Chapter 246: World Cup Miscellaneous

In the second half of the semi-finals, Germany scored two more and finally gave up. If you don't stop, if you score again, the Germans are worried that they may not be able to get out of the field.

The Germans put water in stoppage time to give Brazil a face-saving goal and the final score was 7-1.

This is also a super exaggerated scoreline, the largest in the history of the World Cup semi-finals.

The game set a lot of records, with Germany surpassing Brazil to reach the World Cup final for the eighth time, the most times a team has reached the World Cup final, and Klose scored his 16th goal in the World Cup, surpassing Ronaldo's 15 goals to become the top scorer in the World Cup. But those are honours that belong to the Germans, and for Brazil it is the most humiliating day in their football history.

Before the start of the World Cup, the Brazilian players also said that they wanted fans to forget the Maracanã tragedy in the 1950 World Cup "final", and they did it, but in this exaggerated way.

Although the World Cup was held in 1930, it was interrupted by World War II, and 1950 was the fourth World Cup, and it was also the first World Cup to be held in Brazil, the kingdom of football.

The 1950 World Cup, there were a lot of interesting things that happened in that World Cup.

The defending champions, Italy, refused to fly to Brazil because of the heavy damage caused by the Turin air crash a year ago, so they traveled thousands of miles by boat for several weeks to get to Brazil, and many players vomited on the boat, so their form was greatly affected and their performance was poor.

It was also England's first World Cup appearance, and there was a ridiculous 10-1 accident.

The English, who consider themselves the originators of modern football, have never played in the World Cup because they have never been willing to play against the "underdogs of Europe".

1950 was the first time England participated in the World Cup, and the goal was naturally to win the championship, and the general perception in England at that time was that since we sent a team to the World Cup, the championship was undoubtedly ours.

Their first game was against Chile, which they won comfortably 2-0, and everything was as expected, and countries outside the originator of football could not have caused problems for England. So the opponent in the second game was the United States, and the arrogant British thought that the United States was a typical rookie team, and we could win by a big score casually.

The United States is indeed a rookie team, in that World Cup, they were defeated by Chile 5-2 and then 1-3 to Spain, and they finished bottom of the group. But no one is going to be a real underdog in the World Cup, and if you're arrogant, you're probably going to suffer.

The British started the game in a mood of pride and complacency, but the Americans defended quite stubbornly, and at the end of the game, the score was 1:0, and the American "Haitian foreign aid" seized the opportunity to sneak a goal and beat England 1:0. At that time, the U.S. team was still a multinational force, and there were many players of other nationalities in the team, similar to Qatar today.

At that time, the World Cup was not televised, and the results of the game could only be sent back by the team reporter, because of the high cost of telegrams, many times the telegrams would be as simple as possible, except for a score result, there were not many descriptions of the game.

When the newspapers in the UK received the results of the match, they couldn't believe it was true, England 0:1 USA, it was simply impossible.

In the end, the editor of the famous "Independent" newspaper in Britain at that time took it upon himself to think that the telegram had been sent by mistake and that one (1) was missing, and the result of the game should have been 10:1.

As a result, the Independent was the first to make headlines on the front page: England beat the United States 10-1, and the group qualification situation is very good, and only a third draw against Spain is needed to successfully qualify.

With the famous newspaper reporting first, and many other British media following suit, many people in the UK thought that their team really beat the United States 10-1 in South America.

But soon, the news of the real game came back to Europe one after another, and the British also knew the real result of the game, but it was too late at this time, and the 0:1 loss turned into a 10:1 victory, which had spread all over the continent, and the arrogant England became the laughing stock of all Europe for a while.

In that World Cup, there could have been an Asian team, but they refused to accept FIFA's requirement to wear shoes to play, and ended up missing their first trip to the World Cup, and also missed their country's only trip to the World Cup.

This amazing team is the Indian team.

The earliest powerful teams in Asian football, without exception, were all teams from European colonial countries, and the places ruled by European colonists also brought football over by the way, so that the football of those countries has developed to a certain extent.

Many people may not know that the first Asian team to participate in the World Cup is the Indonesian team, which is now unknown, they are the early Dutch colonies, and they once went to the World Cup in 1938.

India, which was a British colony in its early years, was the leader of Asian football for a long time until the sixties, before the rise of Iranian football and South Korean football, and the first professional football clubs in Asia were born in India.

Before the 1950 World Cup, the Indian team successfully passed the World Cup qualifiers and had the opportunity to become the second Asian team to participate in the World Cup, but at that time, many Indian players in the team were used to playing barefoot, and they would not play when they wore shoes, but FIFA required that they must wear shoes to play, and the two sides could not reach an agreement, and finally the Indian team took the initiative to withdraw from the World Cup.

In the 1950 World Cup, the most famous incident was Brazil's upset loss to Uruguay, missing a great opportunity to win the championship at home, and the Maracanã tragedy that Brazilian fans have always remembered.

At that time, the World Cup format was relatively special, the participating teams were divided into four groups, each group was the first to qualify, and the four group winners were formed into a group for a round-robin match, and the team with the highest points won the championship.

At that time, the four group winners were Brazil, Uruguay, Sweden and Spain, and in the first two rounds of the championship group stage, Brazil beat Sweden 7-1 and Spain 6-1.

Brazil's final opponent is Uruguay, who narrowly beat Sweden 3-2 and drew 2-2 with Spain in the previous two group games. (At that time, the World Cup was 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss)

However, the situation at that time, Brazil was playing at home and in great form, still leading in points, and only needed a draw to win the championship, although the Uruguayans were the former World Cup champion team, but at that time Uruguayan football had begun to go downhill, everyone thought that it was difficult for Uruguay to make trouble for Brazil in the last "final", and even Brazil was likely to win the championship with a big win.

In the "final", at the Maracanã Stadium, the largest football stadium in the world at that time, 200,000 Brazilians poured into the stadium, creating the most terrifying home atmosphere, intending to witness Brazil's championship moment together. At that time, standing tickets were allowed to be sold for football matches, and security was not strict, and the official FIFA statistics for that game were 199854 people, which was the largest football match by far with the largest number of spectators.

However, many Brazilians believe that the actual audience for that match exceeded 220,000.

Witnessed by 200,000 Brazilians and the terrifying home atmosphere, Brazil's attack was quite ferocious, while the Uruguayans opted for an unpretentious defensive counterattack, and the first half ended 0-0, but at the beginning of the second half, the Brazilians scored a goal to take the lead. Fireworks were set off at the Maracanã Stadium and everyone was partying, and it only took a draw to win the title and now have a one-goal lead.

But in the 66th minute, Uruguayan striker Gigia assisted his teammate to equalize, and the Brazilians were a little worried at this time, but as long as the score remained until the end, Brazil could still win the title.

However, in the 79th minute, Gigia burst into the box again and deceived the Brazilian goalkeeper with a fake facsimile shot to score the ball, and the 200,000-person Maracanã Stadium suddenly became silent and deadly.

Although Brazil fought back desperately, it was to no avail, and in the end, the Uruguayans defeated Brazil 2-1 in front of more than 200,000 Brazilians on their home turf and snatched the World Cup title.

At that time, the FIFA Football Association Jules Remet, who was the first person to organize the World Cup competition, is known as the father of the World Cup, and the earliest World Cup trophy is also known as the Remet Cup.

He later recalled that he came down from the VIP room after more than 70 minutes, went to the dressing room to take out the trophy, and prepared to present it to the Brazilians, because in such a terrifying home atmosphere, the Brazilian team was completely dominant on the field, and he thought that Brazil must be the one who won the championship.

But when he came out with the trophy, he was taken aback, the whole stadium was quiet, but soon there was some riot in the stadium, whether it was the Brazilian staff on the scene or the Brazilian fans in the stands, they were constantly wandering agitated, and Remet, the president of FIFA, was squeezed all over the passage, he could only try to hold the trophy and not lose it.

However, the agitation soon subsided, because the Brazilian team still had time to save themselves, but Remet had to go up to the VIP room to remind the people of the Brazilian Football Federation to hurry up and find a way to control the situation once Brazil loses the game, and the Brazilian fans must calm down.

In the end, the Brazilian Football Federation was able to control the situation without incident. But Remet was taken aback by the fact that if Uruguay's goal had happened in stoppage time, the crowd of more than 200,000 people would have rioted in the stadium and it could have turned into hell in the spot.

That year's World Cup award was also the most shabby, there was no award ceremony, no national anthem, no cheers, Remet went up alone to quickly hand over the trophy to the Uruguayan players, and then the Uruguayan team left in a hurry. Because after the loss, there were more than 100,000 Brazilian fans sitting in the stands and reluctant to leave, and the stands were almost full of fans, but the scene was quiet except for crying, and the atmosphere was particularly eerie, in this case, the Uruguayan players did not even dare to stay in the Maracanã stadium for an extra minute.

The man who won that match was Uruguayan striker Gigia, who is known as beating a country by himself.

In the days following that match, riots broke out all over Brazil, and a succession of people committed suicide by swallowing guns, and the Brazilian fans simply could not accept that outcome.

And since that World Cup, the Brazilian national team jersey has also changed color, from the previous white to the current yellow.

So, that game was the most "unforgettable" game in the history of Brazilian football before, and the Maracanã tragedy that Brazilian fans have been thinking about for so many years, they still remember that game because they missed the best chance to win the championship at home on that occasion.

Although Brazil is a five-star Brazil and has won the World Cup five times, it has never won the World Cup at home, and it is the only World Cup winner other than Spain who has not won the World Cup at home.

And this is the second time Brazil has hosted the World Cup, and they are all fantasizing about winning the championship at home and getting out of the shadow of the Maracanã tragedy that year.

However, this time they suffered another tragedy, the 1:7 defeat of Germany's Mineiro tragedy, even worse than the last Maracana tragedy.

The only good thing this time is that Brazil is not what it used to be. At that time, Brazil had nothing but football, and the loss to Uruguay put the whole of Brazil in a cloud, and it was really the whole of Brazil that was defeated by Gigia alone.

And this time the loss, although the Brazilians were also very sad and angry, but after crying and scolding, everyone calmly accepted the result, at most, the number of people wearing Brazil's yellow jersey quickly decreased.