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Solana elaborates on the greatest upset in the history of sports that literally nobody has ever heard of... Uruguay defeating Brazil in the final match of the 1950 World Cup.
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00:00If you want a sports take, probably a controversial one, I can give one to you.
00:04Something that you kind of glossed over on the On This Day list.
00:08All right.
00:10Okay, so I wrote in 1950.
00:12Oh, is this the Uruguay, the famous Uruguay moment?
00:14Yeah, I know you guys probably don't care about it, but it's probably, I'm not kidding here, not because I'm Uruguayan.
00:22It's probably the greatest upset in the history of sports of all time in any sport anywhere, anywhere in the universe.
00:30So, today in 1950, Uruguay beats Brazil in the World Cup Finals in the legendary Naranja.
00:40What's that?
00:43The orange.
00:47Thank you, Jimmy.
00:49Actually, the maracanazo, there's no N at the beginning there.
00:54My bad.
00:55What is the maracanazo?
00:57So, 1950.
01:01No, no, but what does that mean?
01:03The maracanazo is Brazil's national stadium.
01:06Still exists.
01:07Still probably their biggest stadium.
01:10That's where they held the World Cup Final back in 2014.
01:13They built this stadium in 1950 for Brazil to host their first World Cup, the fourth edition of the World Cup.
01:21And Brazil, at this point, everybody considers them the favorite.
01:25They're the host nation.
01:26They are going to win this tournament.
01:28It's a foregone conclusion.
01:29They run through the group stage.
01:32And for the first time ever, the World Cup, they're kind of tinkering with things.
01:36Instead of doing a knockout round, they put the best teams that won all their groups in a round robin.
01:43All those teams would play each other, and the team with the most points at the end would be the World Cup champion.
01:50Final game of the tournament.
01:51Plays out this way.
01:53Solana, what are you talking about, man?
01:55What the hell happened?
01:57Be more bored.
01:58Can't I just hear what the miracle is?
02:00Goodness gracious.
02:01Like, just give me the whole history of the construction of a stadium?
02:10Gracious.
02:11We just got freedom in Uruguay from the past president.
02:14What's what happened in this damn game, Solana?
02:17All Brazil needs to do is tie or win.
02:21They're the World Cup champions.
02:23They hoist their first ever World Cup title.
02:25The Jewels were made trophy back in the day.
02:27Uruguay goes in to the MaracanĂ£ Stadium in front of 200,000 people.
02:34The most attended soccer game, sporting event in the history of the world.
02:40200,000 people.
02:42This day?
02:42Brazilians.
02:43Packed to this day.
02:44Packed into the MaracanĂ£ Stadium.
02:48And Uruguay, despite being down 1-0, thanks to Alcides Guilla, scores two goals.
02:57And they win the tournament.
02:59People jumping off the stadium, committing suicide in Brazil because of the shock.
03:04What?
03:05They were so convinced.
03:07FIFA, the governing body, and the Brazilians.
03:11They were so convinced that Brazil was going to win.
03:12All they had to do was tie or win.
03:14This was their tournament.
03:15They had created medals and had already engraved Brazil as the champions into the medals,
03:21which the Uruguayans themselves took home.
03:23It was, without a doubt, the biggest upset in the history of sport.
03:29And people don't talk about it.
03:31And me, the Uruguayan on radio, is here to tell you it deserves attention.
03:35On this day, 1950, the greatest upset in the history of sport.
03:41I thought you were from Argentina.
03:47In fairness, I live bet Brazil when they went up 1-0 because I said,
03:52this thing's over.
03:52So I remember it very differently than Solano.
04:03It was a terrible day.
04:05I could have been there and gave me Mrs. Flight.
04:11I'd have been launching myself off the stadium.
04:13All right.
04:22The Panthers schedule was released.
04:27Is he correct on that, Jimmy?
04:28Because you're a soccer fan.
04:29Is he correct on all that?
04:31I don't know.
04:32I wouldn't know.
04:33I wasn't born that time.
04:41Perfect.
04:42I don't know.
04:43So you say, Lou Alcindor made two goals?
04:47Let me see.
04:51Maracanaza.
04:52The Maracanazo.
04:54Maracanazo.
04:55Maracanazo.
04:57Just text my dad.
04:58Happy Maracanazo anniversary.
05:00He will literally be happy to do that.
05:03He will literally beat that man up.
05:07The Panthers schedule was released.
05:09We know they're going to open up against the Blackhawks at 5 p.m.,
05:11a disgrace to the Florida Panthers.
05:13The NHL should be ashamed of themselves.
05:15The Oilers come to South Florida on November 22nd.
05:20And the Panthers will be in Boston.
05:22Brad Maracanazo returns as a Panther officially October 15th early in the season.
05:28The Lightning will be in South Florida for the first time November 15th.
05:32And the best part about this is that in the past couple of years, the Panthers opened up their season and then immediately went out on the road.
05:39They were on like some long road trip, like the first two weeks of the season.
05:42This year, that won't happen.
05:44They're going to play after they play the Blackhawks to open up the season.
05:48They'll play two more home games against the Flyers and the Senators.
05:51All right.
05:52Very cool.
05:53174,000 attendants.
05:55That's crazy.
05:56That is crazy.
05:57And I'm not – I wasn't joking, by the way.
05:59People literally confirmed suicide.
06:02People jumping off the stadium because of the shock that Brazil was not going to win the tournament.
06:08It like it didn't register for people.
06:11Newspaper articles had already been printed and published in Europe that Brazil was the champion because it didn't seem possible that Brazil, who had run through the tournament so easily, was going to lose the game when all they had to do was tie.
06:29I'm telling you, this is like a legitimate, insane story.
06:33Pablo Torre.
06:35Pablo Torre, where are you at?
06:36You want to do some real journalism?
06:37Where are you at?
06:38Come on.
06:38Where are you at?
06:39Got to be such mixed emotions every year for Phoebe Cates on her birthday.
06:43I know that so many people took their lives on this day.
06:52On the FIFA website, it's not on here at all.
06:55The biggest upsets.
06:57I'm going to say it didn't happen.
06:59What did you look up, Jimmy?
07:01The biggest upsets in World Cup history.
07:03And the only one that pops up from 1950 was when the USA beat England, 1-0.
07:10You want to know why, Jimmy?
07:11You want to know why?
07:12Why?
07:12Why?
07:13Shadow ban.
07:14Oh, Jesus Christ.
07:20FIFA has shadow banned Uruguay.
07:22So, wait a second.
07:23So, wait a second.
07:24Wait a second.
07:26Jimmy does just a modicum of research here.
07:31This is a big deal in the Solana household because you're Uruguayan and this meant a lot to your dad.
07:39A big deal.
07:40Well, first of all, first of all, Uruguay was crowned the World Cup champion.
07:45It's not on FIFA top.
07:49Upsets in FIFA history, even in that year.
07:53It's a stupid list, then.
07:55I don't know what else to tell you.
07:56That list is stupid.
07:57Whoever wrote that list should be fired.
07:59But it's impossible that your dad told you something was very important that wasn't necessarily as important as everyone else thought.
08:07Fuck, they were crowned World Cup champions of this tournament for the second time, by the way, because they won the first iteration of the tournament in 1930.
08:19I would say winning the World Cup, whether or not I'm Uruguayan, it's a pretty big deal.
08:24Oh, FIFA forgot?
08:26Hey, Solana, I went through 20 and Uruguay doesn't pop up on either side.
08:31Lose or win.
08:32Shadow ban.
08:34It is fun, man.
08:35It is just a lot of money.
08:37Yeah, biggest upsets in sports history.
08:39Miracle on Ice is considered number one.
08:42But that's what I'm telling you.
08:43Buster Douglas knocks out Mike Tyson.
08:44That's what I'm telling you.
08:45Rulon Gardner defeats Carolyn.
08:48Remember that?
08:49The American wrestler who beat the Russian wrestler.
08:54Villanova beats Georgetown.
08:56I remember that.
08:57My friend Veltra Dawson was on that Villanova team.
09:02It's just not on any list.
09:04That is what I'm telling you.
09:07It deserves the respect.
09:09No, you told us that it was the biggest upset in sports.
09:13And the only person that thinks that is Eduardo Solana?
09:17Rewind the tape.
09:18I'm telling you, it's the upset nobody talks about despite being the greatest upset in the history of sports.
09:24No one's ever talked about it.
09:27We just did 20 minutes.
09:30You laid it out with all the details of the Mecca Corras show.
09:35And no one thinks this is that big of a deal.
09:37According to ESPN, top 10 upsets in sports history.
09:40Number one is the Miracle on Ice.
09:42Number two, Super Bowl III.
09:44That's the Super Bowl.
09:45Remember, Joe Namath guaranteed a win.
09:47And I think they were the AFL, right?
09:49Never heard of it.
09:50Never heard of it.
09:51Never heard of it.
09:52Villanova beats Georgetown in the NCAA championship is number three.
09:57Buster Douglas knocks out Mike Tyson, number four.
10:04Man of War.
10:07A horse considered as good as Secretariat.
10:10No joke.
10:11Number five.
10:11Loses.
10:15That was his only loss in his career.
10:17That was 1919.
10:18I had him across the board, so I was fine.
10:23A horse from 1919 is on this list.
10:27Doesn't that tell you a little something about maybe a lie you've been fed your entire life?
10:32It's not a lie that I've been fed.
10:34This is well documented.
10:35This is the greatest upset in the history of sports.
10:39Well, it hasn't been documented, though.
10:40It's only been told to you by Eduardo.
10:42There is no documentation of this.
10:44Number six.
10:45The Nuggets embarrassed the Sonics in the 1994 NBA playoffs.
10:52Number seven.
10:54Jack Fleck wins the 1955 U.S. Open.
10:59And I had Ben Hogan, and he looked so good in the first three rounds.
11:02I cannot believe Fleck was able to take him in the last round.
11:06The Miracle Mets, number eight.
11:09Rulon Gardner, number nine.
11:10And NC State beating Phi Slamma Jamma, number 10.
11:16That's, you know, where Jim Belvano runs onto the court.
11:19You see that every year.
11:20Jumping, yeah.
11:20Yeah.
11:21I mean, it's not there, Solana.
11:27Shadowban.
11:28Crazy.
11:29It is on Wikipedia, though.
11:33Well, I mean, you know.
11:35You can look up any.
11:36That's what I did.
11:37I did 1950 World Cup and found the game, but it wasn't.
11:42They didn't make it important.
11:43But I'm not kidding you.
11:45Like, the idea that all these lists that have been compiled over decades talk about upsets and they don't include the Maracanazo is a disgrace.
12:00To the Solanas?
12:04Soccer fans all around the world.
12:06Brazilians, South Americans especially, know about the Maracanazo.
12:10You even talk about it in Brazil.
12:12They take you to the favela.
12:13They kill you.
12:14They kill you.
12:15Where's Woody Ham about the Maracanazo?
12:16I know, I'm tempted to text him.
12:19Because someone texts in, I think this is our friend, he says, is Brother Solana confused by folklore?
12:27But here's the problem.
12:29I think you're the victim of some folklore from Eduardo.
12:32Woody has fallen victim to what a lot of sports fans have fallen victim to, which is Shadowban.
12:40Right.
12:41Well, that actually happened.
12:42Man of War lost because they Shadowban.
12:46So, no one but you believe in the Maracanazo.
12:53There's nothing to believe in.
12:56This has happened.
12:59This happened.
13:00And people killed themselves.
13:02Because I don't believe this story now, Hawk.
13:04Ain't nobody killed themselves.
13:05I don't think 200,000 people were there either.
13:07Because I'm seeing it's still available on Ticketmaster.
13:10It says 174,000.
13:11So, that was already a lie.
13:13Right.
13:13And that probably counts the...
13:15The security and all that stuff.
13:17Was that after the 30,000 suicides, Solana?
13:21Listen.
13:21First of all, I didn't say 30,000.
13:23I said people.
13:24And second of all...
13:26Somehow they got from 200,000 to 170,000.
13:30Everybody out there listening.
13:31Hawk, Crowder, Jimmy.
13:33All of you listeners.
13:34Those of you who will pod this.
13:35I have made you a smarter sports fan.
13:39I have made you a smarter sports fan with this knowledge.
13:45Do with it what you will.
13:46Those in the past...
13:47You're telling me...
13:48Those in the past have disregarded it.
13:50If I'm out to dinner this weekend, I bring up La Manzana to whoever I'm talking to.
13:55And they're going to be wowed.
13:57Well, no.
13:59You have to explain to them what happened.
14:02I don't recall what happened.
14:03Because I don't think it happened.
14:05Solana, Hawk has been doing this.
14:07How long have you been doing sports talk, Hawk?
14:09I've literally never heard this before.
14:1130, what?
14:1240 years?
14:13Like, something crazy, Solana.
14:1355 years.
14:14Since Man of War was upset in 1919.
14:18Hawk trained Man of War.
14:21And started doing sports radio.
14:22He's never heard of La Misanejka.
14:24Yeah.
14:25Yeah.
14:27Shadowbent.
14:30I don't know what else to tell you.
14:31I mean, this is why I got into sports radio.
14:35For this very segment right here.
14:38This very segment.
14:39Your work here is done.
14:40That's it.
14:41You're signing off.
14:42I hereby retire.
14:45I am done.
14:45I have brought to you the piece of knowledge I was raised to bring to you.
14:49Hey, Solana, you better not say Beetlejuice three times in a row.
14:52Because, ooh.
14:54Something will happen.
14:55No, but seriously.
14:56It's just, it's a joke that, like, people don't know about this.
14:59It's a joke that you know about it.
15:01It's a joke.
15:02It's a joke.
15:03It's a joke.
15:04It's 436 already.
15:05We haven't been to commercial break because of this nonsense.
15:08What are you talking about?
15:10This jackassery.
15:13I bet you want to go to commercial break.
15:16You want to continue deflecting.
15:18Shadowbent.
15:19I bet.
15:19All right.
15:23Your weather.
15:25I'm going to go cry.
15:27Weather.
15:2890 degrees.
15:30Tonight the lows are in the 70s or something.
15:31I'm going to go cry and call my dad.
15:34Today's a big day.
15:35La Macarena.
15:36Happened in Brazil.
15:38And there you go.
15:42All right.
15:42To all our listeners, I'm sorry.
15:44Goodness gracious.
15:46What happened to that?
15:48And he thought the Home Run Derby was too boring.
15:51What in the world?
15:59He literally started the story with talk about the construction of the stadium.
16:12Brazil's national stadium, Hawk.
16:14Brazil built the stadium.
16:17Concrete.
16:17Built the stadium.
16:19Guess what, Hawk?
16:19It's still there.
16:20To this day.
16:21It's still right there.
16:22All right.
16:23We got to take a break.
16:24Thank God we have to take a break because I don't know.
16:27Never talk about that again.
16:28Yeah.
16:30I'm taking off.
16:31What's today's date?
16:33I'm taking this off every year.
16:35Yeah.
16:35Jimmy, make sure you.
16:37July 16th.
16:38I'm done for next year.
16:39If I ever were going to try 16th again.
16:44Somebody come in and kidnap me.
16:46I'm putting in my paperwork early.
16:53I'm putting in my paperwork early.
16:55There's no way.
16:56Jimmy, I mean, hire a Delta Force to rip me out of my studio and put me in a bag of a van if you see me sign on for segment number one on July 16th.
17:21Oh, I'm out of here.
17:24What in the world did we just go through?
17:30I could never chance this happening again.
17:42I'd rather get an STD or something.
17:44This was terrible.
17:45Holy mackerel.
17:51I just texted a pal to see if he could work July 16th, 2026 through 2059.
17:57We've got one day under our belts.
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