{"id":21434,"date":"2013-07-26T00:16:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T22:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/brazils-world-cup-winner-santos-dies\/"},"modified":"2013-07-26T00:16:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T22:16:55","slug":"brazils-world-cup-winner-santos-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/brazils-world-cup-winner-santos-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s World Cup winner Santos dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=10708\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10708\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10708\" alt=\"Djalma Santos plays at Wembley in 1963. Photo: Imago\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/e3f57_1064601-17018462-640-360.jpg\" width=\"315\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Djalma Santos plays at Wembley in 1963. Photo: Imago<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Djalma Santos\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Djalma_Santos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Djalma Santos<\/a>, a right back who won two <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/civil-unrest-causes-world-cup-2014-ticket-price-delays\/\" target=\"_blank\">World Cups<\/a> with Brazil and was widely considered one of the country\u2019s greatest defenders, has passed away after a battle with pneumonia. He was 84.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrazilian football has lost one of its idols,\u201d said Jose Marin, president of the Brazilian Football Confederation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDjalma Santos was an admirable player who was loved by fans of all teams not just for the quality of his football but for his discipline and loyalty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The full-back was a contemporary of Pele and Garrincha and played for the Selecao when they won the World Cup for the first time in Sweden in 1958.<\/p>\n<p>Although his only game at that tournament was in the 5-2 win over the hosts in the final, Djalma Santos was still voted the best right-back in the tournament and was an ever present in the team that defended the trophy four years later in Chile. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.eurosport.yahoo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/footballfuss.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/24\/remembering-djalma-santos\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/e3f57_187693627_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/footballfuss.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/24\/remembering-djalma-santos\/\" target=\"_blank\">Remembering Djalma Santos<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/516f5_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Djalma Santos plays at Wembley in 1963. Photo: Imago Djalma Santos, a right back who won two World Cups with Brazil and was widely considered one of the country\u2019s greatest defenders, has passed away after a battle with pneumonia. He was 84. \u201cBrazilian football has lost one of its idols,\u201d said Jose Marin, president of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-21434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}