Doctor Socrates: Footballer, Philosopher, Legend

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Daniel Pearl (3 April 2006). "No flair please, he's Brazilian". London: BBC . Retrieved 3 July 2006. The nightmare season in Italy makes for a darkly amusing chapter. “Football was fun to him,” team-mate Celeste Pin tells Downie. “We thought it was strange. Maybe it’s like that when you’re a kid, but not when you’re a professional.” Corinthians have 27 million supporters in Brazil, and they were proudly taking notice of what was happening inside the organisation they adored. They began to cheer and chant in the name of democracy, and the corrupt footballing institutions and beyond were nervously taking notice. He was a spectacular guy. He was one of the best that I ever played with. His intelligence was unique

Off the pitch, he was just as original, with a dedication to politics and social causes that no player has ever emulated. His biggest impact came as leader of Corinthians Democracy - a movement that gave everyone from the kitman to the president an equal say in the running of the club. At a time when Brazil was ruled by a military dictatorship, it was truly revolutionary . As a player, there is not much to say; he was one of the best that I ever played with. His intelligence was unique."

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President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, paid tribute, saying Brazil had lost "one of its most cherished sons". "On the field, with his talent and sophisticated touches, he was a genius. Off the field... he was active politically, concerned with his people and his country." [46] At the 1974 World Cup in Germany, Scottish commentator and author Archie Macpherson recalls a much different Brazil side to the one that had last been to Europe for the 1966 World Cup in England. On a scale of 0-10, how severe is the [symptom], if 0 is no [symptom] and 10 is the worst [symptom] you’ve ever experienced?”Severity: “On a scale of 1-10, how severe would you rate your pain?” (this can be useful later when assessing the impact of treatment) The Greatest Offensive Midfielders of All-Time – Xtratime Community". Xtratime . Retrieved 4 December 2011. Macpherson described the result as “a huge anti-climax” for the neutrals watching at the World Cup.

The same for Falcao, ‘The King of Rome,’ a guy who went to Roma and led them to the championship again 41 years after the last.” Read | How Ayrton Senna and Brazil’s football team helped forge a proud national identity in the early 1990s He represented that elegance and almost casual nature of the way that the Brazilians began to play, relying on great feet and great speed. Plague strikes Athens, and Athens erects a statue to Apollo in thanks for bringing an end to the plague in that year [ 8]. He also attended the following week’s match, at Pontefract Collieries, but opted not to play. He chatted freely and jovially with staff and supporters alike, using the best English he could muster. He posed for photos and signed memorabilia.When Brazil stepped out onto the pitch for its first match of Spain 1982 against the USSR, resplendent in that famous canary yellow and blue kit, few fans knew what to expect. Although no one knows it the town is also the center of a vicious gang of robbers, headed by a John Dillinger like hoodlum played in swaggering style by Barton MacLane. The gang's hideout is at Olin Howland's farm, MacLane and the rest are from the area. He's public enemy number one in the parlance of the day. Although Ann Dvorak had to be introduced somehow as a love interest, the script's biggest fault is the fact that she's wounded in a bank robbery at the hometown. She's a hitchhiker, but a lot believe she was in with the gang. Cardinal rule in real life and films, you absolutely don't do any criminal business in or near your sanctuary.

Despite that gut-wrenching loss to Italy, there is no sense of regret that Brazil’s team in 1982 failed to lift the World Cup trophy, just a remaining feeling of pride that the nation produced and was able to witness one of the most beloved sides in history. I remember that he was an objector. He wanted to know everything - why he couldn't smoke on the team bus, why we had to be in retreat on the Saturday nights before games. Compelling from start to finish...Downie does full justice to an extraordinary life' Pete Davies, author of All Played Out. In Uruguay, 18 months earlier, Brazil was one of six teams competing in the World Champions’ Gold Cup – known as the ‘Mundialito’ or ‘Little World Cup’ – which consisted of five of the six World Cup winners at the time and the Netherlands, which had replaced England.That was where the familiarity ended, though. He’d had to pull the jersey over a rotund beer-belly that hadn’t been there the last time he had donned his boots and shin pads 15 years earlier. His trademark unkempt hair and beard were shorter and greying. He didn’t understand many of the words that were given in the teamtalk by his friend, Simon Clifford – the owner and manager of Garforth Town. More than a decade after retiring, he joined non-League Garforth Town at the age of 50 on a one-month deal as player-coach, but managed just 12 minutes as a substitute. The Brazilian economy was crashing and inflation was soaring. The rich had become richer. The poor longed to be just poor once more as they were now starving and dying. An uprising had started. Rallies began to take place in cities all over the country as they called for the people to be allowed to vote in the upcoming elections – a right taken away from them long before. Thousands in attendance at rallies soon became millions. They demanded change, and early in 1984, they demanded democracy. Cerezo was considered among the best players of Brazil lauded 1982 team. Peter Robinson/EMPICS/PA Images/Getty Images