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1972 Ballon d'Or

Index 1972 Ballon d'Or

The 1972 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to the West German defender Franz Beckenbauer on 26 December 1972. [1]

79 relations: A.C. Milan, AFC Ajax, Amancio Amaro, Antal Dunai, Association football, Austria, Újpest FC, Ballon d'Or, Barry Hulshoff, Belgium, Bobby Moore, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Defender (association football), Denmark, Dragan Džajić, East Germany, England, Eusébio, FC Bayern Munich, FC Dinamo Tbilisi, FC Dynamo Kyiv, Finland, France, France Football, Franz Beckenbauer, Górnik Zabrze, Günter Netzer, Gerd Müller, Gerrie Mühren, Gianni Rivera, Giorgio Chinaglia, Gordon Banks, Greece, Hristo Bonev, Hungary, Inter Milan, Italy, Johan Cruyff, Johan Neeskens, John Greig, Johnny Giles, Kazimierz Deyna, Leeds United F.C., Legia Warsaw, Luxembourg, Marius Trésor, Murtaz Khurtsilava, Netherlands, ..., Olympique de Marseille, Paul Breitner, Paul Van Himst, PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv, Piet Keizer, Poland, Portugal, R.S.C. Anderlecht, Rangers F.C., Real Madrid C.F., Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, Red Star Belgrade, Republic of Ireland, Romania, S.L. Benfica, S.S. Lazio, Sandro Mazzola, Soviet Union, Spain, Stoke City F.C., Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UEFA, Włodzimierz Lubański, West Germany, West Ham United F.C., Yevhen Rudakov, Yugoslavia. Expand index (29 more) »

A.C. Milan

Associazione Calcio Milan, commonly referred to as A.C. Milan or simply Milan, is a professional football club in Milan, Italy, founded in 1899.

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AFC Ajax

Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax, also AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam or simply Ajax, is a Dutch professional football club based in Amsterdam.

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Amancio Amaro

Amancio Amaro Varela, (born 16 October 1939 in A Coruña, Galicia) commonly known simply as Amancio, is a former Spanish football player.

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Antal Dunai

Antal Dunai, also known as Dunai II (born as Dujmov Antal in Gara, 21 March 1943) is a former Hungarian footballer with Yugoslav origins.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Austria

Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.

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Újpest FC

Újpest Football Club is a Hungarian professional football club, based in Újpest, Budapest, that competes in Nemzeti Bajnokság I. Formed in 1885, Újpest reached the first division of the Hungarian League in 1905 and has been relegated only once since then.

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Ballon d'Or

The Ballon d'Or ("Golden Ball") is an annual football award presented by France Football.

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Barry Hulshoff

Bernardus Adriaan “Barry” Hulshoff (born 30 September 1946 in Deventer, Overijssel) is a former Dutch footballer who played for Ajax Amsterdam and was part of their European Cup victories in 1971, 1972 and 1973.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Bobby Moore

Robert Frederick Chelsea Moore OBE (12 April 1941 – 24 February 1993) was an English professional footballer.

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Borussia Mönchengladbach

Borussia VfL 1900 Mönchengladbach e.V., commonly known as Borussia Mönchengladbach, Mönchengladbach or Gladbach, is a German football club in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Bulgaria

Bulgaria (България, tr.), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (Република България, tr.), is a country in southeastern Europe.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia, or Czecho-Slovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko), was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until its peaceful dissolution into the:Czech Republic and:Slovakia on 1 January 1993.

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Defender (association football)

In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposing team from scoring goals.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Dragan Džajić

Dragan Džajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Џајић; born 30 May 1946) is a former Serbian footballer who is widely considered to be one of the best Serbian footballers to emerge from former Yugoslavia.

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East Germany

East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik, DDR), existed from 1949 to 1990 and covers the period when the eastern portion of Germany existed as a state that was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War period.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Eusébio

Eusébio da Silva Ferreira GCIH GCM (25 January 1942 – 5 January 2014) was a Portuguese footballer who played as a striker.

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FC Bayern Munich

Fußball-Club Bayern München e.V., commonly known as FC Bayern München, FCB, Bayern Munich, or FC Bayern, is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria (Bayern).

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FC Dinamo Tbilisi

FC Dinamo Tbilisi (დინამო თბილისი) is a professional football club based in Tbilisi, Georgia, that competes in the Erovnuli Liga, the top flight of Georgian football.

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FC Dynamo Kyiv

Football Club Dynamo Kyiv is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kiev.

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Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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France Football

France Football is a French weekly magazine containing football news from all over the world.

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Franz Beckenbauer

Franz Anton Beckenbauer (born 11 September 1945) is a German former professional footballer and manager.

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Górnik Zabrze

Górnik Zabrze is a Polish football club from Zabrze.

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Günter Netzer

Günter Theodor Netzer (born 14 September 1944 in Mönchengladbach) is a former German football player and team general manager currently working in the media business.

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Gerd Müller

Gerhard "Gerd" Müller (born 3 November 1945) is a German retired footballer.

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Gerrie Mühren

Gerardus ("Gerrie") Dominicus Hyacinthus Mühren (2 February 1946 – 19 September 2013) was a Dutch footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Gianni Rivera

Giovanni "Gianni" Rivera (born 18 August 1943, in Alessandria) is an Italian politician and former footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Giorgio Chinaglia

Giorgio Chinaglia (24 January 1947 – 1 April 2012) was an Italian footballer who played as a striker.

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Gordon Banks

Gordon Banks (born 30 December 1937) is a former England international football goalkeeper.

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Greece

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Hristo Bonev

Hristo Atanasov Bonev-Zuma (Христо Aтанасов Бонев; born 3 February 1947 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria) is a former Bulgarian footballer, the second all-time leading scorer for the Bulgarian national team behind Dimitar Berbatov, who surpassed his record on 18 November 2009.

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Hungary

Hungary (Magyarország) is a country in Central Europe that covers an area of in the Carpathian Basin, bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west.

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Inter Milan

Football Club Internazionale Milano S.p.A., commonly referred to as Internazionale or simply Inter and colloquially known as Inter Milan outside Italy, is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Italy.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Johan Cruyff

Hendrik Johannes "Johan" Cruijff OON (anglicised to Cruyff; 25 April 1947 – 24 March 2016) was a Dutch professional football player and coach.

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Johan Neeskens

Johannes Jacobus "Johan" Neeskens (born 15 September 1951) is a Dutch football manager and former midfielder.

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John Greig

John Greig MBE (born 11 September 1942 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish former professional footballer, who played as a defender.

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Johnny Giles

Michael John "Johnny" Giles (born 6 November 1940) is an Irish former association footballer and manager best remembered for his time as a midfielder with Leeds United in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Kazimierz Deyna

Kazimierz Deyna (23 October 1947 – 1 September 1989) was a Polish footballer, who played as an offensive midfielder in the playmaker role and was one of the most highly regarded players of his generation, due to his excellent vision.

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Leeds United F.C.

Leeds United Football Club is a professional association football club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Legia Warsaw

Legia Warszawa, known in English as Legia Warsaw, is a professional football club based in Warsaw, Poland.

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Luxembourg

Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg; Luxembourg, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in western Europe.

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Marius Trésor

Marius Trésor (born 15 January 1950 in Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe) is a retired football defender from France, who was named by Pelé as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers. He is considered as one of the France's best defenders of all time, and he is regarded as one of France's greatest ever players.

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Murtaz Khurtsilava

Murtaz Kalistratovich Khurtsilava (მურთაზ ხურცილავა, Муртаз Калистратович Хурцилава, born 5 January 1943) is a former Georgian association football defender.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Olympique de Marseille

Olympique de Marseille, also known as l'OM or simply Marseille, is a French football club in Marseille.

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Paul Breitner

Paul Breitner (born 5 September 1951 in Kolbermoor, Bavaria) is a former German footballer, who played as a midfielder or as a defender.

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Paul Van Himst

Paul Van Himst (born 2 October 1943) is a retired Belgian football forward and a football manager.

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PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv

Lokomotiv (Локомотив) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Plovdiv, that competes in the country's primary football competition, the First League.

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Piet Keizer

Petrus Johannes "Piet" Keizer (14 June 1943 – 9 February 2017) was a Dutch professional footballer who played as a left winger.

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Poland

Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa),In recognized minority languages of Portugal: Portugal is the oldest state in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times.

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R.S.C. Anderlecht

Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht, usually known as Anderlecht or RSCA, is a Belgian professional football club based in Anderlecht, Brussels Capital-Region.

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Rangers F.C.

Rangers Football Club are a football club in Glasgow, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Premiership, the first tier of the Scottish Professional Football League.

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Real Madrid C.F.

Real Madrid Club de Fútbol ("Royal Madrid Football Club"), commonly known as Real Madrid, or simply as Real, is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain.

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Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) is an international organization dedicated to collecting statistics about association football.

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Red Star Belgrade

Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda (Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда), commonly known in English as Red Star Belgrade (Црвена звезда Београд / Crvena zvezda Beograd) or simply Red Star, is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade, the major part of the Red Star multi-sport club.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Romania

Romania (România) is a sovereign state located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.

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S.L. Benfica

Sport Lisboa e Benfica ComC MHIH OM, commonly known as Benfica, is a sports club based in Lisbon, Portugal.

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S.S. Lazio

Società Sportiva Lazio S.p.A., commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian sports club based in Rome, most known for its football activity.

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Sandro Mazzola

Alessandro Mazzola (born 8 November 1942) is an Italian former professional footballer, who played as a forward or attacking midfielder.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Stoke City F.C.

Stoke City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Turkey

Turkey (Türkiye), officially the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.

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UEFA

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA; Union des Associations Européennes de Football; Vereinigung Europäischer Fußballverbände) is the administrative body for association football in Europe, although several member states are primarily or entirely located in Asia.

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Włodzimierz Lubański

Włodzimierz 'Włodek' Leonard Lubański (born 28 February 1947 in Gliwice-Sośnica) is a former Polish football striker, the second all-time highest goal scorer for the Polish national team.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; Bundesrepublik Deutschland, BRD) in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 and German reunification on 3 October 1990.

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West Ham United F.C.

West Ham United Football Club is a professional football club based in Stratford, East London, England.

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Yevhen Rudakov

Yevgeniy Vasilievich Rudakov (Евгений Васильевич Рудаков; 2 January 1942 – 21 December 2011 was a Soviet footballer of Russian origin who played as a goalkeeper. In 1971, he was recognized as the Best Ukrainian Player of the Year becoming the first foreigner to be awarded such honors. A six-time domestic champion of the USSR, Rudakov also helped Dynamo win the USSR Cup twice, the Cup Winners' Cup and the UEFA Super Cup. He also represented the USSR national football team and helped them reach the Euro 1972 finals. After the UEFA Euro 1972 along with his teammates by Soviet Union national football team — Revaz Dzodzuashvili and Murtaz Khurtsilava — he was included in the team of the tournament, along with such great players as Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller, Paul Breitner, Uli Hoeness and Günter Netzer. In 1971 Rudakov was also chosen the Soviet Footballer of the Year and the best goalkeeper of the USSR in 1969, 1971, and 1972. At the Olympic Games 1972 he earned four wins and two shutouts. He also won 21 games with the regular senior squad and finished 22 games without allowing any goals. His career goals against average was at 0.69. After finishing his playing career, he coached few Ukraine-based clubs, but mostly stayed on at Dynamo Kyiv's sport school as a children coach. He was nominated twice for the Ballon d'Or, in 1971 when he came 12th, and 1972 when he came 18th.

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Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija/Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија; Pannonian Rusyn: Югославия, transcr. Juhoslavija)Jugosllavia; Jugoszlávia; Juhoslávia; Iugoslavia; Jugoslávie; Iugoslavia; Yugoslavya; Югославия, transcr. Jugoslavija.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Ballon_d'Or

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