World Football: 40 Biggest Scandals in Football History | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

Garrincha is one of the greatest football players to emerge from Brazil helping them win several major tournaments in his playing career. His activities off the field drew criticism, and he is rumored to have fathered as many as 14 children and slept with numerous women. He was embroiled in two famous scandals during his career.

The first involved him getting a Swedish girl pregnant while touring the country in 1959, and he was unsurprisingly given a hostile welcome. He was confronted by an angry mob, and in the confusion, he ran over his own father. In 1965, shortly before a World Cup, he left his wife with whom he had eight children for a fling with Brazilian singer Elza Soares.