Dixie Dean

The goal machine


William Ralph "Dixie" Dean (Birkenhead, 22 gennaio 1907 - Liverpool, 1° marzo 1980) | Leggenda
Wikipedia: it - en | Memoria Everton | These Football Times | NFM | Spartacus Educational | Carriera internazionale
Video (British Pathé - Sportshots, 1933)

"You might also say he invented goal scoring. He is the only man to have scored 60 goals in a League season - more than most teams manage today. He is the only man to have scored 37 hat tricks in a career. He totted up 200 goals in his first 198 games for Everton, another all-time record. He scored 353 goals in just 12 seasons to beat Bloomer’s tally of 352 in 22 seasons. They list pages of other records… In all he scored 373 goals in 502 matches. He averaged well over a goal a game for England" (Frank Keating, The Guardian)