@stamp_sellers "Three people have silenced the Maracana - Frank Sinatra, the Pope and me" said Alcides Ghiggia , Uruguayan winger 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. "It was a fantastic atmosphere. Their supporters were jumping with joy as if they'd already won the World Cup," he says. 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. Local newspapers had already printed special editions proclaiming the hosts "Champions of the World". "Everyone was saying they'd thrash us three or four nil. 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. The government hoped that football would unite the country and mark it out as an emerging international power. Source: www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27767298 Author: Simon Watts #fifa #soccer #football #worldcup1950 #CopaMundial #Weltmeisterschaft #世界杯 #Maracana #Кубок мира #sepakbola #shocked #brazil #americalatin #saopaoulo #brokenheart #stamps #philategram #filatelia #prangko #philately #timbre #shotoniphone #selos #Julesrimet #goal #Uruguayan #uruguay #BBC #Ghiggia #eureka https://www.instagram.com/p/CDjqPDbJEXf/?igshid=1fqa1olv004jq
