English world champion George Cohen dies in 1966

The right defender of the England national football team, which won the World Cup in 1966, George Cohen, died at the age of 83, according to his former club, Fulham, on Friday.

"Everyone at Fulham Football Club is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of one of our greatest players - George Cohen," the London club wrote in his honor on their website.

The defender (37 caps) played all of the Three Lions' epic matches that won their only world title on home soil in 1966. Cohen spent his entire professional career at Fulham, where he played 459 matches for them from 1956 to 1969 before a knee injury ended his career at the age of Age 29 years.

A statue of him was placed outside the "Craven Cottage" stadium in October 2016. After Cohen's death, Geoff Hurst (81 years old), who scored a hat-trick in the final match of the 1966 World Cup, and Bobby Charlton (85 years old) are still the only ones alive in the starting line-up for the England national team ( Substitutes were not allowed at that time) who won the World Cup.

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