On tour in Sweden in the late 50s, Garrincha had a one night relationship with a local girl. Nine months later Ulf Lindberg was born. Ulf, who only discovered the identity of his father at the age ...

But put a ball at his feet, and the man they called Garrincha - the little bird - could just about do anything. On the 25th anniversary of his death, it is right that football remembers the pleasure ...

Garrincha’s 50 th and final cap for Brazil was a game against Hungary at Goodison Park during the 1966 World Cup Finals. Brazil lost that day 3-1 and after 43 wins and six draws, the first time ...

He was a small and fragile child, which prompted his older sister Rosa to give him the nickname of “Garrincha”, which means “little bird” in Portuguese.

But put a ball at his feet, and the man they called Garrincha - the little bird - could just about do anything. On the 25th anniversary of his death, it is right that football remembers the pleasure ...

It’s a Garrincha [little bird]’.” A nickname was born. Having started working in a factory at the age of 14, Garrincha had no interest in becoming a footballer despite impressing for the ...

Manuel Francisco Dos Santos, whom his sister nicknamed Garrincha (the name of a bird that lives in Mato Grosso) as a child, died in the early hours of Thursday, January 20, ...

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 ...

He went everywhere barefoot, always in the same shirt and pair of cut-off trousers. Before football - and women - became his passion, he spent most of his time diving at the river or chasing birds.

The countdown from 101 continues with Garrincha's spectacular string of performances at the Chile '62. Brazil was a one-man show when it became just the second team to win back-to-back World Cup ...

Pau Grande (Brazil): The grave is in a country cemetery about an hour?s drive from Rio de Janeiro, a simple slab of grimy concrete squeezed between fancier tombs. The epitaph says only: ?Here rests in ...

Garrincha’s 50 th and final cap for Brazil was a game against Hungary at Goodison Park during the 1966 World Cup Finals. Brazil lost that day 3-1 and after 43 wins and six draws, the first time ...