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RIP Alcides Ghigga

Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 9:36 pm
by themanintheseersuckersuit
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... tuary.html
More than fifty years later, he was passing through customs at Rio when the young official examining his passport asked him if he was the Ghiggia who had scored the winning goal. “I said: 'Yes, but it was a long time ago.’ And she put her hand on her heart and said: “No, no, it still hurts us here.”

Re: RIP Alcides Ghigga

Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 1:42 am
by Estonut
The author of TMitSSS' article also wrote:He died on the 65th anniversary of his most famous match, while talking – his son said – about football.