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Peter "The Cat" Bonetti (born September 27, 1941
in Putney) was a football (soccer)|football
goalkeeper for Chelsea F.C., the St. Louis Stars
and England national football team|England.  

Chelsea signed him from the Reading F.C.|Reading
youth team.  He made 729 appearances for Chelsea
between 1959 and 1979, a record at the time and in
one season managed 21 clean sheets.  Towards the
end of career he spent one season with the St.
Louis Stars in the NASL.  His international career
is unfortunately remembered for his last game - in
the Wc|1970 in Mexico, as a replacement for Gordon
Banks in the quarterfinal when Germany national
football team|West Germany came back from 2-0 down
to win 3-2.  That game was Bonetti's only World
Cup appearance.

Bonetti at one time held the record for most
appearances for a single club by a goalkeeper, but
was overtaken in the 1990s by Portsmouth F.C.'s
Alan Knight.