Brazil World Cup Poster

1950

National Football Museum
Manchester, United Kingdom

Official FIFA World Cup poster, Brazil 1950. Courtesy of the Priory Collection.

This tournament was meant to herald the arrival of the modern Brazil on teh world stage, but in the final Brazil lost against Uruguay 2-1 in front of the largest crowd ever assembled at a World Cup at the Maracana Stadium.

The Uruguayan captain 'The Black Chief' Obdulio Varela was handed the Jules Rimet Trophy by the shell shocked Jules Rimet himself. The entire nation collapsed in to silence.

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Title: Brazil World Cup Poster
Date: 1950
Quote: The 1950 World Cup in Brazil was meant to be a demonstration of the modernisation of Brazil...
Publisher: National Football Museum

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