Josef Bican is the most prolific goalscorer of all time in league matches, first level championships matches, official matches and total matches. Bican 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. In 2000, IFFHS awarded Bican the ‘Golden Ball’ as the greatest goal scorer of the 20th Century.
About Josef Bican in brief
Josef Bican is the most prolific goalscorer of all time in league matches, first level championships matches, official matches and total matches. Bican 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. He had the ability to play with both feet, had considerable pace and was able to run 100 metres in 10. 8 seconds, which was as fast as many sprinters of the time. In 1998, the International Federation of Football History & Statistics awarded him a ‘Medal of Honour’ for being among the world’s most successful top division goalscorers. In 2000, IFFHS awarded Bican the ‘Golden Ball’ as the greatest goal scorer of the 20th Century.
He was the top-scorer in the leagues that he played, 12 times during his 27-year career and Europe’s top scorer in five consecutive seasons, from 1939–40 to 1943–44 while the most of players and the physically fit young men were in the war. Three times in his career, Bican scored seven goals in a game. He played for Slavia Praha throughout World War II, while many of his football rivals were at war. He retired from playing, still at the age of 42 during 1955, at that time he was the oldest player in the Czech league. He died aged 64, aged 20 years and 64 days, on 1 May 1953, aged 64 and 64 years, as it was then known, or Dynamo Prague, then known as Králové.
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