Drum Magazine social history photographs, Ghana edition 106

Ghana, 1968. Can Carlos Cure Our Cup Hangover? – Dedicated Carlos, hammering home a tactic. In Ghana football's hour of defeat comes yet another soccer saviour. This time it is Carlos Parreira hot from soccer-crazy Brazil. But Carlos' arrival was heralded by fireworks all around with yet another wrangle amongst the organisers of our national sport. His name is a long one: Carlos Alberto Gomes Parreira. He is the 24-year-old soccer strategist from Brazil with a stupendous mission: the unenviable task of injecting panache, passion and fresh Personalities into the stagnant pool of Ghanaian soccer.