# The 1950 Maracanazo: Memories from Brazil and Uruguay

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2068257326117560595
- Source account: [@albertocosin\_](https://x.com/albertocosin_)
- Source language: Spanish
- Target language: English
- Duration: 3:47
- Published: 2026-06-22
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ACJVd4aNw7Xg/en/the-1950-maracanazo-memories-from-brazil-and-uruguay) I left the stadium alone, on foot. I've lived here, in Niterói, all my life. And even today, I don't remember how I got home.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ACJVd4aNw7Xg/en/the-1950-maracanazo-memories-from-brazil-and-uruguay?t=11) I was walking down the street and ran into people showing their solidarity, telling me to walk with my head held high, because they knew there was nothing we could have done.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ACJVd4aNw7Xg/en/the-1950-maracanazo-memories-from-brazil-and-uruguay?t=21) However, it was the press that spread the negative comments. They were the cause of all the problems. When the World Cup is on, I don't answer the phone. I have a code with my friends.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ACJVd4aNw7Xg/en/the-1950-maracanazo-memories-from-brazil-and-uruguay?t=38) They let the phone ring twice, then they hang up and call back.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ACJVd4aNw7Xg/en/the-1950-maracanazo-memories-from-brazil-and-uruguay?t=44) Otherwise, I don't answer. All of Brazil wants to ask how we lost that World Cup.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ACJVd4aNw7Xg/en/the-1950-maracanazo-memories-from-brazil-and-uruguay?t=60) It's always the same. A friend of mine wrote a book called" Anatomy of a Match", which is about a single match: the match against Uruguay.

[2:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ACJVd4aNw7Xg/en/the-1950-maracanazo-memories-from-brazil-and-uruguay?t=162) Our match finished at a quarter to five. We… uh, we did the victory lap, received the cup, and went, we went to the locker rooms. We stayed until 8: 00 p.m. before leaving, because we didn't know what could happen, right? At 8: 00 p.m. it was, it was already dark, um… and we left and went to the hotel. Nothing happened,

[3:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ACJVd4aNw7Xg/en/the-1950-maracanazo-memories-from-brazil-and-uruguay?t=184) we went quietly to the hotel. And at the hotel, we had dinner there…

[3:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ACJVd4aNw7Xg/en/the-1950-maracanazo-memories-from-brazil-and-uruguay?t=192) and that was the 16th. On the 17th we had to be in Rio, but we only came back on the 18th. Um…

[3:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ACJVd4aNw7Xg/en/the-1950-maracanazo-memories-from-brazil-and-uruguay?t=200) and we didn't know whether to go out or not, because of, because of the reaction of, of the public. And… so we decided to go out. We made groups of four or five and went out. And on the contrary, look, I was, I was delighted with,

[3:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/ACJVd4aNw7Xg/en/the-1950-maracanazo-memories-from-brazil-and-uruguay?t=216) with the Brazilian public because… They knew us, that we were the, the ones who had been the world champions, and they greeted us, they congratulated us. A very, very nice gesture from the Brazilian crowd.