1.   He took the number six shirt of another product of the Upton Park academy of soccer greats, Malcolm Allison -- and Big Mal never got it back.

2.   Burgsmueller, a former German soccer great, passed the legendary George Blanda this season as the oldest man ever to play pro football.

3.   But Natal said the former soccer great would be back after the Cup, which ends in July.

4.   He knocked around a soccer ball on the victory stand with Moya and Pele, the soccer great.

5.   However, club spokesman Markus Hoerwick later said the soccer great would remain hospitalized at least until Monday.

6.   His goal-getting skills have drawn frequent comparisons to soccer greats Pele, Diego Maradona and Johan Cruyff.

7.   Liverpool soccer greats turned out in force Wednesday for the funeral of Bob Paisley, the most successful manager in English history.

8.   Michel Platini, the former French soccer great, and Fernand Sastre, the co-chairmen of the organization committee for the World Cup, also accompanied Havelange.

9.   Soccer greats Pele and Bobby Charlton deplore the recent upsurge in violence surrounding soccer, but say the problem is society and not the sport.

10.   So the soccer great reacted angrily when the club redesigned it after signing a contract with Nike last year.