Category : Five
Live
Date : 28.04.2004
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Who is the
greatest European footballer of all time?
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Is it Puskas or Platini, perhaps, or maybe Matthews
or Muller?
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Could it be Cruyff or Charlton, or would you bet on
it being Best?
To celebrate its coverage of Euro 2004, Radio Five Live is launching
Euro Stars 聳 a nationwide poll to find Europe's greatest
footballer of all time.
Listeners will be asked to vote for their top five European footballers
of all time from a list of 40 selected by a panel of Five Live football
experts.
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The panel consists of Mike Ingham, Alan Green, Jonathan
Pearce, John Murray, Jimmy Armfield, Mark Chapman and Guilleme Balague,
a Spanish football journalist.
Voting was launched on the Wright & Bright programme and has gone
live on the .
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It will be open until Friday May 7.
The results will be announced in a live countdown programme on Bank
Holiday Monday, 31 May, at 8.00pm.
Five Live's Euro Stars - The Nominations
Czech Republic (1)
Pavel Nedved
Denmark (1)
Peter Schmeichel
England (6)
Stanley Matthews
Bobby Charlton
Bobby Moore
Duncan Edwards
Tom Finney
Gordon Banks
France (5)
Michel Platini
Zinedine Zidane
Thierry Henry
Just Fontaine
Raymond Kopa
Germany (5)
Franz Beckenbaur
Gerd Muller
Karl Heinz Rummenigge
Lothar Matthaus
Uwe Seeler
Holland (3)
Johan Cruyff
Marco Van Basten
Ruud Gullit
Hungary (2)
Ferenc Puskas
Sandor Kocsis
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Ireland (1)
Roy Keane
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Italy (4)
Franco Baresi
Roberto Baggio
Paulo Maldini
Dino Zoff
Northern Ireland (1)
George Best
Poland (1)
Zbigniew Boniek
Portugal (2)
Eusebio
Luis Figo
Romania (1)
Georgihe Hagi
Scotland (2)
Denis Law
Kenny Dalglish
Spain (3)
Alfredo Di Stefano
Raul
Gento
USSR (1)
Lev Yashin
Wales (1)
John Charles
