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The hero of Uruguay's shock 1950 World Cup victory over Brazil is still cutting a dash at the age of 87 National hero: Uruguay's Alcides Ghiggia, who scored goal that won the 1950 World Cup against ...

File photo: Former Uruguay football player Alcides Ghiggia, author of the second goal in the 1950 World Cup final match at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janerio, Brazil, poses for a picture next to a ...

Alcides Ghiggia sits alone on a stage. He has bandy legs, his hair is combed back, his eyes are tired, he has a large nose and big ears. His face is wrinkled. He is now 87 years old. He is telling the ...

The Uruguayan footballer Alcides “Chico” Ghiggia, who has died aged 88, was the scourge of Brazil in the World Cup decider of 1950 in Rio de Janeiro. Small, thin and hunched, the right-winger did not ...

Alcides Ghiggia, who scored the winning goal in the final game of the 1950 World Cup to give Uruguay a stunning 2-1 victory over Brazil – still recalled as Brazil’s greatest defeat – has died at the ...

Great World Cup moments: 'The Maracana Blow' Sixty-four years after scoring the World Cup-winning goal for Uruguay against Brazil at Rio de Janeiro's Maracana stadium, Alcides Ghiggia remembers with ...

When the Fifa World Cup trophy came to Uruguay during the 2014 tournament, Ghiggia was the first to want to hold it Legendary Uruguayan forward Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia, who scored the winning goal ...

Legendary Uruguayan forward Alcides Ghiggia died on Thursday at the age of 88. Ghiggia died on the 65th anniversary of his winning goal in the final game of the 1950 World Cup, giving Uruguay a ...

'Only three people have ever silenced the Maracana- the Pope, Frank Sinatra and me': Match-winner Ghiggia on the shock reaction of the 200,000 people in the iconic stadium URUGUAY upset the form book ...

Alcides Ghiggia died aged 88. He scored the goal which won Uruguay the 1950 World Cup final against Brazil. "Only three people have silenced the Maracanã," Ghiggia liked to quip. "The Pope, Frank ...

URUGUAY upset the form book when they beat Brazil to land the 1950 World Cup, and the villain of the piece for the expectant home nation was their tricky right-winger Alcides Ghiggia. And he was never ...