His motivation to continue his career with football was a huge personal challenge for him. His only motivation to play football was to represent Brazil in a World Cup. He was frustrated by not being called up for the national team in 1978, despite a sequence of good performances by Botafogo, he understood that Corinthians could give him more visibility, so he decided that after playing a World Cup, he would consider hanging up his boots. 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.

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.” The film itself is a minor drama with Muni playing the role of a kindly doctor who has settled in an obscure small town to forget the death of his sweetheart. As the town already has a doctor in Robert Barrat, there are some in the town who don't really take to Muni. But enough do so he gets by. 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 . But the intimidating leverage applied by the violent ruling military was not to be underestimated, and 113 congressmen failed to cast their ballot papers on the crucial evening. The amendment fell 22 votes short of the two-thirds majority it required to pass. 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.Exacerbating and relieving factors: “Does anything make the pain worse?” “Does anything reduce the pain?” 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. Associated symptoms: “Have you developed any other symptoms?” (e.g. shortness of breath, pre-syncope, syncope)

He was also captain of the Brazil team at the 1982 World Cup, long before cable television and streaming made every football match and player compilation readily available. National teams and their star players would be shrouded in mystery when arriving at a World Cup, with A Seleçao and its stars possessing an almost mystical quality. Onset: “When did the shortness of breath first start?” “Did the shortness of breath come on suddenly or gradually?” I have to say, Italy played better than Brazil and their victory was indisputable,” Kfouri says. “It’s just one of those things in football. They [Brazil and Italy] could play 10 times, Brazil would win seven, draw two and lose on July 5. On that day, it was Italy’s day, that’s indisputable.Never quite settled or truly happy in life, he spent his retirement flitting between one spontaneous passion to another. In his personal life, he traded his long-suffering wife for a 20-year-old tennis player but would end with a final tally of four marriages and five children. Compelling from start to finish...Downie does full justice to an extraordinary life' Pete Davies, author of All Played Out .

a b Pilagallo, Oscar (9 March 2023). O girassol que nos tinge: Uma história das Diretas Já, o maior movimento popular do Brasil. Fósforo. ISBN 9786584568044. Sparta supports the coup in Athens. An oligarchic government of 400 aristocrats is installed but is overthrown in four months [ 8, 17].

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He left Regina for Silvana Campos, a tennis player 12 years his junior. His attempt to resume his medical career ended in failure. The man who captained the brilliant Brazil team at the 1982 World Cup emerges from Andrew Downie’s biography as a charismatic, yet melancholy character, a self-styled free spirit who was not really free.