He July 16, 1950before 200,000 stunitable Brazilians, Uruguay He beat the premises and consecrated himself for the second time, world champion. Everything that happened next was the construction of a myth, with the defeated themselves, the Brazilians, as main actors.
One afternoon, in full 2014 World CupI took a free time to visit the Brazilian Soccer Museum, in Sao Paulo, at the stadium of the Palmeiras.
A flirtatious construction, in which the entire glory of the Verdeamarelha (which was born after 1950, replacing the white jacket): Pelé, Garrinchathe first title in 1958, Tricampeonato in Mexico 70, the return to victory in the United States 1994, the fifth championship in 2002, all glasses, ankle boots, t -shirts, etc. and etc.
Jules Rimet, then president of FIFA, delivering the 1950 World Cup trophy to Obdulio Varela, Captain of Uruguay
And suddenly, in that mandatory journey that all museums have, it had to go through a small room, dark, very silent, only with a large fabric on one of its walls, suitable to observe a video.
There, it was repeated again and again uninterrupted, images and audio that would last no more than a minute, about the 1950 final. The passion fruit of Uruguay.
“The Cup was Nossa,” proclaimed the video announcer. And the giant built for the occasion appeared, with 200 thousand Brazilian fans in full fervor.
The goal of Friaçafor the 1-0 of Brazil. But then, the tie of Schiaffinoand “the Ainda Cup was Nossa.”
But suddenly, in a frantic turn, the goal of Ghiggia for Uruguay2-1, and “Brazil heart, for”and then all silence. Jules Rimet With the cup, looking for the captain Obdulio Varela To deliver it, in the middle of a protocol made trizas. The tears on the court, the tears in the gallery. Yes, although it seems a lie, in the museum built to honor the greatest glories of Brazilian football, there is a room for which it is mandatory to pass, to remember the greatest defeat.
Alcides Ghiggia, author of the goal of the triumph of Uruguay and deceased 10 years ago, also July 16, in an image of 2015 EFE/ Iván Franco/ Archive
Hundreds, thousands, many thousands, from northern fans, who visited the museum, knew and refresh the history of 1950 from the action of the Brazilian football confederation itself.
There is no bigger force to build a myth than a giant and bleeding defeated, which never forgot the defeat.
I still remember some July 16 in Brazil, School or Liceal, coinciding with our winter vacations, and reading in the local newspapers a chronicle about 1950. They, Brazilians, have been much more important to agigate what happened that afternoon in Rio de Janeiro than Uruguayans themselves.
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Now 75 years old are turned. The last to leave was the hero of the second goal, Alcides Edgardo Ghiggiaincredibly deceased on July 16 and at approximately the same time when he turned the goal into Maracaná.
More than a thousand years will pass, but it is hardly repeated such a feat. Beat the premises the last game of a World Cup, from behind, before 200,000 fans, and when it only served the victory, because the tie crowned Brazil champion. Only Uruguay!
