Blanda was chosen that season as the Bert Bell Award winner, a player of the year honor whose voters include team owners, general managers and coaches.
Beckenbauer, a World Cup winner as player and manager for West Germany, is on the Fifa board that will decide who will host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
Winner: first player to amass $1 million.
"People never get my name right," says Jorge Beckenbauer, a 43-year old lawyer named after the former West Germany defender and World Cup winner as player and coach, Franz.
Franz Beckenbauer entered that special double club of World Cup winners as player and manager.
And then Dortmund's winner: four players offside as the cross came in, Santana offside again as he tapped in.
But it never is, not when legendary former winners like Player, Nicklaus and Palmer come together in one room, to share stories and memories.
And with Woods sidelined, players sense an opportunity to get a quick start, hoping to end Woods's four-year reign as the Tour's top money-winner and player of the year.
The under-16 tournament was won by the talented 13-year-old Thai girl, Moriya Jutanugarn (pictured), the first female winner, while players from Israel, Venezuela, Peru, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Cayman Islands, Namibia, Swaziland and Lebanon also took part.
