Gilmar: the Brazilian Goalkeeper Who Won Two World Championships and Embraced Pelé in Tears

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Twenty-two of August: two times two. An important number, that two, that will often return in the life and especially in the career of who, like Gilmar dos Santos Neves or simply Gilmar (name born from the union of those of Mother Mary and Father Gilberto) on the shoulders has always had a luno. Yeah, one of the greatest goalkeepers in history Gilmar, certainly the strongest among the Brazilians. Born in 1930, less than a month after Uruguay had…