KESUKSESAN CHELSEA

Tanggal 20 mei 2012 merupakan hari yang bersejarah untuk Chelsea FC, karna pada tanggal 20 mei ini, akhirnya Chelsea mampu merebut gelar juara liga champions untuk pertama kalinya sepanjang sejarah team ini berdiri. Namun, dibalik keberhasilan Chelsea merebut gelar juara liga Champions pada musim ini, terdapat beberapa fakta unik atau mitos dan juga rekor, yang hadir setelah Chelsea berhasil menjadi juara liga champions musim ini.

LEGENDS OF CHELSEA

LEGENDS

Chelsea have had many legendary players down the years and this page highlights and celebrates some of them.  The players already inducted are listed below in alphabetical order, but we would like your help in deciding who else merits inclusion. Use the link below to vote and periodically we will add the two players who receive the most votes. Profiles by Paul Roberts.

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Roy Bentley

CLUB BADGES

Chelsea's official badge has changed five times (with a few variations on each) in our 100+ year history.

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This is the the first Chelsea badge showing one of the famous Chelsea Pensioners that gave rise to our early nickname. It was never worn on any shirts however but did appear on later matchday programmes.

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When Ted Drake became Chelsea manager in 1952, he instigated a move away from the old 'Pensioners' tag and wanted a new image to go with the new nickname, the Blues. While the new design was being worked on, this cipher of the club's initials was used for a solitary season as a stop-gap.

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Probably the most famous of the Chelsea badges and used for 33 years, this design was inspired by the civic coat of arms of the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea.

The lion was derived from the Arms of Earl Cadogan who was president of the club and also held the title Viscount Chelsea. The staff is that of the Abbot of Westminster whose jurisdiction extended over Chelsea. The roses represent England and the footballs more obviously represent the game.

Chelsea did not start wearing badges on their shirts until 1960 making this the first one used in that way. For the first few seasons the full badge, complete with circle, was sewn onto the shirts.

However due to the complexity of the design several simplified variations were stitched into the shirts during the 60s and 70s, even though the full design complete with circle remained the official club badge.  The cup triumphs of the early 70s were marked with the addition of an FA Cup symbol and stars.

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In 1986 the club adopted our fourth badge to make the most of the growing merchandising opportunities around football. While the design of the lion and CFC letters was always constant, several colour combinations were used over time and the design was at various times used within circle or shield outlines.

The badge was used for almost 19 years and many fans will have started supporting Chelsea knowing no other form. While it served the club well, fans inundated the new board of directors with demands for a return to the old-style design to take Chelsea into a new era, especially ahead of the centenary year.

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Launched in November 2004, the new badge became effective from May 2005. Additionally, a special centenary version was used during that initial commemorative year.

At the launch, Peter Kenyon said: "We are incredibly proud of Chelsea's heritage. The design of this new badge is based on the one from the 1950s and it was a conscious decision to do this.  

"As we approach our centenary year, and the club embarks on a new and very exciting era, it is appropriate that we have a new identity that reflects our tradition and can represent us for the next 100 years."


 Sumber:  http://www.chelseafc.com/club-badges

GIANFRANCO ZOLA

Over seven seasons Gianfranco Zola captivated Chelsea supporters to the extent that he was twice made Player of the Year and in 2003 was voted as the club's greatest ever player, receiving 60% of the votes in a poll on Chelsea's official website.
He helped win four trophies and scored the winner in the 1998 European Cup Winners' Cup Final just seconds after coming on as substitute. In all Franco, scored 80 goals in 312 games, with many of them being spectacular efforts.

RAY WILKINS

Ray Wilkins joined Chelsea as an apprentice and it was apparent that with his talents he would soon break through into the first team. This he did in October 1973 aged 17.
Sadly for Wilkins this coincided with the breakup of the famous cup-winning team. As more experienced players left, Wilkins was made our youngest ever captain, just 18, but he could do little to prevent relegation. Two years later though, Ray had led a young team to promotion. He was the outstanding player in the team, his range and accuracy of passing created chance after chance for his team mates and he also contributed seven goals to the cause, many of them spectacular long-range efforts.
By now Wilkins was an England international, called up while still a Second Division player. He was becoming a celebrity away from the pitch and was undoubtedly the star of the team.
Still, even Ray's talents could not help a team that was being crippled by a lack of investment. He suffered his second relegation with the club in 1979 and was immediately transferred to Manchester United for £825,000.
After a long playing career, Wilkins moved into coaching and has twice been assistant manager at Chelsea, under Gianluca Vialli from 1999 to 2000, and from September 2008 to November 2010, under Luiz Felipe Scolari, Guus Hiddink and Carlo Ancelotti.

Sumber:  http://www.chelseafc.com/legends-profile/legend/1966811

CLIVE WALKER

Clive Walker was a pacy, exciting winger who, on his day could terrorise even the most experienced of defenders. That he never truly lived up to his early promise could perhaps be explained by the fact that he was playing in some of the worst teams in Chelsea history.
Clive made his debut at the tail end of the 1976/77 promotion season and broke into the first team the following year. He soon made a name for himself by scoring spectacular goals, in particular a brilliant effort in an FA Cup win over Liverpool.
Although Walker continued to impress he could do nothing to ward off relegation. As the team stagnated in the Second Division he was often the best talent on show. It was in the penultimate game of 1982/83 that Clive scored arguably the most important goal in the club's history. It was the only goal of the game against Bolton, when defeat would surely have seen us relegated to the Third Division.
At the start of the following season Walker was playing some of the best football of his time at Chelsea when he was injured, and with the team playing so well in his absence, failed to regain his place.
Clive was transferred to Sunderland in May 1984 and went on to play over 1,000 games in a career that lasted until he was 40.

Sumber:  http://www.chelseafc.com/legends-profile/legend/1966815

BOBBY TAMBLING

Bobby Tambling made his Chelsea debut as a 17-year-old in February 1959 scoring the winner in a 3-2 victory over West Ham United. It was the first of his 202 goals, still a club record.
Over the next two seasons Tambling made a handful of further appearances, mostly as a winger and it wasn't until the departure of Jimmy Greaves in 1961 that his career as a goalscorer took off.
Tambling scored 22 goals in his first full campaign even though we were relegated. A year later he became the youngest captain to lead a team to promotion as he totalled 37 goals. Bobby continued to score freely throughout the 1960s as Chelsea threatened to challenge for major honours.
Sadly though, the 1965 League Cup was to be Tambling's only trophy success with Chelsea although he did score one of the goals in the Final win against Leicester City. Bobby did become the first player to score for Chelsea in an FA Cup Final but his goal in 1967 was only a consolation.
Earlier that season Tambling had scored five goals in 6-2 win at Aston Villa. No one has scored more for Chelsea in a league game.
As the 1960s came to end though, Tambling found his place under threat and he played just seven times in the 1969/70 season. He joined Crystal Palace that summer having missed out on a place in the FA Cup Final team


Sumber:  http://www.chelseafc.com/legends-profile/legend/1966808