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Gunter Hermann who was in West Germany’s squad at the 1962 World Cup, is dead aged 83. He was an unused substitute.

He won the World Cup in 1958 (playing only the final against Sweden) and 1962. With 98 caps, he was Brazil most capped player during 30 years, until Claudio Taffarel broke his record during the 1998 World Cup quarterfinal against Denmark.

Former Spanish football player Emilio Butragueño is 60 today. With Real Madrid he scored 171 goals and was the Pichichi in 1991. He won the UEFA Cup in 1985 and 1986 thus being one of the first players to retain the title in that competition. Only Sevilla FC players have achieved that feat since then. With Spain he was an unused substitute at Euro 1984 (his first cap was a few months after) and played the 1986 and 1990 World Cups. On 19 December 1990 he broke Alfredo Di Stefano’s record to become Spain top goalscorer. However his record was broken in 2001 by Fernando Hierro and then by 5 others players.

What about Scherer’s teamate Vaclav Mašek ? He is not on this list but Wikipedia still list him as alive. I couldn’t find pages saying that he’s dead.

Now the last Czechoslovak survivor of the 1962 final is Josef Jelinek.

On this day 50 years ago, Bruce Lee died aged 32.

Did you find any recent news about him ? I was wondering, him being one of the last survivors of the 1954 World Cup.

Yes, I was being ironical…

He doesn’t look 94 ! Maybe his first name should be Benjamin !

I agree. It’s the same thing in French, ‘super’ is often used as an adverb too, et c’est super pénible !

French Robert Budzynski, who participated at the 1966 World Cup has died aged 83. He played France all 3 games as they were eliminated in the group stage.

Josette Baisse, French olympian cross-country skier at the 1952 Oslo Games, has died aged 98. Now Jacqueline Du Bief, who competed in figure skating, is the last living French female olympian of those games.

American Actress Phoebe Cates, mainly known for her role of Kate in Gremlins and Gremlins II, is 60 today.

Hopefully, it’s due to the heat and it isn’t serious.

Brian Austin Green is 50 today.

Sorry I thought that was the correct expression in English for both the mother and the father. Thanks for correcting me. He became a father then.

That wasn’t him, that was Kaiser Sozé !

Well he looks like a 83 years old who neglected himself. To think he just had a child…

On this day 800 years ago, King of France (1180-1223) Philippe II ‘Auguste’ died aged 57.

My apologies. From now on I’ll be more thorough.

Well those deaths had not been announced in this topic nor in Time Added, so that’s why I’m doing it today.

2 others players from 1990 WC died more or less recently: Belgian Lei Clijsters died on 4 January 2009. He played 3 games. USSR player Valeri Broshin died on 5 March 2009. He was an unused substitute.

20 years ago, Cuban singer Máximo Muñoz aka Compay Segundo died aged 95. He was the subject of Wim Wenders documentary film Buena Vista Social Club in 1997 and gained international fame upon its release.

Louis-Paul M’Fédé, who represented Cameroon at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, died on 10 June 2013. He played all Cameroon 5 games.

Italian football player Christian Vieri is 50 today. He scored 259 goals in 525 matches. In 1996-1997 with Juventus, he won Serie A, UEFA Supercup and Intercontinental Cup, being an unused substitute in the latter. In 1997-1998, with Atlético Madrid, he became La Liga pichichi, being the first Italian to be top scorer of a Top 5 European league, the second and last one being Luca Toni in Bundesliga with Bayern in 2008. In 1998-1999 with Lazio he won the Cup Winners’ Cup scoring the opening goal of the final. He then spent 6 years at Inter, scoring 123 goals and being 2003 Serie A top scorer. He won the Coppa Italia 2005 with the Nerazzuri though he didn’t play the final. With Italy he scored 23 goals but didn’t win any honours, retiring in 2005, one year before their World Cup title.