George Best

George Best was a Northern Irish professional footballer who lived from 1946 to 2005 and played as a right winger, spending most of his club career at Manchester United, where he scored 179 goals in 470 appearances over 11 years and was the club's top league goalscorer for five consecutive seasons. He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1968, came fifth in the FIFA Player of the Century vote, and was on the six man shortlist for the BBC's Sports Personality of the Century in 1999. With Manchester United he won two League titles, two Charity Shields and the European Cup, and he was capped 37 times for Northern Ireland between 1964 and 1977 despite never playing in a major tournament finals.