ASIN: B00KQKUJ8W
Publisher: Fronteira
Pages: 50
When referee George Reader blew the final whistle in a match that saw Uruguay beat Brazil 2-1 on June 16; 1950, a shroud of disillusionment fell over Maracanã stadium, smothering the hopes of an entire country. The suffocating feeling that followed Brazil's biggest disappointment would silence the 200.000 people who crowded themselves in the brand new Rio de Janeiro Municipal Stadium and also the memory of a nation.The Maracanazo tragedy was so powerful that it eclipsed the remaining stories of the 1950 World Cup. In this book, journalist Maurício Brum retraces the growing optimism of a country at the dawn of modernization. A nation that had hopes of turning its own expectations of a better future into a championship title at the World Cup of football, the sport that took over the country in a few decades (although it still had to fight against horseraces in the newspapers of the time). ...
