200,000 pigeons waiting to be released into the air to celebrate the victory, and had ordered hundreds of thousands of balloons, scarves, ties and many other souvenirs bearing the inscription "Campeão do mundo " and the names of the Rio players. On July 16, 1950 everything was ready for the big party, that day is disputing the final match of a tournament that would crown to Brazil, the great favorite, favorite one, as champion of the World Cup.
were playing at home, at the huge Maracana, the largest stadium in the world, full of 203,000 fans, had the best equipment with a lead technical aunaba lethal punch, formed by Zizinho, Chico, Jair and the top scorer of the championship , Ademir- had developed a fantastic football in the previous meetings ... and it was enough with a draw against Uruguay . And this match was not the end itself, but the last and decisive in a four-team league, in which Brazil had already won two resounding victories (7-1, 6-1 against Sweden's Spain Zarra Gainza, Molowny and Ramallets), for a hurried victory (3-2 to the Swedes) and a draw (2-2 to ours) to take Japan.
Before the game, the atmosphere was contained euphoria, nobody in their right mind would dare doubt the Brazilian success. How could they do otherwise would not win? They were on their side the power of reason, force of passion, and support of an entire country turned to his team. The speech ignited the River State Governor, minutes before the game, leaves no doubt about the mood that existed then: "You Brazilians, who consider winning the tournament ... you players in a few hours you will be hailed as champions by millions of fellow ... you who are so superior to any competitor ... you to those that greet you as conquerors. "
silent Maracana Brazil dominates with sufficiency the first time (Jair star a ball in the post, and the Uruguayan goalkeeper, Maspoli, makes numerous stops merit) and is ahead on the scoreboard through anything FRIACO outset of the second (minute 47). Everything seems determined, but the amazing interior fine handed goals from Pepe Schiaffino (minute 65) and Alcide Ghiggia (minute 83) change the course of history. "Only three people have managed to silence Maracana: Pope, Frank Sinatra and me, "said the mustachioed and decades after Uruguayan end very fast.
The end of the game was hailed as a mass funeral. Jules Rimet, the FIFA president, had to hand the Cup to the Uruguayan captain Obdulio Varela, in secret. There was no national anthem in tribute to the winning country, there were no speeches or guard of honor ... The country was installed in a stunning state of shock, depression and shame, 50 million Brazilians mourned the defeat, had heart attacks and even a suicide. "Everywhere has its irremediable national catastrophe, something like a Hiroshima. Our catastrophe, our Hiroshima, was the defeat against Uruguay in 1950, said years later, the Brazilian writer Nelson Rodrigues. Soon, some fans began to aim their anger against the national team. The coach Flavio Costa, had to leave Maracana 24 hours later disguised as a woman. But the chief culprit was its own name: Moacyr Barbosa.
The 200,000 pigeons were prepared no cleaved the air freely, at least that day, and hundreds of thousands of souvenirs ended up in trash as the garbage was the life of our hero, cursed thereafter, stigmatized forever by that loss. His crime: doubt whether preventing or clear in the play of the second Uruguayan goal. That would relate Barbosa himself, years later, the play for which he was sentenced to life: "He was disguised as a center shot. Ghiggia was believed to focus, as in the first goal. I had to return. The ball went up and down. I got to play it, I thought that was deflected for a corner. When I heard the silence of the stadium, I plucked up courage and looked back. There was the ball. "
mourn the man who made all of Brazil
Born March 27, 1927 in Campinas in Sao Paulo, Moacyr Barbosa began his professional career with only 15 years in the ranks of Ypiranga of Sao Paulo. In 1945, already considered a great promise, was hired by the powerful Basque Gama, who set the goal to catapult carioca selection only a year later. Sure, elastic and fitted with an excellent sense of positioning, it soon established itself as the best Brazilian goalkeeper at the time, and even speaks of him as one of the best goalkeepers in the history of soccer in their country. With Basque Gama Rio wins the championship in 1945, 47, 49 and 50, and his performance is providential (stops a penalty kick for River Plate striker, Labruna) to deal also with the club Copa Sudamericana in 1948. No But that performance-or rather, that unfortunate play-forever marked his life and his career.
reported perpetually despised, the doors of the Brazilian team is definitely closed that day . Anyone else had sunk into extreme of misery but Barbosa, with a great personality, was determined to continue to demonstrate that he was one of the best goalkeepers of the time. He continued to play at a high level in the Basque range until 1953, in a match against Botafogo, was a fierce rival Zezinho front entrance. The result: A fracture of the tibia and fibula, and six months without stepping on playing field. It was the beginning of the end of his career at the highest level.
still played a few years in other minor equipment such as Santa Cruz de Recife, Bonsucesso and Campo Grande, set in which he would retire after more than fifteen years as a professional. Paradoxes of fate, once removed from playing football he worked as a maintenance worker at the Maracana stadium, the same in which he lived his fall into hell. Years later, when they decided to change the antiquated and goals, Barbosa asked to stay with the one in which conceded the fateful goal. Burned wood, but could do away with the same ease the contempt for people. "It was a late 80's, in a market. I noticed a lady pointed at me, as he said aloud to her little boy, "Look son, this is the man who mourn throughout Brazil," recalled years later. If I had not learned to hold back every time people complained to me that goal, would have ended up in jail or the cemetery for a long time. "
In the last years of his life, would live even further episodes of rejection and public humiliation. In 1993 the Brazilian team was concentrated on the eve of a qualifying match U.S. World Cup. Mario Zagallo, then assistant to Carlos Alberto Parreira, prevented him from entering the concentration to greet the players for fear that gafara the team. "It was a great goalkeeper, it should be remembered for his great moments with the selection, not for that final," said the Brazilian goalkeeper Dida during the 2006 World Cup. "Barbosa did not fail. I threw almost no angle and he thought it was going to pass back, as I did in the first goal with Schiaffino. So leave a space," he recalled in 2006 an elderly Ghiggia. Moacyr Barbosa, the agile and safe keeper of Rio, the man marked for life for a crime he did not commit, died in Sao Paulo on April 7, 2000 at the age of 73.
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