The Most National Team Goals In History 10.) The Most Total Assists In History 11.) The Touchstone For Top Tier Modern Careers At '1.60 Goals + Assists Per Career Match' 12.) The Journeyman Ulysses Master Who Managed On All Six Continents
3.) 1954 World Cup Final (Hungary 1 : 0 | 3 : 2 | 3 : 3 West Germany) Puskás Could Be Rightly Owed As A Won Player Who Heroically Scored 2 Goals Where He Could Be Posthumously Re-Awarded At A Later Gathered Future Event With An Honorable Bestow Given To Puskás And His 1954 Teammates With Co-World Champion Official Titles To Best Justify The Controversial 1954 World Cup Finale And Be 1954 FIFA Co-Champions Of The World With 1954 West Germany In The Monumental Title Match That Changed The Course And Affairs Of Soccer, European And World History In A Super Match Of Considerable And Resonating Historical Relevance. 4.) Honvéd 2 : 3 Wolverhampton (1954) The Top League Prestige Friendly Special Rendezvous Between The World's Very Best Top Sides That Was Sensationally Famous For It's Late 0-2 To 3-2 Evening Glowing Quagmire Chastened Thrilling Revival Under Newly Invented Stadium Floodlights That Helped Inspire In The Top Ranked 'UEFA Champions League' The Following Year In 1955 That Began It All. 5.) Real Madrid 7 : 3 Eintracht Frankfurt (1960) The Giant Precedential Famously Celebrated Super Match Very Widely Thought Of, Considered And Celebrated Foundationally As 'The Greatest Match Ever' That Forever Established The Top League World Giants Under The Star-Wondered Delight Of The Roaring 127,000 Huge Crowd At Hampden Park And One Of the Largest Live Televised Audiences Ever That Began It All. |
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' The Greatests ' Top 20th Century's National Scorers Outside The A.F.C. source: List of top international men's football goal scorers by country - Wikipedia
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20th Century Rank |
Star Player | Country | Goals | Matches | Goal Ratio |
| 1. Gold | Ferenc Puskás | Hungary | 83* | 83* | 1.00 |
| 2. Silver | Pelé | Brazil | 77 | 92 | 0.84 |
| 3. Bronze | Sándor Kocsis | Hungary | 75 | 66 | 1.14 |
| No. 4 | Gerd Müller | West Germany | 68 | 62 | 1.10 |
| No. 5 | Imre Schlosser | Hungary | 59 | 68 | 0.87 |
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' The Greatests ' All-Time Top Total Assist-Makers (Update 2024)
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' The Greatests ' The 20th Century's National Top Division League Scorers
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20th Century Rank
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Star Player
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Nationality
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Goals
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Ferenc Puskás
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Hungary
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515
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| Tie 1. Gold | Josef Bican | Austria-Hungary | 515 |
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2. Silver
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Eusébio
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Portugal
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418
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3. Bronze
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Imre Schlosser
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Hungary
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417
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Semifinalist
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Gyula Zsellengér
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Hungary
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416
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The Stratocasting Player Of Giant Teams Of Highest Team Scores: 719 Total Top Tier Official Matches: 3.1 Team Goals-Per-Match Average 3.106 Goals - 1.342 = +1.76 Goal Win Average In 719 Total Matches |
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The Pillar Exemplar Greatest Offensive Rocket Player On 2 1/2 All-Time G.O.A.T. Teams At 3 Dynasties |
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2 1/2 G.O.A.T. Teams |
Teams Matches | Goals + Assist-Per-Match |
Teams Goals-Per-Match |
G + A Per Match Scoring Play Team Bandwidth % |
Teams Goal Win Average |
Distinctions & Honors |
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Budapest Kispest (1943-1948/49) |
174 | 1.42 | 2.72 | 52.2% |
+0.84 A Very Good Team |
At Budapest Kispest-Honvéd: 382 Total Goals In 367 Matches 1.04 Goals-Per-Match Wikipedia Source: |
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1/2 G.O.A.T. Team Budapest Honvéd (1949/50 - 1956) |
164 | 1.98 | 4.30 | 46.0% |
+2.79 Scoring Rout Quality |
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1st G.O.A.T. Team NT Hungary (1945-1956) |
83 | 1.64 | 4.06 | 40.36% |
+2.65 Scoring Rout Quality |
Highest Rated Team Of All-Time With 2232 Elo Points In 1954 | |
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Puskás At Hungary: 83 Goals + 53 Assists In 83 Official Contests source: Puskás Internationals Minus Unofficial Soviet Union Matches In May 1952 |
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2nd G.O.A.T. Team Real Madrid (1958-1966) |
262 | 1.44 | 2.72 |
52.9% (Scoring Play Involved 52.9% Of The Time In Matches) |
+1.70 Top Powerhouse Giant |
Highest Rated Team Of 20th Century With 2069 Elo Points In 1961 |
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Source: 2069 Elo Points As 20th Century Peak With 1961 Real Madrid | Source: 2232 Elo Points As All-Time Peak With 1954 Hungary | Source: 404 Total Assists As Sport All-Time High |
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Hungary Ferenc Puskás |
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| No. 2 Silver | Germany | 2223 | July 13, 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 3 Bronze | England | 2216 | Nov. 9, 1912 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 4 | Brazil | 2195 | Nov. 28, 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 5 | Spain | 2175 | Nov. 15, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 6 | Argentina | 2171 | Sept. 5, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 7 | Belgium | 2158 | June 27, 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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***** Ferenc Puskás Is 16 Times Top Scorer M.V.P. *****
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*Unawarded (Incomplete Tournament) | 1948 Balkan Cup* | 5 Goals | 4 Tournament Matches |
| 1.) | 1947 - 1948 Hungarian Top League | 50 Goals | 31 League Matches | |
| 2.) | 1948 - 1953 Central European International Cup | 10 Goals | 7 Tournament Matches | |
| 3.) | 1949 - 1950 Hungarian Top League | 31 Goals | 30 League Matches | |
| 4.) | 1950 Hungarian Top League | 25 Goals | 15 League Matches | |
| 5.) | 1953 Hungarian Top League | 27 Goals | 26 League Matches | |
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1959 - 1960 Spanish Top League | 25 Goals | 24 League Matches | |
| 7.) | 1959 - 1960 Spanish Cup | 10 Goals | 5 Cup Matches | |
| 8.) | 1959 - 1960 UEFA Champions League | 12 Goals | 7 Tournament Matches | |
| 9.) | 1960 - 1961 Spanish Top League | 28 Goals | 28 League Matches | |
| 10.) | 1960 - 1961 Spanish Cup | 14 Goals | 9 Cup Matches | |
| 11.) | 1961 - 1962 Spanish Top League | 20 Goals | 23 League Matches | |
| 12.) | 1961 - 1962 Spanish Cup | 13 Goals | 8 Cup Matches | |
| 13.) | 1962 - 1963 Spanish Top League | 26 Goals | 30 League Matches | |
| 14.) | 1962 - 1963 Spanish Cup | 5 Goals | 7 Cup Matches | |
| 15.) | 1963 - 1964 UEFA Champions League | 7 Goals | 8 Tournament Matches | |
| 16.) | 1963 - 1964 Spanish Top League | 21 Goals | 25 League Matches | |
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Ferenc Puskás 129 Top Level Major League World Tournament Matches Is 145 Goals: 1.12 Goals Per Career To Tournament Match In All Top Tier World Career Tournaments From 1947-1966 Including 'The Matches Of The Century I & II' Source: https://www.transfermarkt.us/ferenc-puskas/erfolge/spieler/103092 |
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Joyous and winsome 'Pancho' Puskás training to be fit as a fiddle three days prior to the 1964 European Cup Final match. |
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1947 & 1948 Balkan Cups |
1952 Summer Olympic Games |
1948 - 1953 Central European Cup |
'Matches Of The Century I & II' |
1954 World Cup |
1955 Club Mitropa Cup |
1955 - 1960 Central European Cup |
1951 - 1966 National Cup Matches |
1955 - 1966 UEFA Champions League |
1960 Top Division League World Cup |
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Games To Goals & Result |
6 Games 8 Goals |
5 Games 4 Goals |
8 Games 10 Goals |
2 Games 4 Goals |
3 Games 4 (Or 5) Goals |
4 Games 3 Goals |
6 Games 5 Goals |
52 Games 69 Goals |
41 Games 36 Goals |
2 Games 2 Goals |
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1947 Winner |
Winner |
Winner |
Away & Home Winner Unofficial: 'World Champion' |
Officially Finalist Unofficial: 'FIFA 1954 World Cup Champion' |
Semifinalist | Finalist |
1961 - 1962 Winner |
3-Time Team Winner 3-Time Team Finalist As Player Or Head Manager |
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All-Time Greatest And Very Best Pound-Per-Pound Offensive Rocket Players In The UEFA Champions League By Goals + Opta Criteria Assists (40 Min. Matches) No. 1 Gold: Ferenc Puskás 1.39 Goals + Opta Assists Per Match
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'Pancho'—'The Blonde Arrow'—'Paco' Three Immortal Iconic Legends, The Dazzlingly Learned Grand Master Craftsmen And Grand Leaders Of The Game On The 'FIFA Club Team Of The Century' As Unquestionably The Most Decorated, Completed And Greatest Leading Club Strike Trio Of All-Time: Di Stéfano - Gento -Puskás (1958-1964) Who Had 14 Won European Cup Titles Between Them, The Three Would Combine For 437 Goals Together In 6 Years. Alfredo 'The Blonde Arrow' Di Stéfano, The 20th Century's Greatest Ever Top Club Player, Ferenc 'Pancho' Puskás, The Leading Epic Crackerjack Goalscorer As The Very Best Ever Top Level Upcasting Offensive Player &^ Swift Mercurial Great Winger Francisco 'Paco' Gento Who Is The Only Man To Have Won 6 Champions League Titles As A Player Were "The Greatest Ever Trio" On The Highest Rated Franchise Team Of Last Century In 1961. Puskás In The Champions League & The Intercontinental Cup
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Goals (30 Goals = Magic) |
Goal Ratio (0.80 = Magic) |
Wins | Draws |
Loss (0 - 1 Loss = Magic) |
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| Aug. 1945 |
Ferenc Puskás A Popular, Lukewarm And Hopeful 50% - 50% Debatable Controversial Decision The Captain Started Amid A Healing Unmended Hairline Fracture Ankle Injury |
67 Leading World Record Magic |
1.22 Magic |
43 | 5 | 7 |
82.7% Magic |
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| Sept. 1945 | Nándor Hidegkuti |
30 Magic |
0.81 Magic |
34 | 3 |
1 Magic |
95.9% Magic |
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| Oct. 1946 |
Ferenc 'Bamba' Deák A Very Bad Decision To Not Retain The Stellar Services Of Superstar Talented Scoring Ace 'Bamba' Who Was Deselected From The NT In Nov. 1949 By The New Team Coach, Gustáv Sebes, For Reasons Of Being Politically Unreliable In The New Brought In Regime |
29 |
1.45 Magic |
14 | 2 | 4 |
75.0% Magic |
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| Aug. 1947 | József Bozsik | 4 |
0.08 |
40 | 5 | 5 |
85.0% Magic |
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| Aug. 1947 | Gyula Grosics (GK) |
-1.06 Goals Conceded Per Match Magic |
30 | 3 |
0 Magic |
95.5% Magic |
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| June 1948 | Sándor Kocsis |
48 Magic |
1.26 Magic |
32 | 5 |
1 Magic |
90.8% Magic |
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| May 1949 |
Lászlo Budai II A Very Bad Decision To Not Start Veteran And Expert Budai In The 1954 Final That Displeased Puskás |
7 | 0.30 | 18 | 4 |
1 Magic |
86.96% Magic |
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| July 1949 |
Zóltan Czibor A Very Bad Decision To Ill-Suitedly Place Czibor To Budai's Right-Wing Position In The 1954 Final With No Prior Playing Experience In That Role In Entire Career |
8 | 0.28 | 25 | 4 |
0 Magic |
93.1% Magic |
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| Sept. 1950 |
Péter Palotás A Very Bad Decision To Not Start Expert Palotás In The 1954 Final |
11 | 0.69 | 14 | 2 |
0 Magic |
93.75% Magic |
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| Oct. 1949 |
Mihály Tóth All-Time Worst Decision To Start In The 1954 Final As Any Player At Any Given Place And Any Given Time |
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Simply the Greatest! 1949 - 1956 Hungary The Fantasy Team | The Dream Powerhouse | The Oracle Renaissance World Magic Olympian Team | The Top Legendary Crackerjack Side | A Sporting Avalon The Highest Performing, Greatest Scoring And Indisputably Highest Rated No. 1 Team of All-Time As International Football's Strongest, Most Dynamic, Powerful-Balanced, Most Inventive & Influential 35.59% (+ 1/3) Of 59 Matches = 5 to + 5 Goal Margin Victory May 8, 1949 To Nov. 27, 1955 In 59 Matches The classic lineup of the Hungarian 'Golden Team/Magical Magyars': Kocsis-Budai-Zakariás-Lantos-Buzánszky-Bozsik-Czibor-Hidegkuti-Loránt-Grosics-Puskás (pictured May 17th, 1953 in Rome), the highest rated national team of all time. The 'Golden Team' went 49 wins, 9 draws, and 1 defeat (with the omission of the 1954 World Cup Final for a 98.3% undefeated percentage) over the course of seven years that brandished a historic tour de force blockbuster offense in a class of its own that scored 4.36 goals per game at the sport's highest level.
* Does not include the 1954 World Cup Final due to various controversies. The games against the Soviet Union on May 24th and 27th 1952 was played against a ' Moscow Select XI ' (Moscow city teams' selection and not the 'national Soviet Union team') and also will not be included in the statistics.
Covering The Goal Line By 2 Goal Win = 9 Matches (15.25%) Strong Performance By 3 Goal Win = 8 Matches (13.56%) Powerhouse Work By 4 Goal Win = 4 Matches (0.068%)
Crushing Tour de Force Rout By 6 to +6 Goal Win = 10 Matches (16.95%) Source: |
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Streak End Date |
Star Catalyst Players |
| No. 1 Gold | Real Madrid | 121 Undefeated Matches | Feb. 17, 1957 | March 7, 1965 |
Puskás Di Stéfano-Gento-Santamaría |
| No. 2 Silver | Crvena Zvezda | 96 | Aug. 29, 1998 | Aug. 7, 2004 | |
| No. 3 Bronze | PSV Eindhoven | 93 | Sep. 17, 1983 | Mar. 19, 1989 | |
| No. 4 | FC Nates | 92 | May15, 1976 | Apr. 7, 1981 | |
| No. 5 | Cobreloa | 91 | 1979 | 1985 | |
| No. 6 | Spartak Trnava | 89 | Mar. 30, 1968 | April 2, 1974 | |
| No. 7 | Torino | 88 | Jan. 31, 1943 | Nov. 6, 1949 | |
| No. 8 | Chelsea | 86 | Mar. 20, 2004 | Nov. 26, 2008 | |
| Tie No. 9 | Panathinaikos * | 85 | April 8, 1973 | April 16, 1978 | |
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Famous sports hero 'Pancho' Puskás in May of 1962 prior to the 1962 European Cup Final versus great Hungarian manager Béla Guttmann's Benfica in Amsterdam. Puskás in the title game would go on to score 3 big goals and take a 2-0 and 3-2 lead at halftime for Real Madrid. Puskás holds the all-time record for best goal ratio in the European Cup ('Champions League') past 35 scores with 36 goals in 41 matches (0.878%). |
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The Iconic Titan Legendary Six All-Time Rankings |
Team Goals Per Career Match | Goals + Assists - Penalty Kicks / 90 Minutes | |
| No. 1 Gold | Ferenc Puskás | Ferenc Puskás | |
| No. 2 Silver | Johan Cruyff | Pelé | |
| No. 3 Bronze | Pelé | Lionel Messi | |
| No. 4 | Lionel Messi | Johan Cruyff | |
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Hidegkuti - Puskás - Kocsis |
***** The 20th Century's All-Time International Goalscorers ***** |
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| All-Time 20th Century Rank | Star Players | Career Years | Total Goals | |
| No. 1 Gold | Gerd Müller | 1964 - 1981 | 137 | |
| No. 2 Silver | Ferenc Puskás | 1943 - 1966 | 125 | |
| Tie No. 3 Silver | Sándor Kocsis | 1945 - 1965 | 103 | |
| Tie No. 3 Silver | Pelé | 1957 - 1977 | 103 | |
| Semifinalist | Eusébio | 1957 - 1978 | 100 | |
| Top Tier Division National League Goalscorer Of The 20th Century
Ferenc Puskás 515 Goals
Top Tier National International Goalscorer Of The 20th Century Outside Of The A.F.C. Ferenc Puskás 83 Goals |
Standing Alongside 15 Touchstone Milestone Pillars And World Records Set By Ferenc Puskás, A Full Righteous Viewing And Context Of His Career Gives Legitimate Undeniable Unmistakable Credence Of Incomparable Qualities Played Both In The Modern Top Tier National International And In The Top Ranked First Rate Professional National Leagues From The Combined Perspective Of 2 'All-Time G.O.A.T' Teams To Indicate A Real Indisputable High Validation And Authenticate Puskás' Seal As The 'Greatest Player Of The 20th Century'. |
2232 Points (All-Time High) National International Team July 4, 1954
2069 Points (20th Century High) Top Tier National League Team March 19, 1961 |
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2232 Points (All-Time High) On July 4, 1954 As Starting Captain |
83 |
4.06 Goals Per Match (337 Team Goals) |
63 | 10 | 10 | 81.93 % | 83 | 53 | 1.64 G + A / Match | 40.36% | ||
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1958 - 1966 Real Madrid (Top National League) |
2069 Points (20th Century High) On March 19, 1961 As Starting Main Scorer |
262 |
2.72 Goals Per Match (+712 Team Goals) |
185 | 32 | 45 | 76.72 % | 242 | 136 Opta | 1.44 G + A / Match | 52.9% | ||
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Puskás' Performance In Two 'G.O.A.T.' Teams In Stated Composite Stats Of 345 Matches |
345 | 3.04 Goals Per Match | 248 | 42 | 55 | 77.97 % | 325 Goals | 189 Assists | 514 G + A Per Match / 345 Total Matches = 1.49 |
49.0% Of All Offensive Side Scoring |
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| 2025 All-Time Rank | The Top 7 Grandmasters | Titles | ||
| No. 1 Gold | Lionel Messi |
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Cristiano Ronaldo | |
| No. 2 Silver | Cristiano Ronaldo | 35 | Lionel Messi | |
| No. 3 Bronze |
Ferenc Puskás |
17 | Pelé | |
| Semifinalist |
Gerd Müller |
15 | Ferenc Puskás | |
| No. 5 | Pelé | 15 | Ronaldo Nazário | |
| No. 6 | Alfredo Di Stéfano | 22 | Marco Van Basten | |
| No. 7 |
Imre Schlosser Greatest Of The First Half Of 20th Century |
15 | Alfredo Di Stéfano | |
***** The 'Total-Team' Rocket Creator Atlas ***** ***** The Soleil Idol Of The Offense *****
1943 - 1949 Budapest Kispest ----> 1950 - 1956 Budapest Honvéd (The Very Best Herald Pioneering World Side Before The 1955 Champions League) ----> 1945 - 1956 Hungary (The Topmost Ranked All-Time National Team) ----> Real Madrid (Greatest Ever Top Franchise Of All-Time)
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| Two of Hungary's most famous native sons from Budapest, Ferenc Puskás and his great strike partner friend Sándor Kocsis were fateful survivors of the pivotal 'Siege of Budapest' that lasted from December 24, 1944 to February 13, 1945. 18-year-old Ferenc Puskás' debut in the Hungarian national team on August 20,1945 ('Saint Stephen's Day') was Hungary's second match in the bellwether turning-point and tough crucible turbulent year. The teenager 'Öcsi' Puskás scored first in Puskás' famous inaugural 5-2 win over the world's No. 7 Austria in Budapest 104 days after 'Victory in Europe Day' on May 8, 1945. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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' The Greatests ' Puskás, the greatest goalscorer and offensive pillar in history with Real Madrid teammates José Santamaría, recognized as one of the greatest centerbacks in history and Alfredo Di Stéfano who was the 20th Century's greatest club player of all-time. |
All association sporting teams have before it an icon of unexampled production, the true favorited ideal perfect soleil of the offense or the idol of the super 'beyond further' (plus ultra) power Midas rocket player.
There is a player everyone has heard of. The annual FIFA Puskás Award well receives those players who have scored the most 'aesthetically significant' or most 'beautiful goal' in a calendar year. Puskás was honored for being named the top national 1st division goalscorer in the 20th century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (I.F.F.H.S) in 1997. With Hungary Puskás became the international world-record holder for goals with 83 goals in 83 full national appearances and who also held the world-record for most national top league goals with 515. Puskás was also a historic 'total-team' game player to dazzle with a dividend of such enlivening converse and decisive final-pass delivery to teammates to still hold the all time world-record with 404 total assists. Puskás would admit the whole triumphant answer with the goals that win with the assists that glow to form them into a fine scoring athletic ensemble of unparalleled amplitude and there lies all the length and breadth and the bravado of the fondest player, Ferenc Puskás was 'The Greatest Player of the 20th Century'.
Once there came a man from very humble origins who pursued football's horizons during times severely tried by the calamities of the 20th Century and as by some vast undivided magic played together with the greatest players of the ages on fabulous teams modern as any who helped make European, athletic and sports history and who universalized the greatness of two renowned titan teams of all-times. As a player who was never bought or sold in his life Puskás spent his entire career at the very top-flight of his profession that seemed to raise his game to a sublime level.
Ferenc Puskás (b. April 1, 1927, Budapest, d. Nov. 17, 2006) also known worldwide as 'Öcsi' ('Sonny', pronounced: Uhchee), 'The Galloping Major' and 'Pancho' was the great maximally élite top level 'total-team' transcending sport-changing mercurial triumphant high fidelity action player as the conductor par excellence of such leading command for whom formalists and sports leaders had been searching for ever since the early 20th Century. With Puskás playing a key role as captain and primarily the No. 10 forward all great teams that he played for statistically soared as the highest scoring and highest ranked everlasting teams of all-time.
If the sport of association football is keyed to the tenor of the ruling goal on a perfectly functional team to decide a match's result not necessarily possession then there was no other more influential history-making, landscape-shaping and efficient powerhouse top-flight offensive star player in the game than Puskás. Puskás is still considered the most eminent national and national top division goalscorer unified in the sport. As a master milestones-making goalscorer Puskás was somebody who rows somewhere far on a sojourn to set in the sky high scoring numbers, records and historical precedence. But scoring goals is not everything but also conceived in well versed team participation rejoicing with high skill and a decided playmaking presence for players who could excel and perform well with others and for Puskás there is a centerstage to that praise being recognized as one of the 'very greatest players' the sport has ever seen. And yet no action of any contemporary or other future player is as so well valuably efficient as the incomparable skills of Puskás.
Wholly amid goalscoring prowess there is something relentless in their will and derring-do with Puskás as lusty confidences and the flush of the known game is in them, the errant ball to seize, then the splendor of the ball falling in where it is wanted, playing a swift sport through the air, advancing out of the sides or undergoing stratagems of movement and bursting through in un-looked for directions with transfers and promotions and sudden rightnesses the colloquy is there, the unmatched trio of hammering goalscoring swerving bravado, Puskás-Kocsis-Hidegkuti or Puskás-Di Stéfano-Gento, the ball conversing with the learned grandmaster men of the game far fitter than words can describe. With Puskás the air is blue, crisp and prodigal and filled with victory's perfume with the three teams Puskás was on broadening outward as they crossed and re-crossed the pitch calling out for gain and in the activity and destiny of eleven performers where the very good, the best and the legended move fantastically, the art is long, turning loose the system of practiced skills for the new maneuver and the unconsciously coordinated acts and upsprang the near perfect team.
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2069 Elo points, 20th Century High ***** Greatest Franchise Team Of The 20th Century ***** 1961 Real Madrid
On March 19, 1961 the world great Real Madrid team with 'Pancho' Puskás became statistically the 'Greatest Ever' of the 20th Century.
http://clubelo.com/Stats
--- Match Starting Lineup --- Puskás, Di Stéfano, Gento, Del Sol, Santamaría, Vidal, Canario, Casando, Pachín, Marquitos, Vicente
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Ferenc Puskás' unequalled modern inside No. 10 long forward sublime game of winding ways through alley and trick, the heavy stride and the hard prelude run with the thunderstrike cannonball with teams of magnificent stern array (Budapest Honvéd, Hungary, Real Madrid) who rained goalscoring aura yielding to goalscoring aura as his co-led teams waged contention in 127 tournament matches with Puskás scoring 141 goals or 1.11 goals-per-tournament encounter who was endeared to 10 national league championships that attracts to crush with powerful ardors. With sweet buds of speed and acceleration purposing the playmaking jazz and conjuring the forward missioning winning spirit of gladness as fierce artificer from offensive zone to defensive zone Puskás satisfied the game's full relish, bandwidth and circumference to supersede all teams into the maximally élite record-books of all-time rank.
Engaging defensive lines with aplomb in the midst of it all is Puskás as the No. 10 forward fronting the surging tumult ahead where his keener cannonball lightnings flashed who came across with the big-play deft passing who flung the ball to the most difficult spots on the springing grass with chisel legwork to rebuild it as Puskás had gone to bring again 'greatness' for the most fond imponderable dream. His potent, felt, interior command has the quality to strike deep as a marvelous athletic pillar affirming the natural passing scheme that hummed and drummed with a famous familiarity, scoring goals with his many assists that imbues Budapest Honvéd, Hungary and Real Madrid with a particular unpronounceable genius never seen before or after in any top tier offensive player. There is a Midas inexhaustible fund of buoyancy as Puskás help build one superb team after another with a remarkable talent through him the current and index of three risen great master teams that will rank as defining sport-changing powerhouses equal or better than the greatest sides known as the master key player with three of the highest peaks ever assembled; as only he holds the proud distinction of being on three of the most fulsomely hailed teams: mighty Budapest Honvéd (1949-1956), Hungary (1945-1956) and Real Madrid (1958-1966), the latter two have remained for many the greatest teams to be seen in all the records of the sport and the two principal and paramount teams of all-time.
We can view the 20th Century sport's evolution with perspective with Puskás as the great master player whose teams most completely indicated the ways and the times in which football turned from the traditions of much earlier times to the new mode in the second half of the century.
Three of his great matches ('The Match of the Century', the 1954 World Cup Final and Real Madrid 7, Eintracht Frankfurt 3) were massive, elemental, becoming widely famous foundational wonder games of the age demanding depth and insight. In these games where Puskás was the chief participant, the 6-3 win over England where he scored two goals and made two more, the 1954 World Cup Final match (the world championship decider where he opened and closed the scoring with two legitimate goals) that lived under a cloud of suspicion and huge controversy and the 7-3 win over Eintracht Frankfurt in the spring of 1960 where he scored four goals are among the best ever done.
The phenomena of Ferenc '(Öcsi' or 'Sonny' pronounched: 'Uhchee') Puskás, the astute navigator with giants Hungary from 1947-1956 and with 1958-1966 Real Madrid was the prize-winning sport hero who was on the dial with the serene power of his on-field generalship as a player of superior craft always acting as the true helm of the attack who pressed deep inside with insights and who plays with a profound magical crackling irrepressible 'total-team' game that moved from prim goalscoring who fired goals' certainties (802 total goals in 792 official matches | 1.01 goals / career match) to his idyllic playmaking élan that magnified and completed his on-field greatness.
Mustering game-altering top level scores of the quality of the first and all-time greatest American baseball player icon Babe Ruth (the 'Bambino' who scored a world-record 714 homeruns) Puskás never did acclimate to using his nondominant right foot for much except to dribble and he also scored few goals with his head. Footballs warm and crackle at his feet with dazzling masteries of swiftness and precision as somebody who lost tough clinging opponents by something he was prized and was renowned by, who upon the sylvan scene on the wide pitch gave the great thunderstone left-footed matchless resplendent hot levitating goal-homing cannonball that Puskás is still widely considered the greatest goal-cannoneer who has ever played the game.
Considered in relation to any national team on the promontory of all-time rank of extraordinary production Puskás was the leader and captain of the magical Hungarian 'Golden Team', the postwar re-inventing renaissance side that glows appraisable as statistically the 'Greatest Ever' (all time high 2232 Elo points); and when faith, hope, and promise around his determination's totem was needed after the 1956 Hungarian Revolt and Revolution he became the star main goalscorer at star-studded Real Madrid that outlined a great team that became the 'Greatest Ever' club franchise in the 20th Century (20th Century high 2069 Elo points). He arrived to his second stunning career and this new powerful Real Madrid team after languishing in exile out of shape, overweight and without much practice in Italy and Spain aged 31 at a rounding time when most players think of retirement.
Before Puskás Real Madrid had won the first three European Cups after the competition opened. After his arrival and on his retirement the Real Madrid team would win three more European Cups plus two runner-up silver medals in the tournament and a top division 'world championship' in 1960 after eight years of service with the top rated franchise of the 20th Century. By his honored retirement in 1966 it could be well said that Puskás had journeyed through statistical realms as the greatest ever offensive 'total-team' bandwidth power rocket player (1.60 Goals + Assists / 90 minutes) who has ever lived after a 22-year unprecedented career, road of adventure and life on the pitch who leaves all great on-field teams solved having outclassed every mountain tower team with sports all-time gloria with a prodigious vaunt of goals united to a near unreachable number of assists.
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International Federation of Football History & Statistics - Wikipedia National Teams Scorers: Imre Schlosser (59 goals in 1927) ----> Ferenc Puskás (60 to 83 goals from 1953 to 1956) ----> Mohamed Mokhtar (84 to 89 goals from 1980 to 1985) Players with 100+ Caps and 30+ International Goals (rsssf.org) National Team Appearances: Severino Minelli (80 appearances in 1956) ----> Ferenc Puskás (81 to 83 appearances in 1956) ----> Mister Billy Wright (84 to 105 appearances from 1956-1959 and first to accomplish 100 national matches) |
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' The Greatests '
***** 1954 FIFA World Cup All-Star Select XI ***** |
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| Sándor Kocsis (1954 World Cup Golden Shoe) | Fritz Walter | Ernst Ocwirk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2232 Elo points, All-Time High ***** Greatest National Team Of All Time ***** 1954 - 1956 Hungary
On July 4, 1954 the world great Hungary team with 'The Galloping Major' Puskás became statistically the 'Greatest Ever'.
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--- Match Starting Lineup --- Puskás, Kocsis, Hidegkuti, Bozsik, Czibor, Grosics, Lantos, Buzánszky, Lóránt, Zakariás, Tóth
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Under the coaching tutelage of world renowned Béla Guttmann in the 1947-1948 Budapest Kispest team, Guttmann's only management year at Kispest after replacing Ferenc Puskás Sr. as coach before it became the Army sponsored Honvéd in 1949, Puskás would have his most advanced and breakout prolific scoring year with 50 goals in 31 league matches to lead all players in the world. |
Under a radio and newly live televised age of roaring cheers and whistles of the greatest ever sides known Puskás proclaimed three dynasties, Budapest Honvéd, Hungary and Real Madrid that forever changed and revolutionized and dominated football and amazing Puskás, needful to teams as elemental gist and key heaver, became the greatest top level offensive player of the ages.
With bursts of speed whose thoughts were summer lightning on the field with a waltz tune of expert control a strong scoring flair plays ever through them for teams have found nothing mightier than Puskás. Puskás graces teams with octaves of unique skills and unimpeachable long big-play deft passing who brings the new wellspring and style to the association sport to help produce immense electric teams that grew athletically great and far more astonishing from what anyone supposed. Puskás was extrovert, in him drifts of great pace and a daring highly competitive innovative genius. He was a rigorous and enduring like an oak who showed like a banner his resilient and contriving wit who was possessed with every and all ingenuity that his keen brain matched his otherworldly accuracy to orient invigorating situations as the whole splendidly cavalier well-wheeled high scoring landscape rang and Victory looks gigantically up.
Across it all in his total 719 official career top level matches Puskás-led teams held the banner true of a supreme emblematic figure of what most considered the qualities of an ideal team player to be and in vigorous participations piled on the triumphs with every team he was on scoring 3.1 team goals/career match as day occasions ordinarily became one-sided swept avalanching débâcles and tour de force routs with a win margin of +1.76 goals. With the broad width and stage of world international football with Hungary where famous heralded games exacts long devotions from 1945-1956 in 83 'full internationals' the Hungarian teams that featured Puskás scored 337 goals to average 4.06 goals with a average win margin of +2.61 goals.
With teams of indeed mighty legitimate Olympian scope, match after match with strict inscrutable élan the three teams Puskás played on sparkle hot, outlasting all and were not detainable, kept creations at dominating ease and moved more ways than one amid the palings of their rivals. All fashion of opposing defending unable to douse the old witty one-two-three as Puskás chanced upon the spot and with his rotund body's full consent rend open the candescent heat, the unavoidable Puskás straight beam cannonball sizzling inside over decades of the thoroughly dominant.
It is no more in the legends than as if in some colossal sports drama all along postwar history everywhere on tournaments' geography and conning the new times from the large Cold War command-and-control politics of the late 1940s, the entire soccer revolution made real by a new race of outdoor athletes with the 1949-1956 'Magical Magyars' to 1958-1966 Real Madrid's peerless compositions, top-flight football seemed to culminate to its crowning stage after its re-invention and set records still altogether unreached; and there among 20th Century lanes and paths at forward inside-left all postwar and 'modern football' took its cadence from Ferenc Puskás as the game found the tremendous power rocket player as the captain of the near invincible Hungarian 'Golden Team' that pronounced 'total-team' 'socialist football' chic and outmoded it all and as the main goalscorer at Real Madrid, Puskás' extraordinary double career flashing between gold levels presided over dream teams of the most elevated players and illustrated what it was to play the game accurately as a vision of joy and perfection.
During a busy decade of a difficult rebuilding world in the postwar era in the arc light and formative glow of nascent mass media with a global reach and increasingly networked newswires at the dawn of live television that meet audiences as never before made possible a new kind of connectedness and a new kind of culture that is called 'popular culture'. Around this time Puskás became the game's first superstar both at league and in the world game who foreruns the likes of Alfredo Di Stéfano, Pelé, Johan Cruyff, Diego Maradona and it was Puskás who first spoke to and for this new era as his 'Golden Team' re-invented the game and telecommunications effectively shrank the world.
Mentally striding in to take the lead Puskás became an expert in the management of matches that revealed his calling as the darling 'golden boy' of the regime in communist Hungary. Many thought that no one had a keener relish for the texture of the game than Puskás whose agile intellect came with a precocious talent at an early age making the national team all of eighteen as a supreme possessor with a heroic scoring indulgence on the ball that succeeded in catching the eye of Europe.
Much of what Puskás would come to stand for was determined long before his playing days at Real Madrid. Before the 'Golden Age' of soccer in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s properly declared itself, Puskás, armed with his rhapsodic talent, matchless whistling fastball and insights in the Budapest Kispest team before he reached ripe manhood's brink of twenty-one years showed his true worth scoring 50 goals in 31 matches in the league to lead all players in the world. At present by the 1948 year Puskás had set the current of opinion that he had qualified as one of the elites in the game. His well-known journey at Kispest-Honvéd saw Puskás score 358 goals out of his 350 games that effected an immense enlargement for the club's international prestige and elaborated a climax of Budapest Honvéd as the finest club side in the world before Real Madrid and the Brazilian Santos. Already an initial career like this would have culminated with a first entry into Europe's pantheon of all-time greats.
He is both extraordinary in the theme of his world-famed classics that are among the most colorful parts of the mid-century and in the amassed work of his throughput and succeeded in catching the flavor of a time and place in European history the sport shall never see again. The career of Puskás that stretched across the whole modern post-war period showed how a truly great player can reflect the varying developments of his age yet maintain an unmistakable individual sovereignty, unique and inimitable.
He had intuition with extra sensory awareness to grasp other sides' nuances with novel thinking and an encompassing eye in less than fifteen minutes of play by issuing a stream of instructions to align the team and in his younger years often yelling at players many years his senior as a 'playing coach’ solving ever-changing game vistas on the run. He had legendary assured urbanity and a smartness during the match's commotion and flux joined to the feel and rippling strength of his left leg that prized out the tightest defenses from distance done with a rocketed ball of honed dexterity.
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| A defining moment: the un-whistled and uncalled illegal flagrant rough mid-air interference foul on goalkeeping Gyula Grosics by Hans Schäfer in the 18th minute that tackled and brought down Grosics to the turf. Since Grosics was unfairly tackled the ill-guarded goal was scored upon by Rahn seconds later to re-make an ascendant 2-0 Magical Magyars lead into a heavily contested 2-2 match in the highest rated match of the 20th Century, the 1954 World Cup Final title game. |
Puskás was a match symphony-maker, a conspicuous student of the game and a teacher of athletes and his presence was soon felt at Budapest Kispest in the 1945-46 year where he scored 36 goals in 34 matches as a future player that legend could sing of as a paragon of vitality bringing happiness directed by a wily uomo universale of renaissance runaway dreams who became the sport's first world superstar.
Very few players had careers or stories to tell quite like Puskás for a number of occasions. In all that reporting of his career a common thread in playing days that made him unique, simply that there is an air of the precious about almost all that he did, a glinting Midas touch, everything he touched on the field turned to gold in his life's work. Puskás only played on three teams: Budapest Kispest-Honvéd, Hungary and Real Madrid, three teams that were to take turns in dominating his life amid their greatest successes in golden periods of their own with an elegant yet fiery competitor with gracious outgoing gentlemanly manners whose career reinventive life.
After three leading parts of the gigantic career oeuvre of Puskás and beyond as one who distinguished himself favorably in managing teams on five continents, Puskás' life runs into many stories and Puskás' own personal journey is an entire odyssey. Not far from the roars of duty on the pitch Puskás was also somebody famously known to a great many people having managed on five continents and his coaching career takes a different telling.
How little the formative years sometimes tell about an individual's potentialities is exemplified by the fact that Puskás, who was known as Öcsi ('Sonny' or 'Little Kid Brother') in his youth were he mastered the game with a liberated intelligence and talent during the hardscrabble interwar years would lead a life of creativeness and wit, be involved in three of the most stupendous matches of the century from start to finish immersed in the atmosphere of the sensational that caused him to be ranked among the most celebrated players of all time and become a great sports figure of the classic past.
A whole generation will best remember Puskás as a great master player associated with five prestigious 'Champions League' title matches while paired with all-time iconic top league players Alfredo Di Stéfano and Francisco Gento at Real Madrid. Playing alongside Di Stéfano and Gento from 1958-1964 Puskás was primarily the best and most effective top-flight goalscorer on the 20th Century's highest ranked top league team. By their insatiable passion and many dashes of brilliance showing more always in leading players by their hardworking exampling talents made these three energetic masters of the sport all-time eminences. With three such famous steerers piloting events who met problems and dealt with solutions to set things right and doing the kinds of things that others could not Real Madrid reached heights with an insuperable pre-eminence over teams at the Bernabéu Stadium that defined and established the greatest league 'home-field advantage' in history after Puskás surpassed England's 90-year old legacy in 1953.
Another generation will joyously recall Puskás for his goals and enduring exploits with Budapest Honvéd and the Hungarian 'Golden Team' while teamed with Sándor Kocsis and Nándor Hidegkuti. There alongside Hidegkuti and Sándor Kocsis, Puskás formed the most powerful and greatest scoring trio and winning partnership in all international soccer history. Superlative big wins with Hungary in 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955 and 1956 became a revelation to the people of some great ecstatic sports order and were so shapely and heralded victories a whole new reinvented vision, an entire new conception seemed contained in those games that football became stronger, richer and more varied.
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' The Magical Magyars | The Mighty Magyars | The Magnificent Magyars '
--- 'The Golden Team', 1945-1956 ---
Puskás In Playing 719 Total Top Tier Official Contests:
Puskás, Who Hailed From Tough Austere Humble Hardscrabble Beginnings Like A Horatio Alger Champion Heroic Idol Story Was The Playsome Youngster And Teenager Who Grew Up With The Roaring Of The Crowd In His Ears Overlooking The Local Soccer Park At Kispest Who Later Signed And There Began The Legendary Odyssey In December 1943 In Free Unoccupied Sovereign Hungary, The Socialist Working Class Ideal Role Model Sports Hero Who Outproduced Beyond The Norm, A Sanctioned Smuggler Of Goods After Voyaging Escapades And Tours Abroad Of Good Reputations Publicly And Locally Known As The Well-Connected Endowed Fixer Who Left The Hard Socialist Bloc Behind With Honors As 'The Galloping Major', The Irrepressible Strong Noble Renaissance Man Who Was Bravely Reborn In A Second Masterpiece Team Theater As It's Relative Greatest And Very Best Ever Scores-Making Magnifico As 'Pancho', The Gifts-Giving Helping Travelling Intercessor, The Bright Reinventing Oracle Of The Game's New Modern Championship Times And Futures, The Good Business Restaurateur And The Esteemed World Wide Spanning Head Manager Journeyman Elder Master Ulysses Who Coached On All Six Continents Who Earlier Played Very Advanced From The Tender Teenager Age Of 16 To 39 With His Every Match At Top Flight National With Tonic Aplomb And Panache And Remarkable Honed Natural Intuit Skills Like A Liberated Brilliant Genie Epiphany With Outperformance On And Off The Ball With Extraordinary Rarefied Airs To Deservedly Achieve Upholding Atlas Status With 15 Paramount Milestone Touchstones And All-Time World Records Set That Has No Peer -
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