He turns 85 today
FIFA.com recalls his magnificent career
“I think I’m Universidad de Chile’s most iconic player and one of Chile’s greatest ever forwards.”
The words are those of Leonel Sanchez and he says them fairly frequently, with pride, no little justification, but with humility too.
They say there has never been a better left foot in Chilean football, a statement that might have something to do with the stunning 40-yard strike that forever changed the rivalry between Universidad de Chile and Colo Colo in 1959, or the free-kick that caught the great Soviet keeper Lev Yashin off guard at the 1962 FIFA World Cup Chile™. It is a legend founded on more than 500 appearances, 200 goals and countless flashes of brilliance.
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