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England legend goalkeeper Banks died

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Xinhua News Agency, London, February 12 (Reporter Prince Jiang) Gordon Banks, the legendary goalkeeper of England and the champion of the 1966world Cup, died on the 12th at the age of 81.

Stoke City Football Club, which banks once worked for, released the news of his death on the official website. It was revealed that banks “passed away peacefully” at night “.

Banks, born in Sheffield, made 73 appearances on behalf of England and was awarded the best goalkeeper of the year by FIFA six times. He participated in all England’s matches in the 1966world Cup, including the final of defeating Germany by 4:2. However, what impressed him most was the magical rescue in the game against Brazil in the 1970 World Cup. At that time, the Brazilian team’s yayilzenho passed down at the bottom, and the ball king Bailey jumped up to heading in, banks jumped out of the ball incredibly. This is recognized as one of the best saves in the world. After the fighting action was completed, banks and the doorpost crashed together. Bailey, who thought the ball had entered the net, was surprised with his head.

Bobby Charlton, who was also a member of the 1966 World Cup champion, expressed his condolences on the death of banks, saying that he was “proud” of having such teammates and said, although I watched the video of that game many times later, I still didn’t know how banks “caught Bailey’s header”.

Banks was the fourth player to die in the starting lineup of England in the 1966 World Cup final.

Banks once played for Leicester City club for 8 years, joined Stoke City in 1964and led the team to win the League Cup title in 1972, which was the biggest honor in Stoke City’s history. In 1973, he retired after losing his right eye in a car accident. In 2015, Stoke City set up a statue for him outside the stadium to commemorate his contribution to the team.

China Racing driver Zhou Guanyu F1 by dreamway

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Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, April 13 issue: China’s racing driver Zhou Guanyu F1 dreamway

Xinhua News Agency reporter Michael batworth

F1 Shanghai station competition this weekend is in full swing. There are still no Chinese players participating in this competition, however, the 19-year-old racing driver Zhou Guanyu seems to be able to end this trend. This year, he just “promoted” to the F2 race, while the F2 race is only one step away from the F1 race.

Zhou Guanyu was originally the racing driver of Ferrari Driver Academy. In January this year, he signed a contract with Renault sports academy to become the development driver of Renault F1 team and participate in F2 competition at the same time. As a result, he became the first driver in China to sign F1 team.

He interpreted the transfer to France as “an important decision made at the end of last season”, adding that Renault would give him more opportunities to help him enter F1 race.

Zhou Guanyu said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua news agency: “I am definitely closer to F1 now. Besides participating in F2 this year, Renault gave me more opportunities to drive F1 racing cars, testing projects for the team will also help me grow. Because of the close cooperation with F1 team, a lot of information can be shared before the race.”

As many of the world’s top racing teams are in Britain, English is becoming more and more important in international racing. Zhou Guanyu went to England at the age of 12 to pursue his dream. He told reporters that after arriving in Britain, he overcame many difficulties when he was young.

“The top racing driver are all in England. I went to England to learn from the best young racing driver.” This is his determination. “I can only speak a little English, which is a big problem-especially I have to adapt to two completely different lifestyles in Europe and Asia. Of course, language ability must be improved so as to communicate with others.”

“I have to take the exam at school. It is really difficult not to get too bad. I only spend a lot of time with the team. They are all British, so I can maintain a normal lifestyle and improve my English at the same time.”

In the past ten years, Zhou Guanyu has run some world famous tracks, but he thinks the most challenging one is a Chinese track. He said: “The Macau track has the most difficult track layout in the world, and other tracks cannot be compared. Lewis Hamilton also thinks so. It is difficult to say it not because there are too many curb, but because it is basically all obstacles and walls, and no mistakes can be racing driver.”

Although he is a native of Shanghai, the 19-year-old racing driver has never competed on the Shanghai track, which makes him feel strange. “I really haven’t run this track! In China, I only ran the kart track, which was my competition. In addition, all the competitions I participated in were in Europe.”

Although he has been away from home for many years, Zhou Guanyu is very proud of being a Chinese, so it is of far-reaching significance for him to become the first F1 racing driver in China.

He said: “My dream is to race in F1. Considering my racing career along the way, if I can race in F1, it must be a glorious moment for me, and it can also promote the rapid development of Chinese racing.” (Finished)