We'll be back early next week with our fourth annual World Club Ranking pre-season edition. In the
meantime, we'll return to a place where we haven't been in a while. The past.
In 1995, we saw an end to three consecutive years in which the top ranked club of the year was the
UEFA Champions Cup (now, Champions League) victor.
Having just booked their place in the UEFA Champions League final, Manchester United and FC
Barcelona rounded off a triumphant week with league successes that have taken them to within a
point of their respective domestic titles. In Italy and Ukraine, meanwhile, the destination of the
championship has already been decided, with AC Milan ending their long Scudetto wait and Shakhtar
Donetsk, like the Rossoneri, completing the first half of a possible domestic double.
Pele, Eusebio, Di Stefano, Puskas, Van Basten, Cruyff and Charlton are a few footballers that
roll off the tongue when one draws up lists or have in-depth debates about who the greatest
footballer was of the 20th Century.
These lofty names featured in a football documentary shown on Sky Sports in the last few months
called Football's Greatest.
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Bafana Bafana vs Kenya is going to be one of those matches where the boys are quick out of the
starting block according to coach Pitso Mosimane.
The encounter against the Harambee Stars will be the coach's last chance to see his team in
competitive action ahead of next month's crucial African Nations Cup qualifier with Egypt.