Garrincha

"If there is a god that rules football, that God is especially ironic and phony, and Garrincha was one of his subjects charged with escape from everything and everyone ... It was a poor little mortal who helped an entire country to sublimate their sorrows. worst thing is that sadness returned, and no other Garrincha available.'s need a new one, to feed us sleep." That quote is from Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazil's largest modernist poet. And never was read by the alagoano Amaro, illiterate, drunk, club and womanizer. However, the father Manoel Francisco dos Santos, the essential Garrincha, one of the best players on the planet, born October 28, 1933, in the district of Pau Grande, State of Rio de Janeiro.Mane was the fifth son of the house and the eldest daughter, Rosa, seeing in him

the indomitable and soft singing bird, he began to call Garrincha. And he happy with the name, very soon I had to show enthusiasm and temperament. Indigenous paternal side, the future idol inherit the alcoholic tendency. And the joy of living and playing will also come from the blackness of Mr dos Santos Amaro.But no one in Pau Grande argued that adolescents drink. Me to play ball was amazing right knee turned inward and left outward defect resulted in a shorter leg and dislocated spleen. And they both play equipment textile America Manufacturing, where the operator elusive Garrincha changed partiditos street work. Only he was the ace of factory equipment, which led to

the hiring of Petropolis Serrano, remunerándolo per game. This form of wages it will create the desire to live the third pleasure. After sex and drink, in this order, which was her favorite play. And made his uncle Manoel Caieira-inveterate-Cachaceiro wanted to make joining one of the renowned clubs Cariocas.In 1950, Caieira took him to Vasco and Sao Cristovao. In 51, Flamengo and Fluminense, all without success. Garrincha would give up the big teams

when, already married to Nair, operaria that will give Botafogo daughter invited him to a test. And only the June 10, 1953 was there. That day, Nilton Santos urged that was hired, inclusive, to relieve the rest of his life, with the certainty that it would never demoralized by someone in football.Botafogo misery paid $ 27 to Serrano and Garrincha a ridiculous salary. Mane Iraci brought her lover to Rio. And every week climbed the mountain to drink and make love to the bold Nair, who made seven more daughters. The club grew on the right end, but the team was bad in 53, 54 and 55. O'Higgins Is the Cup, the September 19, 1955, that Garrincha was released in Brazil selected. And only in 1957, when Botafogo Rio was champion, the team again. The following year, Mane won the World Cup in Sweden, where, in addition to drinking, which was approved, made with a lover Ulf Lindberg, a Nordic brother to the two children he had with Iraci, the mulatto Pau-large, who soon forget.In 1959 and 1960, Garrincha played friendlies and a South American for

selection. In 1961, he led the Oswaldo Cruz O'Higgins and drinks, in addition to the state competition for Botafogo. At this time, separated from Nair, began his friendship with the singer Elza Soares. The following year, repeating the Carioca title, won the Rio-São Paulo (title repeated in 64) and made 12 games in the selection taking over Cup Oswaldo Cruz and the World Cup in Chile, where he was the crack of the competition, I though expulsion, isolated incident in his career. Only return to Brazil team in 1965, when it was sold to Corinthians. And in the 1966 World Cup, against Hungary, Garrincha was defeated with the selection for the first and only time, being also the last game and so accounting for 61 games and 17 goals.Probably its decline begins when, with chronic osteoarthritis and overweight received injections in the knees to be profitable for Botafogo-with him, share $ 12,000; without it, only 8000. Displaying the mine dry, the club traded him to the Corinthians, where Mane made just 10 games and won the Rio-São Paulo 66. Then to survive, try your luck at Atletico Junior de Barranquilla Colombia. And back to Rio, even dull acted in Flamengo, Olaria and Portuguese.In Italy in the early '70s, playing in amateur team against teams from neighborhoods. And had the poet Chico Buarque de Hollanda, the exiled political era, as a private driver. Only Mane could return. And returned to the Maracanã, where he was "Angel Cakes legs" and "The joy of the people" in the tribute match which brought together local and foreign players in December 1973. But after drinking the income of the meeting, driving drunk three times, ran over to the father in crash in Pau Grande, a child and the mother. Ever, no gas, was leased to mediocre teams and drank cache. At a carnival, his allegorical image of the samba school that was celebrating moving. And he was always gentle and friendly, he violence with whom he wanted to help, as Ademir Menezes. So much so that in 1977, Elza and physically assaulted her mother Garrinchinha not endure more, leave him. Then, the perturbed Mane joined Vanderléa, who gave him a daughter, totaling as fiery gallant five companions, a brood full of 13 descendants.But mostly this was not done neuropathy. No, he did much more ... addition inimitable magic dodge, bequeathed Mane football chivalrous gesture to throw the ball out to rescue someone. And once, in Mexico, seeing him as often dribbling the side of the River Plate, the mass started shouting olé, the incentive runs cry now incorporated in the stadiums of the world. Even more: the subtle and short phrases. Chile, 1962, a radio reporter asked: "Al microphone for his farewell." And Garrincha "Goodbye microphone." With another reporter was diplomat: "I was born Flamengo, Botafogo but I grew." In this club, the honorable Admiral Lima Lages heard when the right Wing said, seriously and without blinking, as a president would receive salary: "At a minimum, the maximum".That unlettered genius, for the chronicler Paulo Mendes Campos, made magic exceeds logic, died in Rio do Janeiro on January 20, 1983. At autopsy, brain, heart, lungs, pancreas, liver, intestine and kidneys were partially destroyed by alcohol. However, if the examination were human, I would say that insurance Mane disappeared, above all, the dream of every and any man who wants to make reason supreme joy of football. And in life.