England bids farewell to World Cup-winning goalkeeper Gordon Banks Globe_Sports
Pallbearers carry the coffin out of Stoke Minster church after a funeral service for England's former goalkeeper Gordon Banks, in Stoke-on-Trent, central England, on March 4, 2019.Thousands of fans joined luminaries of English football for a final farewell on Monday to Gordon Banks, a steelworker’s son who became one of the world’s greatest goalkeepers and will forever be remembered for a miraculous save against Pele.
“As a goalkeeper, he’s one of the few superstars of our position,” Leicester and Denmark goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, who was a pallbearer at the funeral, told Reuters.Banks was best known for the stunning one-handed save from a Pele bullet header that bounced awkwardly in front of him during England’s group-stage game against Brazil at the 1970 World Cup.
Footage shows Banks chuckling afterwards, as England’s Bobby Moore jokingly chides him for not catching the ball.Banks won 73 national caps, played nearly 500 times for Leicester and Stoke, won two League Cups and was six times FIFA keeper of the year before a car crash blinded him in one eye. Goalkeepers Jack Butland and Joe Hart also helped to carry Banks’s coffin into the church, where fellow 1966 World Cup winner and hat-trick hero Geoff Hurst gave one of the speeches.
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