Much like Diego Maradona in 1986 – but far more forgotten – Garrincha was a one-man machine at the 1962 World Cup, his mesmerising peak
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BRAZIL CAME TO SWEDEN IN 1958 with a great deal of expectation behind them. It was the sixth incarnation of the World Cup; the Seleção had played in every previous tournament, but…
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.