Jimmy Greaves- English Football's Most Prolific Striker.

Описание: Jimmy Greaves is English football's most prolific goalscorer of all time. An astonishing 466 top flight goals in 659 appearances, all at the highest level, make him unparalleled as the best finisher English football has ever seen.

Greaves began his career as a schoolboy at Chelsea in 1956, where he still holds the record for a youth footballer in England- netting an incredible 114 goals in a single season.
He made his first team debut a year later scoring in a 1-1 draw with Tottenham Hotspur. Greaves finished up at Chelsea with two golden boots (1959 & 1961) scoring a club record 41 goals in the 1960/61 season and a total of 132 strikes in 169 appearances. He remains the last person to score 40+ league goals in a season & the youngest player ever to score 100 league goals.

A four month spell in Milan followed, where he netted on his debut again, and also in the Milan derby. Greaves left after scoring a total of 9 goals in 14 appearances & AC Milan went on to be Champions of Serie A.

Greaves joined Tottenham in 1961 for a world record fee £99,999. He scored a hatrick on his debut this time as Spurs thrashed Blackpool 5-1.
Greaves won the FA Cup twice, European Cup Winners Cup & Four Golden Boots (63, 64, 65 & 69) in his time at Spurs, becoming their record goalscorer with 226 goals in 379 games. Greaves finished third in the 1963 B'allon D'or World Player of the Year- 6th in 1964, 7th in 1962 & 10th in 1968 all whilst playing for Tottenham.

Greaves finished his Spurs career in 1970 and joined West Ham United scoring 13 times in 38 appearances. He retired in 1971 at the age of 31.

Jimmy was capped 57 times by England scoring 44 times (3rd in the all time list) he managed 6 hatricks (a record), and 4 on two occasions (Wales & Norway). He was part of the 1966 World Cup winning squad making 3 appearances before missing the majority of the tournament through injury. Greaves also took part in the 1962 World Cup in Chile. He won the Home Championship twice in 61' & 65' respectively.

He remains the highest goalscorer ever in the history of English top flight football with 357 league goals.