Tag: Maracanazo

• Sunday, July 11th 2021 - 20:42 UTC

  Argentina stage a Maracanazo of their own to win the Copa América again after 28 years.

  

  Argentina Saturday won the Copa América football tournament by beating hosts and defending champions Brazil 1-0 at the iconic Maracaná Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. Ángel DiMaría scored halfway through the opening half.

• Friday, July 17th 2015 - 07:44 UTC

  The man who silenced Maracana in 1950 passes away with full honors

  

  “Only three people silenced Maracana: the Pope, Frank Sinatra and me”. The comment belongs to Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguay's last member and striker of the team that beat Brazil in the World Football Cup final of 1950 and thus winning the Jules Rimet Cup. It would be Uruguay's second world cup: the first in 1930 when it beat Argentina.

• Wednesday, July 9th 2014 - 07:16 UTC

  Brazil's KO becomes open question for Dilma's re-election and social unrest

  

  Brazilians cried, cursed their president and covered their faces in shame after their beloved football team's humiliating 7-1 thrashing by Germany in the World Cup semi-finals Tuesday. President Dilma Rousseff twitted how sad she was with defeat but called on Brazilians “we won't let ourselves stay down”.

• Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:38 UTC

  Pelé desperate to exorcise Brazil's defeat and loss of the World Cup to Uruguay in 1950

  

  Brazil's Pelé, the legendary attacker believes that his country's national team has the ideal opportunity to exorcise the demons of their 2-1 infamous loss to Uruguay at the Maracana 64 years ago, more precisely 16 July 1950.

• Thursday, February 20th 2014 - 10:27 UTC

  Scolari wants to banish the ghosts of the 1950 when Brazil was beaten by Uruguay

  

  Coach Luis Filipe Scolari says he wants Brazil to banish the ghosts of 1950, when his country last hosted the World Cup and lost the final in a defeat against neighboring Uruguay that has haunted them ever since.

• Friday, December 6th 2013 - 06:38 UTC

  Maracana, July1950, when Uruguay silenced 200.000 Brazilian fans at the Cup's final

  

  Pele, the only person to win three World Cups as a player, said Brazil will enter next year’s tournament with more humility than when the country last hosted soccer’s greatest event in 1950. On 16 July that year Brazil was shocked 2-1 by Uruguay in the final game at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana stadium in what is considered as a national tragedy by some Brazilians.