Joao Luiz Albuquerque was 11 years old when he went to the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro for the final game of the 1950 World Cup. Brazil, the hosts and irresistible favourites, were playing Uruguay, ...

The impact of Brazil's defeat at the 1950 World Cup is still felt in 2014. In this exclusive excerpt from Fernando Duarte's forthcoming book Shocking Brazil, it appears that the pre-final preparation ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 8 (Reuters) - After waiting 64 years to exorcise the ghosts of the Maracanazo, Brazil have instead suffered another defeat that may haunt them for decades. Sign up here. Many ...

ZURICH, Oct 30 (Reuters) - The 1950 World Cup finals were a chaotic affair, comprising 13 teams, with no actual final and games in the same group at venues thousands of kilometres away from each other ...

Before Pele, there was Zizinho. An artist on the pitch who later became a coach, he was at the heart of establishing Brazil’s footballing identity. It was November 1957 when Santos’s Vila Belmiro ...