Josef Bican
Josef Bican is one of the greatest Czech footballers and also one of the most criminally underrated in the history of the game. A goal-scorer of almost superhuman proportions the centre-forward was equally talented with both feet and could run 100 metres in an impressive 10.6 seconds. Even more impressive when you consider that at the time the world record was just a shade over 10 seconds.
Due to him playing at a time when football’s records and structure were not what they are today his goals tally is disputed. In officially recognised games his total is 805 goals in 530 matches. If we include matches not recognised by FIFA Bican’s total rises to an estimated 1468 in 918. By either measure he is easily one of the most prolific centre-forwards in the history of the game both in terms of total goals and goals ratio and is regarded by many as the leading goalscorer of all-time.
Bican represented Austria’s legendary Wunderteam of the 1930’s and later Czechoslovakia in what was a golden age for Central European football. He is, however, unfairly forgotten when people think the greatest forwards in history
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