Brazil and the brothel - your latest "what the..." fact found on the net.

[don_t_ask]

I love the way when trawling around on the net you discover all kinds of stuff. Last night there was a movie on TV Garrincha - Lonely Star about a footballer I had never heard of that many Brazilians think was better than Pele. Largely the movie was, I gather, about his wild lifestyle - womanising, drinking and other fun stuff. I looked him up and found a review of a book Garrincha - The Triumph and Tragedy of Brazil’s Forgotten Footballing Hero and it contained this little gem:

Garrincha was not alone in this hedonism by any means and compared to Castro’s tales of Rio in the ‘50s and ‘60s we are living in a puritan age today. When the Brazilian team arrived in Chile for the 1962 World Cup the first thing their team doctor Hilton Gosling did was visit a “government approved” brothel and arrange for his players to visit on a daily basis.

Imagine the field day the press would have today.

[GuanoLad]

Actually, I find it very strange that people get so upset when sportspeople and politicians act like human beings. If they were ordinary people in ordinary jobs but did the same thing, nobody would care that it happens.

As long as what they’re doing isn’t illegal, I say who cares.