The Maracanazo marvels in numbers
The book had been written. Brazil were hosting a fourth FIFA World Cup™. Brazil were winning a fourth World Cup. They had scored a towering 5.75 goals per diversion en track to conquering a prior year’s Copa America. They boasted a mind-blowing conflict with Zizinho as a nexus. They had even rehearsed a feat strain for weeks. Obdulio Varela and Co, however, were not meddlesome in being a bit actor in a local fairy tale. Here is a statistical story of Uruguay’s 1950 triumph.
173,850 was a assemblage that gives Uruguay-Brazil a record throng for a World Cup match. Although that was a central attendance, it is widely believed that over 200,000 were inside a Maracana that day – accurately one month after it was inaugurated.
65 years to a day after his idea won Uruguay a World Cup, on 16 Jul 2015, Alcides Ghiggia upheld away, aged 88. The former Penarol and Roma actor was a usually member of Uruguay’s 1950 patrol to live to see a second World Cup Brazil hosted – though not though overcoming a contingency once again. In 2012 a lorry collided with Ghiggia’s Renault Clio, throwing him by a windshield, and withdrawal him on life support for 37 days. Ghiggia did not utterly become the longest living member of Juan Lopez’s patrol – Anibal Paz was dual months bashful of his 96th birthday when he died in 2013.
53 years and 236 days aged was a age during that George Reader, while overseeing Uruguay-Brazil, became a oldest male to arbitrate a World Cup match. The English propagandize clergyman was, incredibly, innate 9 years before Ivan Eklind, who refereed a 1934 Final.
22 days before Brazil 1950 kicked off, Uruguay didn’t even have a coach. Oscar Marcenaro and Romeo Vasquez had overseen some forgettable new results. Penarol refused to recover their players if possibly Hector Castro, Enrique Fernandez or Jose Nasazzi – all Nacional-affiliated – was appointed. Nacional responded by vetoing Penarol’s Hungarian manager Imre Hirschl. The tale was finally finished by a Uruguayan Football Association handing a reins behind to Lopez, whose usually bar knowledge came as a medical partner during Central Espanol.
20 copies of a journal O Mundo – a cover emblazoned with a title Here Are The World Champions above a design of a Brazil group – is what Obdulio Varela sparse opposite a toilet building of a Paysandu Hotel on a day of a decider. The Uruguay captain wrote ‘Trample and urinate on these newspapers’ in marker on a mirrors, returned to a hotel restaurant, and systematic his team-mates to compensate a revisit to a shower and follow his instructions.
17 matches had upheld given Uruguay had kept a purify piece until Roque Maspoli managed one in an 8-0 thrashing of Bolivia in Belo Horizonte. La Verde had beaten La Celeste, who had Paz in goal, 3-2 during a Copa America 1949 in Rio de Janeiro.
10 was a whopping final-round goal-difference advantage Brazil had over Uruguay (+11 to +1) streamer into their decider. A Seleção had crushed Sweden 7-1 and Spain 6-1, while La Celeste had drawn 2-2 with Spain and edged Sweden 3-2. Furthermore, Brazil’s goal-difference advantage over Uruguay during a Copa America 1949 was an astronomical 45 (+39 to -6).
8 goals though respond is what Uruguay posted opposite Bolivia to record a joint-fourth-biggest feat in World Cup history. It is outranked usually by Hungary 10-1’s scoreline against El Salvador in 1982, Hungary 9-0’s win over Korea Republic in 1954 and Yugoslavia 9-0 delight opposite Zaire in 1974.
8 years is what it took Juan Alberto Schiaffino to measure an general idea outward Brazil. After debuting for Uruguay in Jan 1946, a assailant was on aim in a Copa Rio Branco assembly with Brazil in Sao Paulo and thrice during a 1950 World Cup, though was incompetent to net outward South America’s biggest nation – not even in his local Uruguay – until he finished a drought with 4 goals in 5 games in Switzerland in 1954.
7 of their final 9 matches is what Uruguay mislaid streamer into a 1950 World Cup – simply a misfortune run a jubilant group was on streamer into a tournament. Los Charrúas’ defeats enclosed ones to then-minnows Chile, Paraguay and Peru.
7 group is all that were ranked above Schiaffino in France Football’s 1994 announcement of a 100 World Cup Heroes: (in order) Pele, Diego Maradona, Franz Beckenbauer, Just Fontaine, Gerd Muller, Garrincha and Bobby Moore. Schiaffino was also positioned eighth in Italian repository Guerin Sportivo’s ranking of a Top 50 Players of a 20th Century, forward of a likes of Michel Platini, Franz Beckenbauer and Eusebio.
3 sets of kin have won a World Cup. Jose Andrade was one of a stars of a 1930 tournament, while his nephew Victor Rodriguez – also a defensive midfielder – played in all of Uruguay’s games in 1950. The other kin were both brothers – Fritz and Ottmar Walter with West Germany in 1954, and Jack and Bobby Charlton with England in 1966. Uli Hoeness played in West Germany’s feat over a Netherlands in a 1974 Final, though his hermit Dieter was on a losing side in a ’86 decider.
2 players is all that have scored in any diversion of a jubilant team’s debate – and both, curiously, were not strikers though right-wingers. Ghiggia netted once in any of Uruguay’s 4 outings during Brazil 1950, though surprisingly didn’t measure a singular idea for La Celeste outside that tournament. Jairzinho was on aim in all 6 of Brazil’s matches during Mexico 1970.
1 World Cup coming is all Ruben Moran done in his career – and in it he helped Uruguay turn champions. When Ernesto Vidal postulated an damage streamer into a showdown with Brazil, Lopez surprisingly handed a shy, spare 19-year-old a start. Moran, Pele and Giuseppe Bergomi are a usually teenagers to have played in a World Cup’s final match, with all 3 rising champions.
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