Four years later Brazil arrived in Chile as the favourite for the tournament, but an injury to Pele caused panic. The responsibility would fall on the hunched shoulders of Garrincha. And he proved ...
With injury having cruelly stripped the world of Pele for almost all of that tournament, it was Garrincha who led his country to glory. He may not appear at the top of any goalscoring charts you dig ...
Pele named two of his former Brazil teammates, Garrincha and Carlos Alberto, and the man who he found himself constantly compared to in later life: Maradona. In terms of the modern era ...
Brazil and AC Milan legend, Marcos Evangelista de Morais, simply known as Cafu, has told Cristiano Ronaldo he is never the ...