He arrived with nothing to prove, but true to character, Clarence Seedorf would approach his Botafogo years, his twilight, with the same class as always
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One of the sport’s greatest talents; a doctor; an activist; a maverick: in the history of football, no career has looked quite like Sócrates’
The 17-year-old Brazilian wunderkind sealed the game in the final minute, heading home to give O Seleção its maiden World Cup win in 1958, eight years after the misery at the Maracanã. Pelé was…
Every footballer dreams of lifting the World Cup. Some achieve this goal, and others sit in the rarefied air of winning it on multiple occasions. Mário Zagallo is in a league of his…
The famous author and journalist Eduardo Galeano once said of Garrincha: “In the entire history of football, no one made more people happy.” That summed up the man who many Brazilians consider as good as Pelé.