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Great Brazilian footballers: Pele, Garrincha and Ronaldo

great Brazilian footballers

Brazil has always been famous for its religiosity,chic, colorful parades and holidays, as well as football. Brazil is the owner of one of the most titled football teams. Throughout its history, it has managed to win five world championships. Twice she was a finalist and never missed the final part of the world championships. Great Brazilian footballers not only pleased the South American fans, but also contributed to the development of club European football. In this article we will talk about three great Brazilians.

Pele

The Brazilian legend of the sixties and seventies,one of the most titled and recognizable Brazilian forwards, a striker from birth, Pele was born during World War II, October 21, 1940. This man is also recognized as one of the most influential people in world history, according to The Time magazine. Since 1956 and for 18 years, Pele has played for the Brazilian "Santos". Unbelievable, but for 643 games Pele managed to hit the gate of the contestants 656 times. In total for club career Пеле has hammered in 560 goals. He was respected and appreciated by all the great Brazilian football players and fans. No wonder, because only in official matches for the Brazilian national team Pele scored 92 times in 77 games. Three-time winner of the World Cup, six-time champion of Brazil. During his entire career, including friendly matches, Pele scored more than a thousand goals.

great brazilian football players garrincha

Garrincha

The great Brazilian football player Garrincha is consideredone of the best winger of the attacking plan in the history of football. Since childhood, the future legend of world football has had health problems. Garrincha suffered from curvature of the spine and strabismus. He also had pelvic bones removed, which made one leg shorter than the other by 6 centimeters. It was thanks to this feature Garrincha had a great dribbling and easily passed his opponents on the football field. According to the versions of many associations, Garrincha is among the top ten players not only in South America, but all over the world. Like many other great Brazilian footballers who have overcome life's difficulties and become world stars, he is an excellent example to follow.

Ronaldo

the great Brazilian footballer Ronaldo
Brazilian football did not end brightlyperformances in the sixties and seventies. At the beginning of zero, Brazil again had an unbeatable national team. Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Cafu and, of course, Ronaldo. They achieved the fifth world title in 2002. Thanks to a bright performance at the 2002 World Cup, where Ronaldo celebrated eight goals (and having scored twice in the goal of Oliver Kahn, impenetrable at that tournament), he signed a contract with Madrid "Real". The great Brazilian footballer Ronaldo showed himself in European tournaments, winning the UEFA Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup. In early June 2011, Ronaldo last time wearing a T-shirt for the Brazilian national team in a match against Romania. Then the most titled team, in which the great Brazilian football players were brought up, won with the score 1: 0. At the moment, Ronaldo is engaged in agency practice, and his first client was Naimar, the striker of the Spanish "Barcelona".

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