Carlos Alberto obituary: ‘He treated the ball like a person he loved and would hold in his arms’

Seen from above, the man in the golden shirt is caught in mid-flight, high in the air, as if vaulting some invisible obstacle, writes David Shonfield

His body is upright, arms whirling, both legs extended: the left behind him, the right scything through the air.

The picture could be of some master of the martial arts. But this lethal athlete is in the act of scoring a goal.