Garrincha football player biography

To buy an advertisement when we are talking about Brazilian football, one name comes to mind first of all - Pele. And although no one questions the skill and significance of the “king of football”, outstanding players remained in his shadow, unfairly forgotten by their country and fans. The brightest among them is Garrinch, whom journalists and fans called the "Joy of the people", "Charlie Chaplin Football" and "Great Lame".

It was to him, to the man to whom the doctors predicted life in a wheelchair from birth, the stands for the first time shouted “Ole! In this material - the story of a real hero, legends of football, drunkard, womanizer, naive goodness and a deeply unhappy person who was loved by the whole of Latin America - but not for long. The baby had congenital diseases: he suffered from strabismus, deformation of the spine and the displacement of the bones of the pelvis, so his left leg was shorter than the right by six centimeters.

The operations did not help: the doctors believed that it would be a happiness for the child to just learn to walk. Then no one could have imagined that the lame child would grow up and would run faster than the best football players in the world. Manoel's family was a beggar. His younger brother and sister died of illness and hunger. From early childhood, he helped his parents: he collected fruits in the forest and traded them in the market.

Due to the need to work at school, he studied for only four years, rarely attending classes, so he hardly counted and wrote. Mane inherited from his father a weakness for alcohol, first having tried alcohol at four years. At ten years old, he was already drinking a local strong moonshine made of sugarcane, beer and kamimba drink from kashasa, honey and lemon and began to smoke.

Sister Mane Teresa gave him a nickname Garrinch, who later began to call him the whole world. Little Manoel loved to catch the rare little little birds Garrinch, who lived in the forests of his native town, and was well able to imitate their chirt. At the age of 14, he got a job at the local textile factory as an assistant spinning worker. After the work, Garrinch played in the children's composition of the amateur factory team "Pow Grandi".

Even then, Mane played so well that when he was fired from the factory because of laziness, the head of the factory team asked the boss to restore it. The first season when Many was 16, he began to play for an adult team. He was small in stature, humped, both of his wide -arranged legs were tilted to the left. In part, because of his appearance, his football career began with failures and failures.

After many unsuccessful attempts, fate finally smiled at him: the Botafogo football player who accidentally drove into the Pow Grandi saw his game and was so impressed that he asked his coach to arrange a Garrinch viewing. The coach was not in order to waste time on the applicant, so in the trial game he contrasted him with the defender of the Brazilian national team - that is, one of the best players of the country.

Perhaps Garrinch would be worried if he knew Nilton Santos in the face, but celebrities were not dropped in Pow Grande. In the match with River Plate, Garrinch was so impressed by the audience that his every successful action of the stands was accompanied by a cry of “Ole! Over time, this exclamation became traditional among fans of many countries. While the players of the “Botaphogo” chuckled at a strange crooked -legged guy, from whom it was impossible to expect anything but failure in such a situation, Garrinch deftly bypassed the best left -wing defender of Brazil, pushing the ball between his legs, so that he lost his balance from surprise and fell.

Under the surprised gaze of the MANE team, he made the same trick twice. The game of the “chrome -legged” struck Nilton so much that he said to his coach: “If this little one is in another club, I could not sleep calmly. If he is fixed with us, then the defenders of other clubs will not sleep. ” For the transition of the player, Botafogo paid Pow Grandi, and a few weeks later, Mane quit the factory and dedicated his life to football.

In his first season, Garrinch spent 26 matches and scored 20 goals, and after several seasons his team for the first time in nine years won the Rio Cup. The World Cup - Before the World Cup, the players of the Brazilian national team held a psychological test, which was supposed to determine their ability to control themselves and cope with stressful situations. Garrinch was treated with the test with humor: when he was asked to draw a man, he portrayed him with a very big head, comparing him with a smug doctor.

For this, he received an assessment below the permissible threshold - 38 from the way, the pele received the same assessment, and his behavior was called infantile. According to the psychologist, Garrinch was not ready to participate in the World Cup. In the final, the Brazilians beat the owners of the championship - the Swedish national team - with the score, while two goals were scored after Garrinchi’s programs from the right edge.

They say that the football player did not immediately understand the significance of this victory, because he was never interested in the details of the competition. While everyone was celebrating the victory, Many was sure that they had to play with all the teams again.When he returned to his hometown, he was met as a national hero. A day off was announced in Pow Grand and a spontaneous carnival began.

Having walked around the day, Garrinch went into the bar opposite his house, where he and his comrades for years drank on credit, which was never paid. The national hero pulled an impressive pack of money out of his pocket and paid for the debts of all visitors to the bar. When Garrinch stopped the car, the witnesses found that he was dead, he was not at all perceived and did not realize what he had done.

The next year has become difficult for Garrinchi. In the wake of success and suddenly appeared money that he did not know how to dispose, the football player began to drink a lot and gained excess weight. Because of this, Garrinch was removed from participating in a friendly match against England. Returning home in Pow Granda, in front of the enthusiastic crowd, who met his countryman, Many knocked down his father and drove on, not even slowing down.

The joy of the meeting was replaced by horror and anger, and an angry crowd ran after him to the house. A few months later, Amaro died of liver cancer caused by alcoholism. In the year, Garrinch became a participant in one of the first episodes of Fair Play in Brazil: in the match with Fluminenses, the defender of the rivals Pignero fell on the field as a result of muscle stretching.

Garrinch at that moment possessed the ball and could take advantage of a successful moment, but noticing that the opponent was wounded, knocked out the ball outside the field. The defender of the Flu Altair realized that he was obliged to respond properly to this act of Garrinchi. After the out, the Fluminenses team returned the ball to the side line. On the other side of the dusty street there were two botteks - the so -called small bars in Brazil.

One from morning to evening was filled with people, the other was empty. A sad sidewalk rubbed glasses for a thousandth time, looked like dust from the tables, but for some reason the people did not go to him, and that’s it! People preferred to push in a crowded bottleneck. It is difficult to explain why. Some kind of tradition or whim, who knows ...

Manoel, thinking, looked at the lone owner of the bar for a long time and then suddenly turned to Saldani and said:-Seu Joan, will I go down a minute, can I? He went down along the creaky steps of the stairs, left the entrance and went to the other side of the street. On the one where the bars were. In a crowded bar, everyone froze with open mouths and looked at Garrinchu, at the legendary Bu-Camperon, who arrived along with Botapho in this town for one game, which was supposed to take place tomorrow during the day.

Of course, the whole city lived in a match, and this whole fun company just talked about the game. And someone probably complained that the players were being held at the hotel, they didn’t let anyone go there and you could not see the great Didi or Garrinch in any way. And at this very moment ... Here he is, as in a fairy tale: Garrinch! It goes slowly ... Garrinch, the greatest football player in the world!

And Manoel went to a crowded bar, stopped, looked around the leisurely gaze of visitors, stunned with surprise, and ... did not enter. Finnt made: I went through two more steps and entered Botkin, where the lonely sad owner was sitting. He jumped up, numb with surprise and dropped a towel. Garrinch asked Kafafuzino, drank, paid, patted the owner on the shoulder and went out, without saying a word.

And Garrinch, going back to the window and looking at this scene, said:-So it will be more fair, is it not true, Seu Joan? The football player won both the dispute and the game, scoring two of the three heads. Garrinch several times specially circled the opponent on the flank so that he lost his balance and fell. The referee said that if Garrinch continues to mock, he would be removed from the field.

In response, Mane asked for a replacement and went to the locker room. While the Brazilian left the field, the ball suddenly bounced to him. Unable to miss such an opportunity, Garrinch again circled the opponent, hit the goal, and as if nothing had happened continued his way to the locker room. The next day, one of the Brazilian newspapers printed a caricature: 11 players of Botapogo, and all Garrinchi's faces.

The World Cup if most of his career Garrinch was in the shadow of Pele, then the championship of the year became his chance to take his place under the sun. Already in the second match, Pele was injured, because of which he could not play until the end of the season, so Garrinch got the main role in the decisive games of the championship. During the game against England, a wandering dog ran out to the stadium.

The players tried to catch her, but only the English player Jimmy Gryvez managed it. To do this, the football player had to get on all fours, the dog, as if using the moment, relieved the need directly to the hryvnia t -shirt. Garrinch so laughed this case that he took the dog home. Do you see there, at the warm -up, this crooked guy? I am ready to conclude a bet with you on any conditions that five minutes after the start of the match you put to him except the left defender of two or three players.

And if you do not put it, then they themselves will go to hold it ... The bet was enclosed. On a bottle of champagne.They say that on the eve of this game, one of the Brazilian journalists said to Manoel: - Listen! And that you will not pass him ... Many was innocent and excitement. He did not notice the catch and asked: - How does he know me? After all, we did not play with them!

And he said that you could not play against him.

Many thought, shook his head, and then suddenly asked: - And what is he? Black ... - Yes, they are all tall and blond! A little later, Manoel went to Nilton Santos: “You know, I never angry with anyone, but this Flawers did not come out of my head.” I don't like him, this "