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2008-02-21

Manno Sanon, the man who beat Dino Zoff, dies at fifty-six

Haitian

Emmanuel Sanon died of pancreatic cancer in Orlando, Florida, at fifty-six. Born in Port-au-Prince on 25 June 1951, he came up through Don Bosco, won the 1973 CONCACAF championship at home and carried Haiti to its only World Cup. On 15 June 1974 in Munich he ran onto a long ball, went around Dino Zoff and scored, ending a run of 1,143 minutes in which the Italian keeper had conceded nothing. He scored again against Argentina. He is still Haiti’s all-time leading scorer with 37 goals in 65 caps, and he was buried in Port-au-Prince after the largest state funeral the country had given an athlete.

Source Researched: Wikipedia (en/fr); Orlando Sentinel; FIFA