Zagallo also coached football in Brazil with notable success, enjoying a professional association with clubs such as Botafogo and Flamengo to name but a few. Famously, the number thirteen is a lucky number for Zagallo. A variety of different reasons...

clubs (Pinheiro of Fluminense; Rubens, of Flamengo; Ademir, of Vasco da Gama; Zizinho, of Bangu; and Nilton Santos of Botafogo). I didn’t know what to do in front of those perplexed, sacred monsters of my admiration. I doubt that they even had anything...