OTD E0042 — 12 Dec 2001: Josef “Pepi” Bican, the Forgotten Goal Machine

12 Dec 2001: in Prague, Josef “Pepi” Bican passes, aged 88 – a man who may have scored more official goals than anyone in football history. We follow him from a poor Vienna childhood to Rapid, Austria’s Wunderteam and then Slavia Prague; through wartime leagues, ridiculous scoring runs and political refusals; and into the modern debate over 800+ goals, goals-per-game ratios and why such a prolific scorer stayed relatively unknown outside Central Europe.Tips/corrections: [email protected]