Top 10 Eastern European Athletes of All Time
Ferenc Puskás (1 April 1927 – 17 November 2006) was a Hungarian footballer and manager, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and the sport's first international superstar. He scored 84 goals in 85 international matches for Hungary, played four international matches for Spain and scored 514 goals in 529 matches in the Hungarian and Spanish leagues. He became an Olympic champion in 1952 and led his nation to the final of the 1954 World Cup. He won three European Cups (1959, 1960, 1966), 10 national championships (5 Hungarian and 5 Spanish Primera División) and 8 top individual scoring honors. In 1995, he was recognized as the greatest top division scorer of the 20th century ...read more.
Lev Ivanovich Yashin, nicknamed the "Black Spider" or the "Black Panther", was a Soviet-Russian football goalkeeper, considered by many to be the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the game.
Greatest recordbreaker of all times, best athlete of all Russian and Soviet history till 1993.
Petr Čech is a Czech professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for English club Arsenal and captains the Czech Republic national team.Greatest wrestler ever, 3 Olympic gold medals and one silver.
Imre Schlosser was a legend of world football.
When he retired (1927) he had achieved three important records (world) :
-most capped player (68)
-best scorer with National teams (59 goals).
-best top division scorer (417 goals).
His co-patriot Ferenc Puskas repeated this trempe three decades later.
To understand the difficulty of this, none football great (Pelé, Di Stefano, Maradona, Cruyff) never managed to have not even one of this records. The same is for Messi and C. Ronaldo and I don't think that they have any chance...
I voted him yesterday but sometimes once is not enough...
One thing I like in the top tens is that they stimulate my memory.
Typical example is Hallasy, a forgotten legend of the midwar years, best waterpolo player of the first half of 20th century.
Last time I heard or read something about him wasn't even in the 21st century.
Although I could't remember even his name, my general knowledge and the web helped me to found him.
Honoured by the International Fedetation of Football History and Statistics as the best scorer of the 20th century with a verified number of 1,468 goals (at least).
Most people believe that Pelé is the best but the truth is that he is not higher than 3nd.
One of the greatest swimmers ever.
Hristo Stoichkov is a retired Bulgarian footballer who is currently a football commentator for Univision Deportes.Still holds the world record of hammer throw since 1986.