It was clear that the clean living erectionally disfunctional Pele was easier to market and Garrincha … He appeared in commercials, worked hard, considering his poverty stricken background, and became a global sports icon and a multi-millionaire. Nov 14, 2017 #8 The biography is an amazing read (the Ruy Castro one), he would just take his money, fill his place in the slums up with booze and food and everyone was welcome to help themselves. Like all tortured geniuses, Garrincha was unstable and defied all rules – he is said to have lost his virginity to a goat, slept with several women and fathered many children. 0 0 0. He is perhaps the only player to be red carded in a World Cup semi-final in 1962 and be allowed to play in the final because the Government of Brazil decided to take up his case with FIFA. All rights reserved © 2018 The Hounds 4 years ago. 2016.IMPORTANT! The newly built By the time he had made it as a professional, Brazil was still recovering from their shock loss in 1950. The bonus had been destroyed by bedwetting.”After he was omitted from Brazil’s opening two matches in the 1958 World Cup, his teammates were united on him being included in the team. Brazil won their second World Cup in a row – this time, with Garrincha the undisputed main man.Garrincha arrived at a time when professionalism had taken over the game worldwide. My first impression of football was modelled on what I’d seen the Brazilian Ronaldo do at the 2002 World Cup.He never missed a shot, he never mis-controlled. There, they dribbled over the uneven ground and around cracks and potholes. Leave a comment.

Having scored less than the minimum required to be a bus driver, the doctor advised that Garrincha would be unsuited to high-pressure games.

A French journalist called it ‘the greatest three minutes in the history of football’. But for all his prodigious talent, his monikers: the “little bird”, “the joy of the people” and the “bent-legged angel”, made no reference to his skill. This explains why his epitaph reads, “Here rests in peace the one who was the Joy of the People – Mané Garrincha.”  People had painted on the wall: “Thank you, Garrincha, for having lived”.FIFA, in their official tribute to Garrincha refers to him as, “The Chaplin of football’ – and that description probably suits him the best. The minute-by-minute report from Ney Bianchi says it all:“The fans go mad. Along the way, his pursuers would crash into each other in their attempts to stop him.”The book along with Milton Alencar’s outstanding movie on him, “Garrincha: Lonely Star” sums up the legend’s career in short as he remains one of football’s greatest tragi-comic heroes. Such was the impact of Some refer to him as “The Angel with crippled legs”. The Englishman considers a player that dribbles three times in succession is a nuisance; the Brazilian considers him a virtuoso… The English player thinks; the Brazilian improvises.”Although his comments echo (and perhaps started) what is now a tired cliché about the difference between the former colonies and the colonisers, Mazzoni was right, at least when it came to Garrincha. Pelé was the world’s first international footballing superstar, but Garrincha was someone the people could, or perhaps wanted, to see in themselves – a young boy, barefoot, bent-legged, smiling as he weaves a merry path with the ball, teetering on the edge of an embankment in Pau Grande.Bayee Wang is a contributor to The Hounds. After the semi-finals, a headline in the Chilean newspaper, El Mercurio read: “What planet is Garrincha from?” Despite suffering from high fever, he played in the final on special appeal as he was sent off in the semis and inspired Brazil to their second successive victory in the World Cup.Garrincha remains “a forgotten legend” among the generation of modern football followers. He finished joint top scorer with 4 goals as a right winger. His passions in life were football, women and alcohol. He There was simplicity in his eccentricity. It was his joy when playing that defined him.Garrincha’s first football was reportedly some scrunched up paper fashioned vaguely into a sphere, and kept its shape with the help of his auntie’s old stockings.
Garrincha is not an icon in Brazil, he is part of a national folklore and today’s generation must read and watch Garrincha to understand why he is universally regarded as the best dribbler and the greatest right winger in football history. But my God could he play.”He was right. Years later, they remembered the money, and discovered a rotting mass of sodden paper. They win convincingly 2-0.When he ran, Garrincha looked like many of modern football’s electric wide players. He remains to this day, Botafogo’s global symbol of fame. Eventually he graduated to an inflated goat bladder tied together by its intestines. Garrincha would shield his pet, the ball, and together they would conjure up some wonderful tricks that would have the spectators in stitches. As he is chased by a trio of Soviet defenders, he rattles the ball against the post from a tight angle. Garrincha returns to the middle of the park, as ungainly as ever. He played 12 seasons with Botafogo winning three state championships, twice becoming the Brazilian Champion Club and managing one intercontinental Championship.His international career was even more startling. Pelé was a methodical genius, who knew what he was doing. After failing to achieve the mastery of the alphabet needed to move onto the 3In lieu of a civil war, Brazil’s great national tragedy was the loss to Uruguay in the final game of the 1950 World Cup.

Manuel Santos was born on October 28, 1933 in Magé, Rio de Janeiro to an alcoholic father and a mother both from very poor backgrounds. This explains why the Maracana, the world’s largest football stadium, has the home changing room named as ‘Garrincha’, while the away changing room is named after his more illustrious compatriot, ‘Pelé’.So was he a better player than Pelé? In 1962, when Pelé got injured, Garrincha led Brazil to a World Cup victory with a dominating performance throughout the tournament.

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