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    England’s World Cup-winning goalkeeper, Banks, dies at 81

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    The global football family has been thrown into mourning following the death of Gordon Banks, the goalkeeper in England’s 1966 World Cup-winning team. He died at 81, his former club, Stoke City, said on Tuesday.

    Banks won 73 caps for England between 1963 and 1972 and made 200 appearances for Stoke before his playing career was brought to an end by a car crash that cost him his sight in one eye.

    He was widely regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers to have played the game.

    Banks will be best remembered for the diving stop he made to deny Brazil’s Pele at the 1970 World Cup, which later became known as the “save of the century”.

    “It is with great sadness that we announce that Gordon passed away peacefully overnight,”

    “We are devastated to lose him but we have so many happy memories and could not have been more proud of him,” Banks’ family said in a statement posted on Stoke’s official website.

    Banks played every game in the 1966 World Cup, including the 4-2 victory over West Germany in the final at Wembley – the only time England has won the world title.

    Four years later though, in Mexico, he produced one of the most outstanding saves in the history of the tournament in a group game between England and Brazil, which Brazil won 1-0.

    Pele rose to head a cross from the by-line by right-winger Jairzinho, thundering the header down towards Banks’ right hand post.

    The ball appeared to be past Banks but his agility and strength saw him get down and palmed it high and wide to safety.

    Pele travelled to Stoke 38 years later to unveil a statue to Banks and recalled the save.

    “From the moment I headed it, I was sure it had gone in.

    “After I headed the ball, I had already began to jump to celebrate the goal. Then I looked back and I couldn’t believe it hadn’t gone in.

    “I have scored more than a thousand goals in my life and the thing people always talk to me about is the one I didn’t score,” Pele said.

    Banks recalled the moment modestly as a piece of good fortune.

    “As soon as I got my hand to it, I thought it was going in the top corner.

    “But, after I’d landed on the hard floor, I looked up and saw the ball bounce behind the net and that’s when I said: Banksy, you lucky prat,” he said.

    Banks, born in Sheffield, began his career at Chesterfield in 1958 and moved to Leicester City the following year. He won his first England cap in 1963, four years before he joined Stoke.

    The legendary goalkeeper retired in 1973 following the car crash, aged only 33, but four years later he returned to play in the North American Soccer League with Fort Lauderdale Strikers.

    The German Football Association (DFB) paid tribute to Banks on, saying on Twitter: “A fierce opponent and a good man.”

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