Our great Angel With Bent Legs, Manuel Francisco dos Santos, a.k.a. Mané Garrincha or just Garrincha, was born in Pau Grande, Rio de Janeiro, in 1933, and died in 1983.
He is and always will be our (Brazilian) eternal hero in 1958 FIFA World Cup (Sweden) and 1962 (Chile), along with our other great players.
Mané Garrincha represents soccer fantasy, imagination, the dream that every Brazilian boy dreams of what he could do on the pitch.
Our homeland is very happy, for we had Mané to fill us with pure creativity, even though he was almost always repeating the same dribble, as our wonderful journalist Armando Nogueira used to state in his newspaper articles. Garrincha was also nicknamed in Brazil as Joy of the People.
It's really worth watching the fantastic videos of our Mané in black and white, at the time when he played on Botafogo, or on the National Team (Seleção).
Garrincha is from a mythical time in which there were big Titans in soccer, and thank God, many of them played on the soccer fields here in the tropics.
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