BORN in Pau Grande in the state of Rio de Janiero on October 23, 1933, Manuel Francisco dos Santos acquired the nickname ‘Garrincha’. It means ‘wren’ – from his sister Rosa who compared his slight ...

Garrincha, who won two FIFA World Cups with the Selecao during an 11-year international career, died aged 49 in 1983 of cirrhosis of the liver. Joao Rogoginsky, his cousin, said the Brazil star's ...

Rio de Janeiro: Pele says Brazil can win the World Cup without Neymar. He has cited the example of how Brazil went on to nail the trophy in 1962 after losing him to an injury in the second match. What ...

Review – One of the great soccer players who ever lived now rests in a cemetery in Rio de Janeiro with someone else’s headstone marking his grave. “He deserved something much better. He was the ...

The Estadio Nacional de Brasilia Mane Garrincha will host six World Cup matches this summer. Brazil’s capital city named its stadium after a player who remains closest of all to his country’s heart.

The remains of deceased Brazilian football legend Garrincha are missing, members of his family say. The remains of the winger, who died in 1983 aged 49, may have been lost in an exhumation, relatives ...

Mane Garrincha, the Brazilian football genius renowned for leaving defenders in confusion, is now baffling his many fans from beyond the grave with the ultimate mystery: where are his bones? The ...

Icon won the World Cup twice but furious family are now in the dark about his remains THE body of Brazil football legend Garrincha has disappeared from the cemetery where it was buried, his family ...

At first sight, he looked like he would barely be able to walk. With his right leg pointing inwards and his left leg pointing outwards, Manuel Fransisco dos Santos seemed more destined to end up in a ...

Elton Eneas sighs, leans on his car and takes in the view. In front of him is one of the most expensive football stadiums ever built. It is, by common consensus, an architectural marvel, its white ...