Peter Shilton

Born September 18, 1949. One of the best goalkeepers in the history of English football that ranked in the top one hundred legends of English football. Since 1965, the first of 1974 defended the gate "Lester", with each season, adding to the skill. I successfully replaced by another British legend - world champion Gordon Banks, who in the 67/68 season, moved to Stoke City ". He played in the FA Cup final and in 1971 received the first invitation to the team. Then came a bad period - three colorless season in the new club Stoke, where he was again called upon to replace the departed to rest Banks. But in 1977, led by the hitting of Brian Clough, Nottingham Forest, Shilton, finally, firmly back on its feet, winning the championship of England in 1978, winning two Koech (1979 and 1980), European Super Cup (1979). At the same time Shilton has transformed the place into the gate of England in their property regularly forced to speak of themselves as the best goalkeeper in the world.

. He was always distinguished professional approach to business, exhausting work in training and enormous interest both in theory and in practice goalie art
. It Shilton was the author of the book, a manual for beginners Goalkeeper - "Lessons from Peter Shilton". From him were not expecting beautiful throws. He is famous for its excellent ability to read the game, error-free calculation of angles and trajectories of the ball, as well as excellent response. These qualities allow him to shine in a modest teams such as Southampton (1982-87) and Derby County (1987-91), who became the next step in his goalie biography. For these mediocre clubs Peter looked a luxury and a level befitting its situation has gone, only putting on a sweater goalkeeper.

The most striking statistics in his career, the number of missed goals. Having played 125 matches for the national team, he let the ball cross the goal line only 80 times! And 14 goals were scored his gate with a penalty kick, and Maradona World Cup-86 threw the ball into his gate with his hand.

. Shilton was a member of CHE-80 and 84, as well as two world forums - FM 82 and FM-90, where he played his last game in the match for 3rd place - Italy-England-2: 1.
. Psychological and physical strength allowed outstanding goalkeeper to keep their skills up to 47 years of age - in addition to the above clubs, . Shilton was still playing for the "Plymouth" (1991-94), . "Bolton Wanderers" (1995) - and set a phenomenal record: 22 December 1996 he spent in "Leyton Orient", . which already worked as a coach, . its 1,000 th match in the English league!,