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{{short description|Uruguayan footballer (1926-2015)}}{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}{{family name hatnote|Ghiggia|Pereyra|lang=Spanish}}

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| birth_place = Montevideo, Uruguaydf=y7192622}}| death_place = Montevideo, Uruguay| height = 1.69 mMidfielder#Winger>Winger| youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = | years1 = 1945–1948| years2 = 1948–1953| years3 = 1953–1961| years4 = 1961–1962| years5 = 1962–1967| clubs1 = Sud AméricaCA Peñarol>PeñarolA.S. Roma>RomaA.C. Milan>MilanDanubio FC>Danubio| caps1 =| caps2 = 169| caps3 = 201| caps4 = 4| caps5 = 128| goals1 =| goals2 = 26| goals3 = 19| goals4 = 0| goals5 = 12| totalcaps = 502| totalgoals = 57| nationalyears1 = 1950–1952| nationalyears2 = 1957–1959Uruguayan national football team>UruguayItalian national football team>Italy| nationalcaps1 = 12| nationalcaps2 = 5| nationalgoals1 = 4| nationalgoals2 = 1| manageryears1 = 1980CA Peñarol>Peñarol|medaltemplates ={{MedalCountry|{{fb|URU}}}}{{MedalCompetition|FIFA World Cup}}{{Medal|W|1950 Brazil|}}}}Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia Pereyra ({{IPA-it|ˈɡiddʒa|pron}}; 22 December 1926 – 16 July 2015) was a Uruguayan-Italian 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 of the Uruguay squad at the 1950 World Cup.

Career

Ghiggia's family was of Ticinese descent, originally from Sonvico.WEB,weblink Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia (1926), ti.ch, Repubblica e Cantone Ticino, 1 June 2015, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150722065607weblink">weblink 22 July 2015, He played for the national sides of both Uruguay and Italy during his career. He also played for Peñarol and Danubio in Uruguay and A.S. Roma and A.C. Milan in Italy.In 1950, Ghiggia, then playing for Uruguay, scored the winning goal against Brazil in the final match of that year's World Cup. Roberto Muylaert compares the black and white film of the goal with Abraham Zapruder's chance images of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas: he says that the goal and the shot that killed the U.S. 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."BOOK, Alex, Bellos, Futebol The Brazilian Way of Life, Bloomsbury, New York and London, 2005, The match is considered one of the biggest upsets in football history; Ghiggia would later remark that "only three people managed to silence the Maracanã: Frank Sinatra, the Pope, and me."WEB,weblink How Uruguay broke Brazilian hearts in the 1950 World Cup, BBC News, He managed Peñarol in 1980.WEB,weblink Tripod - Not Available For Download, 19 July 2015, On 29 December 2009, Brazil honoured Ghiggia by celebrating his decisive goal in the 1950 World Cup. 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 on the Maracanã's walk of fame. Ghiggia was very emotional and thanked Brazil for the warm reception and recognition he received even when the game is considered the most disappointing in Brazilian football history.NEWS,weblink Brazil's Tormentor Ghiggia Honoured at Maracana , 30 December 2009, Reuters, 2022-11-30,

Later years

Ghiggia lived out 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.NEWS, The Associated Press, Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia, Who Led Uruguay to World Cup Title, Dies at 88,weblink 30 November 2022, The New York Times, 21 July 2015, Coincidentally, it was the 65th anniversary of the Maracanazo.NEWS, Falleció Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia,weblink 16 July 2015, Ovación, es, At the time of his death, Ghiggia was the oldest living World Cup champion.WEB,weblink World Cup 2014: Meet Uruguay's Alcides Ghiggia, the man who broke Brazil's heart, 15 June 2014, The Daily Telegraph, Ghiggia was the last surviving member from either the Brazilian or Uruguayan squads involved in the historic 1950 World Cup game.Soccerama 01, p162

Honours

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)WEB,weblink Legends, Golden Foot, 23 September 2015, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150925120930weblink">weblink 25 September 2015,
• A.S. Roma Hall of Fame: 2014WEB,weblink Hall of Fame, A.S. Roma, it, 27 July 2016,
• IFFHS Uruguayan Men's Dream Team (Team B)WEB,weblink IFFHS All-Time Uruguay Men's Dream Team, IFFHS, 5 August 2021, 9 January 2023,

References

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External links

{{Commons category|Alcides Ghiggia}}

• {{FIFA|174559}}
• WEB,weblink enciclopediadelcalcio.com, 30 April 2007,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20070927003353weblink">weblink 27 September 2007, dead,
• WEB,weblink webs.montevideo.com.uy, 30 April 2007,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20040125021759weblink">weblink 25 January 2004, dead,
• futbol.com.uy

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