One is Garrincha of Brazil, who virtually won the tournament single handed in 1962.

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Garrincha's career was effectively over, though he spent many years drifting around both South America and Europe trying to prolong it.

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Garrincha was a tricky winger who not only won the World Cup in 1958, but starred as Brazil retained the trophy in Chile four years later.

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The flamboyant Garrincha, who spent the vast majority of his career with Rio de Janeiro-based Botafogo, died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1983 aged 49.

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Garrincha, the 'joy of the people', must never be forgotten.

BBC: By Jonathan Stevenson

Soares threw him out after he struck her in a drunken rage and they separated in 1977, Garrincha too consumed by alcohol to be of any use to anyone.

BBC: By Jonathan Stevenson

By the time the 1966 World Cup came around he was a pale imitation of the real Garrincha, a long-term knee injury enough to curb the electric bursts of speed that had once made him so destructive.

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Six years later on 20 January, 1983 at the age of 49 - just 21 years after he was widely recognised as the greatest footballer on earth - Garrincha died of cirrhosis of the liver, attached to a drip in a Rio hospital.

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