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There’s two types of likeable footballer: the goody-two-shoes Ryan Giggs-before-the-family-mishaps category and the otherwise-unlikeable-but-he’s-really-good-or-at-least-absolutely-mental type. Former-Brazil right-back Carlos Alberto should really fall into the first category, but he has a notable unhumble streak in interviews. Part of me thinks he has more right than most to be unhumble, after all even though boastful most of it is true, but it doesn’t quite sit right. Some of his claims are only half-truths as well. For instance, his declaration of being a pioneer of the attacking full-back are partially true: the brilliant 1970 World Cup probably was the first time most of the world had seen defenders acting like wingers. However, probably just as he had been doing in Brazil (my knowledge of Brazilian football isn’t good enough to know when they started doing this but to have done it at the 1970 World Cup I assume they must have been doing it sometime in the previous decade), there were several European defenders attacking during the 60s. The most important of these belonged to Helenio Herrera’s Internazionale and Jock Stein’s Celtic, who met one another in the 1967 European Cup final with the full-backs being the deciding factor. I’m sure it’s not [...]
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