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Originally posted by honeychile
My absolute favorite soccer story:
Seems that a certain South American soccer team was highly rated to win the World Cup, either in the late 1960's or early 1970's. They came very close, but lost the Final by one goal.
They were flying home to their home country when one of the flight attendants came back to them and said that the airport had contacted the pilot, and there were hundreds of thousands of their fans waiting for them at the airport.
The guys had been feeling pretty bad, but with the news that their fans were still excited enough to meet them at the airport, they perked up. "Isn't that the greatest?" "Man, I didn't realize how great our fans are!" and that type of thing.
So, they finally landed and let all of the other people off the plane first. The team finally deplaned, and when enough of them were on the tarmac, the barriers that had been holding the fans back gave way and the fans swarmed all over the team - and started beating the crap out of them!!
I may have a very sick sense of humor, but I giggle to myself every time I think of that.
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I'm not sure, but after the 1950 World Cup final in which Brazil lost to Uruguay 2-1 IN BRAZIL, two wierd things happened:
1) The Brazilian National team has NEVER worn a white jersey since that game
2) The goalie for that Brazilian team was SHUNNED. He went back to his village and NO ONE, EVER AGAIN, talked to him, spoke to him, communicated with him. He was a ghost until his death.
I believe the same thing happened to Taffarel after the 1998 choke job.
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