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 ...

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.