Garrincha

About to start reading Ruy Castro's book on "The triumph and tragedy of Brazil's forgotten footballing hero".

My eye was caught by the following review by Harry Pearson of When Saturday Comes :

"It's hard to imagine the biography of any English footballer featuring cannibalism, masturbation contests and the subject losing his virginity with a goat inside the first twenty pages, but that's what you get in Ruy Castro's powerfully atmospheric and beautifully rendered life of one of Brazil's greatest ever players. As the opening salvo makes plain, this is a truly extraordinary story... A sad and fantastic book"

Sounds like its not going to be boring then...