STOKE-ON-TRENT, ENGLAND ¨C Thousands of fans joined luminaries of English soccer for a final farewell on Monday to Gordon Banks, a steelworker¡¯s son who became one of the world¡¯s greatest goalkeepers and will forever be remembered for a miraculous save against Pele.
Teammates from England¡¯s 1966 World Cup win and members of former clubs Stoke City and Leicester rode in a cortege from Stoke Stadium to a church funeral for Banks, who died at 81 last month of cancer.
¡°As a goalkeeper, he¡¯s one of the few superstars of our position,¡± Leicester and Denmark goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, who was a pallbearer at the funeral, said.
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