Josef Bican
Austrian-Czech footballer (1913-2001) · Austria · Footballers · Died at 88
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Something wrong?The arithmetic is staggering: over 950 goals in 624 official matches, 591 of them for Slavia Prague alone. Josef Bican is considered by some the most prolific goalscorer in football history - a striker so lethal that the goals-per-game ratio still doesn't quite add up to belief.
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Bican turned professional at Rapid Vienna in 1931 and collected four Austrian league titles before moving to Slavia Prague in 1937, where he stayed eleven years and became the club's all-time top scorer. He played for Austria's Wunderteam at the 1934 World Cup, reaching the semi-finals, then switched to Czechoslovakia - but a clerical error blocked him from the 1938 tournament. Tall, two-footed, fast enough to run 100 metres in 10.8 seconds, he retired in 1955 as the Czechoslovak First League's all-time leading scorer with 447 goals. He coached through the 1970s. In 2000, the IFFHS named him the greatest goalscorer of the 20th century, a title built on twelve domestic top-scorer finishes and numbers that still read like a misprint.
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