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George Best (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a winger, spending most of his club career at Manchester United. A highly skillful dribbler, Best is regarded as one of the best players in the history of the sport. He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1968 and came sixth in the FIFA Player of the Century vote. Best received plaudits for his playing style, which combined pace, skill, balance, feints, two-footedness, goalscoring and the ability to get past defenders.

In international football, Best was capped 37 times for Northern Ireland between 1964 and 1977. A combination of the team's performance and his lack of fitness in 1982 meant that he never played in the finals of a major tournament. He considered his international career as being "recreational football", with the expectations placed on a smaller nation in Northern Ireland being much less than with his club. He is regarded as one of the greatest players never to have played at a World Cup. The Irish Football Association described him as the "greatest player to ever pull on the green shirt of Northern Ireland".

With his good looks and playboy lifestyle, Best became one of the first media celebrity footballers, earning the nickname "El Beatle" in 1966, but his extravagant life style led to various personal problems, most notably alcoholism, which he suffered from for the rest of his life. These issues affected him on and off the field, often causing controversy. Although conscious of his problems, he was publicly not contrite about them; he said of his career: "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds [women] and fast cars – the rest I just squandered". After football, he spent some time as a football analyst, but his financial and health problems continued into his retirement. He died in 2005, age 59, due to complications from the immunosuppressive drugs he needed to take after a liver transplant in 2002.

Honours

Manchester United

• Football League First Division: 1964–65, 1966–67

• Charity Shield: 1965, 1967

• European Cup: 1968

Individual

• Football League First Division Top Scorer: 1967–68

• FWA Footballer of the Year: 1967–68

• Ballon d'Or: 1968; Third place 1971

• PFA Team of the Year Second Division: 1977

• Football League 100 Legends: 1998

• Honorary doctorate from Queen's University Belfast: 2001

• Freeman of Castlereagh: 2002

• Inaugural inductee into the English Football Hall of Fame: 2002

• BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award: 2002

• UEFA Jubilee Awards – Northern Ireland's Golden Player: 2003

• UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll: #19th

• FIFA 100 (world’s greatest living players: 2004)

• Golden Foot: 2005, as football legend

• PFA Merit Award: 2006

• PFA England League Team of the Century (1907 to 2007):Team of the Century 1907–1976Overall Team of the Century

• FWA Tribute Award: 2000

• English Football Hall of Fame: 2002

• FIFA Player of the Century:FIFA internet vote: #20
  FIFA Magazine and Grand Jury vote: #5

• World Soccer The Greatest Players of the 20th century: #8

• Ballon d'Or Dream Team (Bronze): 2020