Samba legends heading for Northern Counties league

AN ambitious non-league football club yesterday launched an audacious bid to sign legendary Brazil strikers Zico and Careca.

Garforth Town announced this week that Socrates, who captained Brazil in the 1982 and 1986 World Cups, was joining the West Yorkshire club as a player-coach on a short-term deal.

And the 50-year-old midfielder could be joined at the Leeds club next year by the veteran Samba superstars in the Northern Counties East League Division One.