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Jimmy Greaves

English professional footballer and prolific forward, regarded as one of the best strikers in football history.

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Jimmy Greaves is best known for One of England's greatest football strikers, Tottenham Hotspur's second-highest goalscorer, and record-holder for most goals in English top-flight football. On Dead or Alive, Jimmy Greaves is listed in the World Cup Soccer Legends and Sports Legends categories, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Jimmy Greaves is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: One of England's greatest football strikers, Tottenham Hotspur's second-highest goalscorer, and record-holder for most goals in English top-flight football.
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About Jimmy Greaves

He finished as the First Division's top scorer in six seasons, more times than any other player, and came third in the 1963 Ballon d'Or rankings. Greaves began his professional career at Chelsea in 1957 and played in the following year's FA Youth Cup final. He scored 124 First Division goals in just four seasons before being sold to Italian club AC Milan for £80,000 in April 1961. His stay in Italy was unsuccessful and he returned to England with Tottenham Hotspur for a fee of £99,999 in December 1961. Whilst with Spurs, he won the FA Cup in 1961–62 and 1966–67, the Charity Shield in 1962 and 1967 and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1962–63; he never won a league title but did help Spurs to a second-place finish in 1962–63. After a four-year absence, he returned to football at the non-league level despite suffering from alcoholism. In five years, he played for Brentwood, Chelmsford City, Barnet and Woodford Town before retiring for good in 1980. Greaves scored 13 goals in 12 England under-23 internationals and 44 goals in 57 full England internationals between 1959 and 1967.

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