12 W Cup recalls Maracanã ghost that haunted Brazil’s 3 out of 4 rise to the top
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“Three people have silenced the Maracanã,” Uruguay’s right-winger Alcides Ghiggia boasts to a BBC interviewer, “Frank Sinatra, the Pope and me.” It is 16 July 1950 in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil are up against their South American neighbours in the final match of the fourth Fifa Mundial. The Maracanã is packed to capacity with home …
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