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Denis Law (born 24 February 1940) is a Scottish former football player, who enjoyed a long and successful career as a striker from the 1950s to the 1970s. Law's career as a football player began at Second Division Huddersfield Town in 1956. After four years at Huddersfield, he was signed by Manchester City for a transfer fee of £55,000, which set a new British record.〔This was roughly equivalent to £900,000 at 2004 values, according to the retail price (conversion utility ) at measuringworth.com.〕 Law spent one year there before Torino bought him for £110,000, this time setting a new record fee for a transfer between an English and an Italian club.〔This was roughly equivalent to £1.7 million at 2004 values, according to the retail price (conversion utility ) at measuringworth.com.〕 Although he played well in Italy, he found it difficult to settle there and signed for Manchester United in 1962, setting another British record transfer fee of £115,000.〔This was roughly equivalent to £1.6 million at 2004 values, according to the retail price (conversion utility ) at measuringworth.com.〕 He is best known for the 11 years that he spent at United, where he scored 237 goals in 404 appearances, second only to Bobby Charlton in the club's goalscoring chart. He was nicknamed ''The King''〔Law and Gubba (1980), p. 8.〕 and ''The Lawman'' by supporters, and ''Denis the Menace'' by opposing supporters who generally feared and respected him. He is the only Scottish player in history to have won the prestigious Ballon d'Or award, doing so in 1964, and helped his club win the First Division in 1965 and 1967. He missed their European Cup triumph in 1968 through injury. Law left Manchester United in 1973 to return to Manchester City for a season, and represented Scotland at the 1974 FIFA World Cup. He retired at the start of the 1974–75 season. Law played for Scotland a total of 55 times and jointly holds the Scottish international record goal tally with 30 goals.〔Kenny Dalglish also scored 30 goals for Scotland, although he achieved this in 102 matches compared with Law's 55.〕 Law holds a United record for scoring 46 competitive goals in a single season. ==Early life== Law was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, to George Law, a fisherman, and his wife, Robina; he was the youngest of seven children, four boys and three girls. The Law family were not well off and lived in a council flat at Printfield Terrace in Aberdeen. He went barefoot until he was 12 years old and wore handed-down shoes throughout his adolescence; his first pair of football boots came as a second-hand birthday present from a neighbour, which he received as a teenager.〔 He supported Aberdeen and watched them when he had enough money to do so, watching local non-league teams when he did not.〔 His obsession with football led to him turning down a place at Aberdeen Grammar School, because he would have had to play rugby there instead. Instead, he attended Powis Academy (now St. Machar Academy) in Aberdeen. Despite having a serious squint, he showed great promise once he was moved from full back to inside-left, and was selected for Scotland Schoolboys.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Denis Law」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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