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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The Brazilian cemetery where twice World Cup winner Garrincha was buried in 1983 has lost the player's bones, family and officials in his home town said on Wednesday. Garrincha, ...

The question, three decades after he was buried in 1983 at the age of 49, was revealed in Brazilian media Wednesday. Turns out that while the graveyard in Mage, north of Rio de Janeiro, is known, the ...