Alcides Ghiggia

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Alcides Ghiggia
Alcides Ghiggia 2006.jpg
Alcides Ghiggia (2006)
Personnel
Surname Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia
birthday December 22, 1926
place of birth Montevideo ,  Uruguay
date of death July 16, 2015
Place of death Montevideo or Las Piedras ,  Uruguay
size 169 cm
position Right winger
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
South America
1948-1953 Club Atlético Peñarol
1953-1961 AS Roma 201 (19)
1961–1962 AC Milan
1962-1968 Danubio FC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1950-1952 Uruguay 12 0(4)
1957-1959 Italy 5 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1980 Club Atlético Peñarol
1 Only league games are given.

Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia [ 'giʤːa ] (born December 22, 1926 in Montevideo , † July 16, 2015 in Montevideo or Las Piedras ) was a Uruguayan - Italian football player . His enduring fame is based on his crucial involvement in the de facto World Cup final of 1950 . He was the last surviving player from the Uruguayan world championship team of 1950. He played internationally for both Uruguay and the Italian national team .

Ghiggia was a descendant of immigrants from Sonvico in Italian Switzerland . He had Italian grandparents. The dribbling right winger, 1.69 m tall and 62 kg heavy, is considered one of the world's best winger of the 1950s.

Player career

Master with Peñarol

At the beginning of his career, Ghiggia initially formed the attack alongside Óscar Omar Míguez at the Montevideo-based club Sud América . In 1948, like the young players Juan E. Hohberg and Óscar O. Míguez, he was included in the squad of the Uruguayan first division club Peñarol , where he soon developed into a regular player. In 1949 he was allowed to celebrate his first national championship with the Black and Yellows. Another title was to follow in 1951. His career reached a low point when he struck the referee with a punch in the Clásico in 1952 and was suspended for 15 months.

Change to Italy

At the beginning of the 1953/54 season Ghiggia moved to the Italian Serie A for AS Roma , where he was also captain from 1957 to 1960. With the Giallorossi he won the 1961 trade fair trophy , the forerunner of the UEFA Cup . At almost 35, he was the oldest player on his team. In the two finals against Birmingham City he did not take part.

For AS Roma he played a total of 213 games and scored 19 goals. He recorded all goals in his 201 Serie A appearances. He played four times (no goal) in the Coppa Italia and eight matches in the European Cup. The best placement was third place in 1955.

In 1961 he moved to AC Milan for a year and became Italian champion with the Rossoneri . Overall, he was used with the "Rossoneri" according to the club five times in the 1961/62 season. The FIFA however, reported on its website only four completed games. After only a year he left the club and returned to Uruguay.

Return to Uruguay and later years

After his return to Montevideo Ghiggia played for six years for the first division club Danubio FC , but could not collect any new titles there. He finally ended his footballing career in 1968 at the age of 41.

National teams

The striker Peñarol Montevideo became a legend of the Uruguayan football when he in the 1950 FIFA World Cup against hosts Brazil in the deciding game before some 200,000 spectators at the Maracana the decisive goal for two ten minutes before the final whistle: 1 victory for Uruguay scored and thus wrested the world championship that was believed to be safe from the hosts. In Brazilian folklore, this game is still alive today as the “ Maracanaço ”.

In the course of this World Cup he scored one goal in every game. These four goals remained his only goals in a total of twelve international matches for Uruguay, which he completed from his debut on May 6, 1950 to April 16, 1952.

After he was naturalized in Italy in 1957 , he also played for the Italian national football team between 1957 and 1959 . He completed three international matches as part of qualifying for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden . It was the first time that Italy could not qualify for a World Cup tournament. He scored one goal in his five international matches for Italy.

Ghiggia's world champion colleague Juan Schiaffino , who equalized 1-1 in that memorable game against Brazil, also played for Italy's national team after moving to AC Milan.

successes

  • World Champion: 1950
  • Uruguayan champion: 1949, 1951
  • Italian champion: 1962
  • Fair trophy : 1961

After the career

Alcides Ghiggia (2011)

In 1980 he briefly trained Peñarol. All still living soccer world champions were invited to Munich for the opening ceremony of the soccer world championship 2006 in Germany . Ghiggia was the oldest world champion present at this event. On his 80th birthday at the end of the same year, he was honored, among other things, in the Parliament of Uruguay and also given a special stamp with the inscription “Ghiggia moved us to tears” (Ghiggia nos hizo llorar) .

On December 12, 2009 Alcides Ghiggia returned to Rio de Janeiro in the Maracanã Stadium. This time he was received as a friend and was only the sixth foreign footballer, after, for example, the Portuguese Eusébio and the German Franz Beckenbauer , to be honored with a personal footprint on the stadium grounds, on the Calçada da Fama . In 2010 he was awarded the FIFA Order of Merit.

On June 13, 2012, after an accident on the Ruta 5 , Ghiggia was hospitalized with serious injuries and placed in an " artificial coma ". According to his son Arcadio, Ghiggia's wife and sister were also injured in the accident. Ghiggia later reported that, among other things, he broke his hip in the accident, but it did not require an operation. He recovered enough to be able to take part in the 2014 World Cup draw at the invitation of FIFA .

In the last years of his life he lived in Las Piedras . On July 16, 2015, the 65th anniversary of the Maracanaço , he died of a heart attack at 6:30 p.m. local time at the age of 88. According to his son Arcadio Ghiggia, Alcides Ghiggia was following the replay of the Copa Libertadores game UANL Tigres against SC Internacional at the moment of his death, having been hospitalized shortly before with back problems .

Trivia

For Roberto Muylaert, the biographer of the Brazilian goalkeeper Moacyr Barbosa , the black-and-white film of Ghiggia's decisive goal at the 1950 World Cup is comparable to Abraham Zapruder's chance pictures of Dallas . The goal and the rifle shot that killed John F. Kennedy would have "the same drama [...] the same movement, the rhythm [...] the same precision of an unstoppable trajectory." They would even have the dust in common - once from a rifle , the other time from Ghiggia's left foot.

Moacyr Barbosa, who was often blamed for the defeat and especially Ghiggia's goal, long suffered from the aftermath. In 2000, shortly before his death, he gave an interview in which he said: “The highest sentence in Brazil is 30 years in prison. But I've been paying for something I've not even committed for 50 years. "

Quote

"Only three people silenced the Maracanã with a single movement: the Pope [ John Paul II ], [Frank] Sinatra and me."

- Alcides Ghiggia

Web links

Commons : Alcides Ghiggia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Globo Esporte, December 29, 2008: "Baú do Esporte: entrevista com Ghiggia, o carrasco do Brasil na Copa de 1950" (video, from approx. 3:50)
  2. ↑ Associated Press : Alcides Ghiggia, Who Scored Winner for Uruguay at World Cup, Dies at 88. In: The New York Times , July 17, 2015 (English). Retrieved July 18, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Ghiggia, Tod einer Legende" in France Football of July 22, 2015, p. 10
  4. ↑ Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia (1926) (Italian) on ti.ch, accessed on July 19, 2015
  5. ↑ AS Roma mourns Alcides Ghiggia (English) on asroma.it of July 17, 2015, accessed on July 22, 2015
  6. ^ Fallció Oscar Omar Miguez, campeón mundial en 1950 con Uruguay (Spanish) on futbol.as.com from August 20, 2006, accessed on October 19, 2016
  7. ^ Marcos Silvera Antúnez : Club Atlético Peñarol - 120, Ediciones El Galeón , Montevideo 2011, p. 88 ISBN 978-9974-553-79-8
  8. ↑ Ghiggia, the indomitable character on fifa.com, accessed July 22, 2015
  9. ↑ AS Roma mourns Alcides Ghiggia (English) on asroma.it of July 17, 2015, accessed on July 22, 2015
  10. ↑ MILAN PAY RESPECT TO ALCIDES GHIGGIA (English) on acmilan.com from July 17, 2015, accessed on July 22, 2015
  11. ↑ Ghiggia, the indomitable character on fifa.com, accessed July 22, 2015
  12. ↑ Statistical data on international appearances in the Uruguayan national team at www.rsssf.com, accessed on December 19, 2012
  13. ↑ Girasol. El sitio de Peñarol: "Los técnicos que trabajaron en el profesionalismo"
  14. ^ Marcos Silvera Antúnez: Club Atlético Peñarol - 120, "Directores Técnicos", Ediciones El Galeón, Montevideo 2011, p. 192f ISBN 978-9974-553-79-8
  15. ↑ La Republica, December 23, 2006: "Ghiggia fue homenajeado por sus 80 años en el Palacio Legislativo"
  16. ↑ Brasil Econômico, December 29, 2010: "Ghiggia, carrasco da Copa de 50, é homenageado no Maracanã" ( Memento of July 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ List of FIFA Order of Merit recipients , accessed on October 25, 2012 (PDF; 71 kB)
  18. ↑ Se accidentó Ghiggia: politraumatizado grave - Esa mueca siniestra de la suerte
  19. ↑ Ghiggia en coma farmacológico - Otro partido para el campeón (Spanish) at www.montevideo.com.uy from June 15, 2012, accessed on June 15, 2012
  20. ↑ FIFA invitó a Ghiggia al sorteo del Mundial - Y con razón (Spanish) on www.futbol.com.uy from 23 August 2013, accessed on 25 August 2013
  21. ↑ World Cup 1950: Ghiggia and Uruguay shock Brazil . Report on the DFB website with a picture of the draw.
  22. ↑ Muere Alcides Ghiggia, héroe del 'Maracanazo' (Spanish) in El País of July 18, 2015, accessed on July 24, 2015
  23. ↑ Adiós, campeón (Spanish) on futbol.com.uy of July 16, 2015, accessed on July 17, 2015
  24. ↑ Muere Alcides Ghiggia, artífice del Maracanazo en 1950 ( Memento from July 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish) on laopinion.com from July 16, 2015, accessed on July 24, 2015
  25. ↑ after: Alex Bellos: Futebol. Soccer: the Brazilian art of living . Fischer 2005, ISBN 3-596-16580-6
  26. ↑ Quoting from the article "Ghiggia, Tod einer Legende" in France Football from July 22, 2015, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Ghiggia, Alcides
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ghiggia, Alcides Edgardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan-Italian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo , Uruguay
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 2015
Place of death Montevideo or Las Piedras , Uruguay