Bale has won two Champions League winner's medals in three seasons and, before one of the biggest matches in the history of Welsh football, knows better than anyone in Chris Coleman's side how to handle huge occasions.
As a defender with Milan Trapattoni won two European Cup winners' medals and scored once in 17 internationals.
The New York Times won three awards and Bloomberg News won two, and other winners included California Watch, CBS News, Frontline, GlobalPost, The Maine Sunday Telegram, McClatchy Newspapers, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The New Yorker and The Washington Post.
Domestically, Chelsea have won four league titles, seven FA Cups, five League Cups and four FA Community Shields, while in continental competitions they have won two UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, one UEFA Super Cup, one UEFA Europa League and one UEFA Champions League.
Taishi Hyatt won two events for the winners, the 800 and 1,500-meters 1,500-meters
Season one winner Kelly Clarkson has had a chart-topping album and two Grammy awards; season four winner Carrie Underwood won two Grammys this year; season three finalist Jennifer Hudson won an Oscar this year.
The telecast, during which Ms. Clarkson, below, the first "American Idol" winner, won two Grammy Awards, drew an estimated 17.56 million viewers in prime time, down from last year's low-rated telecast.
In the modern era only four Europeans have attained this holy grail and added a US-based major to an Open victory: Tony Jacklin, who won the 1970 US Open along with the 1969 Open; Nick Faldo, who won three Masters; Seve Ballesteros, who won two Masters; and Sandy Lyle, winner of the 1985 Open and 1988 Masters.
Campus Magnet had four individual winners and won two relays, the 4x400 and 4x800, in registering 136 points.
It is worth noting that Van Gaal, widely proclaimed serial winner, has won two league titles and the German Cup in the past 15 rather staccato years, taking in his disorientating, aborted succession to Ferguson in 2002, a difficult second spell at Barcelona and periods with the Dutch national team.
