English icon dead after private battle

Charlton was a key member of England’s victorious 1966 World Cup team and also enjoyed great success at club level with United, who became the first English club to win the European Cup in 1968, a decade after members of the team were killed in an air crash in Munich.

“Very sad news today, of the true Greats Sir Bobby Charlton has passed away,” Hurst wrote on X, formerly Twitter.“We will never forget him & nor will all of football. “I will be forever grateful to a man I was named after, someone I looked up to and was a hero to many around the world not just in Manchester and our country where he won the World Cup in 1966.

“He may no longer be with us but he’ll have footballing immortality. RIP Sir Bobby.” Former Manchester United captain Gary Neville said Charlton was the club’s “greatest ambassador”. Laureus World Sports Academy member Sir Bobby Charlton and Lionel Messi. Photo by Getty Images for Laureus. “A lot of the history was living and breathing through him and he was a constant at the club while I was there — travelling with us all over the world.

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