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Old 07-03-2006, 11:31 AM
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Default The Galloping Major

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I can't believe you all forgot ... Ferenc Puskas.

[/ QUOTE ]Puskas in the early 1970s was the manager of Panathinaikos of Greece. There's this story by people who swore they saw it when the team trained. Puskas, before everyone hit the showers, would sometimes place the ball just outside the penalty area and challenge the players to kick it to the horizontal goal post. Many tried and were hitting the post once every 10 or 20 tries or so, but Puskas was batting close to .500.

Puskas was a lot overweight by then but the left foot was still something else.

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