- Born
- Died
- Nicknames
- Bestie
- Georgie
- 'The Belfast Boy.'
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- George Best is a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a winger, spending most of his club career at Manchester United F.C..
Named European Footballer of the Year in 1968, he is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. A highly skillful winger, considered by several pundits to be one of the greatest dribblers in the history of the sport, George Best received plaudits for his playing style, which combined pace, skill, balance, feints, two-footedness, goalscoring and the ability to get past defenders.
In international football, George Best was capped 37 times for Northern Ireland National Football Team between 1964 and 1977, scoring nine goals. He is regarded as one of the greatest players never to have played at a World Cup.
- IMDb mini biography by: Tango Papa
- SpousesAlex Best(July 24, 1995 - April 14, 2004) (divorced)Angie Best(January 24, 1978 - 1986) (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- Parents
- Pele once called him the "greatest football player in the world".
- He has an illegitimate daughter who was born in the late nineteen sixties. Her identity is a very well kept secret and Best never saw her during his life.
- In the early 1960s, to show friends his amazing soccer skills, Best would flick a sixpence up into the air with his right foot and it always landed in the breast pocket of his jacket, to their utter amazement.
- He was one of the greatest players never to have appeared in a World Cup tournament. He played for Northern Ireland with 37 caps (appearances), scoring 9 goals.
- He was admitted to the private Cromwell Hospital in London with a kidney infection and internal bleeding on 3 October 2005. He later died there from a lung infection and multiple organ failure.
- There are good players, there are great players and there are those few at the pinnacle - the Pelés, Cruyffs (Johan Cruijff) and Maradonas (Diego Maradona).
- [in 2004] I'm not known for flattering modern-day footballers.
- David Beckham has never impressed me.
- I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
- Beckham (David Beckham) didn't deserve to be elected best player in the world. When he can do something else apart from cross perhaps he will. He cannot kick with his left foot, he cannot head a ball, he cannot tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right.
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