The 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil took place at the Brasilia National Stadium, formerly known as the Galincha National Stadium. In the star-studded Kingdom of Brazil, people can generously name a stadium after a star, which shows his difference.
Gifted, wizarding
Garrincha's ancestors were the Fño people, an Indian tribe that lived along the coast of Brazil and had a population of only 3,000 people. Curiously, many of the men of this tribe have physical features with curved calves. Garrincha was born with a deformed leg, and after corrective surgery, his two legs differed by 6 centimeters in length. Therefore, Garrincha will not run more than 30 meters in a race, because after 30 meters he will fall on his own. However, such physical defects did not rob the great star of his talent, who always beat his opponents in short sprints.
Regarding Garrincha, people are always accustomed to staying in the stereotype of Brazilian players casually and loosely, believing that the "little bird" never trains but only knows how to drink and bubble sister, and his success is all due to God's creation. Without a never-say-die tenacity, without more than ordinary hard work, Garrincha would not have been able to have such a high level of skill. But the legends about Garrincha's alcoholism are closer to reality. Garrincha drank to the full extent of alcoholism, getting up in the morning to drink, drinking at noon, and drinking in the evening. Alcoholism led Garincha to do some ridiculous things, including driving his father away and not knowing it. Garrincha died of cirrhosis of the liver from alcoholism at the age of 49.
Side by side with the king of the ball, a defeat in a lifetime
In 1955, at the age of 22, Garrincha made his debut for the Brazilian national team. In the 1966 World Cup, Brazil lost 3-1 to Hungary, which was Garrincha's last match for the national team, and it was the only defeat in his life when he wore the Brazilian yellow shirt. In Garrincha's international career, he has scored 12 goals in 60 games with 52 wins, 7 draws and 1 loss, and another phenomenon is that Brazil have never lost when Garrincha and Pele are on the floor at the same time.
At the 1962 World Cup in Chile, Brazil lost the injured Pele, but still laughed to the end because they still had Garrincha. In the knockout rounds against England 3-1 and 4-2 against Chile, Garrincha scored two goals each, especially against the host Chile's ferocious lethal play, but still played well. In the final, Garrincha and his teammates beat Czechoslovakia 3-1 to lift the World Cup for the second time. The slightly disabled legs were able to make magical dribbling breaks, which was garincha's amazing point, and after the semi-finals, Chile's "Mercurio" newspaper exclaimed, "Which planet did Garrincha come from?!" "In the 1962 World Cup, Garrincha scored 4 goals in 6 matches and won the two honors of best player and top scorer (tied), and this World Cup belongs to Garrincha.
Drunken dreams die, genius dies
The late stages of Garrincha's club career were not spectacular. In the three years from 1963 to 1965, he played only 8 games in Botafogo, where crazy drinking and day and night courtship with women nearly ruined him. Old friend Malvera once recalled, "Galincha sometimes drank all night before the game, went to the game the next day, and came back to drink." For this reason, he often angered the club and had to change owners frequently. From 1966 to 1969, he changed between 3 teams, Corinthian, Barangquera and Flamengo, but did not stay long. In 1972, after playing 10 games for Rio Olaria, Garrincha withdrew from football and later made repeated comebacks until 1982.
In 1980, a scene that shocked Brazil was staged, and during the parade of the Rio de Janeiro Carnival, Garrincha was invited to board the float, but the national television audience saw a drunken and almost unconscious Garrincha in a Brazilian jersey, leaning on the float, indifferent to the crowd and the audience, immersed in his own world.
In January 1983, after Being discharged from the hospital, Garrincha began drinking again, at this time the poor and sick genius was only accompanied by alcohol, and there was some lamentation that "the road to the drunken country is stable and frequent". Finally, early one morning, the 49-year-old "little bird" Garrincha flew back to heaven.
In Garincha's temple, people sang for him. The streets through which the hearse passed were also crowded with mourners. It is said that 8,000 people had been in the cemetery since early in the morning to send off the legend. In a sense, Garrincha represents Brazilian football more than Pele, and his untamedness, his goodness and innocence will always be cherished by the people of this country.