Satish Sekar
October 16, 2020
The first black man to play for Liverpool, Howard Gayle, wants to see Zambia’s Goal King, Godfrey Chitalu, honoured in Africa.
"It’s time for the footballing community to honour and recognise what is an outstanding achievement in goal scoring, so that his name and his country can finally be added to the Halls of Fame of footballing greatness,” Gayle said.
All but forgotten for four decades Chitalu’s year resurfaced as one of the greatest ever to lace a pair of boots, Lionel Messi, closed in on Gerd Müller’s ‘record.’ For 40 years the West German scoring machine had been hailed as the calendar year record holder, but Müller never held the record. He broke the previous mark in 1972, but that same year Chitalu obliterated it.
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