Sedale Threatt wrote:G R E Y wrote:GSWFan1994 wrote:
If you love Zidane (and I do!), please watch some Didi footage.
Didi was number 8 on Brazil's 1958 and 1962 title team, elected the best player of the 1958 WC.
Inventor of the dry leaf free kick and the 3 toe pass.
He was Pelé's favorite player.
And he played for Real Madrid for a while too, back when there were almost no foreign players in other countries' leagues.
Surefire top 10 all-time brazilian player IMO, hardly remembered by the lists you see around the internet nowadays...
Enjoy!
There's an awesome anecdote from Messi's youth days where one of his coaches promised him some cookies if he scored a goal with his head, which he had never done. So the next game he dribbles through the entire defense, fakes out the keeper, dribbles to the goal line, pops the ball up and taps it in with his forehead. No idea if that's apocryphal or not, but it sounds great.
https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/when-lionel-messi-scored-goals-chocolate-cookies