"Football was supposed to be this great expression of Brazilianness," says Alex Bellos, author of Futebol: the Brazilian Way of Life. It was also the first tournament where the trophy was refe… Bahasa - Indonesia; Chinese (simplified) Deutsch; English - Australia; English - Canada; English - Ghana; English - International; ... 1950 Brazil. There was not enough time to invite further replacement teams or to reorganise the groups, so the tournament featured only thirteen teams, with just two nations in Group 4.
"It was like going to the house of a friend whose father or mother had died.
Of the thirteen teams that competed, only one, England, was making its debut. Everybody told me we'd win - my family, my friends, even the milkman," he says.After a shower of confetti had been cleared from the pitch, the Brazilians imposed themselves, creating numerous chances in the first 45 minutes. These are external links and will open in a new windowSixty-four years ago Brazil hosted the World Cup and its team were hot favourites to win, but the final match was to produce one of the greatest upsets in the tournament's history.On 16 July 1950, the Uruguayan winger, Alcides Ghiggia, walked out in front of about 200,000 Brazilian fans at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. "Our captain said, 'Look lads, we've got to go for it,' and so we started to attack, attack, attack," Ghiggia says.Gradually, Ghiggia got the better of his Brazilian marker and, on 66 minutes, he put in the cross which led to Juan Alberto Schiaffino scoring the equaliser for Uruguay.Then, with 11 minutes left, the winger got the ball again and bore down on the Brazil goalkeeper, Moacir Barbosa.
"Three people have silenced the Maracana - Frank Sinatra, the Pope and me," he says.Albuquerque was among the shocked Brazilians. I just thought the worst thing in the world had happened to me," he says.On the pitch, there were also tears. While the Brazilian players cried with grief, the Uruguayans wept with a mixture of joy and disbelief as they did a lap of honour of the stadium. "I remember we didn't move for 10 or 15 minutes.
However, only 13 teams would in the end participate in the World Cup after withdrawals by the rest.
After such crushing victories over Spain and Sweden, it looked certain they would take the title, and the home nation duly went ahead in the second minute of the second half, thanks to a goal from The average attendance of nearly 61,000 per game, aided greatly by eight matches (including five featuring hosts Brazil) held in the newly built Maracanã, set a record that would not be broken until Six venues in six cities around Brazil hosted the 22 matches played for this tournament. Two minutes into the second half, they went 1-0 up and Albuquerque and his parents started to celebrate, believing the inevitable walkover had begun. About a tenth of the population of Rio de Janeiro crammed inside for the final game of the tournament - among them Joao Luiz de Albuquerque, then an 11-year-old schoolboy.Listen to Alcides Ghiggia on the BBC World Service programme Sporting Witness on Saturday 14 June at 1350 GMT Brazil had scored 13 goals in their previous two matches, so like every other Brazilian, Albuquerque believed despatching tiny Uruguay would be a mere formality. Before the qualification competition, George Graham, chairman of the The draw, held in Rio on 22 May 1950, allocated the fifteen remaining teams into four groups:After the draw, the Indian football association AIFF decided against going to the World Cup, citing travel costs (although FIFA had agreed to bear a major part of the travel expenses),France also withdrew, citing the amount of travel that would be required in Group 4.
Brazil had scored 23 goals in the tournament and only conceded four, and so were strong favourites. Brazil was so confident of winning the tournament that a samba band stood on the sidelines of the pitch, ready to play a new song called Brazil the Winners.
"Brazil have gone on to win the World Cup five times, but Ghiggia says that whenever he visits their country, Brazilians remind him that they still feel the pain of the Maracanazo. "We went crazy with happiness.
The World Cup was at risk of not being held for sheer lack of interest from the international community, until Brazil presented a bid at the 1946 FIFA Congress, offering to host the event on condition that the tournament take place in 1950 (it was originally planned to take place in 1949).Having secured a host nation, FIFA would still dedicate some time to persuading countries to send their national teams to compete. I tried not to look at the crowd and just to get on with the match," Ghiggia recalls.For Brazil, winning the 1950 World Cup was a national priority. These are external links and will open in a new window In total, 88 goals were scored by 48 players, with only one of them credited as an own goal.
Group Stage; Final Round; Confederations Cup; Olympics; WC Qualification Intercontinental Play-offs; Olympics Intercontinental Play-offs; Uruguay vs. Brazil - 16 July 1950 - Soccerway. The With eight goals, Brazil's Ademir was the tournament's top scorer.
As the centrepiece, Brazil had built the Maracana, a huge new concrete stadium designed to be the biggest in the world. In 1986, FIFA published a report that ranked all teams in each World Cup up to and including 1986, based on progress in the competition, overall results and quality of the opposition.Notes: There was no qualification for the 1930 World Cup as places were given by invitation only.
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