Brazil press decry World Cup ‘Shame of Shames’
BY Agencies10 July 2014 11:09 PM GMT
Agencies10 July 2014 11:09 PM GMT
Brazil’s national media quickly dubbed the football team’s 7-1 defeat to Germany the ‘Shame of Shames’ and the most humiliating defeat in the squad’s history. Newspapers and TV commentators called the defeat the ‘Mineirazo,’ an allusion to the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte and Brazil’s traumatic Word Cup defeat at home in 1950 known as the ‘Maracanazo.’ But other analysts said the Mineirazo could not compare to the Maracanazo.
‘In 1950 we felt we had an unbeatable team and losing at the Maracana was unthinkable,’ Michel Castellar, an analyst at the sports daily Lance, told AFP. ‘This time, we knew that we had a team with a lot of flaws and that maybe they would not reach the final. Was it a national humiliation? Yes, because of the number of goals. But it wasn’t a new Maracanazo,’ he said. The country’s newspapers called it the biggest disgrace in the team’s history, with globoesporte.com dubbing it the ‘Shame of Shames.’ Lance called last night’s crushing loss ‘The Biggest Shame in History.’ ‘The Maracanazo becomes nothing and literally a thing of the past,’ the newspaper said on its website.
‘In 1950 we felt we had an unbeatable team and losing at the Maracana was unthinkable,’ Michel Castellar, an analyst at the sports daily Lance, told AFP. ‘This time, we knew that we had a team with a lot of flaws and that maybe they would not reach the final. Was it a national humiliation? Yes, because of the number of goals. But it wasn’t a new Maracanazo,’ he said. The country’s newspapers called it the biggest disgrace in the team’s history, with globoesporte.com dubbing it the ‘Shame of Shames.’ Lance called last night’s crushing loss ‘The Biggest Shame in History.’ ‘The Maracanazo becomes nothing and literally a thing of the past,’ the newspaper said on its website.
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