March 9, 2012

World Cup 1950, Brasil - Uruguay, 16 July 1950. Amazing pre-game spectacle and atmosphere in the Maracana(Estádio Mendes de Morais) with mass handkerchief waving, fireworks and a ‘Viva o Brasil’ banner attached to balloons, which when set free, ominously seem to fail to lift out of the stadium…

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