While Garrincha means “little bird,” he was also called Alegria De Povo (The Joy of the People). “At his best, he was capable of doing the best a player can do,” Tostao, Garrincha’s ...

Garrincha poses in a Botafogo shirt - he spent 12 years with them But put a ball at his feet, and the man they called Garrincha - the little bird - could just about do anything ... with a freedom of ...

It’s surprising he had any time for football to be honest. Don’t just take our word for it. Listen to Pele, the only man in history to win three World Cups. “Garrincha could do things with ...

He could do things with the ball that ... history was made when Garrincha and a 17-year-old Pele played together for the first time and helped their side earn a 2-0 win over the Soviet Union.

But, at the same time, thanks to his crooked feet and ... he would not have been able to do it. This is how Garrincha played His Botafogo teammates had to ask Garrincha in training to stop dribbling.

Source: Getty Images The bare statistics do not even tell half of the ... But though Ulf Lindberg and Garrincha never met – by the time Ulf made it to Brazil his father had drunk himself to ...

Brazil never lost a match with Garrincha and ... I became the world's all-time top scorer, with over 1,000 goals," Pele said in an interview with ESPN. The Jornal do Brasil newspaper, based ...

external Garrincha played 50 times for Brazil between 1955 and 1966, helping his nation to World Cup victory in 1958 and 1962, when he shared the golden boot. His daughter Rosangela Santos said ...

he moved to the great Botafogo side of Garrincha, Didi and Zagallo. It was at the club that his career truly took off, winning a Copa do Brasil and two state titles. It was also at this time when ...