The Maracanazo

Jean Carlos Perez Salcedo

2doB
In 1950 Brazil was designated as the venue for the fourth Soccer World
Cup. Until that moment, football had been paralyzed for 12 years after
the 1938 Cup, at the beginning of the Second World War. Once the war
was over and Europe normalized, football began to resume little by
little. That is why Brazil ’50, brought with it a huge worldwide
expectation and anxiety. The Brazilian people and the previous global
polls, and during the development of the Cup, gave the local as the
absolute favorite to take the valuable trophy

The participants of the goals for Uruguay were schiaffino Ghihhia And
for Brazil friaça
. This is how Brazil, on July 16, 1950, at 3:00 p.m. leaves the Maracana
stadium with an audience record, to play its first World Final. On the other side
of the field was Uruguay, a team that no one that afternoon recognized as a
rival, forgetting its football mystique. (Olympic Champion 1928, World
Champion 1930). After the match, Brazil prevails 1-0 at 47 minutes. With the
celebration on the surface and so little from the end comes the
MARACANAZO. Uruguay at ´66 and at ´79 minutes turned the match by 2 to
1, leaving an atrocious silence in Maracanã and crowned the 1950 World
Champion. Absolutely no one was prepared for that ending, only the
Uruguayan entourage. Finally, the World Cup trophy was handed over by the
FIFA president in the middle of the field, to the Uruguayan Captain in a hurry
and without saying a word. Uruguay and its football, once again. they had
silenced the world