I am brazillian and I know that in this day, Pelé saw his dad crying too much while they heard the match in the radio. Then, he promised to his father that he would win a world cup. He would win 3 world cups and just 8 years after 1950 final, he won the world cup he promised to win. Legend

There is a theory that when some workers went to clean the stadium the next day they found a child crying silently. Unbelievable...

My family is Uruguayan and this story is pass down from generation to generation. My dad told it to me and I will tell my kids. It's a reminder that when things look impossible, you have to push through to achieve greatness.

This is why you never EVER begin celebrations before the game even starts. No football match - to say nothing of a World Cup final - is *ever* a formality.

This, my friends, was the "Maracanazzo". People like to say that the 7 - 1 was saddest, but believe me my friends, what happened in 1950 set the course of those players. Most of them died in misery and suffered for decades because of one goal. And as a brazilian I fell ashamed for it. The goal keeper, "Barbosa", coudn't talk about that day without crying. He lived in misery for years. Forgotten. Old journalists used to say that the silence in the Maracanã stadium was the loudest ever. David Luiz lost by 7 - 1, but he can buy himself a drink now and then and he still plays in one of today great teams. He is going to be fine.

I'm amazed there isnt a movie on this, it's almost the stereotypical sports movie. Underdogs win, eccentric but strong leader, comeback

I'm Brazilian and I get excited seeing this. The failure of 1950 before this crowd made us strong, we continue with the desire to win the world. In 1954 we failed again, but God was with us in 1958 to 62 and nothing in the world stopped us! Today Brazil has 5 stars in the chest. But I will never forget where we came from.

This sport is rich in history, that's why I love this sport!

I heard the loss was so traumatizing brazil forever changed their jersey .

I read somewhere that the Uruguayan captain, Carlos Varela, bought a bunch of Brazilian newspapers early that Sunday... spread them on the bathroom floor... and had his teammates urinate on the paper that strongly predicted a Brazilian win. This was a great psychological move on his part. Alcides Ghighia, scorer of the second and winning goal, once said that only three people had ever silenced the Maracana stadium: Frank Sinatra, the Pope, and himself. LOL

And then pele happened....

Yesterday was even worse.

its happened again

Maracanazo II the sequel. Coming in June/July 2014

Such a feat about Barbosa (the keeper) showed how politically rigged is the CBF. They blamed the keeper instead of the whole team, as if he was the only guilty of this. How much goals did Brazil scored in five plays before that "finale" : 21!!! But since goalkeepers are poorly treated in the country of artists, they're considered second rate players because since youth, the less talented of the team was "awarded" to keep the goal. It showed how racists and blockheaded were the Brazilians because until Julio Cesar in 2010, never a black skinned keeper had ever kept brazilian goal. They did such a hateful campaign to pin down the poor Barbosa for rest of his life, even forbade him to come close to Brazil training camp, by pure superstition. Rest in Peace Moacir

I have a Brazilian friend in college and he said that his great grandfather went to see this match. He immediately left the stadium when Uruguay scored the first goal.

i love when a cocky team, fans, country got humbled. Their tears are my lunch 😭😭

September 18, 1920: Uruguay 6-0 Brazil (their worst defeat along with 7-1) July 16, 1950: Uruguay 2-1 Brazil ("national tragedy") Uruguay is Brazil's nightmare lol

weird that they didn't mention Ghighia in the end, being the one who scored the winning goal and the only one still alive from the Uruguayan team. Also, they should have mention that the sadness of Brazil also impacted the Uruguayan team, specially the captain, Varela, who didn't celebrate after the win, but instead went to a bar in Rio and shared the sadness of the Brazilians, with them.

the sweetest victory of all mother games..arriba la celeste

What a wonderful story. Love Football, love Uruguay

i love these classic videos...

great history, a great game, played by great nations..... love you fifa

That draw against Switzerland was actually of great importance. Uruguay were inspired by the tactical setup used by Karl Rappan, which thwarted Brazil to such an extent. Even Brazil's coach (Flávio Costa) was quite unnerved by that game and ended up fielding an unfamiliar system, which ended up working in Uruguay's favour.

Acabaram com esse magnífico estádio. Tinha uma capacidade de 200 mil sendo o estádio de maior porte do mundo! Mas infelizmente reduziram drasticamente a capacidade e deixou de ser gigantesco, porém a história nunca irão reduzir, modificar e muito menos apagar.

they didnt mention how brazilians commited suicide becase they couldnt deal. come on,its just a sport.

BRAZIL THE BEST NATIONS IN FOOTBALL BUT RESULT IN FINAL WORLD CUP 1950 IN FRONT OF 200.000 SUPPORTERS , WE REMEMBER FOREVER

Im from that tiny nation Uruguay and i am so proud of it. we won the first world cup ever and we defeated a powerful nation like Brazil against all odds Uruguay is south america leader in continental cups folowed by Argentina and much below Brazil. football nowadays is more profesional and its harder to win titles against very powerful nations as Germany or Brazil (Rio de Janeiro alone has twice the population of the entire Uruguay). I dont want to imagine what would happen if Uruguay have the size of his neighbour countries...

Suerez hasn't tarnished anything, he just gave joy to all the people of Uruguay in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Who's here after lionel messi lead argentina beat brazil 1-0 in copa america final at maracana, thnx to dimaria goal😋🥰🇦🇷🇦🇷

Es el mejor logro de Uruguay en seleccion y en la historia de futbol.

*1st Groupstage:* *Brazil vs Mexico 4-0 (1st Game)* 1-0 Ademir (30 min) 2-0 Jair (65 min) 3-0 Baltazar (71 min) 4-0 Ademir (79 min) *Brazil vs Switzerland 2-2 (2nd Game)* 1-0 Alfredo (3 min) 1-1 Jacques Fatton (17 min) 2-1 Baltazar (32 min) 2-2 Jacques Fatton (88 min) *Brazil vs Yugoslavia 2-0 (3rd Game)* 1-0 Ademir (4 min) 2-0 Zizinho (69 min) *2nd Groupstage:* *Brazil vs Sweden 7-1 (4th Game)* 1-0 Ademir (17 min) 2-0 Ademir (36 min) 3-0 Chico (39 min) 4-0 Ademir (52 min) 5-0 Ademir (58 min) 5-1 Sune Andersson (67 min) 6-1 Maneca (85 min) 7-1 Chico (88 min) *Brazil vs Spain 6-1 (5th Game)* 1-0 Ademir (15 min) 2-0 Jair (21 min) 3-0 Chico (31 min) 4-0 Chico (55 min) 5-0 Ademir (57 min) 6-0 Zizinho (67 min) 6-1 Silvestre Igoa (71 min) *Brazil vs Uruguay 1-2 (6th Game)* 1-0 Friaça (47 min) 1-1 Juan Schiaffino (66 min) 1-2 Alcides Ghiggia (79 min) *Brazilian Goalscorers:* Ademir: *9 Goals* Chico: *4 Goals* Zizinho: *4 Goals* Baltazar: *2 Goals* Jair: *2 Goal* Alfredo: *1 Goal* Friaça: *1 Goal* Maneca: *1 Goal*

if it wasn't for this match, we wouldn't have the iconic Brazil kits

brilliant sporting history!

Another tragedy in July 8th, 2014, Germany vs Brazil 7:1

Lets go Uruguay

It is not tragedy. Uruguay was the best and fantastik!

This is an amazing story. The underdog story is timeless in all sports. Is it true that fans began jumping off the stadium to their deaths after the game? If so, then it truly is a tragedy.

Schiaffino and Ghiggia 💙 italian-uruguayan pride

I think that was probably the greatest football match ever. *I'm brazilian.

it's an exageration to say Uruguay is the greatest footballing nation since they only have 2 world cups when brazil, germany and italy have more but it is true to say that their greatness is usually undervalued in modern times by people who have no knowledge of world cup history and don't realise they have won more than "greats" like england, france, spain and holland! considering how small their nation is and their population, only 3 million!, they have contributed alot to the beautiful game!

Obdulio Varela NEVER lost a World cup game. During 1954 he got injured and missed the semifinal game against that great Hungarian team That gave the chance to Magyars to beat Celeste at the extra time

THIS IS THE GREATEST FINAL IN FOOTBALL HISTORY EVERYBODY IN THIS PLANET LOVES BRASILIAN PEOPLE FOR THEIR BEAUTIFULL PLAYING PLAYERS LIKE DIDI LEONIDAS GARINCHA VAVA ZAGALLO GILMAR DJALMA AND NILTON SANTOS TOSTAO JAIRJINHO RIVELINO ARE THE STARS OF THIS ERA I DONT REMEMBER A SINGLE BRASILIAN TRYING TO KICK A OLAYER OF RIVAL TEAM I WANT TO SAY TO BRASILIAN FRIENDS WINNING IT IS NOT EVERYTHING THE FACT TBAT URUGUAY WON THAT MATCH GIVES THE BEAUTY TO THIS GAME BRASIL GAVE TO THE WORLD AN EXAMPLE OF OLYMPIC DIMENSIONS 200000 SPECTATORS SHOWED AN EXAMPLE OF CIVILIZED NATION THANK YOU BRASIL

The greatest tragedy was being defeated by 7 goals in our backyard! Just felt like this when my father died!

Post of the year mate. That was the first thing I thought while watching this video.

Gloriosa… celeste!😢

To think for all five of the world cups Brazil have won the one they remember most is the 1950 final...how ironic.

How cruel football can be? Anyone here after 🇭🇷 Vs. 🇧🇷 ?

Respect to Uruguay, especially at that time considering the history of the World Cups. Humility lesson on our backyard, but alas the yellow one is still the only with five stars.

YAY URUGUAY!

64 years later, that nightmare returned with 7-1 and 🇩🇪 would win the World Cup in this famous stadium.

Uma montanha de arrogância. Em 2014 a seleção de 1950 foi vingada pelos maus tratos que sofreram. Barbosa foi reabilitado. Disse muitas vezes durante o jogo de 2014.

a perfect example that nothing is impossible in football!!

Great video to see, didn't know many facts about this.

As an England fan, the Euro 2021 final is even sadder

And after 64 years ... Young Germans absolutely thrashed Brazil in their home again. But this time by 7-1.

The amount of Balls these Uruguayans Had, not only where they Trailing with 40 Mins To Go but they Caused an Upset in front of 200,000 Brazilians, not to Mention pulling this off in the Maracana 😬😬

This is fascinating, I mde a documentary going more in depth about this

World Cup in Brazil never ends well for Brazil...

2014 will never be forgotteb

died in 1996 what a legend rest in peace even tho it's been like 22 years now true legend that makes time stop.

Uruguay and Germany alike.

Football is life for Brazilian people's

I only can say one thing to all of you who aren’t uruguayan’s.. I don’t know nobody in the world who feel more proud of their country as we are, and never will get near to understand it, we just love our country and our selves as community. that’s is demonstrated in many occasions by our footballers, they just do whatever they have to do to make our country happy and represent as much better as possible in every occasion. And that it represents us a lot because football for us, in our country it’s the maximum it’s like religion. Doesn’t matter if they get injured, or if they weren’t playing too much in their teams, the do the impossible to reach the level when they wear our beautiful blue sky shirt. Even when professional footballers, son of Uruguayans born in a different country they feel the Uruguay shirt and want to play for Uruguay, that is amazing! Then maybe you guys can understand a bit what is Uruguay...

Love You Uruguay.

Alcides Ghigia is the last from the 22 of that match who died a few years ago

La Celeste Grande historia 🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾⭐⭐⭐⭐

germany 2014.... 7

I find it ridiculous that Brazillians literally declared themselves victorious before the match itself and even composed a frickin song about Brazil winning that was rehearsed and practiced. A newspaper outlet in Brazil even made an edition which showed Brazil as the champions, and I like how Uruguay's captain just bought many copies and pissed on them. When they were eventually defeated they still acted like they weren't lol

what are the odds, i came across this video on the same day 68 years later

The greatest upset in football history.

Minha Mãe já falecida estava nessa final, e disse que foi um silêncio de 200 mil pessoas. E a verdade é que naquela época os jogadores tinham em primeiro lugar RESPEITO a CAMISA de sua SELEÇÃO. Hoje só se importam com os LUCROS EXORBITANTES que poderão ganhar em clubes europeus, e a FIFA virou uma grande empresa que administra o principal evento da terra. As Copas do mundo em diversas categorias. E os recentes escândalos só vêem a provar o que digo, pois desde a Copa da Argentina, onde o então ex presidente da FIFA já falecido João Havelange que ocupou a presidência da mesma por vários anos, fez um cronograma de jogos onde os argentinos só jogavam após as demais seleções, e foi através dessa "armação", que o Brasil que era do mesmo grupo da Argentina, jogou antes da mesma e venceu seu jogo por 3x1, com o resultado era necessário que os Argentinos ganhassem de mais de Quatro gols contra a seleção do Peru, e nesse dia a Argentina que não tinha ganho de ninguém com uma goleada, venceu o Peru por 6X0 e foi para a final, onde venceu a HOLANDA na prorrogação por o placar de 3x1. E o Brasil ficou com o terceiro lugar vencendo a Itália. E desde essa Copa o FUTEBOL tem sido motivo de grandes armações de federações, como recentemente a CBF de meu PAÍS teve seu presidente preso, e o vice recentemente foi banido do futebol. E acho que em 1950 o TÍTULO do URUGUAI que foi aplaudido de PÉ segundo minha Mãe pelos Brasileiros, ganharam legitimamente e na bola. Já eu duvido muito da FIFA e de seus CAMPEÕES do fim do século XX e atual século XXI, pois os negócios são de BILHÕES DE DÓLARES E EUROS.

The most amazing thing about football is that people get so carried away over it!

Tbh they are really lucky this happened since a legend was born

Football is the most popular, most interesting and of course the best game in the world.

That was a great story which was very interesting.

Uruguay won the last 3 world tournaments they participated in , 1924 olimpics , 1928 olimpics , 1930 world cup , and they missed the 2 world cups in Europe for political reasons. Brazil was naive .

Soccer those days were soooooooo lit👌🔥

Things ended bad for Brazil that time. It was supposed to be the perfect setting. The country were the only one that volunteered to host the tournament, build the world's biggest stadium ever and had a lot of great players to form the team. 2 years before the world cup, a brazilian club (Vasco da Gama) had won a tournament playing against some other south americans club that were national champions back in their countries (like River Plate in Argentina and Nacional in Uruguay). A year later, Brazil's national team won the Copa América. And if all of this wasn't enough to show why Brazil was the #1 bet to everybody, you have those players like Barbosa, Danilo, Zizinho, Jair da Rosa Pinto, Ademir. Only because of the coach, players like Didi and Nilton Santos were substitutes and others like Domingos da Guia, Leonidas da Silva and Heleno de Freitas were dismissed from the "Seleção", as we called it. For Uruguay, that was, without any shadow of doubt, the most important day of their history in the sport, period. But for Brazil, it's still the most sad day regarding Football.

It would be funny if they will meet again in the final at the Maracana 2014!

I wish that the wronged Brazilian players of the 50's Cup had seen the humiliation of the 7x1 of 2014, so that they could finally be forgiven!

Awesome

THE MOST AMAZING SPORT AROUND THE WORLD.

Solo una selección, en la historia de los mundiales,tuvo que jugar contra el anfitrión, encima con la obligación de ganar, el empate era campeonato para el loca...Uruguay noma!

Imagine 50 years from now our grandkids asking about 7-1 tragedy

every national team had his big defeats. england, germany, italy, argentinia, brasil, france etc....

Maracana is the symbol of Football!

EL UNICO MARACANAZO EN LA HISTORIA MI AMOR

Brazil is not a humble team, that's why things like this happens, I am peruvian and Uruguay is in my heart for ever, I like their strength they put in every field they play, I prefer Uruguay millions of times so far, Go for more in Qatar my dear Uruguay! You are shine in the arrogancy.

This same trophy became ours forever!

Fascinating account.

El Marcanazo!! A tragedy in Brazilian history.

Football is the biggest religion in the world , with the most believers, followers, ...with their Holy stadiums, such as this amazing stadium with football history, ...

URUGUAY NOMÁ!

Uruguay is the greatest nation in the history of this sport. If you truly want to know who the best country in football is, just divide World Cup titles / population.

Nearly 173,000 were inside the maracana in the final

Brasil the best football team ever, sometimes you win, you lose, but Brasil is the beauty of football.

Overconfident and arrogant were: Brazil 1950, Hungary 1954, Holland 1974 and Brazil 2014. Cheers Uruguay! Greetings from 🇩🇪

Biggest upset in football history. Not so much the result. 200K crowd. The entire nation were already being declared Champions before the match was even played. The devotion that went towards preparing that tournament is prob the greatest ever witnessed.

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