MANCHESTER, Ingila – Tsohon dan wasan Manchester United da Scotland, Denis Law, wanda aka fi sani da ‘The King’ da ‘The Lawman’, ya rasu yana da shekaru 84. An sanar da mutuwarsa ne ta hanyar wata sanarwa daga danginsa da kuma kungiyar Manchester United.
Denis Law, wanda ya kasance daya daga cikin manyan ‘yan wasan kwallon kafa na karni na 20, ya yi fama da cutar Alzheimer da kuma vascular dementia tun daga shekarar 2021. A cikin sanarwar da danginsa suka fitar, sun bayyana cewa: “Da zuciya mai nauyi muna ba ku labarin mutuwar mahaifinmu Denis Law. Ya yi gwagwarmaya mai tsanani amma a karshe ya sami kwanciyar hankali.”
Law ya kasance dan wasa mai fasaha kuma mai zura kwallaye, inda ya zura kwallaye 237 a wasanni 404 a kungiyar Manchester United, wanda ya sa ya zama na uku a jerin manyan masu zura kwallaye a tarihin kungiyar bayan Wayne Rooney da Bobby Charlton. Ya kuma kasance daya daga cikin ‘yan wasan Scotland da suka fi zura kwallaye a tarihi, inda ya zura kwallaye 30 a wasanni 55.
Ya fara aikinsa ne da Huddersfield Town kafin ya koma Manchester City a shekarar 1960. Daga nan ya koma Torino na Italiya, amma bai samu kwanciyar hankali ba, kuma ya koma Manchester United a shekarar 1962. Ya kasance memba na kungiyar Manchester United da ta lashe kofin Turai a shekarar 1968, inda suka doke Benfica da ci 4-1.
Bayan ya yi ritaya daga wasan kwallon kafa, Law ya zama mai sharhi a talabijin, kuma ya kafa gidauniyar Denis Law Legacy Trust, wacce ke gudanar da ayyukan al’umma da kuma kara shiga cikin wasanni. An ba shi lambar yabo ta CBE a shekarar 2016 saboda gudunmawarsa ga wasan kwallon kafa da ayyukan agaji.
Kungiyar Manchester United ta bayyana cewa duk wanda ke cikin kungiyar suna cikin bakin ciki game da rasuwar “Sarkin Stretford End”. Sun kara da cewa: “Za a ci gaba da yaba masa a matsayin daya daga cikin manyan ‘yan wasan kungiyar da aka fi so. Mai zura kwallaye na karshe, fasaharsa, ruhinsa da kuma kwallon kafa sun sa ya zama gwarzon wannan zamani.”
