Brazil World Cup hero who was team-mates with Pele lost his virginity to a goat
Pele’s 1958 and 1962 World Cup winning team-mate Garrincha is thought to have lost his virginity to a goat – before going on to father at least 14 kids of his own.
Full name Manuel Francisco dos Santos, Garrincha was born in Rio de Janeiro in October of 1933 and would sadly go on to inherit his father’s alcohol problem as a boy.
Garrincha, who stood 5ft 6in in adulthood and had one leg six centimetres shorter than the other, is widely reported to have lost his virginity to a goat in his early teens.
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Going on to put his football skills to good use, Garrincha spent most of his career with Botafogo and became a key player for his country in the build-up to the 1958 World Cup.
Going on to taste victory alongside the teenage Pele, Garrincha then stole the show in 1962 from the injured star by winning both the Golden Ball and Golden Boot.
Having retired from the game first in 1969 then again in 1972, he went on to father an estimated 14 children having slept with hundreds of women in South America.
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Garrincha was married twice, first to Nair Marques and later to samba singer Elza Soares – then having an affair with showgirl Angelita Martinez.
Sadly, Garrincha was not able to shake an alcohol addition in retirement – and was driving when his mother was killed in a car accident in 1969.
He passed away due to liver cirrhosis, a result of alcoholism, at the age of just 49 in 1983, with Pele later discussing his World Cup legacy that included five goals from 12 games.
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He said back in 2018: “I never played with or against anyone better than Garrincha. On the pitch we were team-mates. Off the pitch we were brothers.”
Having been voted into the World Team of the 20th Century by 250 football writers and journalists – he then came seventh in the FIFA Player of the Century vote.
Famed Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano once said: “In the entire history of football no one made more people happy. When he was out there, the pitch was a circus ring, the ball a tamed animal, the match a party invitation.
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