Papi eye-saw
Garrincha the footballer was a complete urban sporting legend and badboy, a player who could be playing in front of thousands in the biggest stadium in the world The Maracana with Botafogo football club, and later that same evening he be playing football with his friends and local killers in the favela local football pitch. On he field he was pure genius and entertainment whose fun was making defenders look useless and embarrassed. A master of skills he had everything, shooting power accuracy ,free-kick master and a beautiful outside foot technique all with the disability or ability depends how you see it of one leg being shorter than the other. He won the 1962 world cup and player of the tournament by himself (ask Pele).
Off the field the same Garrincha was a drunk a womanizer and loved to party, his own pleasures and vices made him unstable and unreliable of the pitch not letting himself reach the international acclaim as Pele .His brushes with the law and incidents under the influence of alcohol made his life turbulent and even sad in context of potential. Garrincha loved football and he knew that it was a gift and more importantly he delivered on the pitch and lived his life as he wanted which would not always help his career, A typical urban legend and hero who was accessible and who could be seen because he chose to stay in Brazil and teach the next football generations of favela children how too do it or how not to do it.
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