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On This Day - Jan 5 2000: Pele was voted the best soccer player of the 20th century

Brazil's star Pele being hoisted on shoulders of his team-mates after Brazil won the ninth World Cup final against Italy 4-1 in Mexico City's Estadio Azteca Mexico on June 21 1970. Pele, who scored the opening goal of the game and assisted two, won his third winner's medal. The World Cup victory was Brazil's third win for the Jules Rimet Cup. 
Brazil's star Pele being hoisted on shoulders of his team-mates after Brazil won the ninth World Cup final against Italy 4-1 in Mexico City's Estadio Azteca Mexico on June 21 1970. Pele, who scored the opening goal of the game and assisted two, won his th Brazil's star Pele being hoisted on shoulders of his team-mates after Brazil won the ninth World Cup final against Italy 4-1 in Mexico City's Estadio Azteca Mexico on June 21 1970. Pele, who scored the opening goal of the game and assisted two, won his third winner's medal. The World Cup victory was Brazil's third win for the Jules Rimet Cup. 

ON THIS DAY

1971: Former world heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston was found dead in a Las Vegas apartment.

1971: Australia and England met in the first one-day cricket international in Melbourne.

2000: Pele was voted the best player of the 20th century, ahead of Johan Cruyff and Franz Beckenbauer, in a poll by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics.

2003: Canada's John Part ended the eight-year unbeaten run of Phil Taylor with victory in the PDC World Championship final at Purfleet.

2007: England lost the fifth and final Ashes Test in Sydney by 10 wickets to complete a 5-0 series win for the hosts, the first Ashes whitewash in 86 years.

2011: England batsman Paul Collingwood announced his retirement from Test cricket at the end of the fifth Ashes Test.

2014: Australia defeated England by 281 runs in the fifth and final Ashes Test in Sydney, completing a second 5-0 series whitewash for the Baggy Green in four years.

2016: Temba Bavuma became the first black African to score a Test century for South Africa after making 102 not out against England on day four of the second Test in Cape Town.

BIRTHDAYS

Vinnie Jones (soccer) - former Wimbledon and Wales midfielder who became an actor, born 1965.

Diego Tristan (soccer) - former Deportivo La Coruna, West Ham and Spain striker, born 1976.

Franck Montagny (motor racing) - former F1 driver for Super Aguri, born 1978.

Darren Mackie (soccer) - former Aberdeen striker, born 1982.

Lewis Stevenson (soccer) - Hibernian midfielder, born 1988.

QUICK QUIZ BLITZ

1. What is special about the NHL Winter Classic game?

2. Who was England's first game against in Euro 96?

3. Alison Riske, Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Samantha Crawford are American players of which sport?

4. David Warner has played county cricket for which teams?

5. Richard Cockerill was sacked as coach of which Aviva Premiership side this week?

(See quiz answers at bottom)

SPORT ON TV 

Today (Thursday, January 5)

SOCCER: League Two, Doncaster v Portsmouth - Sky Sports 1 1930.

CRICKET: Second Test, South Africa v Sri Lanka - Sky Sports 2 0755; International T20, New Zealand v Bangladesh - Sky Sports 1 0155 (Fri); Big Bash League, Perth Scorchers v Brisbane Heat - BT Sport 2 0800.

TENNIS: WTA, Shenzhen Open - BT Sport 0600 & BT Sport/ESPN 0400 (Fri), Brisbane International - BT Sport 1 0630 & BT Sport 1 0500 (Fri); Hopman Cup - Eurosport 2 0930; ATP, Qatar Open - Eurosport 2 1230, Brisbane International - Eurosport 2 0100 (Fri).

GOLF: PGA Tour, Tournament of Champions - Sky Sports 4 2300.

BASKETBALL: NBA, Houston Rockets v Oklahoma City Thunder - BT Sport 1 0100 (Fri).

SKIING: Biathlon, World Cup - Eurosport 1 1300; Alpine Skiing, World Cup - Eurosport 1 1700.

WINTER SPORTS: Luge, World Cup in Koenigssee - Eurosport 1 1045, 1200 & 1445; Ski Jumping - Eurosport 1 1530.

Tomorrow (Friday, January 6)

SOCCER: FA Cup, West Ham v Manchester City - BBC One 1930 & eir Sport 1 1945; LaLiga, Espanyol v Deportivo La Coruna - Sky Sports 1 1940; A-League, Melbourne City v Western City Wanderers - BT Sport 1 0845.

RUGBY UNION: Aviva Premiership, Newcastle v Bath - BT Sport 1 1900; Guinness

PRO12, Scarlets v Ulster - BBC Two Northern Ireland/Wales 1930; Top 14, Montpellier v Toulouse - Sky Sports 2 1930.

CRICKET: South Africa v Sri Lanka, second Test - Sky Sports 1 0755; Big Bash League, Adelaide Strikers v Hobart Hurricanes - BT Sport 2 0800.

TENNIS: WTA, Shenzhen Open - BT Sport 0600, Brisbane International - BT Sport 1 1100, Auckland International - BT Sport 2 0200 (Sat); Hopman Cup - Eurosport 2 0930; ATP, Qatar Open - Eurosport 2 1330, Brisbane International - Eurosport 1 0330 (Sat).

GOLF: PGA Tour, Tournament of Champions - Sky Sports 4 2300.

BASKETBALL: NBA, Milwaukee Bucks v New York Knicks - BT Sport 1 0100 (Sat).

SKIING: Cross-Country Skiing, Tour de Ski event from Toblach in Italy -

Eurosport 1 0930; Cross-Country Skiing - Eurosport 1 1145; Biathlon, World Cup season in Oberhof - Eurosport 1 1300.

WINTER SPORTS: Luge, World Cup - Eurosport 1 1045; Ski Jumping - Eurosport 1 1530.

QUICK QUIZ BLITZ answers: 1. It is played outdoors. 2. Switzerland 3. Tennis 4. Middlesex and Durham 5. Leicester Tigers.

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