Garrincha
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Full name | Manuel Francisco dos Santos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 28 October 1933 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Magé, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 20 January 1983 | (aged 49)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Right winger | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1947–1952 | Pau Grande | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1949–1950 | Cruzeiro do Sul FC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1951 | Serrano | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1953–1965 | Botafogo[1] | 238 | (84) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1966 | Corinthians[2] | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1968 | Atlético Junior | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1968–1969 |
Flamengo | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1972 | Olaria | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total | 254+ | (84+) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1955–1966 | Brazil | 50 | (12) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Manuel Francisco dos Santos (28 October 1933 – 20 January 1983), nicknamed Mané Garrincha, best known as simply Garrincha (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɡaˈʁĩʃɐ], "little bird"),[3] was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a right winger. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, and by many, one of the greatest dribblers ever.[4][5]
Garrincha played a vital role in Brazil's 1958 and 1962 World Cup victories. In 1962, when Pelé got injured, Garrincha led Brazil to a World Cup victory with a dominating performance throughout the tournament. He also became the first player to win the Golden Ball (Player of the tournament), Golden Boot (Leading Goalscorer) and the World Cup in the same tournament. He was also named in the World Cup All-Star Teams of both 1958 World Cup and 1962 World Cup. In 1994, he was named in the FIFA World Cup All-Time Team. Brazil never lost a match while fielding both Garrincha and Pelé.[6] In 1999, he came seventh in the FIFA Player of the Century grand jury vote.[7] He is a member of the World Team of the 20th Century, and was inducted into the Brazilian Football Hall of Fame.[8] Due to his immense popularity in Brazil, he was also called Alegria do Povo (People's Joy) and Anjo de Pernas Tortas (Bent-Legged Angel).[9]
At club level, Garrincha played the majority of his professional career for the Brazilian team
Early life
Garrincha was born in Pau Grande, a district of Magé, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in 1933. He was born with his right leg 6 centimetres shorter than his left, also his left leg turned outwards and his right turned inwards, leading one doctor to certify him as crippled as a child.[12][13]
His father was an alcoholic, drinking cachaça heavily, a problem which Garrincha would inherit.[9] A boy with a carefree attitude, he was smaller than other kids his age, with his sister Rosa noticing he was as small as a little bird she started calling him Garrincha, the north-eastern name for the wren, a little brown bird.[14] The name stuck and by the age of four years he was known as Garrincha to his family and friends.[14] Garrincha was also known as Mané (short for Manuel) by his friends.[15] The combined Mané Garrincha is common among fans in Brazil.[citation needed]
Garrincha was known amongst footballing scouts but did not arrive in professional football until his late teens; he had no interest in a professional career despite his immense talent.[16]
Garrincha's younger brother, Jimmy dos Santos, played 20 games for Série A side CR Vasco da Gama in 1959.[citation needed]
Club career
Garrincha was already married and a parent when he signed for
Garrincha continued to play brilliantly, but Brazil had other talented players in his position, notably
In 1966, with his career declining, he was sold to
An entertainer renowned for his dribbling skills in taking on opposing players, Garrincha inspiring the first bullfighting chants of olé to be used at football grounds; during a 1958 club game for Botafogo he gave a footballing lesson to River Plate defender Vairo, constantly teasing, feinting and going past him to ole's from the crowd, and when he "forgot" the ball and sprinted away with Vairo running after him the chants of olés changed to laughter.[11] Garrincha's professional career as a footballer lasted until 1972, when he played for Olaria, but he played occasional exhibition matches until 1982.[19]
Garrincha was subject to numerous transfer attempts by rich European clubs like
International career
Garrincha played 50 international matches for Brazil between 1955 and 1966, and was a starter for the national team in the 1958, 1962 and 1966 World Cups. Brazil lost only one match with him on the pitch, against Hungary at the 1966 World Cup. This was the last time Garrincha played in National team. Pelé did not play the game against Hungary, and thus Brazil never lost when Garrincha and Pelé were in the same lineup.[citation needed]
His first
1958 World Cup
On 29 May, ten days before the
"Garrincha was more of a danger than Pelé I believe at the time, a phenomenon, capable of sheer magic."
— Wales defender Mel Hopkins who faced Garrincha in 1958[6]
Following the Brazilians' narrow 1–0 quarter-final win against
In the final against
Garrincha never bothered about the 'details' of the game. As his teammates were celebrating the World Cup win, he was initially bemused, having been under the impression that the competition was more league-like and that Brazil would play all the other teams twice.[24]
1958–1962
Garrincha put on weight after the World Cup, partly because of his drinking,
1962 World Cup
Garrincha was the most outstanding player of the 1962 FIFA World Cup. When Pelé suffered an injury after the second match and was sidelined for the rest of the tournament, Garrincha played a leading role in Brazil's triumph, excelling particularly against England and Chile, scoring 4 goals in those two matches.[citation needed]
After one win and one draw, Brazil faced
In the quarter-finals against England, Garrincha opened the score with a header off a corner kick. England equalized before half time. In the second half,
During the quarter final, a stray dog ran onto the pitch and evaded all of the players' efforts to catch it until England striker Jimmy Greaves got down on all fours to beckon the animal. Though successful in catching the dog, it managed to urinate all over Greaves' England shirt. Greaves claimed that Garrincha thought the incident was so amusing that he took the dog home as a pet.[30] Ruy Castro's book expands upon this, by clarifying that the dog was captured by an official, and raffled off to the Brazilian squad, a raffle which Garrincha won. The dog was named "Bi" (from "bi-campeões" - "two times champions").[citation needed]
He scored two more goals in the semi-final against the hosts, Chile, as Brazil went on to win 4–2. His first goal was a 20-yard left-foot shot; the second one, a header.[31] A subsequent headline in the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio read: "What planet is Garrincha from?"[32] Garrincha was sent off in that match after 83 minutes for retaliating after being continually fouled. However, he was not suspended for the following match.
Brazil faced Czechoslovakia in the final. Garrincha played despite suffering from a severe fever,[33] which did not prevent Brazil from winning 3–1 and him from getting voted player of the tournament.[32] It was the second consecutive World Cup won by Garrincha and Brazil.[citation needed]
1966 World Cup
Though well short of match fitness and still struggling with a knee injury, which would plague him for the rest of his career, Garrincha still played in the first match of the tournament, a 2–0 win against Bulgaria, Garrincha scored one of the goals of this game with a free kick taken with the outside of his foot (the second goal of this game was scored by Pelé - this was the only time when Garrincha and Pelé both scored goals in the same game). Then Brazil lost 1–3 to Hungary at Goodison Park, in Garrincha's last ever international match, which was the only time Garrincha lost a match with the Brazil national team; he did not play in the last match of the first round against Portugal. Brazil were eliminated in the first round.[citation needed]
Retirement from professional football and farewell
"Garrincha was an incredible player, one of the best there has ever been. He could do things with the ball that no other player could."
In 1973, although he was still signed by
On 19 December 1973, a farewell match for Garrincha between a
Final years and death
The success Garrincha enjoyed on the football pitch was in stark contrast to his personal life. He drank heavily throughout his adult life and was involved in several serious road accidents, notably a crash into a lorry in April 1969 which killed his mother-in-law.[37] He was married twice, first to Nair Marques in 1952 (they separated in 1965), a factory worker from Pau Grande with whom he had eight daughters, and second to Elza Soares, a samba singer whom he married in an unofficial ceremony in March 1966. Soares had also been married previously, and the marriage saw Garrincha cast as a villain by the same press that had once feted him.[9] The couple separated in 1977, when Soares left him after he struck her during an argument. Garrincha had other significant affairs, including one with showgirl Angelita Martinez,[38] and he is known to have fathered at least 14 children.[9]
After a series of financial and marital problems, Garrincha died of
A multi-use stadium in
Style of play
"In the entire history of football no one made more people happy. When he was out there, the pitch was a circus ring, the ball a tamed animal, the match a party invitation. Garrincha nurtured his pet, the ball, and together they created such mischief that people almost died laughing. He jumped over it, it gambolled around him, hid itself away, skipped off and made him run after it. And on the way, his opponents ran into each other."
— Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer[42]
An explosive, agile, and diminutive right winger with a low centre of gravity,
Adored by the Brazilian public due to his innocence, carefree attitude and ability to entertain in making fools of opposing players, Garrincha was referred to as "Joy of the People".[9] Djalma Santos, his Brazil teammate, stated, "He had a childish spirit. Garrincha was football's answer to Charlie Chaplin."[54]
Examples of his shooting ability are his goals in World Cups against England in 1962 and
Regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, he was voted into the World Team of the 20th Century by 250 of the world's most respected football writers and journalists, came seventh in the FIFA Player of the Century grand jury vote, and was named in the FIFA World Cup All-Time Team.[7][8]
Career statistics
Club
Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Botafogo | 1953 | Campeonato Carioca | 26 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 20 | ||||
1954 | Campeonato Carioca | 27 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 36 | 9 | |||||
1955 | Campeonato Carioca | 19 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 28 | 5 | |||||
1956 | Campeonato Carioca | 20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 5 | |||||
1957 | Campeonato Carioca | 21 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 30 | 8 | |||||
1958 | Campeonato Carioca | 26 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 35 | 10 | |||||
1959 | Campeonato Carioca | 24 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 29 | 12 | |||||
1960 | Campeonato Carioca | 21 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 30 | 10 | |||||
1961 | Campeonato Carioca | 21 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 32 | 8 | |||||
1962 | Campeonato Carioca / Taça Brasil | 20 / 5 | 8 / 0 | 7 | 2 | 32 | 10 | |||||
1963 | Campeonato Carioca | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | |||
1964 | Campeonato Carioca | 4 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 3 | |||||
1965 | Campeonato Carioca | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |||||
Total | 238 | 84 | 2 | 0 | 83 | 17 | 323 | 101 | ||||
Corinthians | 1966 | Campeonato Paulista | 4 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 1 | ||||
Atlético Junior | 1968 | Categoría Primera A | 1 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||||
Flamengo
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1968 | Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
1969 | Campeonato Carioca | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||||||
Total | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||||||||
Olaria | 1972 | Campeonato Carioca | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||||||
Career total | 254 | 84 | 2 | 0 | 89 | 18 | 345 | 102 |
International
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Brazil | 1955 | 1 | 0 |
1956 | 0 | 0 | |
1957 | 6 | 0 | |
1958 | 5 | 0 | |
1959 | 4 | 0 | |
1960 | 5 | 2 | |
1961 | 4 | 1 | |
1962 | 12 | 6 | |
1963 | 0 | 0 | |
1964 | 0 | 0 | |
1965 | 6 | 0 | |
1966 | 7 | 3 | |
Total | 50 | 12 |
Honours
Botafogo[1]
- International Quadrangular Tournament: 1954
- State Championship: 1957, 1961, 1962
- Interclub Tournament Pentagonal Mexico: 1958
- International Tournament of Colombia: 1960
- International Tournament in Costa Rica: 1961
- Tournament Home: 1961, 1962 and 1963
- Pentagonal the International Club of México: 1962
- Interstate Cup Champions Club: 1962
- Rio-São Paulo Tournament: 1962 and 1964
- World Champion Clubs (Paris Intercontinental Championship): 1963
- Golden Jubilee Tournament Football Association of La Paz: 1964
- Ibero-American Tournament: 1964
- Panamaribo Cup: 1964
Corinthians[2]
- (Rio-São Paulo Tournament) 1966
Brazil
- FIFA World Cup: 1958, 1962[56]
- O'Higgins Cup: 1955, 1959, 1961[citation needed]
- Oswaldo Cruz Cup: 1961[citation needed]
Individual
- FIFA World Cup Golden Ball: 1962[56]
- FIFA World Cup Golden Boot: 1962[56]
- FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 1958, 1962[citation needed]
- Brazilian Championship Best Player: 1962[citation needed]
- Rio-São Paulo Tournament Best Player: 1962[citation needed]
- Interstate Club Champions Cup Best Player: 1962[citation needed]
- Carioca Championship Best Player: 1957, 1961, 1962[citation needed]
- World Soccer World XI: 1962[57]
- Brazilian Football Museum Hall of Fame
- World Team of the 20th Century.[56]
- FIFA World Cup All-Time Team inductee
- World Soccer's Greatest Players of the 20th century (1999): #20
- L'Équipe's top 50 South-American footballers in history: #4[58]
- IFFHS Brazilian Player of the 20th Century (2nd place)[59]
- IFFHS South American Player of the 20th Century (4th place)[59]
- IFFHS World Player of the 20th Century (8th place)[59]
- The Best of The Best – Player of the Century: Top 50[60]
- IFFHS Legends[63]
- Ballon d'Or Dream Team (Silver): 2020[64]
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- Antezana, Luis H. (1998). Un pajarillo llamado "Mané". Plural Editores. ISBN 84-89891-29-X.
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External links
- The Cachaça Supernova – In Defense of Football's Prophet of Absurdism, Mané Garrincha - Football Paradise
- Sporting Mavericks Hall of Fame Entry
- Brazilian Football Museum Hall of Fame
- Garrincha – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Detail of international appearances and goals by RSSSF
- Profile at the International Football Hall of Fame
- ABC (Australia)
- BBC biography
- Biography at The Hindu Online[usurped]
- FIFA magazine article (1997) at the Wayback Machine (archived 29 May 2007)
- BBC Documentary video, part 1 on YouTube