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Role
  
Football player

Height
  
1.69 m


Playing position
  
Winger

Weight
  
62 kg

Name
  
Alcides Ghiggia

Position
  
Midfielder

Alcides Ghiggia Last quotMaracanazoquot survivor invited to World Cup draw

Full name
  
Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia Pereyra

Date of birth
  
(1926-12-22)22 December 1926

Date of death
  
16 July 2015(2015-07-16) (aged 88)

Died
  
July 16, 2015, Montevideo, Uruguay

Children
  
Lilian Ghiggia, Arcadio Ghiggia

Place of birth
  
Montevideo, Uruguay

Place of death
  
Montevideo, Uruguay

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Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia Pereyra ([ˈɡiddʒa]; 22 December 1926 – 16 July 2015) was an Italian-Uruguayan football player, who played as a right winger. He achieved lasting fame for his decisive role in the final match of the 1950 World Cup, and at the time of his death exactly 65 years later, he was also the last surviving player from that game.

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Career

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He played for the national sides of both Uruguay and Italy during his career. He also played for the club sides of the Peñarol and Danubio in Uruguay and A.S. Roma and A.C. Milan in Italy.

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Roberto Muylaert compares the black and white film of Ghigghia's cup winning goal in 1950 with Abraham Zapruder's chance images of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas. The goal and the shot that killed the US President have "the same dramatic pattern ... the same movement ... the same precision of an unstoppable trajectory. They even have the dust in common that was stirred up, here by a rifle and there by Ghiggia's left foot." Given the goal cost Brazil a World Cup title at home, Ghigghia would later mention that "only three people managed to silence the Maracanã: Frank Sinatra, the Pope, and me."

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He managed C.A. Peñarol in 1980.

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On 29 December 2009, Brazil honoured Ghiggia by celebrating his decisive goal in the 2–1 Uruguay victory over Brazil in the final match of the 1950 FIFA World Cup. So Ghiggia returned to Maracanã Stadium almost 60 years later for this honour and planted his feet in a mould to take his place alongside greats including Brazil's Pelé, Portugal's Eusébio and Germany's Franz Beckenbauer at the Maracanã Stadium walk of fame. Alcides Ghiggia was very emotional and thanked Brazil for the warm reception and recognition even when the game is remembered as the most disappointing match in Brazilian football history known as "Maracanazo."

Later Years

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Ghiggia's family was of Ticinese descent originally from Sonvico.

Ghiggia lived his last years at his home in Las Piedras, Uruguay. He died on 16 July 2015 in a private hospital in Montevideo at the age of 88. Coincidentally, it was the 65th anniversary of the "Maracanazo". At the time of his death, Ghiggia was the oldest living World Cup champion.

Ghiggia was the last member from either the Brazilian or Uruguayan squads involved in that 1950 World Cup's historic game to be alive.

Club

Peñarol
  • Primera División: 1949, 1951
  • Roma
  • Fairs Cup: 1960–61
  • Milan
  • Serie A: 1961–62
  • International

  • FIFA World Cup: 1950
  • Individual

  • FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 1950
  • Golden Foot: 2006 (as a legend)
  • A.S. Roma Hall of Fame
  • References

    Alcides Ghiggia Wikipedia