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Not only have local legends such as Garrincha, Pele, Zico and Ronaldo places their soles in cement, but they are joined by luminaries such as the Kaiser - Franz Beckenbauer.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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The great Brazilian Garrincha had one leg shorter than the other and is credited with inventing the step-over.
Ashley Young has a turn of phrase to go with the tricks Harry Pearson 2010
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Ars è ne Wenger compared his skills to those of Brazil legend Garrincha.
Young Bucks Draw Big Bucks Jonathan Clegg 2011
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Garrincha, known as the Little Bird and renowned as the world's finest dribbler.
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Four years later, the Brazilian phenomenon was injured during the second match against Czechoslovakia, but the wonders of Garrincha – the little bird with the skewed legs who could dribble as easily as walking – and the scoring exploits of Vavá saw them through.
Marcello Lippi's core of ageing champions ready to fight on 2010
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Zilina are currently making John Terry look like Garrincha.
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Absent are some of the game's greatest names, including those of Garrincha, Bobby Charlton, Johan Cruyff and Diego Maradona, all of whom played in World Cup finals but did not score.
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And like The Rest Is Noise, it sent me to the 'net for examples of the artists that its pages evoked so well (for example, Brazil's tragic star from the 50s, Garrincha, or this half-field shot from Pele I couldn't believe until I had seen it for myself -- at 0: 24, but try not to watch the next 8 minutes too, especially the glorious last goal, at 6: 50).
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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Brazil put football on a nickname basis, and generations have delighted in artists like Pele, Garrincha and Rivellino and, later, Romario, Ronaldo and Rivaldo.
THE FALL OF FOOTBALL 2008
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The best - that is, most intriguing and thought-provoking - footballer auto/biographies I've read are those by or about Danny Blanchflower, Eamon Dunphy, Tony Cascarino, Garrincha and Roy Keane.
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