Josef Bican
Football, Football player
1913 – 2001
Who was Josef Bican?
Josef "Pepi" Bican was a Czech-Austrian football striker. It is estimated by footballing statistics page RSSSF that Bican scored around 800 goals in all competitive matches, not including friendly games. This would make him the most prolific scorer in football history.
He was a member of the Austrian Wunderteam of the 1930s and was the season's highest scorer in the whole of Europe on five separate occasions. Bican had the ability to play with both feet, he also had considerable pace and was able to run 100 metres in 10.8 seconds, which was as fast as many sprinters of the time. The IFFHS awarded Bican the "Golden Ball" as the greatest goalscorer of the last century.
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- Born
- Sep 25, 1913
Vienna - Nationality
- Austria
- Lived in
- Vienna
- Died
- Dec 12, 2001
Prague - Resting place
- Vyšehrad cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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