Mário Zagallo is 82 today. He is a Brazilian former football player and manager. He was the first footballer to win the World Cup both as a manager and as a player ( won it as a player in 1958 and 1962 and as a manager in 1970). He's also rumored to have invented the Shangallo (Bicycle kick).lol
Rod Laver
Rod Laver is 75 today. He is an Australian former tennis player and the greatest tennis player ever in his own right. He holds the record for most singles titles won in the history of tennis, with 200 career titles. He was ranked World No. 1 for seven consecutive years, from 1964 to 1970, He is the only tennis player, male or female, to have twice won the Grand Slam (all four major singles titles in the same year), winning in 1962 and 1969. He is the only player in tennis history (man or woman) to have won 3 combined calendar year Grand Slams. Laver won a total of 19 Major singles titles, including 11 Grand Slams and 8 Pro Slams. He hold the all-time male records of 22 singles titles in a season (1962) and 7 consecutive years (1964-70) winning at least 10 singles titles per season. All these and many more have made the centre court at Melbourne Park, which today hosts the Australian Open, to be named the Rod Laver Arena in his honour.
Otto Rehhagel
Otto Rehhagel is also 75 today. He is a German football coach and former football player. Rehhagel is the only one of two persons, the other one being Jupp Heynckes, who, as player and as manager combined, has participated in over 1000 Bundesliga matches. In the Bundesliga, he holds the records for the most victories (387), most draws (205), most losses (228) and his teams have scored the most goals (1473) and conceded more (1142) than any other.
Internationally, Rehhagel coached the Greek national team from 2001 to 2010 in what has been the nation's most successful footballing era – during that period, Greece won the 2004 European Championship and qualified for the 2010 World Cup, their second ever World Cup finals participation.
Roy Hodgson
Roy Hodgson is 66 today. He is an English former footballer who is the manager of the England national football team. Hodgson, who has managed sixteen different teams in eight countries has coached many notable club sides, including Inter Milan, Blackburn Rovers, Malmö FF, FC Copenhagen, Udinese, Fulham, Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion. Hodgson served several times as a member of UEFA's technical study group at the European Championships and was also a member of the FIFA technical study group at the 2006 World Cup. Hodgson speaks five languages and has worked as a television pundit in several of the countries in which he has coached.
Filippo Inzaghi
Filippo Inzaghi is 40 today. He is an Italian retired professional footballer, who currently serves as the head coach for Milan's Allievi Nazionali (under-17) team. During his career, Inzaghi won one World Cup and two UEFA Champions League titles. Inzaghi is one of the most prolific goalscorers of all time, fifth in Italy, with 313 goals scored in official matches.
Filippo Inzaghi is currently the second all time highest goal scorer in European club competitions with 70 goals, only beaten by Raúl's 77 goals. He is also Milan's top international goal scorer in the club's history with 43 goals. He also holds the record for most hat-tricks in Serie A (10) and the Champions League (three, tied with Michael Owen, Lionel Messi, and Mario Gómez)
Derek Fisher
Derek Fisher is 39 today. He is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). His NBA career has spanned more than 17 years, during which he has won five NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers. He currently serves as the president of the National Basketball Players Association.
As of 2013, Fisher had played in 240 career playoff games, the second highest total in NBA history. While playing for the Lakers, he hit a buzzer beater with 0.4 seconds left in game 5 of the 2004 Western Conference Semifinals against the San Antonio Spurs, which the NBA lists as the 18th-greatest playoff moment of all time.
Adewale Ogunleye
Adewale Ogunleye is 36 today. He is a former American football defensive end who played eleven seasons in the National Football League (NFL). Ogunleye is of Nigerian background and his grandfather was the king of Emure in Ekiti State.
Mikaël Silvestre
Mikaël Silvestre is also 36 today. He is a French footballer who plays for the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer. He also played for Manchester United and Arsenal where he will fondly be remembered as the first player to transfer directly from United to Arsenal in 34 years.
Tyson Gay
Tyson Gay is 31 today. He is an American track and field sprint athlete who competes in the 100-meter and 200-meter dash. Gay is one of the greatest sprinters of his generation as His 100 m personal best of 9.69 seconds is the American record and makes him the second fastest athlete ever. His 200 m time of 19.58 makes him the fifth fastest athlete in that event.
His performance of 9.71 seconds to win the 100 m silver medal in the 2009 World Championships is the fastest non-winning time for the event. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he ran 9.80 in the 100 m final, but finished fourth, making him the fastest non-medalist in Olympic history. He won his first Olympic medal, a silver, with an American record run of 37.04 seconds in the 2012 Olympic 4×100 m relay final.
Stefano Okaka
Stefano Okaka is 24 today. He is an Italian footballer who currently plays as a striker for Spezia Calcio on loan from Serie A club Parma. He was Born in Umbria, Italy to Nigerian parents who later obtained Italian citizenship. The Unsettled striker has played for 7 different clubs in his last 7 years.
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