It was the worst day in Brazilian football history, July 16th 1950. The day they should have won the World Cup in front of 200,000 fans at the Maracana. Instead they watched as Uruguay celebrated a seemingly impossible victory.
The country needed redemption and looked forward to the World Cup coming back to Brazil in 2014 as the opportunity to erase that memory. On July 8th 2014 that memory was not erased, but replaced with an even worse experience.
Germany were never going to be pushovers but what happened that day was incredible to watch, and it quickly became very sad to witness. A country's pride ripped to shreds, one devastating goal at a time.
If, according to Zico, when Brazil lost to Italy in 1982 was the day football died, then what was this for Brazil? The day football in Brazil was tortured before dying a slow, painful death?
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