Denis Law
| Denis Law | |||
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 Denis Law i 2011 | |||
| Personlig information | |||
| Fulde navn | Denis Law | ||
| Født | 24. februar 1940 (83 år) Aberdeen, Skotland | ||
| Højde | 175 cm | ||
| Position | Angriber | ||
| Seniorkarriere* | |||
| År | Hold | Kampe† | (Mål)† |
| 1956–1960 | Huddersfield Town | 81 | (16) |
| 1960–1961 | Manchester City | 44 | (21) |
| 1961–1962 | Torino | 27 | (10) |
| 1962–1973 | Manchester United | 309 | (171) |
| 1973–1974 | Manchester City | 24 | (9) |
| Total | 485 | (227) | |
| Landshold | |||
| 1958–1974 | Skotland | 55 | (30) |
* Seniorklubkampe og -mål tælles kun for den hjemlige liga. † Kampe (mål). | |||
Denis Law (født 24. februar 1940) er en tidligere skotsk professionel fodboldspiller, der havde en lang og succesfuld karriere som angriber i perioden fra 1956-1974.
Denis Law begyndte karrieren som professionel fodboldspiller i 1956 i den engelske andendivisionsklub Huddersfield Town. Efter fire år i Huddersfield skiftede Law til Manchester City for et dengang rekordstort beløb på £55.000. Law spillede i Manchester City i et år inden Torino købte ham for £110.000, hvilket var en dengang rekordstor transferbeløb mellem en engelsk og en italiensk klub. Selvom han spillede med succes i Italien, havde han vanskeligt ved at finde sig til rette der, og han skiftede herefter i 1962 tilbage til England, hvor han skrev kontrakt med Manchester United for endnu en rekordstor transfersum, denne gang £115.000.
Dennis Law spillede herefter i 11 år for Manchester United, hvor han scorede 237 mål i 409 kampe. Han fik tilnavnet "The King" og "The Lawman" blandt tilhængerne. Han er den eneste skotte, der er tildelt titlen som Årets spiller i Europa, en titel han opnåede i 1964. Han vandt det engelske mesterskab med Manchester United i 1965 og 1967. Dennis Law forlod Manchester United i 1973 og vendte tilbage til Manchester City for en enkelt sæson, hvorefter han repræsenterede Skotland ved VM i fodbold 1974. Law spillede 55 landskampe for Skotland, og er med 30 mål sammen med Kenny Dalglish den mest scorende skotske landsholdsspiller. Dalglish skulle dog bruge 102 kampe for at nå de 30 mål. Denis Law er den tredjemest scorende spiller gennem tiderne i Manchester United, kun overgået af Wayne Rooney og Bobby Charlton. Law er den spiller i Manchester United, der har scoret flest mål på en enkelt sæson, 46 mål.
I 2004 blev han indlemmet i Scottish Football Hall of Fame.
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Pictograms of Olympic sports - Football. This is unofficial sample picture. Images of official Olympic pictograms for 1948 Summer Olympics and all Summer Olympics since 1964 can be found in corresponding Official Reports.
Forfatter/Opretter: Danny Molyneux, Licens: CC BY 2.0
This is Denis. I first spoke to Denis before we boarded an aeroplane for the same flight we were to take. The conversation didn't really start flowing until we were "disembarking" as the flight attendants called it, or "getting of the plane" as I say.
Our conversation was the usual blokes' chat of football, current airport security regulations, football, places to live, the current state of the game of football, and Kenny Dalglish, a man we both admire. Denis has led a very interesting life, is still working occasioanlly desite being a septuagenarian.
I had already identified that Denis would make the perfect stranger after we'd first exchanged a few words. To be honest, during the flight I planned making the stranger-request to Denis. I knew that if I got the chance to approach Denis about the 100 Strangers project that our time would be brief, so I would have little time to get the camera ready. In preparation I slipped on my nifty fifty - light would be limited and it was the fastest of the two lenses I had with me, set the aperture to f3.5 - because of my focus issue on previous stranger number 3, set the white balance to tungsten - best guess of what conditions would be like inside the terminal, and let the camera do whatever it thought best with the ISO.
So Denis and I were chatting after "disembarking". The conversation was flowing so well I almost forgot about the project, but I did eventually get round to talking about the 100 strangers group on Flickr and my paricipation in it. I'm not sure Dennis knew too much about Flickr, but he did very kindly agree to pose for me. Denis was not only a delight to talk to, but a real gentleman and a genuinely nice stranger to talk to. I would like to thank him for agreeing to pose for me. I am so glad I joined this project. I feel it has enriched me, and I'm only four strangers in.
Background choices were somewhat limited, but it's the stranger that counts.
Dennis played association football professionally for both Manchester United and Manchester City in the 1960s and 1970s. He played for his national side Scotland over 50 times, and is their joint highest scorer with 30 international goals. He really is a terrific guy. A pleasure to meet, greet and photograph.